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Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha star in new trailer for Amazon’s Sylvie’s Love

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Amazon has released a new trailer for the romantic drama Sylvie’s Love ahead of its premiere later this month. Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, the film follows Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), a woman who meets an aspiring saxophone player (Nnamdi Asomugha) while working in her father’s record store in 1950’s Harlem; take a look here… […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series adds 20 to its cast

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Amazon Studios has announced that it is filling out Middle-earth with the addition of twenty new cast members to its upcoming Amazon Original series based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The new cast members include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Lenny […]

Movie Review – I’m Your Woman (2020)

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I’m Your Woman, 2020. Directed by Julia Hart. Starring Rachel Brosnahan, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinzé Kene, Bill Heck, Frankie Faison, Marceline Hugot, De’Mauri Parks, Jarrod DiGiorgi, and James McMenamin. SYNOPSIS: In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her […]

Amazon cancels Utopia after a single season

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Amazon has opted against renewing its sci-fi conspiracy thriller series Utopia, with the show coming to an end after just a single season. Adapted from the cult British drama of the same name (which was itself cancelled after two seasons), Utopia follows a group of comic book fans who find themselves targeted by a shadowy organisation […]

Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)

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Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale, Stephen Root, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: Accompanied by his teenage niece, a gay literature professor reluctantly returns home to attend his father’s funeral. For lack of a better phrase, I am the “Uncle […]

John Boyega stars in trailer for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: Red, White and Blue

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Amazon has released a trailer and images for Red, White and Blue, the next instalment in Steven McQueen’s five film anthology Small Axe which stars John Boyega as a young forensic scientist who finds himself driven to achieve his childhood ambition of becoming a police officer in the naïve hope of changing racist attitudes after […]

Trailer and poster for Amazon’s teen survival drama The Wilds

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Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for the YA drama series The Wilds which follows a group of teenage girls fighting for survival after their plane crashes, leaving them stranded on a deserted island; take a look here… A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a […]

Coming 2 America gets March release date on Amazon Prime

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Last month it was reported that Amazon had acquired the upcoming Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America from Paramount Pictures, and now the streamer has announced that the film will release worldwide on March 5th 2021. Here’s the official synopsis: Set in the lush and royal country of Zamunda, newly-crowned King Akeem (Eddie Murphy) and […]

Regina King’s One Night in Miami gets a poster and trailer

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Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for Regina King’s directorial debut One Night In Miami. Based on Kemp Powers’ stage play of the same name, the drama is a fictional account of a night in 1964 when four friends, Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), […]