When Cressida Cowell’s book series How To Train Your Dragon was developed into a film, its success took the world by storm and spawned a number of television series, short films, video games and even live performance shows. Now the third, and final film installment has arrived with How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden…
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With the recent success the DC Universe project Wonder Woman, which took in $822 million at the worldwide box office, it’s no surprise that a sequel was quickly green-lit. Starring model and actress Gal Gadot (Fast Five) in the titular role, today we have our first taste of the film, confirmed to be called Wonder Woman 1984, as…
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Back in 2001, a small-budget comedy from David Wain and Michael Showalter that parodied 80’s summer camp films was seen as a critical and commercial failure, but became a cult classic. Fast-forward to 14 years later, where some now-familiar faces reprised their roles in the Netflix prequel series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp, featuring…
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When “based on a true story” flashes across the screen in the beginning moments of Masterminds, you can’t help but think that it’s trying to squeeze an easy laugh out of its audience. Somehow, whether you believe it or not, Jared Hess’s comedy adopts its premise from an actual robbery that took place in the…
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Seth Rogen has always been associated with stoner humour and raunchy comedy, but in the case of Sausage Party, he takes it to a whole new level. With animated films that have anthropomorphised objects like toys (i.e. the Toy Story films) and cars (i.e. Cars), Rogen had the idea to anthropomorphise consumer products while retaining…
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Netflix has announced that a follow-up to last year’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, titled Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. Like the name suggests, the eight-episode series will be set ten years after the original Wet Hot American Summer film. Beyond that, details are scarce but expect Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian…
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Melissa McCarthy has revealed that the character Michelle Darnell from her upcoming film, The Boss, was originally created for a comedy sketch 15 years ago in a new video about the film. While The Boss‘s Darnell has more depth than the gender-bent Donald Trump of the original sketch, according to director Ben Falcone believes “she looks very much like she does in the movie”. The…
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We got our first real taste of the Paul Feig-directed reboot of Ghostbusters, courtesy of the new trailer released this morning. The trailer wastes no time introducing and showing it’s four new leads – played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones – with the full film looking every bit as funny (and slime-filled) as…
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The marketing for the female-led reboot is ramping up with a new teaser trailer for the film released this morning. Over thirty years since the original supernatural comedy film took its place in pop culture history, we’re finally getting a new Ghostbusters movie. Check out the teaser trailer below: It’ll be fascinating to see what Paul…
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Some terrible madman is going around killing the world’s most beautiful people, including Usher and Justin Bieber, in Zoolander 2, forcing them to leave the world one last selfie with Derek Zoolander’s (Ben Stiller) signature look, Blue Steel. Such is life in the Zoolander universe as we once again take a close look at the…
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Khaleesi from Game of Thrones shocked fans on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night she she was summoned by the great Kristen Wiig. We learnt some great fun facts about the character, like that her real name is actually “Karen”. And she’s originally from the forest. On the mountain. Who would have guessed…
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Last week, it was announced that the eagerly anticipated reboot of Ghostbusters by director Paul Feig would be happening – and it would be starring an all-female cast. Through a wordless tweet featuring only a photo of four women, Feig announced that those starring in the reboot would be none-other than Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy,…
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It’s always great so see actors take on a project that is out of their comfort zone. Former Saturday Night Live stars Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are both immensely talented comedic actors, as evidenced during their time on SNL and their successes in comedy classics such as Bridesmaids and Superbad respectively. The Skeleton Twins is a bit of a change of pace…
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