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If you saw 2015’s THE LOBSTER with Colin Farrell, you’d remember. It was an arthouse black comedy directed, co-written, and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos. The film was about single people given 45 days to find a partner or they would be turned into animals. Farrell and Lanthimos have teamed up again for THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER. This one is a psychological horror in which a surgeon forms a f...

Director James Cameron has revealed who the villain will be for his four upcoming Avatar sequels. Stephen Lang will be returning as Colonel Miles Quaritch, who will be the major antagonist for the following films. Cameron has stated that “…it’s not a whole bunch of new characters every time. There’s not a new villain every time…”. Instead, he will be “…taking characters you know and putting them i...

THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM is a British horror-thriller directed by Juan Carlos Medina. The director is relatively unknown with only one other feature, PAINLESS (2012) to his name. The screenplay is by Jane Goldman of Kickass, X-Men and Kingsman fame. Goldman often co-writes and produces with director Matthew Vaughn. The film, is an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno a...

Australia’s Cate Blanchett is set to play the iconic comedian Lucille Ball in an upcoming film. Although Blanchett has not officially signed to the project it appears the deal is all but done. The television movie has been commissioned for the Amazon streaming platform and will document Lucille Ball’s years as a television star. Ball’s road to stardom was long and winding. In the 1930s and ‘...

If you’re a fan of history, politics and British comedy, then you might be the very audience for this new trailer that has just hit the Internets. Armando Iannucci the comic mind behind the political satire of television’s The Thick of It and Veep has made a second feature, THE DEATH OF STALIN. Based on Fabien Nury’s graphic novel of the same name, the movie pokes fun at the bizarre political shen...

The producers of the proposed television series Judge Dredd: Mega-City One have confirmed they are in talks with New Zealand’s Karl Urban. The series would be a sequel to the 2012 science-fiction action flick DREDD in which Urban starred as the street judge who has to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise that is the hub for dealing the illegal drug Slo-Mo. Fans have agitated for a sequel over the...

Luna Palace Cinemas and Mushroom Pictures are delighted to present acclaimed Australian award winning actor Aaron Pedersen for a special Q&A screening of KILLING GROUND, the debut feature film- from writer/director Damien Power and one of the most successful genre films to be made in this country since Wolf Creek 2. When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their is...

Disney has announced it will pull all of its movies from Netflix and launch branded Disney content on its own streaming service. The direct-to-consumer streaming service will launch in the U.S. in 2019 with other regions to follow. The deal will include Disney Channel shows, ABC (the American network) shows, Pixar movies, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2 and the upcoming live-action Lion King. Movies from Ma...

With cinematic universes all the rage at the moment, Universal have been keen not to be left behind and are trying out their own cross-film universe dubbed the “Dark Universe”, using their classic monster characters including Dracula, The Mummy, Van Helsing, and The Wolf Man among others.

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has announced today the nominees for Best Feature Length Documetary as well as the 35 feature films in competition for this years AACTA Awards. AACTA has announced five nominees for Best Feature Length Documentary: CASTING JONBENÉT, DAVID STRATTON: A CINEMATIC LIFE, DEEP WATER: THE REAL STORY, WHITELEY and ZACH’S CEREMONY. In addition, a...

I have found this to be the most bizarre news of the year.. BUT it looks like we will be seeing a sequel to the original Karate Kid film via YouTube Red next year. The 10 episode 30 minute series was shopped around to numerous outlets including Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and AMC and word on the street everyone was fighting big time for it with YouTube Red winning out in the end. The series will be call...