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Quentin Tarantino teams with David Fincher and Brad Pitt for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up

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In many ways, with this news dropping on April 1st, you’d expect it to be a trick, but two of the most significant filmmakers ever are working together. For every film lover, from the ’90s to modern cinema snobs, the pairing of David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino feels unreal. However, as recently revealed, the duo […]

Leonardo DiCaprio is a schlubby activist in the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

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Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s big-budget film One Battle After Another, his tenth feature and the first to feature Leonardo DiCaprio. The Revenant star plays a schlubby activist who joins an anti-government group in order to take on a white supremacist organisation.  Written and directed by the Academy Award-nominated auteur, […]

Martin Scorsese to reunite with Leonardo DiCaprio in revived Devil In The White City movie at 20th Century

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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to collaborate on a feature-film for the seventh time with their long-in-the-offing adaptation of The Devil in the White City.  Over a decade in the making, the adaptation of Erik Larson’s book was previously housed at Hulu, who decided not to move forward with a series in early […]

Blu-ray Review – Critters: A Four Course Feast! Box Set

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Critters: A Four Course Feast Directed by Stephen Herek/Mick Garris/Kristine Peterson/Rupert Harvey. Starring Dee Wallace, Billy Green Bush, M. Emmet Walsh, Terrence Mann, Billy Zane, Lin Shaye, Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Lindsay Parker, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nina Axelrod, Don Keith Opper, Brad Dourif, Martine Beswick, and Angela Bassett. SYNOPSIS: Limited edition box set featuring the four […]

Underappreciated Leonardo DiCaprio Films That Are Often Overlooked

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As he celebrates his 50th birthday, here’s five underrated Leonardo DiCaprio movies… Trying to list underrated or overlooked films for one of this generation’s most beloved actors proved harder than you’d think. Leonardo DiCaprio is a famous actor, but he’s also insanely calculated with his choices. He tries to make each of these roles memorable, […]

Exclusive: Anthony Michael Hall reveals he was originally set for Leonardo DiCaprio’s role in The Basketball Diaries

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Anthony Michael Hall has been a lovable and compelling actor for some time. We all know him from the iconic John Hughes films like The Breakfast Club or as the star of the hit series The Dead Zone, but we almost saw a very different and gritty version of the star. Flickering Myth and I […]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Goodall team for animal-focussed film Howl

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Legendary environmental activist Jane Goodall is continuing into the film industry and bringing Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio with her. Goodall and DiCaprio will executive produce Howl, a film following an abandoned family dog from the animals’ perspective. E. Elias Merhige (Shadow of the Vampire) will direct a script from Christopher Monger (Temple Grandin). Per Deadline, the […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Departed (2006)

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The Departed, 2006. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: Martin Scorsese’s 2006 film The Departed makes its 4K Ultra HD debut in both standard and SteelBook editions, with a new 4K transfer supervised by the director’s long-time editor, […]

Martin Scorsese circling Leonardo DiCaprio-led Frank Sinatra biopic

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Ol’ Blue Eyes is heading back to the big screen, with a biopic reportedly in the works. Variety broke down a story discussing “ageless auteurs,” filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, who still craft some explosive work as they age. In that piece, the publication teased Scorsese as possibly working on a brilliant new […]

Paul Thomas Anderson to direct Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn & Regina Hall in untitled Warner Bros. film

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Here’s some news to get cinema aficionados excited; Paul Thomas Anderson has lined up Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Regina Hall to star in his as-yet-untitled movie for Warner Bros.  According to Deadline the There Will be Blood director will begin production on January 21 in California, and will work from his own script, as […]