Avengers: Infinity War and Captain America: Civil War directors the Russo Brothers are currently in talks to create screen adaptation of Mark Greaney’s 2009 novel, The Gray Man. The film, dubbed the “American version James Bond,” is set to star Ryan Gosling and Avenger’s own Chris Evans. Joe and Anthony Russo’s production company, AGBO, has […]Read More
A trip to the cinema might still be an unnecessary health risk, but that doesn’t mean we have to suffer for a lack of quality film releases. Just last week it was announced that director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ debut feature film, Miss Juneteenth, has been picked up by Vertigo for distribution in the UK and […]Read More
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has officially named Joker the most complained-about film of 2019. According to the annual report, the DC movie received 20 complaints regarding the film’s age 15 classification, asserting it should have had an age 18 rating due to its “violence and tone.” Others have even argued that the […]Read More
It seems that it is not only Hollywood that is obsessed with younger, newer, shinier. The battle against ageism is alive and well in the British film industry, as Julia Sawalha shared on Twitter last weekend. The actress, 51, will be recast as Ginger in the upcoming Aardman-Netflix Chicken Run sequel because her voice, familiar […]Read More
Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in a super-powered sci-fi film coming to Netflix next month. In a concept similar to the 2011 film Limitless, the premise of action thriller Project Power hinges upon a drug that grants its user a random superpower for five minutes. Foxx, who previously played supervillain Electro in The Amazing […]Read More
After being the first foreign-language film to take home Best Picture at the Oscars, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite is being re-released in black and white. The new version of Parasite premiered at Rotterdam’s International Film Festival back in January and will now officially be released in the UK on July 24 on the Curzon Home Cinema […]Read More
In a recent interview accompanying her cover photo shoot for Vanity Fair, Viola Davis elaborated on why she feels like she “betrayed herself” by starring in The Help. The 2011 film, based on the novel of the same title by Kathryn Stockett, has recently became the most viewed film on Netflix. It follows the story […]Read More
Despite many films being postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis, that didn’t stop Zendaya and John David Washington from filming an entire film during it. Malcolm & Marie was announced in June 2020 and director Sam Levinson wrote the screenplay in six days. Reports from Deadline suggest that Zendaya reached out to Levinson […]Read More
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood has been confirmed for the upcoming historical epic, The Woman King, starring Academy Award winners Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o. The news comes over two years after Sony’s TriStar subsidiary acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film in March 2018. The Old Guard, Prince-Bythewood’s latest work, debuted on Netflix last week to […]Read More
The Old Guard doesn't quite match up to the great action flicks of our time, but has plenty of flare and features a knock-out performance from Charlize Theron.Read More
Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers The pleasure and pain of a striptease is structured around the anticipation of a reveal. Item by item, the dancer sheds their clothing until their body is bare: a vulnerable corporeality that titilates and disarms the watcher. Exotica, Atom Egoyan’s 1995 masterpiece, structures itself as such, gently […]Read More
Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer is known for his subversive, uncompromising approach to filmmaking. Small wonder, then, that excitement has greeted the news that his latest production, Strasbourg 1518, will be released on BBC Two later this month. Alongside Glazer’s direction, the fifteen-minute short film will feature a soundtrack created by Mica Levi, who […]Read More
John Boyega is set to star in IRA thriller Borderland, alongside fellow Star Wars alumni Felicity Jones (Theory of Everything). It will also be a chance to see up and coming talent on the big screen, as both Jack Reynor and Jodie Turner-Smith have been cast in the action-suspense movie. Reynor made an impression as […]Read More
Although a global pandemic might have pushed the release of Edgar Wright’s sixth feature Last Night in Soho back a year, that hasn’t stopped him from ramping up expectations and excitement. Thomasin McKenzie plays Eloise, a young girl passionate about fashion design, who meets her idol: a singer rising in popularity named Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy). […]Read More
Halle Berry apologises and drops out of the running for an upcoming transgender role after social media backlashRead More
