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Hadestown – REVIEW
Increasingly there’s more and more stage musicals being filmed for the big screen and the latest is Hadestown that opened on Broadway back in 2016 to award winning acclaim and its stage success saw subsequent production run worldwide. This film version is from the London production at The Lyric on what is a small and intimate stage that draws an audience into its story.
Hexed – TRAILER
Landing in our inbox is the latest trailer for Hexed and we were lucky enough to have gone to see a load of preview footage presented by Oscar winning producer Roy Conli and it looks terrific and a possible tearjerker ! What’s Hexed about? The new trailer introduces the impulsive and unconventional teenage girl Billie (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and her cautious mother Alice (voiced by Rashida Jones).
The Influencer Project – REVIEW
Andy Warhol’s mantra about people having their fifteen minutes of fame today is even shorter when a clip goes viral. Just look at the Ibiza Boss a couple of years ago. With a haircut that looks like the fire alarm went off half way through his appointment he disappeared from public consciousness also immediately after the clip had ended. Internet fame is even shorter for Alma, a girl who livestreams her desire to also go viral and so hangs herself although in fairness it’s probably got higher viewing figures than Amanda Holden’s acting career.
Godzilla Minus Zero – TRAILER
The Hollywood Godzilla films were all made for ever increasing nine figures budgets. Godzilla Minus One was made for a minuscule $15m – basically the catering budget for the Hollywood films. And yet Godzilla Minus One is the film that won an Oscar for its visual effects , the first non-Hollywood film to do so. Ur was and remains arguably the best Godzilla movie ever. Well now we have a further sequel and a better look at what to expect with the final Godzilla Minus Zero trailer.
Leaving Las Vegas - Director Mike Figgis talks Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage has had a load of wildly differing films in what is an extensive back catalogue of films. But back in 1995 he was nominated and won his first and to date only Oscar as Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas
The Exorcist Martyrs – TRAILER
The Exorcist franchise has been one of almost immediate decline from the first sequel onwards. But the studio have handed over full control of a new film to Mike Flanagan who is a steady pair of hands as seen with his Stephen King adaptations. Well now we get a first look at what is the seventh film in the franchise with The Exorcist Martyrs trailer.
Colony – 4K UHD | BLU-RAY | DVD
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho started his film career back in 2006 with a series of animated shorts and TV series and it was ‘Seoul Station’ in 2016 that caught the eye with its story of a group of people trying to survive a zombie pandemic in downtown Seoul. It was from this that he ran with the idea in the same year releasing a feature length film ‘Train to Busan’ which again featured a zombie outbreak bought on by a virus but this time on ….well, a train to Busan with passengers trying to survive the marauding infected.
StudioCanal presents ….November 2026
Showing this November exclusively on the StudioCanal Presents Novemebr 2026 streaming service – the essential destination for box office hits, critically acclaimed award-winners, lovingly restored classics and must-watch TV series – a Dirk Bogarde classic, an all-female shark attack shocker, a cult aquatic sci-fi thriller, deep dives into underwater thrillers and alien invasion films, and a surfing drama mini-series
Controversy around the Playboy inspired Playmates movie
Controversy around the Playboy inspired Playmates movie started almost as soon as the casting was announced. Bill Pullman is to portray Hugh Hefner with Jessica Biel as one of the Playmates in the film title
Voicing Edna Mole - How director Brad Bird ended up doing it
Brad Bird is arguably one of the great animation directors of modern times. The Incredibles (and its sequel), The Iron Giant and Rataouille are all his. Though he had huge success with his debut live action film ‘Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol’ he also had disaster with ‘Tomorrowland’. He’s since returned to his first love animation and is currently in London promoting ‘Ray Gunn’ that will debut at the London Film Festival.
Making Marie Antoinette – TRAILER
Shot by her mother, acclaimed filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, the documentary, ‘Making Marie Antoinette’ is produced by Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Rachel Dengiz, Youree Henley and Sofia Coppola.
