It has been over 10 years since Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat was released and Cohen retired his fan-favourite character, but now it seems he is about to make a big return. Collider has reported that Cohen has secretly shot Borat 2 and has even screened it for studios and industry executives. Borat was first created for Cohen’s Da […]
Movie Review – Les Misérables (2012)
Les Misérables, 2012. Directed by Tom Hooper. Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen and Samantha Barks. SYNOPSIS: In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean – who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole – agrees to care for factory worker […]
First images from Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7
Netflix has released a batch of first look images for writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s (The Newsroom, Molly’s Game) upcoming crime drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman, Danny Flaherty as John Froines, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin, Mark Rylance as William Kuntsler, Kelvin Harrison […]
Netflix Review – The Spy
Hasitha Fernando reviews The Spy… In this latest spy thriller that dropped from Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen plays the main role as newly recruited Mossad spy Eli Cohen and boy, is he something or what. In fact, if I were to sum up my review succinctly in three words it would be; Sacha Baron Cohen. […]
Sacha Baron Cohen stars in first trailer for espionage drama The Spy
Sacha Baron Cohen has always been known for his outlandish and often crude comedy, but the Borat actor is taking his first real step into a drama role with Netflix’s The Spy. The streaming service has released the first trailer for the 60s-era espionage series in sees Cohen star as real life ex-Mossad agent Eli Cohen and his […]
Sacha Baron Cohen is The Spy in first images from Netflix drama
Netflix has released three first look images from the upcoming drama The Spy. Written and directed by Gideon Raff, the limited series sees Sacha Baron Cohen swapping comedy for espionage as he takes on the role of former Mossad agent Eli Cohen, and details the story of Cohen’s time undercover in Syria in the 1960’s; […]
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bohemian Rhapsody would have been much more “outrageous”
Some eight years after it was first announced, the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody finally made it to the big screen this past weekend, with Mr. Robot star Rami Malek taking on the role of the iconic Queen frontman, and earning rave reviews for his performance. Long before Malek’s casting, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen spent […]
Aaron Sorkin to direct Sacha Baron Cohen in The Trial of the Chicago 7
Having originally written the screenplay more than a decade ago, Aaron Sorkin has now signed on to direct The Trial of the Chicago 7 for Amblin Entertainment, with Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Who Is America?) in early talks to star. Deadline reports that the project is based upon the 1969 federal conspiracy trial which arose […]
Sacha Baron Cohen has new Showtime show Who Is America? incoming
Showtime has announced that Sacha Baron Cohen is returning to the small screen for a brand new comedy series, which is said to be similar in format to Da Ali G Show and is being marketed as “the most dangerous show in the history of television”. Here’s a couple of teasers for the project, which […]
Sacha Baron Cohen to star in Netflix drama series The Spy
Netflix has tapped Sacha Baron Cohen to lead the cast of its upcoming espionage series The Spy, which is being written and directed by Gideon Raff, creator of Prisoners of War, the series which Homeland is based upon. Variety reports that Cohen will play Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy in the early 1960s who “managed […]
