Netflix has released the first trailer and a batch of promotional images for the upcoming musical drama The Eddy. Directed by Whiplash and La La Land’s Damien Chazelle along with Alan Poul, Houda Benyamina, and Laïla Marrakchi, the series follows the owner and house band of a struggling jazz club in a vibrant multi-cultural neighbourhood […]
Movie Review – First Man (2018)
First Man, 2018. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Christopher Abbott, Patrick Fugit, Ciaran Hinds, Ethan Embry, Olivia Hamilton, Lukas Haas, Shea Whigham, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Cory Michael Smith, J.D. Evermore, John David Whalen, Kris Swanberg, Skyler Bible, Ben Owen, William Gregory Lee, Steven Coulter, Shawn […]
Emma Stone and Brad Pitt wanted for Damien Chazelle’s Babylon
La La Land and First Man director Damien Chazelle is gearing up to get back behind the camera, with Deadline reporting that Paramount Pictures has snapped up the rights to his next project Babylon. According to the trade, Chazelle’s La La Land star Emma Stone is circling a lead role in the movie alongside Once […]
60th BFI London Film Festival Review – La La Land (2016)
La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: In Los Angeles, aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) works in the coffee shop on the Warner Brothers’ lot and goes to auditions. Jazz devotee and struggling musician Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) resorts to playing at weddings, parties […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Justin Hurwitz reveals the secrets of the First Man score
With First Man out now on DVD and Blu-ray, Sean Wilson talks to its award-winning composer Justin Hurwitz about capturing the outer-space sound of the Neil Armstrong drama… What does it take to transport audiences into the gulf of space? Composer Justin Hurwitz knows – his latest collaboration with Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien […]
Damien Chazelle’s musical series The Eddy finds its lead
Back in 2017 it was announced that Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle (La La Land, First Man) is teaming with Netflix for a Paris-set musical series entitled The Eddy, and now we have our first piece of casting news. According to Variety, Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, The Kindness of Strangers) is in talks to star in […]
First Man featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the lunar landing
Coinciding with its release, a new IMAX Behind the Frame featurette has arrived online for First Man which sees director Damien Chazelle, star Ryan Gosling, producer Wyck Godfrey, and cinematographer Linus Sandgren take us behind the scenes of the acclaimed biographical drama and discuss how the film’s lunar sequences were brought to life on the […]
Prepare for the greatest adventure with new First Man trailer
With a little over three weeks to go until First Man arrives in cinemas, Universal Pictures has released another trailer for Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed biographical drama which stars Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Patrick Fugit, Ciaran Hinds, Ethan Embry, Olivia Hamilton, Shea Whigham, Corey Stoll, and Pablo Schreiber; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Read […]
New international trailer and TV spots for Damien Chazelle’s First Man
With exactly a month to go until its release, a new international trailer and three TV spots have arrived online for Damien Chazelle’s biographical drama First Man;, which reteams him with his La La Land star Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong; watch them here… SEE ALSO: Read our ★★★★★ review of First Man here […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2018 Review – First Man
First Man, 2018. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Patrick Fugit, Olivia Hamilton, Ciaran Hinds, Ethan Embry, Shea Whigham, Corey Stoll, and Pablo Schreiber. SYNOPSIS: The riveting story of NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961-1969. The first […]
