As The Ninth Cloud is released in the UK, lead actress Megan Maczko discusses her passion for voicing video games, working with Tom Hanks, the hazards of auditioning and the challenges of being an American living in England. Megan, you play Zena, the protagonist, In THE NINTH CLOUD. How would you describe her? Zena is a young woman living with an incredible amount of chaos in her heart, desperately seeking…
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Reviewed by Lee Hill Ben Stiller is Brad Sloan, a Generation Xer suffering from a serious case of mid-life crisis blues. On the surface, Brad seems to have a pretty good life in suburban Sacramento. He is married to an attractive loving wife, Melanie (Jenna Fischer) works in the California state legislature, while Brad runs a small NGO that links worthy charities to philanthropists. Their only child, Troy (Austin Abrams),…
Read MoreThe Best Christmas Films You Will Re-Watch Yet Again This Christmas
Complied by Rachael Kaines Christmas is a time of joy, and in honour of that so is this list. Filled with the films that you will quite happily watch for the ninth time (even though you insist it’s crap) after a cheese course large enough to down an elephant, whilst sipping slow gin and fluctuating between contentedness and intense nausea. These movies as much a part of Christmas as turkey…
Read MoreFilm Review: The Dinner
Reviewed By Rachael Kaines The Dinner is a drama set, unsurprising, around a dinner. Written and directed by Oren Moverman, the film follows Paul Lohman (Steve Coogan) and his wife Claire (Laura Linney) as they have dinner with Paul’s brother Stan (Richard Gere) a U.S. Senator and his wife Katelyn (Rebecca Hall). The couples discuss what to do about their children, who have put themselves in a bad situation.
Read MoreFilm Review: Lu Over The Wall
Reviewed By Rachael Kaines Lu Over The Wall is a strange and enchanting new anime film from Masaaki Yuasa. Prepare to be swept away by this enchanting animation, into a world where songs, dance, and biting merpeople overcome prejudice in a rural Japanese fishing town.
Read MoreFilm Review: Paddington 2
The good feeling and box office success generated by the first Paddington film, released in 2014, will likely continue thanks to Paul King’s return to the director’s chair. King co-writes the script with actor/comedian, Simon Farnaby, who he worked with on The Mighty Boosh TV series and his indie debut, Bunny and The Bull. Together, King and Farnaby maintain the balance between visual invention and comic dialogue that made the…
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