Fresh off its premiere at last month’s Venice Film Festival and screenings at the London Film Festival this month, Sony Pictures Classics has shared a trailer for Bunker, the psychological thriller from writer-director Florian Zeller (The Father, The Son).The film stars real-life couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz as husband and wife Miguel and Sofia, […]
2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bunker
Bunker, 2026. Directed by Florian Zeller Starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano, Mark Gatiss, and Patrick Schwarzenegger.SYNOPSIS:Follows a married couple of 17 years. The husband is an architect who accepts a controversial project to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire. This decision leads his wife to question their marriage.The Father and […]
Movie Review – The Son (2022)
The Son, 2022.Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zen McGrath, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins, William Hope, George Cobell, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Mercedes Bahleda, Akie Kotabe, Erick Hayden, Danielle Lewis, Van Pierre, and Jesse Cilio.SYNOPSIS:Peter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns […]
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby star in new trailer for The Son
Sony Pictures has shared a new trailer for The Son, directed Florian Zeller’s upcoming drama based on the second play in a trilogy following The Father, which was adapted in 2020 starring Olivia Colman and an Oscar-winning Anthony Hopkins.The film stars Hugh Jackman as Peter, a man who finds his busy life with his new […]
Vanessa Kirby joins The Father follow-up The Son
Variety has announced that Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) has been cast alongside Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern in The Son, the follow up to director Florian Zeller’s The Father which is based upon his and Christopher Hampton’s stage play.The Son “follows Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown […]
Movie Review – The Father (2020)
The Father, 2020.Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Mark Gatiss and Olivia Williams.SYNOPSIS:Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is living with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) and her husband Paul (Rufus Sewell). Their relationship is loving yet sporadically fractious, as the arrival of unfamiliar faces begins to unsettle this delicate domestic arrangement.There is […]
Movie Review – The Father (2020)
The Father, 2020.Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Ayesha Dharker.SYNOPSIS:A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the […]
