Martin Carr reviews season 2 of Netflix’s Criminal… Criminal changed the format for police procedurals by challenging our preconceptions. Extended monologues, voyeuristic interrogations and audience complicity drew people in without scenery chewing. For the guest star suspects including David Tennant and Hayley Atwell in season one, it provided opportunities for a measured masterclass in acting […]
Kit Harrington stars in trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Criminal
Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of its police procedural anthology series Criminal. The upcoming season sees Game of Thrones‘ Kit Harrington as a suspect in a new set of mysteries. Watch the trailer below… Criminal follows a new take on the police procedural formula as it focuses entirely on the interrogation process between the investigators […]
Netflix’s interrogation drama Criminal gets a first trailer
Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming crime drama Criminal. Split across four countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK – the series is based entirely within the confines of police interrogation rooms and stars Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Pinnock, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall, and Shubham Saraf with guest appearances from […]
Hayley Atwell, David Tennant and Nicholas Pinnock to star in Netflix’s Criminal
Netflix has announced that Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter), David Tennant (Good Omens) and Nicholas Pinnock (For Life) have been cast in its upcoming police interrogation drama Criminal. Created by George Kay (Killing Eve) and Jim Field Smith (She’s Out of My League), the series is described as “a stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama that will focus […]
The Death of Good Screenwriting in Hollywood
Tom Jolliffe on the death of good screenwriting in Hollywood… Awards season is in full swing, so it seems somewhat ironic to come and bemoan the dearth of good screenwriting within the modern studio system, but I’m going to anyway. Putting aside the award nominated films, my focus is more on those films that are […]
Movie Review – Criminal (2016)
Criminal, 2016. Directed by Ariel Vromen. Starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Gal Gadot, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Pitt, Amaury Nolasco, Antje Traue, Alice Eve, Jordi Molla, Scott Adkins, Natalie Burn, Robert Davi, and Ryan Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted […]
The Rise and Rise of London as a film location
This week, Neil Calloway argues that tax, language and excellent locations mean London is currently the best place to make films… With the release this week of the trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, eagle-eyed viewers noticed that Canary Wharf Underground Station was standing in for the Death Star in some shots. Now, […]
