Back in November of last year it was announced that Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) are heading to Manderley for Free Fire director Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca, and now comes word that the project has found its Mrs. Danvers. In a rather great piece of […]
Ben Wheatley, Armie Hammer and Lily James heading to Manderley for Rebecca
Netflix and Working Title Films are teaming acclaimed British filmmaker Ben Wheatley with his Free Fire star Armie Hammer and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again actress Lily James for an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier classic Rebecca, with Jane Goldman (The Woman in Black) penning the script. The film will see James taking […]
Movie Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Charles Dance and Joe Cole. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead., 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Bill Paterson, Doon Mackichan, Charles Dance, Sam Riley, Joe Cole, Hayley Squires, Alexandra Maria Lara, Richard Glover, Asim Chaudhry, Sarah Baxendale, Mark Monero, Peter Ferdinando, Sinead Matthews, Sura Dohnke, Sudha Bhuchar and Vincent Ebrahim. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for […]
First poster for Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ahead of its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival next month, a poster has arrived online for Ben Wheatley’s latest film Happy New Year, Colin Burstead; take a look here… “The film centres around Colin Burstead (Neil Maskell) who hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin […]
Free Fire director Ben Wheatley has reportedly been offered a Marvel movie
British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, best known for mad bullet ballet Free Fire, has reportedly been offered a “big Marvel film”, according to a passing comment on The Adam Buxton Podcast. Buxton was interviewing comedian and actor Bob Mortimer, who suggested a road trip movie project had been scuppered by the offer to Wheatley, though Mortimer […]
Ben Wheatley begins production on mystery new project Colin You Anus
Although it was thought that his next project would be the sci-fi thriller Freakshift starring Alicia Vikander, Armie Hammer and Sasha Lane, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has taken to Instagram to announce that he’s started production on a mystery new project, which is going by the working title of Colin You Anus. Details on the […]
Movie Review – The Ghoul (2016)
The Ghoul, 2016 Directed by Gareth Tunley Starring Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones, Niamh Cusack, Geoffrey McGivern SYNOPSIS: A detective investigating an unusual double murder, goes undercover as a mental patient in order to get closer to a psychotherapist, but soon finds his very perceptions of reality crumbling away. Another bracing new talent, rising […]
Movie Review – Free Fire (2016)
Free Fire, 2016. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley, Babou Ceesay, Enzo Cilenti, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: 1978, Boston, Massachusetts. Justine has brokered a meeting between two Irishmen and a gang selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are […]
Ben Wheatley compares Alicia Vikander-led Freakshift to “50s B-Movie”
Over the past decade, through such films as Kill List, High-Rise and Sightseers, it’s become quite clear that Wheatley has no interest in giving audiences the same film they’ve seen a dozen times before. Each one of his films is something idiosyncratic, bold and impossible for any other filmmaker to recreate. With his next film Freakshift, which […]