Following on from the success of The Conjuring 2, director James Wan will return to produce a spinoff film based on the sequel’s villain. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie will be called The Nun and will center around Bonnie…
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Quentin Tarantino has decided that the best way to see his new film, The Hateful Eight, will be in a touring roadshow version projected in Ultra Panavision 70mm. And now according to Variety, that version of the film will actually be a little…
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Was Suicide Squad as bad as people say? In this critic’s humble opinion, not really, at least not compared to Batman v Superman. Even as someone who didn’t hate Suicide Squad, though, it’s hard to defend it as a competently made product. The film’s…
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We’ve gotten several documentaries as of late about innocent people who were wrongfully convicted. Time establishes upfront, however, that the central couple did commit a serious crime. Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson were high school sweethearts…
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Ridley Scott’s latest release, The Martian rocketed to the top of the box office charts in the US this weekend with $55 million, according to studio estimates. So far the movie has passed $100 million worldwide already, though that successful…
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We all know that Thor: Ragnarok is going to open huge at the box office, but how huge exactly? According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest installment in the Thor series is likely to make somewhere around $90 million and $100 million during its…
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There’s something enchanting and moving about the notion of someone leaving behind a materialistic life for a more natural, organic existence – translating so well onto the screen in the likes of Into the Wild and Tracks. Now comes Jean-Marc…
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Welcome to Nick Picks, a regular column by Nick Spake. There are countless important questions regarding the current state of cinema and I’m here to answer them. This past October brought us some really good and even great films. In terms of box…
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Welcome to Nick Picks, a regular column by Nick Spake. There are countless important questions regarding the current state of cinema and I’m here to answer them. James Bond is an immortal character in every conceivable way. The fact that Spectre…
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There was a time when director Francois Ozon was considered the pre-eminent enfant terrible of French cinema, especially during the period in which he was making films with as much wild abandon as he did in 1998 with Sitcom. Those days seemed to be…
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