Is Fast Forever happening?
Will Fast & Furious 11 or Fast Forever as its actually title ever going to happen? It’s intended as a two-parter to round off the multi billion dollar franchise and Fast X which was released back in 2023, though it made $704m, was a lower take than previous films and its spiralling cost put it at around $300m budget meaning it lost money. So is Fast Forever happening?
Elsinore – TRAILER
Many will remember Vangelis’ iconic theme tune from the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire which starred the late Ian Charleson and there is a nod to that film here in the first trailer for Elsinore that stars Andrew Scott as the actor.
Those shocking Michael Douglas revelations …
Now in his eighties Michael Douglas has a terrific body of work to look back on as well as two Oscar’s (one as Best Actor in Wall Street and one as producer for Best Film ‘One Flew Over the cuckoo’s nest’) too. He has nothing prove and like so many actors of his generation he’s reached an age where he’s not afraid to speak openly about things which in the past publicists would have advised their clients to not speak about and for that we take out hat off to him.
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint – TRAILER
Now we’re into the Autumn and the Christmas films are starting to land and the latest is the trailer for Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint and has a bit of a Scooge thing going on
Marama – TRAILER
Landing in our inbox is the trailer for Marama and bit by bit it builds up a sense of impending dread and looks to be a a favourite for horror fans Marama horror!
The Terror : Devil in Silver – Enter our giveaway here!
With two highly acclaimed series under its belt, The Terror returns to our screens for its third thrilling outing, so prepare for scares with The Terror: Devil in Silver and is out now on a stunning Blu-ray and DVD and we have a copy to giveaway! It’s also available to download and own thanks to Acorn Media International, following its transmission on Sky.
Enter our The Chelsea Detective giveaway…
The fourth series of The Chelsea Detective heralds the return of the fantastic cast with Vanessa Emme as DS Layla Walsh, Sophie Stone as CMO Ashley Wilton, Lucy Phelps as DC Jess Lombard, Peter Bankolé as DC Connor Pollock and Frances Barber as Olivia Arnold. To celebrate its release we have a DVD of this series to give away courtesy of Acorn Media
Why ‘Reacher’ author blocked a third Tom Cruise movie
Author Lee Child has had huge success with with his Jack Reacher novels whose character was a six foot five, blue eyed, muscular male. So fans were a little surprised when 5’7” brown eyed, trim build Tom Cruise was cast in the role when it came to making a movie of the books. Not that it did the films any harm as ‘Jack Reacher’ (2012) earned a decent $218m and its follow up ‘Jack Reacher : Never Go Back (2016) made a modest $162m. But after that there were no further films had fans asking why ‘Reacher author blocked a third Tom Cruise movie.
director Neil Jordan talks Interview with the Vampire
Irish director Neil Jordan has an impressive back catalogue of films that includes The Company of Wolves and Mona Lisa before he made The Crying Game that attracted much acclaim and won him an Oscar. The success of the film saw Hollywood offers flood in and the project that caught his attention was the film adaptation of Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ : The Vampire Chronicles’. The film saw a vampire tells his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness and hunger.
We chat to Cyrus Neshvad , director of horror film ‘Child’…
Director Cyrus Neshvad has made number of short films the most recent of which ‘The Red Suitcase’ was Oscar nominated as Best Short Film. His latest is the horror film ‘Child’ a first feature film although even that runs at a modest 78 minutes
Interview with the Vampire - we take a look at the 4K UHD
Anne Rice’s books were a huge success and Hollywood leapt on the chance to adapt ‘Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles’
Child – REVIEW
What’s the worst nightmare for any parent? Re-runs of ‘Jim’ll fix it’? Gary Glitter misunderstanding the Make-a-Wish foundation? Perhaps for David and Victoria Beckham it’s that Brooklyn insists on keeping the family surname. But for Greg (Malik Zidi) and Anne (Brigitte Urhausen) it’s the near fatal accident of their son that sees him hospitalized in a coma in desperate need of an organ transplant.
