This may be a controversial take, but Christopher Nolan's 2012 film "The Dark Knight Rises" is the best of the three Batman films Nolan directed, and is handily one of the best superhero films ever made. Produced in the wake of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests, "The Dark Knight Rises" addressed the issue of Batman's wealth, pointing out explicitly that being a Batman isn't the best use of one's money. Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, and yet Gotham City still languishes. Bane (Tom Hardy) may be a terrorist who takes the entire city hostage, but he also noted that superhero billionaires are at the heart of economic injustice. Superheroes are not the solution.
"The Dark Knight Rises" also finally allows Batman to retire. One can only be infected by angst-based impulses toward vigilantism for so long before his knees begin to give out. "Rises" questioned the efficiency and health of a Batman,...
"The Dark Knight Rises" also finally allows Batman to retire. One can only be infected by angst-based impulses toward vigilantism for so long before his knees begin to give out. "Rises" questioned the efficiency and health of a Batman,...
- 4/9/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
As we welcome in the New Year, we can reveal our annual (non-exhaustive) list of U.S. and international movies we think could grace the festival circuit in 2024. We’ve stuck to our criteria that the project must already be in production and have not already been announced for a festival. More than 70% of our selections last year went on to debut at a major festival. Those that didn’t were largely delayed by the strike or are still in post-production. If the titles below make the cut, it will be a thrilling year on the festival circuit once again.
Megalopolis
Expectations are high that Francis Ford Coppola will deliver his long-awaited $100+ million passion project in 2024. The sci-fi drama charts the story of an architect who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. The cast featuring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight,...
Megalopolis
Expectations are high that Francis Ford Coppola will deliver his long-awaited $100+ million passion project in 2024. The sci-fi drama charts the story of an architect who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. The cast featuring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight,...
- 1/2/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow, Andreas Wiseman, Zac Ntim and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
They were all young once: Don Corleone and Darth Vader, Butch and Sundance, Hannibal and Leatherface, Maleficent and Cruella. And long before he was the world’s best-known chocolatier and distributor of life-changing golden tickets, William “Willy” Wonka was just a twentysomething kid with a top hat, a sweet tooth, and a dream.
For decades, we could only guess how the bright-eyed lad became the candymaker-in-chief. This is where Wonka comes in. A prequel that seeks to both fill in the blanks regarding Roald Dahl’s eccentric sugar pimp and...
For decades, we could only guess how the bright-eyed lad became the candymaker-in-chief. This is where Wonka comes in. A prequel that seeks to both fill in the blanks regarding Roald Dahl’s eccentric sugar pimp and...
- 12/14/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Barry Keoghan as Oliver and Archie Madekwe as Farleigh in SaltburnPhoto: MGM/Amazon Studios
The darkly comedic and corrupt whims of the wealthy are on full display in filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s racy thriller Saltburn. The cheeky provocateur’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning directorial debut, Promising Young Woman, Saltburn wages...
The darkly comedic and corrupt whims of the wealthy are on full display in filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s racy thriller Saltburn. The cheeky provocateur’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning directorial debut, Promising Young Woman, Saltburn wages...
- 11/15/2023
- by Courtney Howard
- avclub.com
The festive season is a time of mixed emotions for many people. While some are enjoying the unbridled thrill of an unexpected kiss beneath the mistletoe, others are feeling the sharpness of loss more acutely as the celebrations draw near. Alexander Payne’s latest comedy drama, set across the Christmas period, sees David Hemingson’s script explore all of this and more with a deft hand. They employ a character-driven structure that is full of surprises but also channels traditional, even Dickensian, themes, although the Scrooges here may not be quite who they first appear to be. The result is an old school slice of comfort and joy for the cold season, although it’s inexplicably getting a January release in the UK.
1970 is drawing to a close and so is the school term at Barton Academy boarding school in Massachussetts. The whole enterprise feels as though it has been plucked like a.
