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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, …

Netflix has a new #1 movie – and it’s given a new lease of life to an overlooked thriller. The Call, a 2013 thriller starring Halle Berry as an emergency operator dealing with the kidnapping of a teenage girl, is currently the most-watched movie on Netflix in the US. In …

Prime Video has released the first official trailer for The Wilds season 2, and it looks predictably intense as, back on the island, the girls learn that they are not alone. Created by Sarah Streicher and executive produced by showrunner Amy Harris, the show – which follows multiple timelines – …

Batman Unburied, a scripted podcast featuring actor Winston Duke (M’Baku in the MCU) as Bruce Wayne/Batman kicking off a multi-year partnership between Spotify, Warner Bros., and DC will launch globally on May 3, 2022. Described as a psychological thriller that will take listeners on a “new journey deep into the …

Director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier are re-teaming for a new project, a political thriller titled Young Sinner. The pair last worked together on the sci-fi movie Starship Troopers, which was released in 1997, and they also teamed up for 1987’s RoboCop. “I’m really thinking that what Neumeier and …

Riz Ahmed knows the importance of taking risks. “When I’m not fully in control is when interesting things happen,” he tells GamesRadar+, and his role in Amazon’s new thriller Encounter is certainly something different for the actor.  Ahmed plays Malik, a Marine Corp veteran who goes on the run with …

Over an agonisingly protracted 18-month postponement, with the release date buffeted farther into the future at least three times, the title of the film formerly known as Bond 25 has taken on a grim irony.  No Time To Die finally arrives six years after Daniel Craig’s last Bond adventure, Spectre …

The Perfect Dark reboot is being co-developed by Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics. In a tweet (opens in new tab) earlier today, primary developer The Initiative told fans that “we are partnering with Crystal Dynamics, the world-class team being character-driven games such as Tomb Raider, to bring this first-person spy …

Netflix has released the first trailer for The Guilty, a new crime thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a 911 operator.  Taking place over the course of one morning in a 911 dispatch call center, demoted LAPD officer Joe (Gyllenhaal) receives an emergency call from a mother who’s been abducted. However, …

The Reminiscence ending might not be on Inception levels in terms of hair-pulling cliffhangers – but the road to get there is similarly dotted with several major moments that race by and will have you questioning everybody’s motives. There’s rug pull after rug pull, and a heart-wrenching ending that might …