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Movie Review – The Son (2022)

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The Son, 2022. Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zen McGrath, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins, William Hope, George Cobell, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Mercedes Bahleda, Akie Kotabe, Erick Hayden, Danielle Lewis, Van Pierre, and Jesse Cilio. SYNOPSIS: Peter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his […]

Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby star in new trailer for The Son

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Sony Pictures has shared a new trailer for The Son, directed Florian Zeller’s upcoming drama based on the second play in a trilogy following The Father, which was adapted in 2020 starring Olivia Colman and an Oscar-winning Anthony Hopkins. The film stars Hugh Jackman as Peter, a man who finds his busy life with his […]

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is back in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer

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With Top Gun: Maverick flying into cinemas this week [read our review here], Paramount Pictures has taken the opportunity to release a first look trailer for Tom Cruise’s next hotly-anticipated sequel, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch the trailer here…  Mission: Impossible […]

Movie Review – Italian Studies (2022)

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Italian Studies, 2022. Written and Directed by Adam Leon. Starring Vanessa Kirby, Simon Bruckner, Annabel Hoffman, Annika Wahlsten, Chris Arias, Fred Hechinger, Ray Lipstein, Maya Hawke, and David Ajala. SYNOPSIS: A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NYC, she connects with a group of teenagers – in conversations both real and imagined – and searches […]

Vanessa Kirby suffers memory loss in Italian Studies trailer

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Magnolia Pictures has released a trailer, poster and images for the upcoming drama Italian Studies. Written and directed by Adam Leon, the film follows Alina (Vanessa Kirby), a writer who finds herself adrift on the streets on Manhattan after inexplicably losing her memory; take a look here… While visiting New York City from her native […]

Vanessa Kirby replaces Jodie Comer as Empress Josephine in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic

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Having proven adept at playing Royalty thanks to her portrayal of Princess Margaret in The Crown, Vanessa Kirby is now crossing the channel to play Empress Josephine in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic Kitbag. According to Deadline, Kirby, who received an Academy Award nomination last year for her harrowing performance in Pieces of a Woman, will […]

Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston find romance in UK trailer for The World to Come

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Sony Pictures UK has has shared a poster and trailer for director Mona Fastvold’s romantic drama The World to Come which stars Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby as lonely neighbours living in the bleak American Northwest who begin to fill a void in their lives when they find themselves irrevocably drawn to each other; take […]

Vanessa Kirby joins The Father follow-up The Son

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Variety has announced that Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) has been cast alongside Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern in The Son, the follow up to director Florian Zeller’s The Father which is based upon his and Christopher Hampton’s stage play. The Son “follows Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is […]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby to be stranded on an island for survival thriller Suddenly

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Brace yourselves for the most high-calibre desert-island duo since Tom Hanks and a volleyball, because news has emerged from the Cannes virtual market that the Oscar-nominated pair of Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby are set to be stranded for survival thriller Suddenly. Deadline report that the film will be directed by Thomas Bidegain, who wrote […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The World to Come

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The World to Come, 2020. Directed by Mona Fastvold. Starring Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Casey Affleck, and Christopher Abbott. SYNOPSIS: Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighbouring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically. Period gay romance has carved out […]