Kajillionaire, 2020. Written and Directed by Miranda July. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins, Mark Ivanir, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ben Konigsberg, Rachel Redleaf, Patricia Belcher, Diana Maria Riva, and Ian Casselberry. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a […]
Movie Review – Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals, 2020. Directed by Anna Mastro. Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Noah Lomax, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Niles Fitch, Olivia Deeble, Faly Rakotohavana, Skylar Astin, Élodie Yung, Ashley Liao and Greg Bryk. SYNOPSIS: The teenage second children of various royals discover that their birth status has presented them with super-powers and that they have […]
Netflix to embark on The Hunt for Atlantis
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has snapped up the rights to The Hunt for Atlantis with a view to turning the bestselling novel from Andy McDermott into a franchise. The Hunt for Atlantis is the first in McDermott’s fifteen book Wilde/Chase series, and follows brilliant NYU grad student Nina Wilde and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase […]
Fantastic Beasts 3 has officially started filming, confirms Eddie Redmayne
Following a delay in production earlier this year due to the ongoing global health crisis, franchise star Eddie Redmayne has confirmed that filming has now started on the third instalment of the Fantastic Beasts franchise. During a recent interview with CinemaBlend to promote his upcoming film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Redmayne revealed the cast […]
Mads Mikkelsen hits the bottle in UK trailer for Another Round
StudioCanal has released a UK poster and trailer for director Thomas Vinterberg’s new drama Another Round which stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four friends who test a theory that their lives will improve by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood; watch it here… “The film […]
Joel Kinnaman says The Suicide Squad is “insane” and “heavily R-rated”
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) may not have enjoyed anywhere near Joker-levels of box office success upon its release earlier this year, but it seems that hasn’t dissuaded Warner Bros. and DC Films from going down the R-rated route for the next chapter of the DC Extended Universe. Speaking […]
Harry Styles and Lily James to star in My Policeman
Fresh from signing on to the cast of Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, former One Direction star Harry Styles has now added a second feature film project to his upcoming slate in My Policeman, which will see him appearing alongside Lily James (Yesterday). Based n the critically acclaimed novel by Bethan Roberts, My Policeman takes […]
Movie Review – Misbehavior (2020)
Misbehavior, 2020. Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. Starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans. Greg Kinnear, Phyllis Logan, John Sackville, Keeley Hawes, Suki Waterhouse, Clara Rosager, Loreece Harrison, Kajsa Mohammar, Miles Jupp, Polly Kemp, Ruby Bentall, Lily Newmark, Maya Kelly, John Heffernan, Eileen O’Higgins, Amanda Lawrence, Katy Carmichael, Rupert Vansittart, Charlie Anson, […]
A Lack of Vision: The Missed Opportunities of the Skywalker Saga – Pharisees & Fiancees
Anghus Houvouras continues his deep dive into the Skywalker Saga… In part one we discussed the missed opportunity of connecting Anakin’s emotional arc to the pain of slavery and losing his mother. Anakin’s disturbing past is abandoned. The anger and rage that we see him capable of in subsequent films never feels sufficiently connected to […]
A Lack of Vision: The Missed Opportunities of the Skywalker Saga – The Emancipation of Anakin
Anghus Houvouras begins a deep dive into the Skywalker Saga … Believe me, I wish I could just… wish away my feelings. My relationship with Star Wars has changed significantly over my lifetime. From the first movie I ever saw in theaters to the pop culture universe I gleefully devoured in the form of comic […]