1970 is drawing to a close and so is the school term at Barton Academy boarding school in Massachussetts. The whole enterprise feels as though it has been plucked like a.
- 11/9/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Some people say love conquers all, but things can get ugly when the person you cherish snatches an opportunity you’ve been working toward your entire career. You can either celebrate their well-earned victory or label them the enemy as you ride a downward spiral toward the obliteration of everything you’ve built together. If you’re Luke (Alden Ehrenreich), you let jealousy get the best of you, demolishing the union you’ve cultivated with Emily (Phoebe Dynevor), your partner you’ve promised to stand by forever. No job is worth that sacrifice, especially if your employer plays both sides like a finely tuned fiddle. Today’s Fair Play trailer is a lesson in love and passion but also avarice and spite.
In Fair Play, director/writer Chloe Domont puts a 21st-century spin on classic eighties and nineties-style corporate thrillers. Imagine a movie like Disclosure from a female perspective or...
In Fair Play, director/writer Chloe Domont puts a 21st-century spin on classic eighties and nineties-style corporate thrillers. Imagine a movie like Disclosure from a female perspective or...
- 9/26/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Anyone who has followed Joseph Quinn‘s career journey would agree the actor has come a long way since his days on Dickensian. Over the years, Quinn has shown he’s not an average actor with his versatile performances. The Lamda alumni have, to his credit, some of the biggest television shows in the world. Unsurprisingly, his exceptional acting talents have been noticed by studios, producers, and directors. Quinn has been cast in the spin-off prequel A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) and will play Roman Emperor Caracalla in Ridley Scott‘s sequel Gladiator 2 (2024). In appreciation of his growth as an...
- 9/19/2023
- by Onyinye Izundu
- TVovermind.com
Hulu’s acclaimed “Only Murders in the Building,” currently vying for 11 Emmys, has gone all razzle dazzle in its third season. Make that rattle dazzle! Beleaguered Broadway director Oliver (Martin Short) was hoping for a comeback on the Great White Way with the mystery thriller “Death Rattle.” But when his leading man (Paul Rudd) is murdered, he decides to turn the straight play into a musical, “Death Rattle Dazzle!” And in the third episode, Meryl Streep’s nervous journeyman actress and Ashley Park’s leading lady performed the show-stopping ballad “Look for the Light” co-written by Sara Bareilles. One almost forgot the prime suspects in “Death Rattle Dazzle!” are the infant Pickwick triplets.
The 1959 multiple Tony winner “Redhead” also has a rather strange plot for a musical: a serial killer is stalking women in London in the 1880s during the time Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the city. Sounds like a real toe-tapper.
The 1959 multiple Tony winner “Redhead” also has a rather strange plot for a musical: a serial killer is stalking women in London in the 1880s during the time Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the city. Sounds like a real toe-tapper.
- 8/29/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Some people will do anything to move up the corporate ladder regardless of who gets hurt. In Fair Play, director/writer Chloe Domont puts a 21st century spin on classic eighties and nineties style corporate thrillers. Imagine a movie like Disclosure from a female perspective or if the Michael Douglas character happened to be a raving psychopath.
In Fair Play, an unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement. Domont directs from a script she wrote, with Phoebe Dynevor starring as the crumbling couple. The World’s End and 21 Grams actor Eddie Marsan also stars as a corporate puppetmaster pulling the young couple’s strings.
In Netflix‘s Fair Play trailer, Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) are a young couple in love. Shortly after getting engaged, Emily lands a promotion at...
In Fair Play, an unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement. Domont directs from a script she wrote, with Phoebe Dynevor starring as the crumbling couple. The World’s End and 21 Grams actor Eddie Marsan also stars as a corporate puppetmaster pulling the young couple’s strings.
In Netflix‘s Fair Play trailer, Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) are a young couple in love. Shortly after getting engaged, Emily lands a promotion at...
