The Forgiven, 2022. Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbey Lee, Christopher Abbott, Marie-Josée Croze, Alex Jennings, Saïd Taghmaoui, David McSavage, Mourad Zaoui, Imane Elmechrafi, Ben Affan, Ismael Kanater, Anas El Baz, Brianna Bella, Omar Ghazaoui, and Abdellah Chakiri. SYNOPSIS: The Forgiven takes place […]
Movie Review – Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Operation Mincemeat, 2022. Directed by John Madden. Starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn, Jason Isaacs, Mark Gatiss, Hattie Morahan, Paul Ritter, Simon Russell Beale, Lorne MacFadyen, Markus von Lingen, Ruby Bentall, Alex Jennings, Ellie Haddington, Nicholas Rowe, Will Keen, Mark Bonnar, James Fleet, Alexander Beyer, Nico Birnbaum, Pep Tosar, Alba […]
Movie Review – Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
Munich: The Edge of War, 2021. Directed by Christian Schwochow. Starring George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irons, Sandra Hüller, Martin Wuttke, Alex Jennings, Liv Lisa Fries, August Diehl, and Robert Bathurst. SYNOPSIS: War in Europe is imminent, Munich represents a final chance to stop Hitler in his tracks, and two friends hold […]
Trailer for Munich – The Edge of War starring George MacKay and Jeremy Irons
Netflix has debuted the first trailer, a poster and images for the upcoming spy thriller Munich – The Edge of War. Based on Robert Harris’ international bestseller of the same name, the film follows friends Hugh Legat (George MacKay), a British civil servant and Paul von Hartmann (Jannis Niewöhner), a German diplomat as they find […]
Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg to star in The Undeclared War
Deadline reports that Mark Rylance (Dunkirk) and Simon Pegg (Mission Impossible – Fallout) have joined Peackock and Channel 4’s political espionage thriller The Undeclared War. The series comes from Peter Kosminsky and Colin Callender, who are re-teaming with Rylance after working on Wolf Hall. Rylance and Pegg will lead with the series with Adrian Lester (Riviera), […]
Movie Review – Mangrove (2020)
Mangrove, 2020. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Jack Lowden, Alex Jennings, Nathaniel Martello-White, Llewella Gideon, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Gary Beadle, Richie Campbell, Jumayn Hunter, Joseph Quinn, Derek Griffiths, Jodhi May, Richard Cordery, Tahj Miles and Samuel West. SYNOPSIS: Mangrove tells this true story of The […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Mangrove
Mangrove, 2020. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Jack Lowden and Alex Jennings. SYNOPSIS: In 1970s London, police harassment of a crucial community hub for local Black people leads to a peaceful protest, which ends up in a court room. Steve McQueen is effectively a lucky […]
Letitia Wright and John Boyega join Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series
Letitia Wright (Black Panther) and John Boyega (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) have been cast in Steve McQueen’s (Widows) upcoming BBC series Small Axe. The series will revolve around London’s West Indian Community from the 1960s – 1980s. In addition to Wright and Boyega, the series will also star Malachi Kirby (Roots), Shaun Parkes (Lost […]
First trailer for The BBC’s A Very British Scandal starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw
The BBC has released a trailer for its three-part drama A Very English Scandal. Based on John Preston’s book of the same name, the series is directed by Stephen Frears and stars Hugh Grant as politician Jeremy Thorpe alongside Ben Whishaw, Monica Dolan, Alex Jennings, and Jonathan Hyde; watch it here… It is 1960s England, homosexuality […]
Movie Review – Denial (2016)
Denial, 2016. Directed by Mick Jackson. Starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius and Alex Jennings. SYNOPSIS: Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against David Irving, who accused her of libel when she declared him […]