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1 week ago | 
thenews.com.pk | John Nugent
Starring: Bella Ramsey, Catherine O’Hara, KaitlynDever, and Pedro PascalCreated by: Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmannf there was ever even a “video game curse” — the claim that games could never be successfully adapted into film and television — then The Last Of Us definitively disproved it. The 2023 television series was a masterclass in adaptation, faithfully matching (and in some case besting) the groundbreaking 2013 game.
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2 weeks ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
Six more stories of near-future tech dystopia. An actor is transported into a classic movie; a woman is gaslit by a former classmate; and an eccentric loner fosters cute digital creatures. Streaming on: NetflixEpisodes viewed: 6 of 6In 2023, writer Charlie Brooker decided to do something different with the sixth season of Black Mirror, his long-running, darkly dystopian tech-noir anthology series.
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2 weeks ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
In post-apocalyptic America, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are now living quietly in Jackson, Wyoming. But the arrival of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) threatens their peace. Streaming on: Sky / NOWEpisodes viewed: 7 of 7If there was ever even a “video game curse” — the claim that games could never be successfully adapted into film and television — then The Last Of Us definitively disproved it.
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2 weeks ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
In the very near future, Marvel’s First Family will finally come home. It is just four months until The Fantastic Four: First Steps debuts — the culmination of a long-held desire of Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige to bring the iconic superhero team into the Marvel Cinematic Universe fold.
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3 weeks ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
While on their way to a high-powered workplace retreat, attorney Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit a unicorn with their car. A family of unicorns seek revenge — with deadly consequences. Original Title:Death Of A UnicornThe opening titles arrive at exactly the right moment. When a mythical horned equine suddenly expires, accidentally struck by a car, the words “Death Of A Unicorn” immediately fill the screen.
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4 weeks ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
When his friend’s daughter is kidnapped, ex-Royal Marine Levon Cade (Jason Statham) hunts down the kidnappers — soon getting himself embroiled in Chicago’s ugly criminal underground. Original Title:A Working ManA Working Man may be the Jason Statham-iest film ever to Stath. With its man-on-a-mission, hunt-for-a-kidnapped-girl narrative, it borrows wholeheartedly from the likes of Commando and Taken, and effectively steals from John Wick in the “weapons sommelier” played by David Harbour.
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1 month ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
Nathan (Jack Quaid) — who can feel no pain — embarks on a rescue mission when bank robbers kidnap the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder). Original Title:Novocaine (2025)“Meet Nathan Caine. He can’t feel pain.” As far as poster taglines go, that is an all-timer: neatly and succinctly boiling down a zany high concept into seven simple words.
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1 month ago | 
empireonline.com | John Nugent
After their mortal bodies were destroyed, the spirits of Ne Zha (Lü Yanting) and dragon prince Ao Bing (Han Mo) share a new body while seeking immortality. But the safety of Ne Zha’s home, Chentang Pass, is at risk. The rise and rise of the Chinese animation Ne Zha 2 is mythically impressive.
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1 month ago | 
empireonline.com | Ben Travis |Nick De Semlyen |John Nugent
The latest Robert De Niro movie to grace the big screen, The Alto Knights, understands one key rule: the more De Niro you can have in your movie, the better. Hence, it stars De Niro in two roles, as duelling mob bosses – a genre and milieu that he knows better than most, having starred in several of the greatest gangster movies ever made. But that’s just scratching the surface of De Niro – compelling whether he’s playing career criminals, comedians, cackling psychos, or champion boxers.
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1 month ago | 
thenews.com.pk | John Nugent
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Rege-JeanPage, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Marisa Abela, and Pierce BrosnanDirection by: Steven Soderbergh13 years after announcing his retirement, Steven Soderbergh is busier than ever. Black Bag is his second film out this year — it arrives just two months after his unconventional ghost story Presence and marks his third collaboration with prolific screenwriter David Koepp. And it is tremendous fun: think Ocean’s 11, if they were spies.
