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Movie Review – Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

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Those Who Wish Me Dead, 2021. Directed by Taylor Sheridan. Starring Angelina Jolie, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Nicholas Hoult, Medina Senghore, Jon Bernthal, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber, Tory Kittles, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, and James Jordan. SYNOPSIS: A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with […]

Angelina Jolie stars in first trailer for Those Who Wish Me Dead

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Warner Bros. has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead. Directed by Taylor Sheridan, the film is based on Michael Koryta’s novel of the same name and stars Angelina Jolie as Hannah, a smoke-jumper working in a fire tower in the Montana wilderness when she encounters a 12-year-old boy […]

Gretchen Mol joins Jon Bernthal in American Gigolo TV series

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Deadline is reporting that Boardwalk Empire actress Gretchen Mol has been cast alongside Jon Bernthal (The Punisher) in American Gigolo, a TV adaptation of the classic 1980 film noir starring Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The pilot is being written and directed by David Hollander (Ray Donovan), who will also executive produce with Jerry Bruckheimer, […]

Jon Bernthal still hoping for a Marvel return as The Punisher

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It’s been a couple of years now since Netflix swung the axe on The Punisher and its fellow Marvel Television shows, but it seems that star Jon Bernthal hasn’t quite given up hope of returning to the role of Marvel’s fan favourite antihero and dishing out more of Frank Castle’s lethal brand of justice. “I […]

Dakota Fanning stars in trailer for Viena and the Fantomes

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Ahead of its VOD release next month, Universal Pictures has revealed a poster and trailer for writer-director Gerardo Naranjo’s upcoming drama Viena and the Fantomes which stars Dakota Fanning as a young roadie who finds herself trapped in a dangerous love triangle while travelling with a punk band during the 1980s. Joining Fanning in the […]

Jon Bernthal “shed a couple tears” after he left The Walking Dead

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Jon Bernthal, who played Shane Walsh in the first two seasons of The Walking Dead, has admitted he “shed a couple tears” after being killed off in the long-running series. “After I got killed off Walking Dead — they killed my ass off Walking Dead, they killed me twice,” Bernthal said at Fandemic Tour Houston (via ComicBook.com). “They’re like, […]

Jon Bernthal wants to return as The Punisher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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The cancellation of Marvel’s Netflix series earlier this year may well have been the first nail in the coffin of Marvel Television as we know it, what with Marvel Studios venturing into the TV arena with its upcoming Disney+ shows, and a Marvel restructure which has seen the television division coming under the control of […]

Movie Review – Le Mans ’66 (2019)

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Le Mans ’66 (a.k.a. Ford v Ferrari), 2019. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Josh Lucas, Caitriona Balfe, Tracy Letts, Jon Bernthal, Noah Jupe, JJ Feild, Ray McKinnon and Remo Girone. SYNOPSIS: American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal […]

55th Chicago International Film Festival Review – Ford v Ferrari (2019)

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Ford v Ferrari, 2019. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe, Scott Rapp, Josh Lucas, Ray McKinnon, Stefania Spampinato, Wyatt Nash, Wallace Langham, Dallas Chandler, Jonathan LaPaglia, and Rudolf Martin. SYNOPSIS: American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws […]

Movie Review – The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

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The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019. Written and Directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsagen, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Jon Bernthal, Thomas Haden Church, Jermaine Rivers, Mick Foley, and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. SYNOPSIS: Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler […]