Month: February 2024

From the V/H/S franchise, V/H/S/94 takes us back to the nineties with its fourth wicked instalment for some old-school entertainment and gruesome good fun with this new collection of bone-chilling tales of found footage terror. Check out the trailer here… [embedded content] The year is 1994 and when a mysterious VHS tape is found, a
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Director: Andrew Cumming Writer: Ruth Greenberg Cast: Safia Oakley-Green, Kit Young, Chuku Modu, Iola Evans, Arno Lüning, Luna Mwezi Set 45,000 years ago, Out of Darkness follows a small tribe’s journey into an unknown and dangerous new territory; exploring themes of survival, storytelling, and the primal instincts of humanity. The movie opens with a sage
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Released: 26 February (on digital platforms) Director: Matt Velsey Writer: Lucy Campbell Cast: Lily Sullivan Cliffhangers, red herrings and clickbait – the world of unsolved mystery podcasts have an innate ability to grab you and suck you in. An addictive trait that director Matt Vesely and screenwriter Lucy Campbell capitalise on in their debut feature,
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Released: 1 March 2024 (in cinemas) Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 166 mins In an interview we conducted with director Denis Villeneuve following the release of Dune in 2021 he spoke about his hopes for Dune: Part Two expressing his desire to make this film ‘playtime!’
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My space fantasy novel Redsight follows a blind priestess in a religious order as she falls in love with her galactic enemy. Redsight features tactile magic, star eating, entombed goddesses, and black holes that consume worlds. I drew from many influences to create the story. Re-examining Dune’s Bene Gesserit Like many science fiction readers, I
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Anne Boleyn has been played on screen since the silent movie era. She’s been portrayed as a six-fingered boo-hiss villain, a Saturday Night Live punchline, a ghost haunting Princess Diana, and in recent stage musical Six, a Kate Nash-style aitch-dropping popstrel. Now, Henry VIII’s second wife is trending on TikTok as a new generation gets
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It’s hard to become a Jeopardy! celebrity … unless, of course, you’re already participating in Celebrity Jeopardy! The concept of the long-running quiz show institution is so simple that it doesn’t leave much room for personality. Sure, we’ve gotten to know some super champs over the years like James Holzhauer, Amy Schneider, and GOAT-turned-host Ken
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This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live episode 1. Say what you will about The Walking Dead, but the franchise has never wanted for compelling villains. From The Governor and Woodbury, to Negan and his Saviors, and Alpha and her Whisperers, Rick Grimes and company have always had very real
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This article contains spoilers for The Orville, Star Trek: The Original Series, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Featuring broad comedy and characters who don’t seem to be taking their jobs very seriously, the first trailer for The Orville suggested that the Fox series would be a spoof of Star Trek. In said trailer, Captain
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