Verity – REVIEW
2026 has been a very busy year for Anne Hathaway which has already seen her star in drama ‘Mother Mary’, the comedy ‘The Devil wears Prada 2’, epic blockbuster ‘The Odyssey’, monster movie ‘The End of Oak Street’ and now the thriller, Verity.
Digger – REVIEW
Who is Digger? The combination of an innovative Oscar winning director (Alejandro G Inarritu) and the World’s biggest A-list star (Tom Cruise) would mean anticipation is high for their new film, Digger. That title character as played by Cruise is an ageing paunchy Texan oil tycoon interested in two things : his billion dollar oil drilling company and his cat, an ageing, moth eaten, mange riddled incontinent ( ironically our editor’s Tindr profile – ‘You’re fired!’ – Ed) that’s at death’s door.
Extra Geography – REVIEW
There’s been several terrific female coming of age films most notably ‘Book Smart’ and the latest is ‘Extra Geography’ that is based on a short story by Rose Tremain and adapted by Succession writer Miriam Battye.
Obsession director’s next film
One of 2026’s huge breakout hit films was Obsession by former YouTube director Curry Barker that made a huge $519m off a $1m budget and when a films earning drop in its second weekend for Obsession its tally actually increased by 39% something that rarely ever happens. So will the now hot director do for a follow up film. Well here’s what we know about Obsession director’s next film and it turns out that it was shot before he had made ‘Obsession’.
Predator director Dan Trachtenberg Sleeping Beauty film
Having single handedly rejuvenated the predator franchise (‘Prey’ was shown on Hulu and landed an Emmy nomination for Outstanding TV Movie!) director Dan Trachtenberg is, to the surprise off many, developing a Sleeping Beauty film!
In the Shadows – TRAILER
In The Shadows is the latest film by double Emmy and triple BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated director Anthony Wonke.
Neil Marshall: The Descent, Hellboy, Aliens & the films that inspired
British director Neil Marshall has a back catalogue of terrific crowd pleasers. Those films include his debut ‘Dog Soldiers’ as well as The Descent, Centurion, Doomsday plus TV series Game of Thrones (for which he was Emmy nominated), Hannibal, Westworld Constantine and others before he returned to feature films and we had the chance of an in depth Neil Marshall interview.
Shadows of Beirut director and cast take us behind the scenes
Despite the difficult conditions we lived under during the pandemic a number of films were still made. One of those films was Shadows of Beirut that’s co-written and stars Tala Calil
Sexy Beast – 4K UHD / BLU-RAY limited edition box set
Director Jonathan Glazer turned to feature films in 2000 releasing the gangster film ‘Sexy Beast’ and the most terrifying villain ever to
Tubi – October 2026
Streaming platform Tubi have a whole host of great titles for October 2026 and here’s the list in full All titles below begin streaming for free on 1st October unless otherwise noted: Comedy Anger Management (2003) Billy Madison Boo! A Madea Halloween The Nutty Professor Brewster’s Millions Late Bloomer Slaxx Thriller Obsessed (2009) Cold Meat Hounded Marmalade Traffic One Night Stand – Arriving on the 30th Psycho Side Chick – Arriving on the 16th Drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arriving on the 5th (reviewed HERE)
The Rescue – TRAILER
Who didn’t like Liam Neeson turn vigilante hunting down the kidnappers of his daughter using his ‘special skills’ in ‘Taken’ which reset him as am action hero? Well in a similar vein a man searching for this daughter is the subject of the action thriller, ‘The Rescue’.
Those Avengers Endgame Encore bonus scenes ……
With Avengers Endgame being one of the few films that have made more than $2b at the box office it’s getting a re-release with extra scenes hence the title Avengers Endgame Encore. There’s four extra scenes all of which are a teaser to the hugely anticipated release of Doomsday on 18th December 2026