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The Real Reason Stars Are Suddenly Targeting Trump

Selena Gomez didn’t shed tears over the death of Laken Riley, at least not on social media. Nor did she rally behind Aurora, Colo. residents threatened by Venezuelan gang members swarming their community. The “Emilia Perez” star did sob, via her Instagram account, over President Donald Trump’s anti-illegal immigration policies targeting criminal offenders. Selena Gomez …

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Official US Trailer for ‘The Empire’ Extra Wacky French Sci-Fi Comedy

"The gendarmes on it." "Humans are useless." Kino Lorber has finally revealed an official US trailer for The Empire, the strange French sci-fi film from filmmaker Bruno Dumont. After first being unveiled in 2023 and premiering in early 2024, it's only now getting a US release starting in March 2025 - it already opened in Europe last year and didn't do very well. We also posted the first French trailer for this way back in 2023. Dumont's sci-fi The Empire (called L'Empire in French) is set in a quiet fishing village on the Opal Coast in Northern France, and tells the story of a child who's apparently so unique & peculiar it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good & evil. Starring a very French cast including Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp, Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, & Fabrice Luchini. This received quite a few negative and mixed reviews, apparently it's a bit too kooky and uneven to be a hidden gem. But I gotta say the sci-fi side of this still seems amusing and entertaining – even if it doesn't all work. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Bruno Dumont's The Empire, direct from KL's […]
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‘Box Office Poison’ Drills Down on Movie Mega-Bombs

When it comes to failure, nobody does it better than Hollywood. Bigger! Bolder! Cringeworthy on steroids! We can’t look away at turkeys like “Doctor Doolittle” (1967), “Rollerball” (2002) and “Catwoman” (2004), three duds dissected in Tim Robey’s “Box Office Poison.” The book starts near the dawn of cinema and takes us all the way up …

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