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The Don’t Worry, Darling motion picture motion poster is here

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Florence Pugh stars as 1950s housewife Alice, who is living with her husband Jack (Harry Styles) in a utopian experimental community when she begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets… Something tells me Alice’s life is about to be turned…. <drumroll please> upside down. Here’s the poster, which I found… The Don’t Worry, Darling motion picture motion poster is here Read More

Jurassic snark and larks in the new Persuasion trailer

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*** Read my review and plot re-cap *** Yes we’re headed back to the early 19th century and Dorset’s Lyme Regis for Netflix’s summer release Persuasion. The film stars Dakota Johnson as the no-longer-wealthy Anne Elliot with Cosmo Jarvis and William Golding as her two suitors, and there’s not been so much hotness on the… Jurassic snark and larks in the new Persuasion trailer Read More

Stop crying, Knives Out fans, we have a sequel title

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and it’s called… Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Why have you started crying again! Oh, wait. Anyway here’s what we know about the plot so far — it’s not shallot but it’s better than nothing: Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of… Stop crying, Knives Out fans, we have a sequel title Read More

Good cod, a release date and poster for Fisherman’s Friends sequel

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Not sure who was the snapper for this poster, but it looks mighty (Loch) Fyne. The first film was a mixed haul, (hali)but I can say this for the Cornish sea shanty singers: they never sang out-of-tuna. This sequel sees them trying to build on their newfound fame — but will friendships flounder as they… Good cod, a release date and poster for Fisherman’s Friends sequel Read More

High stakes on a train: new Bullet Train trailer and images

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A jaded hitman. The world’s fastest train. A stolen suitcase. A series of assassins out to get him. This looks a bit John Wick, a bit Snowpiercer, a bit Johnny English, a bit Thomas The Tank Engine. Okay not that last one. I’m not that sympathetic. Come back when you’ve attempted to “mind the gap”… High stakes on a train: new Bullet Train trailer and images Read More

GATLOPP trailer: is it game over?

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*** My review is here, or read my recap of the ending *** GATLOPP? Is that an initialism? An anagram (um, tag plop?)? A wordsearch? The answer to how to escape this literally hellish drinking game? Horror and board games are an appropriate partnership, considering the ouija board began — ahem — life as a… GATLOPP trailer: is it game over? Read More

Town Full Of Ghosts trailer: hell is other people, except in the empty Blackwood Falls

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Some towns should stay forgotten. Like a found footage Grand Designs, Mark and Jenna buy a dilapidated and abandoned settlement with a view to making their fortune. Here’s the synopsis: Mark (Andrew C Fisher) and his wife Jenna (Mandy Lee Rubio) sell everything they have to purchase a western ghost town called Blackwood Falls in… Town Full Of Ghosts trailer: hell is other people, except in the empty Blackwood Falls Read More

Time to rewind in the Press Play trailer

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“If music be the food of love play on”, said Shakespeare’s Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, trying to listen to so much he’d go off his crush Olivia. He should have put together a selection of favourite, meaningful lute bangers for her and paid the band to stand beneath her window playing them in a… Time to rewind in the Press Play trailer Read More

Old relics assemble! Age and obsolescence in Top Gun: Maverick

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I saw Top Gun at the cinema back in 1986 as a teenager, and its famed homoeroticism, plus added military fetishism, went way over my head like a stealth bomber without the bomber bit. I didn’t even fancy Tom Cruise during that decade, apart from in Risky Business, and that was mainly because of the… Old relics assemble! Age and obsolescence in Top Gun: Maverick Read More

I feel the need, the need for speed (writing): my Top Gun — Maverick plot summary

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So busy muttering “oh my god!” as Maverick’s plane emerged from under one of his pilots during the dogfight training that you missed some of the plot? Maybe, like my 10 year old, you had your hands over your eyes during “the kissing bit”? Check out my plot re-cap below. (If you’re after my five-star… I feel the need, the need for speed (writing): my Top Gun — Maverick plot summary Read More