7 h. ago A Minecraft Movie review – Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in seriously cobbled

Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess’s adventure based on the world’s favourite video game feels like one big cash-inIt’s a curious choice of title. A Minecraft Movie implies that this cynical intellectual property-rinsing exercise is one of numerous film adaptations of the enduringly popular sandbox video game. Perhaps there’s an alternative out there, a sharper, smarter, funnier version of a Minecraft movie. One with actual jokes. Or, God forbid, there may even be a worse iteration, although that’s hard to imagine. What becomes clear is that one of the key elements in the game’s popularity – the latitude it affords gamers to create their own experience – is a big stumbling block for any film adaptation of Minecraft.In the absence of a single fixed storyline the screenplay can follow, A Minecraft Movie has a cobbled-together feel, borrowing a device from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – and, in Jack Black, a star – and superimposing an all-purpose quest-for-an-artefact structure o...

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25 h. ago Jack Black surprises Tanner from Love On The Spectrum in heartwarming moment

Netflix’s Love On The Spectrum star Tanner Smith has fulfilled his life goal to meet Jack Black in a surprise encounter on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday, 3 April.

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37 h. ago ‘That’s it’: Jack Black squares up to Elton John in SNL promo clip

Comedian is hosting the late-night comedy show for the fourth time, with Elton John and Brandi Carlile appearing as its musical guests

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69 h. ago A Minecraft Movie critics are all saying the same thing about game franchise spin

A Minecraft Movie, which is out in the UK on Friday, is based on the 2011 video game Minecraft and stars the likes of Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Danielle Brooks

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3 d. ago In A Minecraft Movie, Jack Black is like a desperate clown at an underattended children’s party

Jason Momoa also stars in this underwhelming adaptation of the hit video game

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4 d. ago Inside the ill health and death of Captain Black Jack's brother Alex in Outlander

Outlander fans may remember Alex Randall from season two

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5 d. ago Jack Black, Jason Momoa enter the Minecraft universe as the video game phenom hits the big screen

When Jack Black got the call to star in the “Minecraft” movie, the perks were plenty

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6 d. ago Jack Black reveals his 'terror' ahead of SNL hosting return after 20 years

Actor and musician Jack Black is set to host long-running stateside sketch show Saturday Night Live for the first time in 20 years, but admitted he is fearing the appearance

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6 d. ago Jason Momoa and Jack Black Think the World Needs ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Right Now: “So Much War and Hatred We’ve Got to Work Together”

Jason Momoa and Jack Black Think the World Needs ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Right Now: “So Much War and Hatred We’ve Got to Work Together”  Hollywood Reporter

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2 w. ago Jack Fincham gives thumbs up as he swerves jail after appeal despite brutal dog attack

Love Island star Jack Fincham's black cane corso dog Elvis bit a runner in Kent in September 2022, and attacked a woman in Essex in June last year

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2 w. ago Mikey Madison, Jack Black and Jon Hamm will host spring 'Saturday Night Live' episodes

Mikey Madison, Jack Black and Jon Hamm are next up to host “Saturday Night Live” during the final stretch of the show’s 50th season

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2 w. ago ‘We put all of life into the mincer’: These New Puritans on their kaleidoscopic new album

Adored by Björk, Massive Attack and Elton John, the cult avant-popsters are back with an album that takes in everything from Greek church bells to Ukraine. We meet the Barnett twins among the Southend amusement arcadesJack and George Barnett arrange to meet me at the Hope Hotel, an 18th-century pub in their native Southend. With Talking Heads on the jukebox and pints already flowing at midday, it feels like we’ve stepped back into the good-time Essex seaside town of old. The twins arrive, Jack in a dark grey tweed and black fleece, George in knitwear and leather jacket. They suggest going outside so we don’t have to shout over 1980s hits, but if anything the sonic interference of Southend – all amusement arcades and revving motors – is worse.It turns out this chimes with the creation of Crooked Wing, the fifth album from their band These New Puritans. Jack was living on an industrial estate in Tottenham, London, between factories and evangelical churches. “I think some of the loudne...

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