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Barbie Project Friendship trailer released by Outright Games

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Outright Games has released a trailer for Barbie Project Friendship, a new video game made in partnership with Mattel and coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC this October. In Barbie Project Friendship, follow a heartwarming adventure with Barbie “Malibu” Roberts and Barbie “Brooklyn” Roberts as they work […]

Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?

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After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs? Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer […]

Studios defiantly stick to reboots and sequels but are we bored yet?

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It seems every day a new reboot or sequel is given the green light or drops on the big screen and the streamers. How badly do audiences really want them? In the space of a few weeks, we’ve had Dune 2, a new Ghostbusters film, a Road House reboot, a Beetlejuice sequel teaser, a Happy […]

Zack Snyder claims more people saw Netflix’s Rebel Moon than Barbie

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If Zack Snyder has something to promote, you can be sure the filmmaker will have some hot takes and notable quotes. The latest comes from Snyder’s appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, with Snyder opening up about the Netflix business model, including views and just how many eyes are on their work. Snyder unleashed what […]

Dorian Film Awards winners see All of Us Strangers and Greta Gerwig take top prizes

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For its 15th Dorian Film Awards, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics fully embraced All of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh’s fantastical and tear-inducing tale of two troubled souls falling for each other in lonely London. The 500-member strong GALECA, one of the largest entertainment journalists organizations in the world, named Strangers both Film […]

The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn

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It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]

Ranking the Major Best Picture Contenders for the 2024 Oscars

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EJ Moreno looks at films heading for the 2024 Oscars… As we enter the New Year and the 2024 award season begins, the contenders for Best Picture are starting to take shape.  While anything can happen from now to the Oscars in March, we have over ten films that most likely play a part in […]

Greta Gerwig says Barbie couldn’t have been made without Wonder Woman

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“If you can see it, you can be it.” That’s the mentality about a lot of inclusion in filmmaking, essentially saying if you see a woman or POC in a position you want, you know it’s a reality. That’s what Greta Gerwig feels when she looks at getting a blockbuster like Barbie made. In a […]

Has the Oscars Finally Embraced “The Weird”?

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EJ Moreno looks at the Academy Awards and the new era of films vying for recognition… As we enter a new awards season, it’s refreshing to look at the landscape of potential contenders. Loving the race to the Academy Awards for decades and later entering my own awards season as a Critics Choice Association voter, […]