BBC Two and production company Playground have announced that Anthony Hopkins (The Dresser, Nixon, Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (The Children Act, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility) are set to lead the cast of a star-studded adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear from BAFTA-winning director Richard Eyre (The Dresser, Notes […]
Jonathan Pryce to star as Pope Francis in Netflix’s The Pope
Netflix has acquired a new feature film along with some star talent. Deadline has revealed that Jonathan Pryce has been cast as the current Pope Francis in the feature film The Pope. The film will be directed by City of God’s Fernando Meirelles from a script by Anthony McCarten, who will adapt the script from his stage […]
Movie Review – Howards End: 25th Anniversary 4k Restoration (1992)
Howards End: 25th anniversary 4k restoration , 1992.Directed by James Ivory. Starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave, Samuel West, and Prunella Scales.SYNOPSIS:Based on the novel by E M Forster, the story of three families. The Schlegels, two educated, politically minded sisters and their scholarly brother. The Wilcox family, headed by a […]
Movie Review – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok, 2017.Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Taika Waititi, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Clancy Brown, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Hemsworth, Taylor Hemsworth, Sam Neill, Charlotte Nicdao, and Matt Damon.SYNOPSIS:Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself […]
Movie Review – Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight, 2017. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner, Peter Cullen, Ken Watanabe, John Goodman, Tony Hale, and John Turturro. SYNOPSIS: Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the […]
Second Opinion – Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight, 2017.Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner, Peter Cullen, Ken Watanabe, John Goodman, Tony Hale, Santiago Cabrera, Frank Welker, Erik Aadahl, Jim Carter, Steve Buscemi, Omar Sy, Reno Wilson, Jerrod Carmichael, Stanley Tucci, Gemma Chan, John DiMaggio, Tom Kenny, Jess Harnell, and John […]
Why Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs is one of my favourite films
Ricky Church on Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs…Yesterday we received the sad news that director Jonathan Demme passed away after losing his battle to cancer and heart disease. Demme had a long career in a variety of film, from working with Roger Corman on 70s B-movies to powerful dramas like Philadelphia to documentaries […]
Anthony Hopkins calls Michael Bay a “genius,” likens him to Steven Spielberg
When talking about the most brilliant filmmakers of our time, you’d be hard-pressed to find yourself in a conversation where Michael Bay’s name makes an appearance: unless you’re talking to Sir Anthony Hopkins, of course.During a recent interview with Yahoo! Movies about the upcoming fifth installment in Bay’s Transformers film franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight (which marks […]
Blu-ray Review – Westworld Season One: The Maze
Ricky Church reviews Westworld Season One: The Maze…Last year HBO had a breakout series with Westworld, a loose remake of the 1973 Michael Crichton film, about a Western immersion park where androids, otherwise known as hosts, take guests on a narrative journey through the Wild West, but there is more going on with the hosts than […]
Westworld Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘The Stray’
Tony Black reviews the third episode of Westworld… Inevitably the pedal eases off in ‘The Stray’, Westworld‘s third episode, which takes a step to the side in order to contextualize and deepen the character beats and motivations of the sprawl of main characters in Jonathan Nolan’s ensemble. It’s becoming clear that the show intends to […]
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