The Happy Prince, 2018.Written and Directed by Rupert Everett. Starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Edwin Thomas, Julian Wadham, André Penvern, Joshua McGuire, and Anna Chancellor.SYNOPSIS:The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards […]
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald gets a batch of new images
Entertainment Weekly has released a new batch of images for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald featuring Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), Leta Lestrange (Zoe Kravitz), Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Theseus Scamander (Callum Turner), Vinda Rosier (Poppy Corby-Tuech), Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), Tina […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Utøya – July 22
Utøya – July 22, 2018.Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, and Solveig Koløen Birkeland.SYNOPSIS:After detonating a bomb in a government building on 22 July 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik took his murderous attack to the heart of Norway: a summer camp on Utøya island. With the victims unable to escape, his murder spree […]
Movie Review – Sink (2018)
Sink, 2018.Written and directed by Mark Gillis. Starring Martin Herdman, Ian Hogg, Josh Herdman, Tracey Wilkinson, Marlene Sidaway, Mark Gillis and Sadie Shimmin.SYNOPSIS:A factory worker is hit with the double whammy of losing his job and being forced to care for his dementia-suffering father when the care home in which he has lived for years […]
Exclusive Interview – Cinematographer Juan Sebastian Baron on shooting Searching and the perks of the Digital Age
Red Stewart chats with Juan Sebastian Baron about Searching….Juan Sebastian Baron is an American cinematographer who has been working in the film and television industries since the 2010s. He is best known for his work on the horror film The House on Pine Street and the recent thriller Searching.Flickering Myth had the privilege to interview […]
Disney’s live-action Aladdin gets a first teaser trailer
After unveiling a first teaser poster earlier in the week, Disney has now debuted a teaser trailer for director Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of the animated classic Aladdin.Although there’s no sign of Will Smith’s Genie or Naomi Scott’s Jasmine, we do get a look at Mena Massoud’s title character as he enters the Cave of […]
Robin Hood featurette takes us ‘behind the hood’
A new ‘Behind the Hood’ featurette has arrived online for Robin Hood ahead of its release next month, which takes us behind the scenes of the upcoming action adventure and includes interviews with director Otto Bathurst, and stars Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, and Ben Mendelsohn; watch it here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxiEgZBptkRobin of Loxley (Taron […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ash Is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White, 2018.Directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Zhao Tao and Liao Fan.SYNOPSIS:A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.The latest epic drama from revered Chinese director Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart) feels less-assured than his prior efforts while also raking over similar themes and ideas to […]
New trailer and poster for Ben Is Back starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges
Coinciding with is US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival, a new trailer has been released for writer-director Peter Hedges’ upcoming drama Ben is Back which stars Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, and Kathryn Newton; watch it here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xMczla9_XQUPDATE: And here’s the first poster…19 year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his […]
Rachel Brosnahan joins Benedict Cumberbatch in Ironbark
Deadline is reporting that Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) has signed on to star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the Cold War drama Ironbark.The film is being directed by Dominic Cooke (On Chesil Beach) from a script by Tom O’Connor (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) and tells the true story of […]