- 8/8/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Miss Havisham is one of the most indelible characters in the English-language literary canon. Written by Charles Dickens to be outfitted, each day, in the wedding finery that serves as a decaying reminder that she was spurned at the altar, she’s a bundle of resentments tied together in white lace.
And, as played by Olivia Colman, she’s the action of the new “Great Expectations” limited series — so much so that much of the rest of the densely plotty story seems like biding time between her appearances. Written by Steven Knight and co-produced by the BBC and FX, this “Great Expectations” is dimly lit and grimly violent, with the chaos and sudden bursts of enmity of Dickensian England brought to the fore. But only Miss Havisham pops off the screen, making this an adaptation lacking in a certain balance.
Here, Fionn Whitehead plays Pip, the orphan who enters Miss...
And, as played by Olivia Colman, she’s the action of the new “Great Expectations” limited series — so much so that much of the rest of the densely plotty story seems like biding time between her appearances. Written by Steven Knight and co-produced by the BBC and FX, this “Great Expectations” is dimly lit and grimly violent, with the chaos and sudden bursts of enmity of Dickensian England brought to the fore. But only Miss Havisham pops off the screen, making this an adaptation lacking in a certain balance.
Here, Fionn Whitehead plays Pip, the orphan who enters Miss...
- 3/21/2023
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
David Harbour is ready to dock his “Stranger Things” arc.
The actor addressed the upcoming fifth and final season of the viral Netflix series, with the upcoming finale almost a decade in the making.
“What’s funny is when I started the show, I never ever wanted it to end. That’s why I love the show,” Harbour told Discussing Film. “I think it’s a great show, even if I wasn’t in it. Now we’re almost nine years from filming the first season, and I think it is time for it to end. But it is, of course, very bittersweet. You know, there’s a sadness there.”
Harbour continued, “But also, we’ve all grown up. It is time for us to leave that nest and try other things and different projects. And to let the Duffer Brothers try different things as well. I mean, those guys are so talented.
The actor addressed the upcoming fifth and final season of the viral Netflix series, with the upcoming finale almost a decade in the making.
“What’s funny is when I started the show, I never ever wanted it to end. That’s why I love the show,” Harbour told Discussing Film. “I think it’s a great show, even if I wasn’t in it. Now we’re almost nine years from filming the first season, and I think it is time for it to end. But it is, of course, very bittersweet. You know, there’s a sadness there.”
Harbour continued, “But also, we’ve all grown up. It is time for us to leave that nest and try other things and different projects. And to let the Duffer Brothers try different things as well. I mean, those guys are so talented.
- 2/21/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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It’s hard to tell exactly whether Netflix’s new animated version of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic is geared to very young children who respond to sensory overload or drugged-out college students looking for sensory overload.
In either case, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol delivers it in spades, providing a turbocharged rendition of the tale aimed for maximum visual impact. A very loose remake of the live-action 1970 musical Scrooge starring Albert Finney, this version also features songs from that film composed by two-time Oscar winner Leslie Bricusse.
Director Stephen Donnelly has promised to provide “psychedelic, time-traveling and musical surprises” in this umpteenth version of the oft-dramatized tale, and he lives up to his word, for better or worse. The film’s vibrant animation — the opening sequence depicts a London more colorful than it’s ever been — feels more Hanna-Barbera than Dickensian. And it soon...
It’s hard to tell exactly whether Netflix’s new animated version of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic is geared to very young children who respond to sensory overload or drugged-out college students looking for sensory overload.
In either case, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol delivers it in spades, providing a turbocharged rendition of the tale aimed for maximum visual impact. A very loose remake of the live-action 1970 musical Scrooge starring Albert Finney, this version also features songs from that film composed by two-time Oscar winner Leslie Bricusse.
Director Stephen Donnelly has promised to provide “psychedelic, time-traveling and musical surprises” in this umpteenth version of the oft-dramatized tale, and he lives up to his word, for better or worse. The film’s vibrant animation — the opening sequence depicts a London more colorful than it’s ever been — feels more Hanna-Barbera than Dickensian. And it soon...
