Tom Burke (Mank) has joined Warner Bros. and George Miller’s Furiosa, the spinoff to Mad Max: Fury Road. Burke has replaced Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who had to part ways with the project due to scheduling conflicts. The film marks the first major studio film for Burke, who played Orson Welles in Netflix’s Mank and has credits including […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – True Things
True Things, 2021. Directed by Harry Wootliff. Starring Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, Hayley Squires, Elizabeth Rider and Frank McCusker. SYNOPSIS: A JobCentre worker strikes up a romantic relationship with a mysterious ex-convict who visits her office. Harry Wootliff delivered one of the absolute gems of the London Film Festival back in 2018, when her debut […]
Alan Moore’s The Show gets one night only theatrical release and new U.S. trailer
Having acquired the U.S. distribution rights, Shout! Factory has released a new trailerfor The Show, the upcoming fantasy feature from director Mitch Jenkins and acclaimed comic book creator Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen); watch it here… A frighteningly focused man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England’s broken […]
Movie Review – Mank (2020)
Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.” In attempting to reconcile alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to […]
Movie Review – Mank (2020)
Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Monika Grossmann, Joseph Cross, Sam Troughton, Toby Leonard Moore, Tom Burke and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: Holed up in a cabin devoid of alcohol and distractions Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is being paid to write something […]
Movie Review – Mank (2020)
Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, Leven Rambin, Craig Robert Young, Randy Davison, Jack Romano, Craig Welzbacher, Adam Shapiro, Paul Fox, Jessie Cohen, Amie Farrell, […]
David Fincher’s Mank gets a new trailer and poster
Ahead of its arrival on Netflix this December, the streaming service has released a new trailer and poster for David Fincher’s biographical drama Mank which sees Gary Oldman lead the cast as Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz; take a look here… 1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter […]
First teaser trailer for Netflix and David Fincher’s Mank
David Fincher is back with a brand new film Mank, which dives into a fairly iconic name in the world of film. Fincher looks to tackle the story of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz during one of the most infamous times in his life, the race to finish the script for Citizen Kane. In this first […]
Alan Moore welcomes us to The Show with a trippy first trailer
The first trailer has been trailer has been released for The Show, the upcoming “Gothic fantasy” film from the pen of acclaimed comic book creator Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta). “With The Show, I wanted to apply the storytelling ability accumulated during the rest of my varied career to the medium of […]
Movie Review – The Souvenir (2019)
The Souvenir, 2019. Directed by Joanna Hogg. Starring Honor Swinton-Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Jack McMullen and Richard Ayoade. SYNOPSIS: A young woman struggles to achieve her film school ambitions while in a destructive relationship with an older man. There’s always a lot of talk online – particularly in the world of morally questionable superhero […]
