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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTim Burton has revealed that his long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel, titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, was inspired by his own journey “from cool teenager to lame adult”.The original 1988 film, which has become a cult favourite, followed the recently deceased Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) as they recruit the demon Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to try and rid their former home of…

John Woo's 1997 hit Face/Off stands out as one of the quintessential action movies, embodying the best of the 90s cinema. In 2019, Paramount Pictures excited fans with news of a new Face/Off movie in the works, and by 2021, it was confirmed to be a sequel, not a remake. Fans of Nicolas Cage have been eagerly anticipating Castor Troy and Sean Archer's return to the silver screen, and now the film’s helmer has an update. Adam Wingard has been attached to write and direct and has recently explained the reasons behind the…

Matt Reeves’ The Batman feels like a movie out of time, a superhero epic wonderfully bereft of fantasy elements, superpowers and magical bells and whistles. It is the kind of comic book movie that people who do not really like comic book movies can love, a sumptuously languid crime procedural that is full of orchestral, spiky splendour and Gotham City grit. A superhero flick that is so different from the likes of The Flash or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania that it might as well be from a different film genre…

Get ready for a sequel that will go up to … 12?! The team behind the brilliant 1984 music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap has officially begun work on another film. Filmmaker Rob Reiner will once again direct and portray documentarian Marty DiBergi as he checks in with the three members of Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins (actor Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — to see how the past four decades have treated the heavy-metal stereotypes. They have not yet announced who’ll…

There are some movies that no matter what format they’re available in or what platform they’re streaming on, I have to revisit from time to time. As 1997’s L.A. Confidential was recently added as part of the new on Hulu movie releases, I found myself revisiting director Curtis Hanson’s award-winning noir masterpiece yet again. While it was satisfying as always, my latest watch made me even more mad that we never got the proposed L.A. Confidential sequel starring Chadwick Boseman.The brief knowledge of that potential…

On Mario Day, Nintendo and Illumination finally and officially announce follow-up to box office record-breaking film March 10 — or Mar. 10 — serves as the official Mario Day in the video game world, and Nintendo celebrated the occasion Sunday by finally announcing a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination’s Chris Meledandri delivered the news in a Mario Day video, revealing that the sequel will arrive on April 3, 2026, two days shy of three years…

Image: IlluminationIn what’s surely a shock, Nintendo’s confirmed a second Super Mario Bros. movie is in the works. What Was Your First Experience with Super Mario Bros? | io9 InterviewWith March 10 being Mario Day, there’s been some non-game releated Mario announcements. Longtime designer Shigeru Miyamoto took to Twitter to reveal Illumination is already at work on the sequel, which is expected to drop on April 3, 2026. For the sequel, both Illumination and Nintendo’s staff will be collaborating on the film together.…

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a huge hit for Nintendo, raking in over $1 billion at the box office, so producing a follow-up movie was an easy decision to make. In a new video, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination Entertainment’s Chris Meledandri shared that the next movie is in development, with a release date set for April 3rd, 2026.Meledandri says Illumination Studios Paris, which worked on the first film, is storyboarding the movie under the direction, once again, of Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic. He…

While the future of the larger Jurassic Park franchise is still very much in the “wait and see” phase, we do know that there will be a future. A new Jurassic movie is currently in development, set to be directed by Rogue One’s Gareth Edwards and written by Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp. The biggest outstanding question regarding the new film is just who will be in it, and while Jurassic World: Dominion’s DeWanda Wise doesn’t know her character’s future, she's not optimistic.DeWanda Wise played Kayla Watts in the last…

Damsel Movie ft Millie Bobby Brown. (Photo Credit – IMDb) The Netflix film Damsel was released on March 8. The fantasy period drama stars Millie Bobby Brown as Elodie, Angela Bassett as Lady Bayford, Nick Robinson as Prince Henry, Ray Winstone as Lord Bayford, Robin Wright as Queen Isabelle and Brooke Carter as Queen Isabelle. Dan Mazeau wrote the story, and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed the film. In Damsel, after marrying Prince Henry, Elodie is thrown into a cave as a ruthless ancestral royal tradition. A…