Month: July 2024

So, surprise, surprise, but Minions are the lords of Independence Day. Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 is looking at $28 million Wednesday, sans Tuesday previews (they weren’t held), which is high enough to get the movie to an estimated $120 million over its first five days through Sunday. That’s where tracking was spotting it, and it’s
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Megan Davis’s debut The Messenger in 2023 was a powerful blend of conspiracy thriller and psychological drama. Building on some themes in that novel, the abuse of power and wealth are to the front again in Bay of Thieves – a financial thriller right on the edge. There’s wealth and then there’s the Cote d’Azur
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In just a few weeks, another major entry on the 2024 movie schedule will be upon us, and it promises to (figuratively) blow the roof off cinemas. The highly anticipated Twisters, which stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones, has been touted as pure blockbuster fun. Of course, the flick is a successor to the 1996
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Is there anything worse than a show you love being canceled? Just give a hearty “no” your best rebel yell. We all agree. Today, Amazon has decided there will be no more Outer Range. Outer Range is one of the last remaining unique shows on TV. Related: A New Era of Stellar Sci-Fi Adaptations Has
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Kellye Garrett began as a crime fiction author with the Detective by Day cosy mysteries about a broke black actress who becomes an amateur detective. Her debut, Hollywood Homicide, won multiple awards for best first novel including the Agatha, Anthony, Lefty and IPPY. It was also named one of BookBub’s Top 100 Crime Novels of All
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If you are the sort of person who can’t bear to part with sentimental objects—“That belonged to Mamaw!”—this book is for you. Packed inside The Heirloomist: 100 Heirlooms and the Stories They Tell are photographs and stories of 100 items belonging to everyday as well as famous people, including Gloria Steinem, Rosanne Cash and Gabby
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Audiences are accustomed to seeing Michael Rooker play tough characters in projects like The Walking Dead and Guardians of the Galaxy, but the actor himself had some tough-love advice for audiences who didn’t exactly flock to his latest film Horizon, which is directed by and stars Kevin Costner. The film opened to an underwhelming $11
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Love never dies! Not for the doomed couple at the center of director Brian Yuzna’s gory zombie sequel, Return of the Living Dead 3, and not for dedicated horror fans. Filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told) revealed on Facebook that he’s acquired the “lost” first cut of Yuzna’s film, containing
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