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Armie Hammer joins Alicia Vikander in Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift

April 5, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

Ben Wheatley continues to assemble his cast for his next film Freakshift, with Deadline reporting that Armie Hammer is set to reunite with his Free Fire director, signing on to appear alongside Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander in the action thriller. Freakshift is set to go into production in August, and follows a band of misfits who […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Armie Hammer, Ben Wheatley, Freakshift

Movie Review – High-Rise (2015)

March 9, 2016 by Kieran Fisher

High-Rise, 2015. Directed By Ben Wheatley. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy and Peter Ferndinando. SYNOPSIS: Life for the residents in a tower block spirals into chaos and debauchery following a power cut. Adapting J.G. Ballard’s seminal dystopian novel High-Rise for the big screen was a long process: […]

Filed Under: Kieran Fisher, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Peter Fernandinho, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston

Ben Wheatley and Tom Hiddleston may reunite for Hard Boiled comic book adaptation

November 22, 2016 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. is looking to reunite High-Rise director Ben Wheatley and star Tom Hiddleston on an adaptation of Frank Miller and Geof Darrow’s Dark Horse comic book series Hard Boiled. The three-issue miniseries was published between 1990 and 1992 and follows Carl Seltz, an insurance investigator who discovers he is acually a […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, Hard Boiled, Tom Hiddleston

Ben Wheatley to remake The Wages of Fear

November 19, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that acclaimed British filmmaker Ben Wheatley is set to direct a remake of the classic 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear, which he’ll also co-write with his wife and regular collaborator Amy Jump. Based on Georges Arnaud’s novel Le salaire de la peur, the film was previously remade by William Friedkin with 1977’s Sorcerer, […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, The Wages of Fear

Sam Riley, Noah Taylor and Jack Reynor join Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire

June 10, 2015 by Scott J. Davis

Deadline is reporting that director Ben Wheatley has completed rounding out his cast for his next project, Free Fire. Sam Riley (On The Road), Noah Taylor (Predestination) and Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction) are to join the cast, which already boasts an impressive line-up of talent including Brie Larson (Short Term 12), Cillian Murphy […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Scott Davis Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, Free Fire, Jack Reynor, Noah Taylor, sam riley

Sharlto Copley joins Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire

May 14, 2015 by Gavin Logan

Ben Wheatley’s hotly anticipated upcoming movie High Rise based on the acclaimed novel by J.G. Ballard and starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Luke Evans won’t be hitting the big screen until later this year but already the English director is gathering a stellar cast for his next project Free Fire. Sharlto Copley […]

Filed Under: Gavin Logan, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, Free Fire, Sharlto Copley

Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise added to TIFF line up  

August 14, 2015 by Joshua Gill

British writer and director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England) has recently been announced as the latest addition to the Toronto International Film Festival line up, with his biggest project to date, High-Rise. High-Rise centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Thatcher’s England, at the site of what will […]

Filed Under: Joshua Gill, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, Green Room

Movie Review – Free Fire (2017)

February 23, 2017 by Kieran Fisher

Free Fire, 2016 Directed by Ben Wheatley Starring Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Sharlito Copley, Baboo Ceesay, Enzo Cilenti, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor and Michael Smiley SYNOPSIS:  Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. With every new […]

Filed Under: Kieran Fisher, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Armie Hammer, Baboo Ceesay, Ben Wheatley, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Enzo Cilenti, Free Fire, Jack Reynor, Michael Smiley, Noah Taylor, sam riley, Sharlito Copley

Ben Wheatley begins production on mystery new project Colin You Anus

January 15, 2018 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Ben Wheatley, Colin You Anus

Movie Review – The Ghoul (2016)

August 2, 2017 by Ben Robins

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 […]

Filed Under: Ben Robins Tagged With: Alice Lowe, Ben Wheatley, Flickering Myth, Gareth Tunley, Geoffrey McGivern, Niamh Cusack, Rufus Jones, The Ghoul, Tom Meeten

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