Ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, StudioCanal has shared a poster and trailer for writer-director Kirk Jones’ upcoming drama I Swear. The film in inspired by the real life story of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, and the hardships he faced and overcame through his adolescence and early adulthood as […]
Dystopian sci-fi thriller Woken gets a trailer and poster
Dark Sky Films has shared a trailer for Woken, a dystopian sci-fi thriller from director Alan Friel. Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story) stars as a young woman who awakens on a mysterious small island, pregnant and unable to remember who she is or how she got there, but as a seemingly kind couple […]
FX releases trailer for IRA drama series Say Nothing
FX has released a poster and trailer for the limited series Say Nothing, which is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s acclaimed New York Times Bestseller of the same name and spans four decades, telling the story of various IRA members during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The cast includes Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price, Hazel […]
Trailer for Samuel Beckett biopic Dance First starring Gabriel Byrne, Fionn O’Shea and Aidan Gillen
Ahead of its release this August, Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing have shared a trailer, poster and images for the biographical drama Dance First. Directed by James Marsh, the film tells the story of the life and career of Irish literary icon Samuel Beckett, played by Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea. The cast also includes […]
Movie Review – Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)
Fanny Lye Deliver’d, 2019. Directed by Thomas Clay. Starring Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald, Perry Fitzpatrick and Kenneth Collard. SYNOPSIS: Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657, this is the story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a […]
Movie Review – Wendell & Wild (2022)
Wendell & Wild, 2022. Directed by Henry Selick. Featuring the voice talents of Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett, James Hong, Sam Zelaya, Seema Virdi, Tamara Smart, Ramona Young, Ving Rhames, Natalie Martinez, Tantoo Cardinal, Gabrielle Dennis, Igal Naor, David Harewood, Maxine Peake, and Gary Gatewood. SYNOPSIS: Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and […]
Movie Review – Gwen (2019)
Gwen. 2019. Directed by William McGregor. Starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Mark Lewis Jones, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington, Richard Elfyn, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Gwion Glyn. SYNOPSIS: A dark folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution. Every year, horror journalists (including myself) crown a new “[X] year’s The Witch!” Such classification translates to […]
Watch an exclusive clip from Funny Cow starring Maxine Peake
Coinciding with its U.S. VOD release, we’ve got an exclusive clip from the British comedy drama Funny Cow, which sees Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything) starring alongside Paddy Considine (The Death of Stalin), Stephen Graham (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) and Alun Armstrong (Krull). Watch the clip here, but beware […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Peterloo
Waterloo, 2018. Directed by Mike Leigh. Starring Maxine Peake, Rory Kinnear, Neil Bell, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan, Tom Meredith, Simona Bitmate, Robert Wilfort, Karl Johnson, Sam Troughton, Alastair Mackenzie, David Bamber and Tim McInnerny. SYNOPSIS: The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. Peterloo […]
Black Mirror Season Four Review – ‘Metalhead’
Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s ‘Metalhead’… Post-apocalyptic landscapes filmed in crisp black and white are the calling card of David Slade in this episode of Black Mirror entitled ‘Metalhead’. Sparse in explanation and concise in characterisation it offers up no reasoning, backstory or circumstance for its central protagonist played by Maxine Peake. Taking an online […]
