The official trailer for the sixth season of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror has been released with June 15th announced as the premiere date. The trailer teases of a space mission gone wrong, a mysterious Scottish countryside and someone’s life being turned into a TV series in real-time. Alongside the release of the trailer are the […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Review – Typist Artist Pirate King
Typist Artist Pirate King, 2022. Directed by Carol Morley. Starring Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald, Gina McKee. SYNOPSIS: The growing friendship between two women as they hit the road in an electric car looking for endings and reconciliation. Carol Morley is a distinctive voice in British cinema, behind a number of acclaimed features and documentary films […]
Movie Review – Empire of Light (2022)
Empire of Light, 2022. Written and Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Sara Stewart, Mark Ryan, Adrian McLoughlin, Spike Leighton, Mark Field, Monica Dolan, Justin Edwards, George Whitehead, William Chubb, and Ashleigh Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: A love story set in and […]
Movie Review – Cyrano (2021)
Cyrano, 2021. Directed by Joe Wright. Starring Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Ben Mendelsohn, Bashir Salahuddin and Monica Dolan. SYNOPSIS: An outsider soldier puts his skills as a poet to use as he turns match-maker for the woman he has always loved and an attractive but dull new recruit in his regiment. Gérard […]
Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes star in trailer for The Dig
Netflix has debuted the first poster and trailer for director Simon Stone’s upcoming drama The Dig. Based on John Preston’s novel of the same name, the film features a cast that includes Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott and Monica Dolan; take a look here… As WWII looms, a […]
Movie Review – Days of the Bagnold Summer (2019)
Days of the Bagnold Summer, 2019. Directed by Simon Bird. Starring Monica Dolan, Earl Cave, Rob Brydon, Alice Lowe, Tamsin Greig, Elliot Speller-Gillott, Grace Hogg-Robinson and Tim Key. SYNOPSIS: A mother and daughter who are drifting increasingly further apart are forced to spend a dull summer together when more exciting plans fall through. One of […]
Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days of the Bagnold Summer gets a trailer and release date
Altitude has announced that Days of the Bagnold Summer, the critically acclaimed directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird, is set for a digital release in the UK this June. Check out the trailer for the film, which features a cast that includes Monica Dolan (Eye in the Sky), Earl Cave (The End of […]
Movie Review – Official Secrets (2019)
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Conleth Hill, Hattie Morahan, Ray Panthaki, Kenneth Cranham, Chris Larkin, John Heffernan, Shaun Dooley, Katherine Kelly, Jack Farthing, Monica Dolan, Hanako Footman, Clive Francis, Peter Guinness, Chris Reilly, Darrell D’Silva, Lindy […]
First trailer for The BBC’s A Very British Scandal starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw
The BBC has released a trailer for its three-part drama A Very English Scandal. Based on John Preston’s book of the same name, the series is directed by Stephen Frears and stars Hugh Grant as politician Jeremy Thorpe alongside Ben Whishaw, Monica Dolan, Alex Jennings, and Jonathan Hyde; watch it here… It is 1960s England, homosexuality […]
Cast announced for Stephen Mangan’s Channel 4 comedy series Hang Ups
Channel 4 has announced details of the cast for Stephen Mangan’s Hang Ups, an adaptation of Lisa Kudrow’s Emmy-nominated Web Therapy, which it set to ““present a hilarious and outrageous catalogue of neuroses, phobias, issues, anxieties and psychopathies” and sees Mangan taking on the role of Dr. Richard Pitt as he offers his weekly quickfire […]
