Eddie Marsan, Hayley Atwell and Jonathan Bailey join the cast of Heartstopper S3 Eddie Marsan (Back to Black and Ray Donovan), Hayley Atwell (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Captain America: The First Avenger) and Jonathan Bailey (Fellow Travelers and Bridgerton) join the cast of Heartstopper S3. Alice Oseman, Creator & Writer, on the new cast members – ‘I am incredibly excited to be welcoming three new cast members to the Heartstopper family. Hayley Atwell…
Read MoreStudiocanal announce UK & Irish release date for The Outrun
THE OUTRUN will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 27 September 2024. Debuting to critical acclaim at Sundance and the Berlin International Film Festival earlier in the year, THE OUTRUN stars four-time Oscar ® Nominee Saoirse Ronan (LADY BIRD) alongside Emmy nominee Paapa Essiedu (I MAY DESTROY YOU), BAFTA winner Stephen Dillane (ALEX RIDER) and Saskia Reeves (SLOW HORSES). Adapted for the screen by Fingscheidt in collaboration with Liptrot, THE OUTRUN is a searingly honest drama about…
Read MoreFilm Review: ISS
Hamilton, West Side Story and Hamilton star Ariana DeBose delivers an impressive performance in this claustrophobic thriller set on the International Space Station. ISS follows a group of American and Russian astronauts who must grapple with the devastating end of everything they know and find a way to survive together in the chaos. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and written by Nick Shafir, the movie is a thriller that’s both intense…
Read MoreFilm Review: Wonka
★★★★★ Eyebrows were raised and much dismissive discourse took place on social media when it was revealed that Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Little Women, Dune) would be donning the famous top hat and purple coat to play a young Willy Wonka in an new adaptation of much loved Roald Dahll adventure. Written by the dream team that brought us Paddington in 2014 and the absolutely delightful Paddington…
Read MoreNO TIME TO DIE: THE OFFICIAL JAMES BOND PODCAST LAUNCHES
New podcast series featuring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and Billie Eilish No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast features exclusive interviews and unrivalled behind the scenes access to one of the world’s favourite film franchises. Hosted by film critic James King, the six-part series features interviews with Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, Ana de Armas, Rory Kinnear, Billy Magnussen,…
Read MoreFanny Lye Deliver’d review
It’s been well over a decade since Brit filmmaker Thomas Clay’s last release. Back in the 2000s, Clay impressed on the film festival circuit with the likes of Soi Cowboy and The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, two disparate films that were as impressively directed as they were hard to watch. By 2016 he was ready to return, writing and directing a story set in 18th century Shropshire, and while…
Read MoreThe Current War Review
In his new historical drama The Current War, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) charts the destructive rivalry between inventors Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) as they battle it out to see whose electrical system will illuminate America.
Read MoreFilm Review: Possum
Reviewed by Lee Hill Is it possible for a film to be too well executed? This is the conundrum presented by Possum, an ambitious and brooding portrait of an individual tortured by demons that may or may not be entirely psychological. First time director Matthew Holness, maps out the nightmarish headspace of a disgraced puppeteer returning to his family home in Norfolk. The result is a remarkable vision of suburban…
Read MoreFilm Review: The Seagull
Reviewed by Lee Hill Unlike Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams, the film adaptations of Anton Chekhov’s plays and short stories have not made much of an impact beyond festivals or art houses. While I still have vivid memories of watching Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Jonathan Pryce in a 1985 West End production of The Seagull, only Sidney Lumet obsessives are likely to remember the director’s curious 1968 version with Redgrave,…
Read MoreFilm Review: The Negotiator
Reviewed by Lee Hill It’s never a good sign when a film first appears at a creative friendly place like the Sundance Film Festival and then undergoes a change of title when it surfaces at your local multiplex. This is the case of The Negotiator, a ripped from “today’s headlines” (well, 70s/80s Lebanon to be exact) thriller, with a hardboiled take on Middle East realpolitk. Originally called Beirut, The Negotiator…
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