- 11/23/2022
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are more than the usual number of miracles to be observed with the latest version of A Christmas Carol to hit Broadway. The usual suspects are here, all the ghosts and spirits and flights over ye olde town and all the witnessing of things past, present and future. And there’s the miracle of one man – the great Jefferson Mays – breathing life into more than 50 characters and having us believe every single shift. And there’s the perhaps more – if only slightly more – quotidian miracle of a creative team – directors of lighting and sound and costumes and projections – at the tops of their games coming together to create gobsmacking theater magic, a blessing director Michael Arden’s Carol has in great bounty.
But the true miracle of this production – full title: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – opening tonight at the Nederlander Theatre is that it, or rather, he (as...
But the true miracle of this production – full title: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – opening tonight at the Nederlander Theatre is that it, or rather, he (as...
- 11/22/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The very first thing you see in The Wonder, a historical drama set in 19th-century Ireland, is not the rolling green plains of the nation’s countryside. It’s not Dublin’s muddy, sooty streets, nor the dark-lit taverns where bearded men curse and drink ale or the rural family cottage wherein a miracle may or may not be taking place. We’ll get to bask in the splendor of those backdrops soon enough.
No, the first thing this movie shows us is the inside of an enclosed film soundstage.
No, the first thing this movie shows us is the inside of an enclosed film soundstage.
- 11/15/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Jim Hopper (David Harbour) has gone through the wringer over the course of 4 seasons of "Stranger Things." The man lost his daughter, carried out the ultimate sacrifice, and went through literal hell while being locked up in a Russian prison for months. Season 4 of the show ended on a note of hope for Hopper after he gets rescued by Joyce (Winona Ryder) and reunites with El (Millie Bobby Brown). However, Hawkins is currently on the verge of an apocalypse, and season 5 might or might not guarantee a good time for poor Hopper, at least according to David Harbour.
Harbour spoke to Total Film about Hopper's fate in the final season of "Stranger Things" for the magazine's December 2022 issue. The actor talked about having "some idea of the shape and structure" of the final season, although a full script has not been made available to him yet. While talking about the...
Harbour spoke to Total Film about Hopper's fate in the final season of "Stranger Things" for the magazine's December 2022 issue. The actor talked about having "some idea of the shape and structure" of the final season, although a full script has not been made available to him yet. While talking about the...
- 11/7/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Let the title fool you. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is the improbable tale of a young boy who becomes a rock god by playing a polka instrument. And former wizard Daniel Radcliffe brings an entirely new kind of magic to his portrayal of “Weird” Al Yankovic—the type the Weasley twins excelled at. This is not a biopic of a musical parodist. It is a spoof of musical biopics, and this one’s about a lunatic with a strap-on orchestra deluding himself that he’s the life of the party. He fakes it until he makes it, throws it away, and leaves someone else to clean up his mess.
In their respective roles in prior, formulaic rock biopics, Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury and Taron Egerton’s Elton John are extremely professional. By contrast, Radcliffe throws himself into the character like he’s never lost amateur standing. He goes full tilt.
In their respective roles in prior, formulaic rock biopics, Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury and Taron Egerton’s Elton John are extremely professional. By contrast, Radcliffe throws himself into the character like he’s never lost amateur standing. He goes full tilt.
- 11/4/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
You sometimes have to ask yourself why certain films are worthy of a competition slot at a major festival. If a certain set of themes and aesthetics are required for serious consideration by the powers that be, it’s hard not to see a number of art films as part of an infrastructure not so dissimilar to the comic book movie industry. And not to sound like a befuddled middlebrow American trade critic encountering Taiwanese New Wave for the first time at a mid-90s edition of Cannes when I ask: is there simply no consideration for either entertaining audiences or even challenging the so-called more sophisticated ticket-buyers’ pre-conceived notions about art cinema?
