A first trailer has arrived online for Giant, the upcoming biographical drama from writer-director Rowan Athale and executive producer Sylvester Stallone. The film tells the life story of legendary British boxer Prince Naseem Hamed, from growing up in Sheffield to his rise as a global sporting icon with the help of his Irish boxing trainer […]
Movie Review – A Haunting in Venice (2023)
A Haunting in Venice, 2023. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michelle Yeoh, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Fernando Piloni, Vanessa Ifediora, Esther Rae Tillotson, and Richard Price. SYNOPSIS: In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired […]
Movie Review – Limbo (2021)
Limbo, 2021. Written and Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kais Nashif, Kenneth Collard, Sanjeev Kohli, Cameron Fulton, Lewis Gribben, Grace Chilton, and Raymond Mearns. SYNOPSIS: Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island […]
Movie Review – Limbo (2020)
Limbo, 2020. Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Kwabena Ansah, Ola Orebiyi, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Sanjeev Kohli. SYNOPSIS: A group of immigrants housed on a remote Scottish island wait anxiously for the response to their asylum claims. It’s such a cliché to refer to a movie as “timely”, particularly this year […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Limbo
Limbo, 2020. Written and directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, and Sidse Babett Knudsen. SYNOPSIS: Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. There’s an understandable seriousness and sobriety to most movies chronicling the asylum […]
Amir El-Masry cast in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series
Another cast member joined Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, the upcoming Amazon series based on Clancy’s central hero from many of his political/espionage novels, with Amir El-Masry (The Night Manager) signing on for a villain role. El-Masry will portray Ibrahim, the right-hand man to Ali Suliman’s Islamic terrorist Suleiman. He is described as “the most trusted member […]
