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1 month ago | 
meaganfrancis.substack.com | Meagan Francis |Sarah Cook
For most of us, getting groceries automatically equals “going to the supermarket.” But does that brightly-lit jumble of logos, packaging, and confusing nutrition labels have to be the only - or even the primary - way we fill our fridges and pantries? For the past few years, as I’ve been committed to sourcing more and more of my food locally and seasonally, it’s automatically led to me relying less and less on the supermarket - and I’ve learned a lot along the way.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Sarah Cook |Jake Godfrey |Simon Brew |Ryan Lambie
Christopher Nolan is being linked with umpteen different films at the moment – perhaps it’s best if we rule some of them out. Speculation has been rife in the last few weeks as to just what Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan’s next film is going to be. Universal Pictures is distributing the film, and it has a 2026 release. But what on earth is it? Is it a vampire movie? Is it a sort-of remake of Blue Thunder? Could it be an espionage film?
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey |Sarah Cook |Mark Harrison
On Netflix now, It’s What’s Inside is the latest film to throw anxious young people in a mansion.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Dan Cooper |Sarah Cook |Ryan Lambie
As Joker Folie à Deux falters in its second week, horror sequel Terrifier 3 has soared. Does the latter tap into previously-overlooked movie-goer tastes? For Warner Bros, the latest box office reports will make for grim reading. Writer-director Todd Philips’ sequel Joker Folie à Deux, which wasn’t doing terribly well financially to begin with, tumbled 81 percent over its second weekend to takings of just $7m in the US.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey |Sarah Cook |Mark Harrison |Sarah Myers
When you’re naturally not the kind of person to celebrate something good, how do you give yourself permission to do so? We all love a piece of good news, don’t we? It makes such a welcome change from… well, everything going on, right now. Good news can take on different forms, from ‘I won the lottery’ to ‘I found my favourite T-shirt that I thought I’d lost’, but it is always positive and is a source of pride or joy to the person making their announcement.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Jake Godfrey |Ryan Lambie |Dan Cooper |Sarah Cook
Joker: Folie à Deux might have a bunch of characters singing in it, but does that make it a musical? Short answer: yes. Find the long one below…Since discussions around a potential Joker sequel first began swirling in 2019, everyone seems to have been very worried that the follow-up to the edgiest comic book movie on the planet would be a musical. Inspiration first struck when Joaquin Phoenix dreamt of seeing Arthur Fleck singing and dancing on stage.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Ryan Lambie |Sarah Cook
Rather than try to rewrite the thriller rulebook, Prime Video mystery Killer Heat is content to be just fine – which is far from a bad thing. There was a time when the film industry was partly underpinned by perfectly okay if unspectacular mid-budget thrillers.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Sarah Cook |James Harvey |Dan Cooper
We take a look at the Hollywood art of the sequel tease – not least when the movie being teased doesn’t happen…You can’t put a price, it seems, on the value of ‘pre-awareness’. Hollywood corporate-speak it may be, but the numbers don’t lie. As skyrocketing marketing costs and the effects-driven nature of mainstream cinema forces studios to extract ever-greater profits from international markets, the value of globally-recognised intellectual property has never been more important.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Sarah Cook |James Harvey |Ryan Lambie
Despite the promise of seeing Jason Statham shoot possessed ghouls in space, Ghosts Of Mars was a box office disappointment in 2001. What might have happened had John Carpenter directed it in the 1980s…? In theory, Ghosts Of Mars sounded like everything filmmaker John Carpenter loved, thrown together into one pot.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
filmstories.co.uk | Sarah Cook |Mark Harrison |John Upton |Ryan Lambie
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon director’s cut is streaming on Apple TV+ now – here’re our main takeaways. I will acknowledge that I may have been in the minority when I left the theatrical cut of Napoleon wishing it could be 48 minutes longer. After watching 157 minutes of Joaquin Phoenix’s manchild on horseback, not many people walked out of the cinema in November feeling short-changed as far as the runtime went.
