Colette, 2018. Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Sloan Thompson, Arabella Weir, and Robert Pugh. SYNOPSIS: Plucked from her childhood home in the French countryside by notorious Parisian writer, Willy (Dominic West), Colette (Keira Knightley) becomes a ghost-writer for her husband. In doing so she creates a bestselling […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lizzie
Lizzie, 2018. Directed by Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jay Huguley, Jamey Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Kim Dickens, Denis O’Hare, and Jeff Perry. SYNOPSIS: A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. Craig William Macneill’s (The Boy) Lizzie Borden biopic couldn’t be further from prior campy adaptations of the […]
New trailer and poster for Colette starring Keira Knightley
A new trailer and poster have arrived online for writer-director Wash Westmoreland’s biographical drama Colette which sees Keira Knightley leading the cast in the role of the Nobel Prize-nominated French author alongside Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough and Fiona Shaw; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Read our ★ ★ ★ ★ review of Colette here Unconventional […]
Movie Review – Colette (2018)
Colette, 2018. Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Pugh, Rebecca Root, Shannon Tarbet, Aiysha Hart, Ray Panthaki, and Caroline Boulton. SYNOPSIS: Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender […]
Movie Review – Lizzie (2018)
Lizzie. 2018. Directed by Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare, and Jamey Sheridan. SYNOPSIS: A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie falsely – in my opinion – bills itself as a “psychological thriller” based on 1892’s famous […]
New UK trailer and images for Colette starring Keira Knightley
With just three weeks to go until its US release, a new trailer and batch of images have arrived online for director Wash Westmoreland’s biographical drama Colette which stars Keira Knightley in the title role as the Nobel Prize-nominated French novelist alongside Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough, and Fiona Shaw; take a look below and […]
Keira Knightley stars in first trailer for Colette
The first trailer and poster have a arrived online for the biographical drama Colette. Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland, the film is based on the life of the French novelist Colette, and stars Keira Knightley in the lead role as the Nobel Prize-nominated author alongside Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough, and Fiona Shaw; […]
DVD Review – The Hippopotamus (2017)
The Hippopotamus, 2017 Directed by John Jencks. Starring Roger Allam, Fiona Shaw, Tim McInnerny, Emily Berrington, Geraldine Somerville, and Matthew Modine. SYNOPSIS: Ted Wallace, a washed up, alcoholic theatre critic, is recruited by his estranged god-daughter to establish if a miracle has occurred at the ancestral home of his oldest friend, leading him on […]