Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]
Emma Stone, Jonah Hill and Cary Fukunaga board Netflix’s Maniac
Netflix and Paramount have just acquired some high-profile talent for its upcoming series Maniac. According to Deadline, Emma Stone and Jonah Hill will star in the series with True Detective‘s Cary Fukunaga set to direct all 10 episodes of the dark comedy. Production will begin this summer. This will be the first time Hill and Stone have starred […]
La La Land takes huge receipts at the UK box office
Critical darling and fan favourite musical La La Land is making big waves at the UK Box Office. The film from Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash, has stormed out of the gates in UK cinemas and has already accumulated an impressive sum of £6 million. That’s a bigger haul than Lionsgate’s Hunger Games opening […]
Movie Review – La La Land (2016)
La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons, and John Legend. SYNOPSIS: Mia is an aspiring actress working as a barista on the Warner Bros. lot. Sebastian is a musician who harbours dreams of opening his own jazz club. The two meet and fall head over heels in […]
Disney’s Cruella lands Mozart in the Jungle director Alex Timbers
Disney’s Cruella, which will star Emma Stone as the classic puppy-napping, fur coat loving 101 Dalmatians antagonist, has found its director in Mozart and the Jungle writer and director Alex Timbers. Timbers is reportedly in talks to helm the upcoming origin film, beating a handful of theater helmers including Fun House‘s Sam Gold. Timbers is a two-time Tony nominee, whose Broadway work […]
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone duet “City of Stars” from La La Land released
On top of its expert direction, dazzling performances and stunning cinematography, many who have seen Damien Chazelle’s La La Land claim to walk away from the musical humming songs from its stellar soundtrack. While the trailers have given viewers snippets of songs that will be heard in the movie, not until recently has an official track […]
Movie Review – La La Land (2016)
La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Whitrock, and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: Dreams are chased and love is found in Damien Chazelle’s ode to Hollywood musicals and celluloid magic. On paper, La La Land, reads like it’s going to be my favourite movie of […]
52nd Chicago International Film Festival Review – La La Land (2016)
La La Land, 2016. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Whitrock, and J.K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. How do you be revolutionary when you’re such a traditionalist? It’s a question that is presented to Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a […]
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 […]
Defending The Amazing Spider-Man
As the wall-crawler prepares to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, Henry Bevan defends 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man… A child is trapped in a car that is hanging off a bridge. The hero swings down, takes off his mask and reassures the trapped child that everything is going to be […]
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