Chris Connor reviews the first three episodes of Apple TV+’s The New Look… Coco Chanel and Christian Dior remain icons of the fashion world and household names, decades on from their peak. What is less widely discussed perhaps is the work either did during the Second World War when Paris was under Nazi occupation and […]
Movie Review – The Taste of Things (2023)
The Taste of Things, 2023. Directed by Anh Hung Tran. Starring Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger, Patrick d’Assumçao, Galatea Bellugi, Jan Hammenecker, Frédéric Fisbach, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, and Jean-Marc Roulot. SYNOPSIS: The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet with whom she has been working for over the last 20 years. […]
Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams and John Malkovich star in trailer for Apple TV+ fashion drama The New Look
Apple Studios has unveiled the trailer for The New Look, their new high-end series that reveals the shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries, including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain and Cristóbal Balenciaga, navigated the horrors of World War II and launched modern fashion. The New Look features episodes directed by Todd […]
Movie Review – Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
Both Sides of the Blade, 2022. Directed by Claire Denis. Starring Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Mati Diop, Hana Magimel, Bulle Ogier, and Issa Perica. SYNOPSIS: A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover. In a tender dialogue-free opening set to […]
Movie Review – Paradise Highway (2022)
Paradise Highway, 2022. Written and Directed by Anna Gutto. Starring Juliette Binoche, Frank Grillo, Morgan Freeman, Hala Finley, Cameron Monaghan, Veronica Ferres, Christiane Seidel, Jackie Dallas, Tommie Earl Jenkins, and Trayce Malachi. SYNOPSIS: A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives […]
Juliette Binoche’s truck driver gets caught up in trafficking in Paradise Highway trailer
Lionsgate has released a trailer, poster and images for the upcoming thriller Paradise Highway which stars Oscar winner Juliette Binoche as a truck driver who finds herself pursued by an FBI operative (Morgan Freeman) after she agrees to smuggle a teenage girl (Hala Finley) across state lines to save the life of her brother (Frank […]
New trailer for true crime drama The Staircase starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette
HBO Max has released a poster and trailer for the limited series The Staircase. Based on a true story and the 2004 documentary of the same name, the series explores the life of writer Michael Peterson (Colin Firth) and the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette); take a look here… Based on a […]
Colin Firth and Toni Collette star in trailer for HBO Max’s true crime drama The Staircase
HBO Max has released a teaser trailer for The Staircase, the limited crime drama series based on the 2004 documentary of the same name which tells the true story of Michael Peterson (Colin Firth), a writer who was convicted of murder following the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette). Watch the trailer for […]
Parker Posey joins HBO Max’s The Staircase
Parker Posey (Lost in Space) has joined HBO Max’s adaptation of the true crime docuseries The Staircase from Antonio Campos (Christine) and Maggie Cohn (American Crime Story). Posey joins a cast that include Colin Firth (The Kindsman), Toni Collette (Knives Out), Juliette Binoche (Between Two Worlds) and Rosemarie DeWitt (Little Fires Everywhere). The Staircase focuses on “the […]
Movie Review – Who You Think I Am (2019)
Who You Think I Am, 2019. Directed by Safy Nebbou. Starring Juliette Binoche, François Civil, Nicole Garcia, Guillaume Gouix, Charles Berling and Marie-Ange Casta. SYNOPSIS: A divorced woman constructs a fake Facebook profile in order to check up on a lover and strikes up a relationship with a young photographer. Catfish stories are nothing new […]