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The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn

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It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]

Movie Review – Saltburn (2023)

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Saltburn, 2023. Directed by Emerald Fennell. Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, and Carey Mulligan. SYNOPSIS: A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family’s sprawling estate for a summer never to […]

Movie Review – Saltburn (2023)

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Saltburn, 2023. Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell. Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan, Paul Rhys, Ewan Mitchell, Reece Shearsmith, Lolly Adefope, Sadie Soverall, Millie Kent, Aleah Aberdeen, Julian Lloyd Patten, Olivia Hanrahan-Barnes, Richard Cotterell, Joshua Samuels, Will Gibson, Tomás Barry, Andy Brady, Saga Spjuth-Säll, […]

Barry Keoghan enters a world of privilege and desire in trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn

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Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) takes us to a beautifully wicked world of privilege and desire in her sophomore feature Saltburn, which has just a dropped its first full trailer.  Starring the white-hot Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Jacob Elordi (Euphoria) in a story about a student at Oxford […]

The Wheel of Time gets a batch of season 2 character posters

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With its season 2 premiere a little over two weeks away, a batch of new character posters have been released for Prime Video’s hit fantasy series Wheel of Time featuring Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) and Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney), Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) and Selene (Natasha O’Keeffe), Nynaeve al’Meara (Zoë Robins) and Liandrin Guirale (Kate […]

The Great Hunt begins in The Wheel of Time season 2 trailer

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Prime Video released a trailer for the second season of The Wheel of Time, the hit series based on author Robert Jordan’s fantasy novels; watch it below… Based on the best-selling Robert Jordan fantasy series The Wheel of Time, a humble farm boy, Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski), learns he is The Dragon Reborn—a dangerous figure […]

Exclusive interview with Sean Ellis, director of Anthropoid

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Anthropoid, the true story of the mission to assassinate Hitler’s third in command, Reinhard Heydrich, arrives in cinemas this week [read our review here].  Freda Cooper talked to its director, Sean Ellis, about the film and how it sheds light on a lesser known corner of World War II history. On the 27th of May […]

60th BFI London Film Festival – A United Kingdom Press Conference Report

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A look at the trailer for A United Kingdom, the opener at this year’s London Film Festival, might give the impression that its star, David Oyelowo, is in serious danger of being typecast.  After his star-making turn as Martin Luther King in Selma, he’s delivering more inspiring speeches as future ruler of Botswana, Seretse Khama. […]

The journey is far from over in The Wheel of Time season 2 featurette

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Along with the news that The Wheel of Time has already been renewed for a third season, Amazon Studios has now released a featurette for the second season of the fantasy series, which teases new locations and more epic battles as the ensemble cast travel across the world in their fight against the Dark One.  The […]