The Choral, 2025. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Amara Okereke, Simon Russell Beale and Thomas Howes. SYNOPSIS: A choral society’s male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription […]
Movie Review – Steve (2025)
Steve, 2025. Directed by Tim Mielants. Starring Cillian Murphy, Jay Lycurgo, Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson, Little Simz, Youssef Kerkour, Marcus Garvey, Douggie McMeekin, Charlie Beaven, Roger Allam, Luke Ayres, Joshua J. Parker and Tut Nyuot. SYNOPSIS: Follows headteacher Steve battling for his reform college’s survival while managing his mental health. Concurrently, troubled student Shy navigates […]
Cillian Murphy is Steve in trailer for new Netflix film
Netflix has shared a poster and trailer for Steve, director Tim Mielants’ reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. The drama stars Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a headteacher struggling with his own mental health as he fights to protect the integrity of a last-chance reform school and its impending closure. Joining Murphy in the […]
Sony unveils first trailer for The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes
Ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, Sony Pictures Classics has shared the first trailer for The Choral, the latest film from director Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter Alan Bennett following their acclaimed collaborations The Madness of King George, The History Boys, and The Lady in The Van. Set in […]
Movie Review – Tetris (2023)
Tetris, 2023. Directed by Jon S. Baird. Starring Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, Ben Miles, Ken Yamamura, Igor Grabuzov, Oleg Shtefanko, Ayane Nagabuchi, Rick Yune, Roger Allam, Toby Jones, Ieva Andrejevaitė, Matthew Marsh, Togo Igawa, Miles Barrow, Aaron Vodovoz, Igor Grabuzov, Oleg Stefan, and Polina Sulim. SYNOPSIS: The story of how one […]
Movie Review – The Hippopotamus (2017)
The Hippopotamus, 2017. Directed by John Jencks. Starring Tim McInnerny, Roger Allam, Matthew Modine, Emily Berrington, Russell Tovey, and Lyne Renee. SYNOPSIS: Out of luck, out of cash and recently sacked theatre critic Ted Wallace (Roger Allam) has a chance encounter with relative Jane Swann. Creatively bereft and in need of money Wallace agrees to […]
Movie Review – Tamara Drewe (2010)
Tamara Drewe, 2010. Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: A glamorous newspaper journalist returns to the scene of her adolescence as her family home is put up for sale, only to cause a stir among the locals. Consensus = broad unanimity; general or widespread […]
British black comedy Say Your Prayers gets a poster and trailer
Ahead of its release this coming Monday, a trailer, poster and images have arrived online for the British black comedy Say Your Prayers which stars Harry Melling and Tom Brooke as two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen who murder the wrong man after being given the straightforward task of assassinating a famed atheist writer; […]
DVD Review – The Hippopotamus (2017)
The Hippopotamus, 2017 Directed by John Jencks. Starring Roger Allam, Fiona Shaw, Tim McInnerny, Emily Berrington, Geraldine Somerville, and Matthew Modine. SYNOPSIS: Ted Wallace, a washed up, alcoholic theatre critic, is recruited by his estranged god-daughter to establish if a miracle has occurred at the ancestral home of his oldest friend, leading him on […]
