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Happy Gilmore 2 review | A one-joke wonder

by Maria Lattila | Jul 25, 2025 | News, Reviews

Bring Her Back

Bring Her Back review | Sally Hawkins is mesmerising in an extreme domestic horror

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | Reviews

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10 retro genre films to watch after The Fantastic Four

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | Featured

Animal Crossing 2006

Animal Crossing | The 2006 animated movie that never left Japan 

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 24, 2025 | Feature, Gaming, News

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Podcast | In conversation with director Matt Shakman: The Fantastic Four, Dick Tracy, Gremlins 2, writing career-changing letters

by Simon Brew | Jul 24, 2025 | Podcasts

Netflix

24 underappreciated films on Netflix UK

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | Feature, News

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Happy Gilmore 2 review | A one-joke wonder

by Maria Lattila | Jul 25, 2025 | News, Reviews

Adam Sandler’s hapless golfer is back for more in a long overdue sequel. Here’s our Happy Gilmore 2 review. ...

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | Full trailer emerges, film out in September

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | Full trailer emerges, film out in September

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | News

Mockumentary sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is out in September, and the full trailer has emerged as a reminder....

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War Of The Worlds is now a cyber thriller starring Ice Cube

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | News

The classic sci-fi story War Of The Worlds is now a cyber thriller starring Ice Cube. Also: aliens that eat data? It's on Prime Video next week....

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer | Cast for reboot grows

by Maria Lattila | Jul 25, 2025 | News, TV

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot is moving forward and the new cast includes a familiar face for fans of Severance. More on the show below. ...

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No Other Choice trailer | Oldboy director Park Chan-wook returns with another terrific-looking thriller

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | News

Lee Byung-hun stars in Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's stylish, blackly comic-looking thriller, No Other Choice. Here's the first trailer:...

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Bring Her Back

Bring Her Back review | Sally Hawkins is mesmerising in an extreme domestic horror

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | Reviews

The directors of Talk To Me return with another technically assured horror that isn’t for those of a nervous disposition. Our review of Bring Her B...

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Fantastic Four retro film recommendations

10 retro genre films to watch after The Fantastic Four

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 25, 2025 | Featured

If The Fantastic Four: First Steps left you hankering for more sci-fi films with similar themes, here’s our pick of 10 classics....

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Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 trailer | The animatronic puppets are at it again

by Maria Lattila | Jul 24, 2025 | News

It’s time to return to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza in the first Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 trailer. You can watch it here:...

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US box office | New report points to a mixed future for cinemas

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 24, 2025 | News

The US box office won't return to its 2019 peak until 2030 a new report suggests, as cinemas slowly recover from five turbulent years....

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Michael | Michael Jackson biopic moves to 2026

by Simon Brew | Jul 24, 2025 | News

Antoine Fuqua's Michael is indeed, as had been reported, moving to 2026. One lot of extra shooting done, more may be following....

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Animal Crossing 2006

Animal Crossing | The 2006 animated movie that never left Japan 

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 24, 2025 | Feature, Gaming, News

Nintendo commissioned an Animal Crossing anime film in 2006. But despite the games’ exploding popularity, it never left Japan. A look at what we all m...

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Fantastic Four First Steps Matt Shakman

Podcast | In conversation with director Matt Shakman: The Fantastic Four, Dick Tracy, Gremlins 2, writing career-changing letters

by Simon Brew | Jul 24, 2025 | Podcasts

The Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman joins us for a long chat about his career - and we strike movie nerd gold....

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Films to watch on BBC iPlayer right now

by Em McGowan | Jul 23, 2025 | Feature, News

Who needs Netflix and Prime? BBC iPlayer has a terrific collection of films to watch - here's our updated list of what to watch right now (and when they're leaving the service).

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Beetlejuice 3 | Tim Burton casts doubt on a new sequel

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | News

Beetlejuice 3 is supposedly happening but it seems Tim Burton isn't aware of its "imminent" production. Uh-oh. ...

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Wednesday | Netflix moves forward with season 3, a spin-off is being discussed

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | News, TV

Ahead of the series’ season 2 premiere, Netflix has renewed their supernatural mystery series Wednesday for season 3. More on that below. ...

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30 underappreciated films on Disney+ UK

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | Feature, News

Disney+ UK is about more than Marvel and Star Wars stuff. Here’s a bunch of underappreciated films on the service....

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Netflix

24 underappreciated films on Netflix UK

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | Feature, News

Looking for something to watch tonight? Netflix has a huge library of films, but we're here to help. Here are 24 underrated films available to stream...

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Giant

Giant | Trailer released for British boxing movie

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | News

Amir El-Masry plays Prince Naseem Hamed in the boxing biopic, Giant, co-starring Pierce Brosnan. Here's the first trailer:...

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps review | Now this is a bit more like it

by Maria Lattila | Jul 23, 2025 | News, Reviews

Matt Shakman brings Marvel’s “first family” onto the big screen, but is it any good? Here’s our The Fantastic Four: First Steps review. ...

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Basic Instinct | Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says his reboot will be "spooky"

Basic Instinct | Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says his reboot will be "spooky"

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 23, 2025 | News

As well as being 'anti-woke', the Basic Instinct reboot will also be spooky and demonic according to screenwriter Joe Eszterhas....

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | UK DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD set for October

by Simon Brew | Jul 23, 2025 | News

Tom Cruise invades your living room, as Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning heads to DVD, Blu-ray and 4K disc in the UK....

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Superman | Test audiences originally rejected the squirrel

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 23, 2025 | News

A brief moment in Superman involving a squirrel was "hotly debated" and initially disliked by test audiences, but James Gunn kept it anyway....

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Film Stories Podcast Network | Superman, F1: The Movie, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and more

by A J Black | Jul 23, 2025 | Film Stories Podcast Network, News

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: alien heroes, speed demons, space crews and much more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…...

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Demolition Man | Why Nigel Hawthorne hated making the film

by Simon Brew | Jul 23, 2025 | Feature, News

Nigel Hawthorne once wrote of his experience making Demolition Man opposite Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes - and it'd be fair to say he wasn't a...

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Mental Health Matters | Comfort movies, games, shows

by Simon Brew | Jul 23, 2025 | Feature

In our spot on the site where we chat mental health and wellbeing, a few words on the movies, games and TV shows we keep coming back to....

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Predator: Badlands | New trailer hints at a sci-fi buddy action thriller

by Ryan Lambie | Jul 22, 2025 | News

The new trailer for Predator: Badlands makes a hero out of a fearsome hunter, who teams up with Elle Fanning's synthetic human. Take a look:...

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Britain's abandoned cinemas

by Elliana Jay | Jul 22, 2025 | Feature

Elliana Jay on the abandoned cinemas of the UK - and whether there's any hope for the moviehouses where the lights have gone out....

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In A Violent Nature 2 to start production in September

by Maria Lattila | Jul 22, 2025 | News

Johnny will be back to slash, stab and wreak havoc in the horror sequel In A Violent Nature 2, now heading into production. ...

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by Ryan Lambie | Jul 22, 2025 | News

Mere months after Longlegs and The Monkey, writer-director Osgood Perkins is back with the first teaser for his latest horror, Keeper....

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Re-releases heading back into cinemas in 2025

by Maria Lattila | Jul 22, 2025 | Feature, News

Yearning for some classic films on the big screen? Here's a list of all the re-releases heading into UK cinemas in the near future....

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