Reviews, premieres, and the latest on screen entertainment.
Reviews, premieres, and the latest on screen entertainment.
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While you'd think the Super Bowl would be all about the football, it never really is. Many people out there don't give two hoots about the game, and instead, tune in to lap up the halftime show and A-lister-packed adverts. So, what did we learn this year from the long-awaited…
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If you're a millennial, then you probably got nightmares from reading one particular children's book series. And no, I'm not talking about R.L. Stine's Goosebumps, no disrespect to Slappy the Dummy, monster blood or the lawn gnomes. I'm talking about Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories, a trilogy formed by Scary Stories to…
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When the trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile dropped, audiences expected a nightmarish tale about one of the most infamous serial killers to ever live. Instead, many viewers felt as if they watched two minutes of Zac Efron taking off his shirt and winking at the camera: something that…
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First thing's first: Go Patriots! And now that I've got that out of my system, can we finally talk about the most exciting thing to happen at this year's Super Bowl? Yes, I know most people will be talking about the New England Patriots scooping the title for a historic…
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For many people, the 1964 movie Mary Poppins is an absolute masterpiece, a movie that warms the heart, fires the imagination, and features plenty of catchy tunes. However, this week an academic has denounced the movie as racist due to one of its iconic scenes, and now social media users…
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There are a select few TV shows that transcend genre and form to become almost universally adored. In this second 'golden age' of television we're currently living through, there are several shows that have broken into this most coveted of groups: Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos and, of course,…
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If you haven't got round to watching Netflix's 'You' yet, I strongly recommend you jump on it straight away. It's got drama, it's got suspense, it's got the occasional cheesy moment, and - most importantly - it's got an insane stalker as its main character. Not all of the show's…
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Zac Efron is not necessarily the first actor you would think of when you were trying to bring a deranged serial killer to the screen, but in the case of Ted Bundy, it may just have worked. He was recently cast as the infamous murderer in the film Extremely Wicked,…
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If an attractive, charming young man approached you in a public area and asked you to help him unload his sailboat, would you say yes? What if his arm was in a plastic cast, and he asked for help packing boxes into his car? How about if he claimed he…
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There's nothing better than having a new box set to binge on. For many Netflix viewers, the Christmas season alone was reason to celebrate, as we saw the release of two fantastic Netflix originals. First, there was the tense and disturbing horror-thriller Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock. But at the same…
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Game of Thrones's eighth season is just over two months away now, but we still know relatively little about the final episodes. Given that we've had to wait an extra year this time, the impatience of the fanbase has left us all looking for whatever we can find, with some…
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Thirty years after his execution via electric chair, serial killer Ted Bundy has captured the country's attention once again, thanks to a riveting documentary on Netflix. In the four-part series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, viewers learn how the American Jack The Ripper killed thirty young women…
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Last week, Jeff Bridges teased a mysterious new project, in which he reprises his iconic character 'The Dude' from 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski. In the Coen Brothers film, mellow Los Angeles slacker Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski gets mistaken for a cantankerous millionaire targeted by kidnappers. The hilarious mix-ups,…
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In the 2016 superhero film Suicide Squad, an American intelligence officer assembles a team of dangerous criminals to complete high-risk missions. The antiheroes included Will Smith as expert marksman Headshot, Jay Hernandez as pyrokinetic gangster El Diablo and Margot Robbie as psychiatrist turned Joker accomplice turned badass with a bat,…
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John Krasinski and Emily Blunt have been a power couple ever since they started dating in 2008, but, 10 years on, they had a monumental year together with the release of A Quiet Place. The pair got engaged in 2009, before they married in a private ceremony in Italy the…
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When you imagine a serial killer, you picture someone ugly and socially awkward. You don't picture someone handsome and charismatic, like Ted Bundy, who confessed to murdering thirty women in the 1970's. Perhaps his charm was exaggerated over the years, as he became a mythic figure. But there's no doubt…
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You know Zac Efron best from High School Musical, Neighbors and your girlfriend's deepest fantasies, but his next role is quite a departure. In the biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile, the 31-year-old plays notorious serial killer and necrophile Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to murdering at least thirty women…
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Breaking Bad has been off the air for five years now, and while we're not all glued to our screens every week in quite the same way, there's plenty of attention still being paid to the hit show. The original five-season run told a thrilling and complete story, but that…
