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Having been delayed by Covid and cast controversy, Kenneth Branagh’s traditionalist whodunnit Death on the Nile finally sails into cinemas. But you have to wonder why it didn’t dock on a streaming service earlier, where small-screen expectations might have been more forgiving of shonky CGI and scenery mastication.  But we …

Director Robert Eggers’ last two feature films – The Witch (opens in new tab) and The Lighthouse (opens in new tab) – have been utterly unique period pieces. For his next, he’s drastically ramping up the scale for a full-on historical epic that’s set to be every bit as gritty …

Jamie Dornan has joined Gal Gadot in Heart of Stone, a new spy thriller coming to Netflix, Deadline reports. Character details are being kept under wraps, though, so we don’t know who he’s playing yet. Heart of Stone is set to be the first installment in a potential franchise described …

Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk has commented on the movie’s ending being censored for its streaming release in China, saying that it’s actually more similar to his book than director David Fincher’s ending. In Fincher’s 1999 adaptation of Palahniuk’s novel, the movie ends with the unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) killing …

The Lost Symbol, Peacock’s prequel series to The Da Vinci Code, has been canceled after one season, Deadline (opens in new tab) reports. Season 1 of the show consisted of 10 episodes and aired between September and November 2021 on Peacock. Based on the novel of the same name by …

Ozark season 4 part 1 sets up the endgame for the Netflix series – but one shocking moment teased in the first half of the season is still to come. Major spoilers ahead! At the beginning of episode 1, we see a flash-forward to a serious car crash for the …

James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has talked about the search for the next 007 – and if discussions have taken place with Idris Elba about the role.     Daniel Craig gave up the license to kill in last year’s No Time to Die, which was his fifth outing as 007. For …

Ozark season 4 part 1 doesn’t pull its punches. The new season of the Netflix show brings in a dangerous new player, Javier Elizonndro (Alfonso Herrera), the nephew of cartel boss Omar Navarro (Felix Solis), and he makes life even harder for the Byrdes. Navarro also has his own scheme, …

Ethan Hawke has joined the cast of Leave the World Behind, an upcoming Netflix thriller, Deadline reports. He joins Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Myha’la Herrold, who recently starred in the HBO series Industry. Based on the novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam, which was first published in …

Don’t Look Up has lost its top spot on Netflix – a new movie has replaced it as the most-streamed title in the past week. New mystery thriller Brazen is now in the number one spot. The movie follows Grace (Alyssa Milano), a mystery writer whose estranged sister is murdered and …