HBO Films’ The Days of Abandonment has cast Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) to star opposite Natalie Portman in Maggie Betts’ adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel. Parker will play the Mysterious Woman, “a mesmerizing but elusive woman that Portman’s Tess starts encountering everywhere she goes, which causes Tess to question her sanity.” The Days of Abandonment is “a […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 13 – Red Dragon (2002)
Red Dragon, 2002. Directed by Brett Ratner. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Mary Louise Parker, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Harvey Keitel. SYNOPSIS: Gifted FBI profiler Will Graham is reluctantly brought out of retirement to help track down an elusive serial killer dubbed “The Tooth Fairy”. To gain an insight into his […]
The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #8 – Journalist Kat Brown discusses Fried Green Tomatoes
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite movie. This week, journalist Kat Brown chats about the 1991 drama Fried Green Tomatoes… This week, freelance journalist and podcast editor Kat Brown stops by for a conversation about the 1991 drama Fried Green Tomatoes, in […]
Deadpool’s Brianna Hildebrand joins sci-fi adventure Persephone
Evolutionary Film has announced that Deadpool star Brianna Hildebrand has been cast in writer-director Jeffrey Morris’ sci-fi adventure Persephone, where she will star alongside Mary-Louise Parker (Red), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), Lance Reddick (Bosch) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange). Here’s the official synopsis for the film: Persephone is the story of three astronauts […]
Movie Review – Red Sparrow (2018)
Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp, Joely Richardson, Kristof Konrad, Douglas Hodge, Sergei Polunin, Sakina Jaffrey, Nicole O’Neill, David Z. Miller, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Sasha Frolova, Joel de la Fuente, Thekla Reuten, Sergej Onopko, and Jeremy Irons SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika […]
Movie Review – Golden Exits (2018)
Golden Exits, 2018. Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Chloe Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Rabe, Craig Butta, Keith Poulson, and Analeigh Tipton. SYNOPSIS: An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad […]
Second Opinion – Red Sparrow (2018)
Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a […]
Jennifer Lawrence stars in trailer for Red Sparrow
We’ve already seen a poster, images and TV spot for the upcoming spy thriller Red Sparrow this week, and now 20th Century Fox has debuted a new trailer for director Francis Lawrence’s upcoming adaptation of Jason Matthews’ award-winning novel of the same name, which sees Jennifer Lawrence leading a cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, […]
First trailer for spy thriller Red Sparrow starring Jennifer Lawrence
20th Century Fox has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming spy thriller Red Sparrow. Based on Jason Matthews’ award-winning novel of the same name, the film sees director Francis Lawrence reunite with his Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and features a cast that also includes Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, Mary-Louise Parker, Charlotte […]
