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The Fantastical Storytelling of Nollywood Movies

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Wicked For Good movie running time explained

*Warning: Contains spoilers for Wicked: For Good* Wicked: For Good has finally hit cinema screens, with the second instalment being longer than the musical show it is based on. The Wicked film adaptation is based on the smash hit musical starring…

Disney Spent More On 'Andor' Than Any Of Its 'Star Wars' Movies

Streaming series 'Andor' has cost Disney more than any of its 'Star Wars' movies. Disney has revealed today that it spent $60.5 million (£47.9 million) on the second season of Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024 ahead of its debut in…

Live-Action 'Gundam' Movie Eyes New Star Amid Worrying Story Outline

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 06: Noah Centineo attends 'The Recruit' and award presentation during the 13th SCAD TVfest on February 06, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for SCAD) Back in April, Sydney Sweeney was…

Legendary's 'Gundam' Movie May Put Noah Centineo In a Mech

Hollywood's been trying to get a movie for Mobile Suit Gundam off the ground for a while, and Legendary Pictures is next in line to make it happen. After bagging Sydney Sweeney this past spring for a lead role, the film's found another star in Noah…

The 'Absolute Best' Movie of 2024 Overtaken by 95% RT-Scored 'Predator' Movie at Box Office

Predator: Badlands has been a huge success for the franchise that began with a testosterone-soaked Arnold Schwarzenegger 1987 hit, overtaking other entries in the Predator saga with ease. While Dan Trachtenberg's revolutionary new take on the…

Why Ariana Grande Goes by Her Full Name in Wicked: For Good Credits but Not in Her Other Movie Roles

The pop star is credited as Ariana Grande-Butera in both last year's Wicked: Part One and the new sequel, Wicked: For Good Grande revealed the 'full-circle' reason for choosing the moniker last year In her next movie role, Focker-In-Law, the star…

What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And More

Credit: Netflix / Prime Video / Universal Dark fantasy, wicked witches and cozy mysteries that tug on the heartstrings. All sorts of new shows and movies are out this weekend to divert and entertain us as the days grow chillier and spending time on…

30 years later, 'GoldenEye' remains one of the best James Bond movies

Where in the world is James Bond? It's been over four years since Daniel Craig tearfully bid farewell to 007 in 2021's “No Time to Die,” where his character did in fact pass away. Since “No Time to Die,” the James Bond…

5 best feel-good movies on Prime Video to boost your mood

Thrillers might dominate Prime Video's charts (and every other major streaming service), but sometimes all that intensity is the last thing you're in the mood for. As the season of joy rolls in, a warm, feel-good movie can be the perfect reset…

I Can't Watch These Iconic '90s Movies The Same Way After Learning These 100 Interesting BTS Facts

The Greatest Movie of Every Genre in the '70s

The '70s were a massively consequential and influential decade for cinema. Between the rise of New Hollywood and the birth of the modern blockbuster, it was an era of filmmaking that brought with it new voices and incredible films whose influence…

The 10 Best Kung Fu Movie Franchises Of All Time

Kung fu movies are responsible for some of the most entertaining franchises ever made. The likes of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Alexander Fu Sheng, and Gordon Liu have each made a multitude of noteworthy kung fu films, with some either being…

The Book Club: Read this remarkably bright novel before the Netflix movie debuts in 2026

'Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen,' by Jose Antonio Vargas (Dey Street Books, 2025) This novel has a remarkably unusual central character: a giant Pacific octopus, Marcellus, who is living at the aquarium in the fictional town of…

How an apocalyptic zombie movie was made possible in a backyard

I'm no filmmaker, but as a teen in the '90s, I spent hours creating bad kung fu movies with a Super 8 camera I'd found in my parents' garage (I neither knew kung fu nor how to make movies, but if Tarantino could do it, so could I). Every filmmaker…