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Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley gets a new trailer and character posters

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Searchlight Pictures has released a new trailer for Nightmare Alley, ahead of its arrival in cinemas this December. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the star-studded thriller follows Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), a down on his luck ambitious man with a talent for manipulating people, as he teams up with a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) in […]

First trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley showcases Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett

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Guillermo del Toro is a modern master of mystery and suspense, and in the first look at his latest film, he promises more of that signature style. Nightmare Alley is the latest from the Oscar-winning filmmaker, and it’s boasting an all-star cast and a twisted tale. Nightmare Alley sees Bradley Cooper as an ambitious carny […]

First look images from Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley

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With the first trailer set to drop this Thursday, Searchlight Pictures has released the first images from Guillermo del Toro’s noir thriller Nightmare Alley featuring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, and Toni Collette; check them out here… In NIGHTMARE ALLEY, an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with […]

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara set for Lynne Ramsay’s Polaris

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Director Lynne Ramsay has revealed that she is set to reunite with her You Were Never Really Here star Joaquin Phoenix for her next film Polaris, which will see Phoenix starring alongside his real-life partner Rooney Mara. “He’s crazy, but he’s the best actor I’ve ever met,” Ramsay told Spanish outlet El Espanol (via Dark […]

Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand set for Sarah Polley’s Women Talking

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Women Talking, Sarah Polley’s first feature-film since 2011’s superb Take This Waltz has filled out its impressive cast with Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand. An adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith […]

Luca Guadagnino to write and direct Brideshead Revisited for the BBC

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Deadline is reporting that Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino is set to write and direct a new miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Brideshead Revisited for the BBC. Exploring themes of aristocratic nostalgia, Catholicism, and homosexuality, Brideshead Revisited follows Captain Charles Ryder and his relationships with the Flytes, an aristocratic […]

Rooney Mara heads to Nightmare Alley with Guillermo del Toro

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Deadline has revealed that Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mary Magdalene) has become the latest addition to the cast of Guillermo del Toro’s next directorial effort Nightmare Alley. The film will reunite Mara with her Carol co-star Cate Blanchett and also stars Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born). Cooper plays Stan, a […]

Guillermo del Toro looks to enlist star-studded cast for Nightmare Alley

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Variety is reporting that Cate Blanchett is in talks to join Bradley Cooper in the cast of Nightmare Alley, the next movie from The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro. Based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name, which was previously adapted for the big screen back in 1947, Nightmare Alley […]

Mary Magdalene gets a new trailer ahead of U.S. release

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Having been released in the UK over a year ago, director Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene makes its way across the Pond in April with the US release of the biblical drama starring Rooney Mara in the title role alongside Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peter, and Tahar Rahim as Judas; take a look […]

Doubling Up: Five Great Female Movie Partnerships

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Freda Cooper with five great female movie partnerships… After last week’s classic pairing of Laurel and Hardy (aka Steve Coogan and John C Reilly) in Stan & Ollie comes one of the most exciting on-screen double acts for some time.  The prospect of Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I and Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen Of […]