Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Warner Bros. has released a trailer for director James Hawes’ biographical drama One Life. Based on based on Barbara Winton’s book If it’s Not Impossible… The life of Sir Nicholas Winton, the film tells the true story of Nicholas Winton (played by Anthony Hopkins and Johnny […]
Netflix unveils first trailer for 3 Body Problem from Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
Netflix has released a trailer for 3 Body Problem, the upcoming sci-fi drama series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Directed by Derek Tsang, the series is based on author Liu Cixin’s sci-fi book trilogy and stars Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, […]
Movie Review – Living (2022)
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane, Zoe Boyle, Lia Williams, Richard Cunningham, Ffion Jolly, Jamie Wilkes, John MacKay, Celeste Dodwell, Hubert Burton, Anant Varman, Jessica Flood, John Mackay, Jonathan Keeble, Barney Fishwick, Patsy Ferran, Eunice Roberts, and Nichola McAuliffe. […]
Movie Review – Living (2022)
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s. It’s a testament to the tectonic power of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 existential drama Ikiru that, even seven full decades on, the […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Living
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke, and Alex Sharp. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s. Akira Kurosawa’s works have often lent themselves to Western reinterpretation, be it Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo and A Fistful […]
Bill Nighy is looking for meaning from life in trailer for Living
Living is an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s and starring Bill Nighy. How’s that for a synopsis? Debuting at this years Sundance Film Festival, we called the Oliver Hermanus directed film “a respectable – and respectful – remake” that’s “elevated by Bill Nighy’s stirring performance” in our ★★★★ […]
Movie Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020. Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, Daniel Flaherty, and Noah Robbins. SYNOPSIS: The story of seven people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding […]
The Trial of The Chicago 7 – Oscars 2021 Frontrunner? | Video Review
The Trial of The Chicago 7, 2020. Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Danny Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, and Michael Keaton. Could the relevance and power of Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix film take him to the […]
Movie Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020. Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Danny Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, Max Adler, Ben Shenkman, Jeffrey Scott Basham, Alice Kremelberg, Kate Miller, Kathleen Garrett, Kelvin […]
Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 gets a new trailer
Aaron Sorkin’s new film The Trial of the Chicago 7 arrives on Netflix this October, and the streaming service has released new trailer for the star-studded crime drama which tells the true story of seven people on trial for various charges after a peaceful protest turned violent the 1968 Democratic National Convention; check it out […]