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Star Wars: Episode IX wraps filming as J.J. Abrams shares behind-the-scenes image

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Having returned to close out the Sequel Trilogy after launching things back in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams has announced that filming has now wrapped on December’s still-untitled Star Wars: Episode IX. “It feels impossible, but today wrapped photography on Episode IX. There is no adequate way to thank this […]

Ben Affleck leads a rogue special forces team in new Triple Frontier trailer

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During Ben Affleck’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, a new trailer was unveiled for the upcoming heist thriller Triple Frontier, which is directed by J.C Chandor (A Most Violent Year, All Is Lost) and sees Affleck joined in the cast by Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13mhe1xNIAU A group of former Special […]

Movie Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. Featuring the voice talents of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Nicolas Cage, John Mulaney, Mahershala Ali, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Kimiko Glenn, Luna Lauren Vélez, Chris Pine, Kathryn Hahn, Zoë Kravitz, Oscar Isaac, and Lake Bell. SYNOPSIS: Spider-Man […]

First trailer for crime thriller Triple Frontier

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Netflix has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming crime thriller Triple Frontier. Directed by J.C. Chandor, the film stars Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal as five former Special Forces operatives who plan to rob of the world’s most violent cartels; watch it here… “Five former Special Forces operatives reunite […]

Second Opinion – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. Featuring the voice talents of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Nicolas Cage, John Mulaney, Mahershala Ali, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Kimiko Glenn, Luna Lauren Vélez, Chris Pine, Kathryn Hahn, Zoë Kravitz, Oscar Isaac, and Lake Bell. SYNOPSIS: Spider-Man […]

Oscar Isaac says that Star Wars: Episode IX utilises Leia in a “really beautiful way”

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Oscar Isaac, one of the stars of next year’s Star Wars: Episode IX, says that the film uses Princess Leia in a “beautiful way”. There are a lot of questions going into Star Wars: Episode IX, from plot points and which characters will turn up, to just how this new trilogy is going to end. […]

Movie Review – At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

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At Eternity’s Gate, 2018. Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup, Anne Consigny, Amira Casar, Vincent Pérez, and Lolita Chammah. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Being the second film […]

Oscar Isaac found working on X-Men: Apocalypse “excruciating”

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During an interview with GQ, actor Oscar Isaac has been reflecting on his role as the titular villain in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, describing his experience on the set of the Bryan Singer-directed superhero movie as “excruciating”. “Apocalypse, that was excruciating,” said Isaac. “I didn’t know when I said yes that that was what was going to be […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Life Itself

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Life Itself, 2018. Directed by Dan Fogelman. Starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Cooke, Annette Bening, Jean Smart, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Antonio Banderas, Mandy Patinkin, Àlex Monner, Lala Costa, Isabel Durant, Adrian Marrero, Lorenza Izzo, Jake Robinson, Charlie Thurston, Gabby Bryan, and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: A young couple in New York meet, get married and […]