Waiting for the Barbarians, 2020. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, and Bill Milner. SYNOPSIS: A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire. J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is already a novel […]
First images from Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7
Netflix has released a batch of first look images for writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s (The Newsroom, Molly’s Game) upcoming crime drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman, Danny Flaherty as John Froines, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin, Mark Rylance as William Kuntsler, Kelvin Harrison […]
Trailer for Waiting for the Barbarians starring Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson and Mark Rylance
Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted the first trailer and a new poster for director Ciro Guerra’s upcoming drama Waiting for the Barbarians. Based on Nobel Prize winning author J.M Coetzee’s novel of the same name, and features a cast that includes Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Greta Scacchi; take a look […]
Mark Rylance praises Christopher Nolan’s “pure war film” Dunkirk
Fan favourite filmmaker Christopher Nolan is currently hard at work on production of Dunkirk, a World War II epic which chronicles Operation Dynamo – the 1940 evacuation of 330,000 Allied soldiers surrounded by advancing German forces on the beaches of Dunkirk. During an appearance on the Empire Podcast (via Collider), Oscar-winning Mark Rylance has offered some […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik. SYNOPSIS: In a distant, unnamed colonial outpost in the Middle Eastern desert, a Magistrate begins to question his loyalty to the Empire after the arrival of state security officers with morally questionable methods. […]
Mark Rylance, Matthias Schoenaerts and Géza Röhrig join Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet
Having directed just three features in the first 25 years of his career, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick is certainly making up for lost time; his latest film A Hidden Life – his sixth this decade – is currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he’s already hard at work on his next project […]
Blu-Ray Review – Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]
New images from Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One
With a new trailer set to land this Sunday, four images have arrived online (via EW) from Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s New York Times best-selling sci-fi novel Ready Player One featuring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance; check them out here… In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The […]
Christopher Nolan bans very specific items on set, according to Dunkirk stars Mark Rylance and Barry Keoghan
Christopher Nolan is as enigmatic as he is talented. From the way he shows up to every set in a suit, his sometimes mysterious marketing for his films, to the inspired/ controversial casting choices he continually makes: Nolan is in a league of his own in many ways. Which is why it comes as no […]
Blu-ray Review – Dunkirk (2017)
Dunkirk, 2017. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carney. SYNOPSIS: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War […]
