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Dust in the Eye: Ten Tear-Jerking Moments in Action Movies

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Tom Jolliffe looks at ten tear-jerking moments from an eclectic mix of action movies (with major spoilers)… Action movies are exciting, sometimes empowering, often chaotic and move at a breakneck pace. The primary directive of an action film is to invest you enough into the characters’ quest that you care what happens, but usually only […]

Trailer for Desperation Road starring Mel Gibson, Garrett Hedlund and Willa Fitzgerald

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Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for Desperation Road, the upcoming Southern noir thriller from director Nadine Crocker starring Mel Gibson, Garrett Hedlund, and Willa Fitzgerald which is based on Michael Farris Smith’s acclaimed 2017 novel. Take a look here… In a small Mississippi town, justice and the law are two very different things. […]

First trailer for Saltburn teases debauchery and a scheming Barry Keoghan

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Filmmaker Emerald Fennell is following up her Academy Award-winning film Promising Young Woman with another challenging dark comedic drama. If the first trailer for Saltburn is anything like the full film, viewers are in for a debaucherous and devious film filled with some of the hottest actors working today. Leading the pack is Barry Keoghan […]

Sex Education prepares for the climax with season 4 character posters

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With just three weeks to go until Sex Education returns for its fourth and final season, Netflix has shared a batch of climatic character posters for the hot comedy drama series featuring stars Gillian Anderson, Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, Connor Swindells, Aimee Lou Wood, Kedar Williams-Stirling, and Mimi Keene; check them out here… […]

Controversial series The Idol cancelled by HBO after single season

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Though the limited series was rumored to get a second season, HBO is no longer moving forward with The Idol. It was announced that the series starring The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp is finished after its one controversial and shocking season. The Sam Levinson drama took the internet by storm early in the summer of […]

The Most Iconic Moments of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

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EJ Moreno looks back at Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and its most iconic moments… Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and we need to look back at the memorable first three seasons that launched a worldwide phenomenon. During its iconic 155-episode run, we saw a group of teenagers fight to protect the […]

Trailer for R.L. Stine’s Zombie Town starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase

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Ahead of its theatrical release this week, a trailer has arrived online for Zombie Town, the upcoming adaptation of R.L. Stine’s 2012 novel of the same name from director Peter Lepeniotis. The family comedy horror follows teens Amy (Madi Monroe) and Mike (Marlon Kazadi) as they seek the help of an infamous filmmaker (Dan Akroyd) […]

Cannon Films and the Search for Critical Acclaim

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A look back at Cannon Films and their search for critical acclaim which led to some memorable successes and failures… When aficionados think back to the glory days of Cannon Films, most notably in the peak years under Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, they invariably cast their minds to unashamedly schlocky and low-budget genre fare […]

13 Ghosts: The Series creators aiming for “multiple seasons” of ghost madness

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The 13 Ghosts series is seeming more and more real as the days go by, and with this latest story, we can expect a fleshed-out world for some of our favorite haunts. In early August 2023, we reported that Patrick Mediate and Aaron McLane will develop and pitch their 13 Ghosts project to Sony Pictures Television in […]