Another month brings tons of movies and TV shows new on Disney Plus. This June, there’s loads to choose from, as Obi-Wan Kenobi continues and new superhero show Ms. Marvel kicks off. Beyond that, the UK will get to enjoy movies like Titanic arriving this month, as well as the …
Read More »Bo Burnham releases an hour of unseen footage from Netflix special Inside
Bo Burnham has surprise-released The Inside Outtakes, an hour-long compilation of unseen footage and unused songs from his award-winning Netflix special Inside. “A year ago today, I released a special called Inside,” he tweeted (opens in new tab). “I’ve spent the last two months editing together material that I short …
Read More »Cannes 2022: the 10 must-see films from this year’s festival
Another year, another Cannes Film Festival in the, er, can. This year the prestigious cinematic showcase celebrated its 75th year (fun fact: Brief Encounter competed in the first). It was seen as something of a return to normality, with glitzy premieres for Hollywood mega-movies, like Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis, …
Read More »Cannes 2022 in review: Bickering siblings, exploited immigrants and a very wonky donkey
The 75th Cannes Film Festival is drawing to a close, and the general consensus is that it’s been a successful event where most of the movies have been of a pretty solid standard. In other words it’s been a teensy bit dull, with even Cronenberg’s Crimes Of The Future – …
Read More »Heres why Shrek has a Scottish accent, according to Mike Myers
Shrek star Mike Myers has revealed why the titular ogre has a Scottish accent. Fans of the franchise will already know that the green guy didn’t originally have the voice he ended up with, and the Austin Powers actor has talked openly about re-recording the dialogue for the first movie …
Read More »Funny Pages review, Cannes: Safdie-produced A24 comedy “appears to have a direct line to the nervous energy of early ’70s cinema”
A budding young cartoonist’s picaresque rite of passage forms an entertaining foundation for this lo-fi feature debut from New York director Owen Kline, a protégé of the Safdie brothers who appears to have a direct line to the scrappy, nervous energy of early ’70s cinema. Playing in the Directors’ Fortnight …
Read More »Woody Harrelsons gross-sounding new movie gets 8-minute standing ovation
Woody Harrelson’s gross-out new movie Triangle of Sadness wowed critics at Cannes Film Festival recently, earning an eight-minute standing ovation. According to Variety, the film left viewers “shrieking” in both horror and delight – and yet, still, the clapping beat out the reaction to Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel Top Gun: …
Read More »Triangle Of Sadness review, Cannes: “Blisteringly funny, narratively intrepid and plain old spitting mad”
The last time Ruben Östlund came to Cannes with his art world-skewering The Square, he took home the Palme d’Or. Five years on and five days into the festival’s 2022 iteration, he could be looking at a second. Blisteringly funny, narratively intrepid and plain old spitting mad, Triangle Of Sadness …
Read More »Squid Game creator is making a new TV show – about having a very successful TV show
Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has a new project in the works – and it’s a satirical comedy series based on the Netflix show’s meteoric rise to the top of the streaming charts, Deadline (opens in new tab) reports. The show, which is still in the early stages of development, …
Read More »Margot Robbie to star in new Oceans Eleven movie set in the 60s
Margot Robbie is set to star in and produce a new Ocean’s Eleven movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab). Plot details for the movie are being kept under wraps, but it’s been confirmed that it will be a prequel set in Europe in the ’60s. The …
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