DreamWorks Animation has announced the voice cast for Trolls 2, with Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey) and Chance the Rapper (Slice) boarding the sequel to the 2016 animated family film. Reprising their roles from the first movie are Anna Kendrick (Poppy), Justin Timberlake (Branch), James Corden (Biggie), […]
Sam Rockwell joins Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit
Fresh from his Oscar win for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, actor Sam Rockwell has become the latest addition to the cast of Jojo Rabbit, the new film from Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi. Taking place during World War II, the film follows a ten-year-old German boy who is struggling […]
First trailer for Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain
The first trailer and a new poster have arrived online for the upcoming biographical drama Woman Walks Ahead. Directed by Susanna White, the film stars Jessica Chastain as artist and activist Catherine Weldon, Michael Greyeyes as Lakota Sioux chief Sitting Bull, and Sam Rockwell as Colonel Silas Grove; take a look below… Based on true […]
Sam Rockwell would love to see Justin Hammer back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
To be blunt: Iron Man 2 has always felt like the ugly-stepchild of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Following the success of Iron Man, many assumed that this sequel would be another hit. After all, why not? It brought on board Mickey Rourke — coming off of a dazzling performance in The Wrestler — and also […]
Sam Rockwell to voice The One and Only Ivan for Disney
Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star Sam Rockwell has signed on to lend his voice to the titular gorilla in Disney’s upcoming adaptation of Katherine Applegate’s Newbery Medal-winning book The One and Only Ivan. The film is being directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You) and will be a live-action/CG animated hybrid, with Ariana […]
Second Opinion – Mute (2018)
Mute, 2018. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh, Noel Clarke, Robert Sheehan, Sam Rockwell and Robert Kazinsky. SYNOPSIS: A mute bartender goes up against his city’s gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner. Filmmakers should really stop saying how it took them […]
Movie Review – Mute (2018)
Mute, 2018. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh, Noel Clarke, Robert Sheehan, Sam Rockwell and Robert Kazinsky. SYNOPSIS: A mute bartender goes up against his city’s gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner. There’s an understandable amount of hype for Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Source […]
In Praise of Sam Rockwell
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of the vastly underrated Sam Rockwell… So after doing a piece on the fantastic Frances McDormand, sticking with the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri connection, it seemed apt to do a piece on an actor who has always slipped just below the radar. Sam Rockwell is always great and […]
Oscars 2018: Predicting the nominations in the main categories
Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards… The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards season race. These nominations are the holy grail of the awards season calendar and being chosen will ensure the great and […]
Movie Review – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2017. Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh. Starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, Samara Weaving, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek, and Clarke Peters. SYNOPSIS: Distraught at the lack of development in her daughter’s murder case after seven months, Mildred Hayes resorts to […]