Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Starring Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, Tom Hardy, Kathy Burke, Ciaran Hinds, Simon McBurney and Roger Lloyd Pack. SYNOPSIS: There is a mole within the circus. Control (John Hurt) moves the pieces into play, but it falls […]
Gillian Anderson, Robert Duvall, Timothy Spall and more join The Pale Blue Eye mystery thriller
Director Scott Cooper has just added a whole batch of actors to his mystery thriller The Pale Blue Eye, rounding out his cast. Joining Christian Bale (Vice) and Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit) are Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Timothy Spall (Spencer), Robert Duvall (The Judge), Toby Jones (First Cow) and several more. Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg […]
Movie Review – Wolfwalkers (2020)
Wolfwalkers, 2020. Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart Featuring the voice talents of Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from […]
Movie Review – Siberia (2020)
Siberia, 2020. Co-written and directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A barman in Siberia heads to a nearby cave where he explores his dreams and memories. Abel Ferrara’s sixth collaboration with Willem Dafoe is by a measure their most challenging – if perhaps not their most successful – […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wolfwalkers
Wolfwalkers, 2020. Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. Starring Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumoured to […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Siberia
Siberia, 2020. Directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Dounia Sichov and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A man who abandoned his whole life to tend bar in Siberia embarks on a voyage of self-discovery when he visits a strange cave. Few people do narration like Willem Dafoe. That distinctive, unsettling voice has provided a […]
Movie Review – The Mercy (2018)
The Mercy, 2018. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Jonathan Bailey, Ken Stott, Eleanor Stagg, Finn Elliot, Kit Connor, Oliver Maltman, Mark Gatiss, Simon McBurney, Sam Hoare, Avye Leventis, Andrew Buchan, Anna Madeley, Adrian Schiller, Simon Chandler, Genevieve Gaunt, Alexia Traverse-Healy, Dorothy Atkinson, Sebastian Armesto, and Martin Marquez. SYNOPSIS: The […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 21 – The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring 2, 2016. Directed by James Wan. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Delaney, Franka Potente, Simon McBurney, Lauren Esposito, Robin Atkin Downes, Bob Adrian, Bonnie Aarons, Javier Botet, Patrick McAuley, and Benjamin Haigh. SYNOPSIS: In Enfield, North London, Single mother Peggy Hodgson and her children find themselves victim to […]
Showtime’s Roger Ailes series adds Seth MacFarlane, Sienna Miller, Annabelle Wallis and more
Back in June it was announced that Russell Crowe is set to take on the role of Fox News chief Roger Ailes alongside Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson in a Showtime limited series adaptation of Gabriel Sherman’s book The Loudest Voice in the Room, and now we have word on additional castings for the project. […]
Movie Review – Allied (2016)
Allied, 2016. Directed by Robert Zemeckis Starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney and Matthew Goode SYNOPSIS: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of […]