It’s summer in Berlin in 2018, and fourteen-year old Nora is about to experience the full ferocity of everything life can throw at a teenager. Including, but not limited to: drugs, periods, dip-dyed hair and heartbreak. Thanks to one fateful meeting with Romy, she also begins to explore her own sexuality. I went in knowing […]Read More
After the immense success of 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, director Lynne Ramsay is coming back to the big screen with an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1999 psychological horror The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. The novel follows Trisha, a young girl who gets lost deep in the woods whilst on a family hike. […]Read More
Forget Hollywood – London is the place to be. For years, big-budget filmmaking has mainly been a Hollywood business. Even Miley Cyrus hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and a cardigan. But this could all change with the £300 million film and TV studio set to be built in Dagenham, in east […]Read More
Still riding the wave of Malcom & Marie hype (one of the first films to be fully shot during lockdown) and the Emmy win for Euphoria, Zendaya has already found her new role: Ronnie Spector. Chosen for the role by Spector herself, the film is set to follow much of the singer’s personal life and […]Read More
Ryan Gosling has proven himself the go-to man for… well, any film with “man” in the title. The Wolfman, The Gray Man and an untitled Stuntman project. Maybe someone should give him a CGI role in the next Marvel film for a bit of variation. Then again, he probably won’t even have time for that, […]Read More
Based on Florian Zeller’s 2012 play La Père, the film stars acting royalty Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman (she was in The Crown, after all). The Father sees Anthony Hopkins play (a handily named) Anthony, who is struggling with the harsh reality of ageing and serious memory loss caused by dementia, while Olivia Colman plays […]Read More
They might not have had to fight in the ring, but Netflix has managed to win distribution rights for Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised. The actor and former model and beauty contest participant is swapping the brushes for boxing gloves in as one star of the story about a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter attempting […]Read More
Data has shown that the average film production (with budgets of $70m or over) generates 2,840 tonnes of CO2e – a figure equivalent to taking eleven one-way trips from the Earth to the moon. I don’t even want to start to think how much CO2e films like Gravity or First Man made then… the numbers […]Read More
Richard Gere and Diane Keaton star as married filmmakers who casting Lin-Manuel Miranda and Blake Lively as their younger selves for their latest feature in an upcoming rom-com. But as so often happens, life begins to imitate art in The Making Of as their marriage starts to break down. Miranda and Lively want a film […]Read More
Kenneth Branagh and that moustache return for the sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, except this time the murder happens on a boat instead. What’s next, a plane? The trailer sees the dramatics of Agatha Christie’s classic novel emphasized tenfold – dramatic shots of the desert, quick cuts and a tagline that screams […]Read More
Over a thousand artists have signed a petition to encourage government intervention to help save the music industry from “catastrophic damage” caused by coronavirus. With names like Liam Gallagher, Nick Cave and Paul McCartney on the list, the news is quickly gaining online attention. Directed to Oliver Dowden (Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media […]Read More
Not even a global pandemic can stop the cinematic powerhouse that is Blumhouse. After working with Elisabeth Moss on The Invisible Man, this time they’re even teaming up with her production company (Love and Squalor Pictures) to adapt Virginia Feito’s still unreleased novel for the big screen. Moss is set to take on the role […]Read More
Hamilton manages to pack a lot into its two hour run-time; marriages, affairs, wars, and – oh yeah, the life of one of America’s founding fathers. It’s more than many musicals can claim to even touch base on. Whilst many were initially sceptical of a musical that fell so heavily into the rap and hip-hop […]Read More
Studio Ghibli is renowned for its female protagonists. They’re strong, smart, independent young girls, who hardly wait for a prince to save them and would rather instead chase after the huge but cuddly creature in the forest. They are everything young girls should grow up seeing on-screen. And although Ghibli are stellar at representing these […]Read More
Although it looks like we might have to wait a little while longer to get our Pixar fix on the big screen with the release of Soul being delayed until 20 November, the classic animation studio is keeping fans happy with details on their newest project, Luca. A coming-of-age fantasy film, Luca feels like the […]Read More
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