Red Joan, 2019. Directed by Trevor Nunn. Starring Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes, Tereza Srbová, Laurence Spellman, Kevin Fuller, Ciarán Owens, Stephen Campbell, and Moore Ben Miles. SYNOPSIS: The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy. Scientists and physics experts being exploited for the purposes of war generally […]
Movie Review – All is True (2018)
All is True, 2018. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Kathryn Wilder, Lydia Wilson, Alex Macqueen, Jack Colgrave Hirst and Ian McKellen. SYNOPSIS: When the Globe Theatre burns down during a performance, William Shakespeare vows to stop writing and returns home to Stratford-upon-Avon in order to spend time with his wife and […]
Doubling Up: Five Great Female Movie Partnerships
Freda Cooper with five great female movie partnerships… After last week’s classic pairing of Laurel and Hardy (aka Steve Coogan and John C Reilly) in Stan & Ollie comes one of the most exciting on-screen double acts for some time. The prospect of Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I and Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen Of […]
Trailer for spy thriller Red Joan starring Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson
Lionsgate has released a new poster and trailer for the biographical thriller Red Joan. Directed by Trevor Nunn, the film stars both Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson as Joan Stanley, a character inspired by Melita Norwood who was revealed to be the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999; take a look here… The year is […]
New Artemis Fowl image features Judi Dench’s Commander Root
A new image has arrived online, via EW, for Disney’s upcoming fantasy adventure Artemis Fowl which gives us a new look at Judi Dench’s Commander Root, leader of the fairy police force; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Artemis Fowl Descended from a long line of criminal masterminds, 12-year-old genius Artemis […]
Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True gets a new UK trailer and poster
A UK poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming drama All Is True which stars Kenneth Branagh, who also directs the film, as the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare alongside Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Lydia Wilson, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Kathryn Wilder, and Eleanor de Rohan; take a look below… The year is […]
Kenneth Branagh is William Shakespeare in first All Is True trailer
Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for the director Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming drama All Is True. The film stars Branagh as the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare alongside Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Lydia Wilson, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Kathryn Wilder, and Eleanor de Rohan; watch it here… The year is 1613, Shakespeare is […]
Disney’s Artemis Fowl gets a first trailer and poster
Disney has released the first teaser trailer and poster for what they hope will be their next blockbuster family franchise, Kenneth Branagh’s Artemis Fowl. Based on the book series by Eoin Colfer, the footage features fairies, firearms, and any number of flying ships, take a look below… Descended from a long line of criminal masterminds, 12-year-old genius […]
Idris Elba and Judi Dench join musical adaptation Cats
With director Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) gearing up to go into production on Universal Pictures and Working Title’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, we have word of two new additions to the cast of the film in Idris Elba and Judi Dench, who are set to join the previously announced Ian McKellen, […]
First look at Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson as Red Joan
With the film now in post-production, Lionsgate has released two first look images from Red Joan, which is based on Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name and stars Judie Dench and Sophie Cookson as a woman accused of being the KGB’s longest-serving British spy. 2000: Joan Stanley (Dench) is living in contented retirement […]