The Wild Rose actor is set to star in the latest feature film from the director of Annihilation. According to Deadline, Jessie Buckley is to play the lead role in the project, which follows a young woman on a solo vacation in the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband. In addition to directing, […]Read More
Netflix has unveiled the first look at George C Wolfe’s new film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which will arrive on the streaming service in December, is based on the play of the same name by August Wilson (Fences) and tells the story of Ma Rainey (a virtually unrecognisable Viola Davis) and […]Read More
Veteran Marvel actor Benedict Cumberbatch is set to reprise his role as magical superhero Doctor Strange in Spider-Man 3. According to THR, Strange will serve as Peter Parker’s mentor in the film, a role that has previously been occupied by Tony Stark in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Nick Fury in Spider-Man: Far From Home. The move […]Read More
There are many things I’ve missed about going to the cinema this year, but perhaps chief among them is the almost-unending paranoia that comes with seeing a good horror movie. You know the feeling: sitting at a table or lying in bed and all of a sudden a shiver crosses your body, seemingly out of […]Read More
It’s fair to say that the world’s a mess right now. I doubt anyone would argue with that statement, and I don’t need to tell you why. Perhaps that’s why, as society threatens to crash and burn around us, we need movies more than ever. Specifically, we need Bill & Ted Face the Music. The […]Read More
The BBC has released a trailer for its upcoming anthology series Small Axe, a collection of five films directed by Steve McQueen. The films will air on BBC One beginning in November, telling a variety of stories—fictional and non-fictional—set in London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s. The trailer gives away little […]Read More
Before I truly begin, allow me to answer that question simply: no, Cuties is not a paedophilic film (as it has been dubbed online), nor is it a good reason to cancel your Netflix subscription. Instead, what Maïmouna Doucouré’s film is, is a sweet and earnest coming of age story that grapples with the realities […]Read More
There have been plenty of parodies, spoofs, and rip-offs of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet since its first performance in the late-sixteenth century. In the past decade alone, we’ve had such highs as last year’s excellent & Juliet, and such lows as two separate instalments of the Gnomeo & Juliet film franchise. It seems odd, then, […]Read More
Francis Ford Coppola’s conclusion to his iconic The Godfather trilogy is to be given a re-edit and re-release this December, just in time for the film’s 30th anniversary. The new version of the film, which has been given the lengthy title of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, is reportedly slightly […]Read More
NEON has released a new trailer for Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller. Possessor: Uncut follows the elite corporate assassin Vos, who uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies and execute high-profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her. Possessor premiered at Sundance Film […]Read More
The Black Panther actor has died of cancer at the age of 43Read More
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