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DETECTIVE CONAN 19: SUNFLOWERS OF INFERNO (2015) Review “People only notice what’s important when they lose them.” Clouded with information which makes it harder to understand until you get to the end. The reveal might come as a surprising twist but the work done to get there felt excessive. Sunflowers of Inferno has a more …
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The idea for the latest family adventure film from Terry Jones, “Absolutely Anything,” starring Kate Beckinsale and Simon Pegg began life many years ago when the former Python imagined a movie inspired by a short story written by H.G. Wells at the end of the 19th century — the comedic fantasy ‘The Man Who Could …
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Peter Dinklage (HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”) and Josh Gad (“Frozen”) star as two of four unlikely heroes who are called upon to save the world, in Columbia Pictures’ new action comedy “Pixels.” In the film which also stars Adam Sandler, aliens attack the Earth, using 1980s videogames as the model …
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New Line Cinema has released a new trailer for “Vacation,” the upcoming comedy sequel from writers/directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (“Horrible Bosses”) which may be viewed here: “Vacation” finds Ed Helms playing a grown-up version of Rusty Griswold who opts to take his own family on a trip to Walley World, echoing the …
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Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, facing his most blisteringly impossible mission yet, in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” the fifth installment in the constantly accelerating action-thriller series. This time out, Cruise’s iconic character, Ethan Hunt, finds himself in non-stop peril – physical, mental and emotional — from the film’s literally high-flying opening moments …
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Sweden’s actress-on-the-rise Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina”) stars opposite Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer in Warner Bros. Pictures’ new spy action-thriller “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” centers on CIA agent Solo (Cavill) and KGB agent Kuryakin (Hammer). Forced …
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Official details on Pacific Rim 2 at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con (where director Guillermo Del Toro was there promoting Crimson Peak) del Toro reaffirmed the filming start date for the Pacific Rimsequel – with a story that picks up a few years after the events of the first movie and focuses more on the mythology behind …
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Wholly talented actor Simon Pegg, widely known for his roles in franchise blockbusters such as “Star Trek,” “Mission: Impossible” and lending voice in animated and CGI films “Ice Age” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” stars anew in the upcoming fantasy action adventure in “Absolutely Anything” opposite Kate Beckinsale. “Absolutely Anything” tells the tale of a …
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James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in “Victor Frankenstein,” this year’s grand spectacle of a production and character driven film contemporizing one of the most beloved literary and film classics of all time under Paul McGuigan’s direction. In the coolest and electrifying reimagining of the mad doctor and his creation, James McAvoy takes on the …
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His name is 47, based on the highly successful game, “Hitman: Agent 47” has just revealed its second trailer starring Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware and Thomas Kretschman directed by Aleksander Bach. A standalone film, the latest breed of new superhuman rises in “Hitman: Agent 47,” Friend takes on the titular role as an …