Sadly, the kind of film that makes one think such things is The Box, Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’ follow-up to his Golden Lion-winning From Afar (thus asserting more festival berths for years to come). Certainly touching on...
Sadly, the kind of film that makes one think such things is The Box, Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’ follow-up to his Golden Lion-winning From Afar (thus asserting more festival berths for years to come). Certainly touching on...
- 11/3/2022
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
This Star Wars: Andor article contains spoilers.
Andor Episode 8
In episode 8 of Andor, half of the action is a Star Wars version of the Shawshank Redemption, and there’s something about this specific incarceration that feels a bit on the fake side of the Force, like the Disneyland version of a space prison. Andor episode 8 is good, but as we watch humans literally build the cogs that make the machines of the Empire work, one can’t help but wonder, are we getting a bit too granular with the logistics of Star Wars?
At the point at which Cassian gets thrown into a forced-labor Imperial prison, nobody wanted Andor to suddenly turn into Alien 3, but there’s still something a bit too sanitized about these Star Wars prison sequences. Essentially, this Imperial prison motivates the inmates to be really good at building cogs(?) and pits various teams of workers against each other.
Andor Episode 8
In episode 8 of Andor, half of the action is a Star Wars version of the Shawshank Redemption, and there’s something about this specific incarceration that feels a bit on the fake side of the Force, like the Disneyland version of a space prison. Andor episode 8 is good, but as we watch humans literally build the cogs that make the machines of the Empire work, one can’t help but wonder, are we getting a bit too granular with the logistics of Star Wars?
At the point at which Cassian gets thrown into a forced-labor Imperial prison, nobody wanted Andor to suddenly turn into Alien 3, but there’s still something a bit too sanitized about these Star Wars prison sequences. Essentially, this Imperial prison motivates the inmates to be really good at building cogs(?) and pits various teams of workers against each other.
- 10/26/2022
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
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If you enjoy watching talented actors situated in foreign lands, drenched in cosmetically applied sweat, opining in borderline-comical accents about second chances, Apple TV+’s Shantaram is likely to be your favorite new show of the fall.
Breathlessly awaited for nearly two decades by countless people who bought Gregory David Roberts’ epic tome to read on an airplane but never quite finished it, Shantaram has the insufferable trappings of yet another white savior story about a damaged guy whose quest for self-actualization leads him to an exotic place where superficial lessons about a previously unknown spiritual system help him and basically nobody else around him. Ok, it doesn’t just have the trappings of one of those stories. It is one of those stories.
Like Roberts’ book, though, Shantaram is maybe five percent fictionalized memoir and the rest a pastiche of every muscular...
If you enjoy watching talented actors situated in foreign lands, drenched in cosmetically applied sweat, opining in borderline-comical accents about second chances, Apple TV+’s Shantaram is likely to be your favorite new show of the fall.
Breathlessly awaited for nearly two decades by countless people who bought Gregory David Roberts’ epic tome to read on an airplane but never quite finished it, Shantaram has the insufferable trappings of yet another white savior story about a damaged guy whose quest for self-actualization leads him to an exotic place where superficial lessons about a previously unknown spiritual system help him and basically nobody else around him. Ok, it doesn’t just have the trappings of one of those stories. It is one of those stories.
Like Roberts’ book, though, Shantaram is maybe five percent fictionalized memoir and the rest a pastiche of every muscular...
- 10/13/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Just when you thought TNT was getting out of the scripted business, they’re kinda sorta back in.
TNT announced on Wednesday morning that it has acquired The Lazarus Project, a UK action-thriller that made its debut across the pond this June, with an eye on an early 2023 Stateside premiere.
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The Lazarus Project will thus mark the first new scripted...
TNT announced on Wednesday morning that it has acquired The Lazarus Project, a UK action-thriller that made its debut across the pond this June, with an eye on an early 2023 Stateside premiere.
More from TVLineAnimal Kingdom Boss Sizes Up Potential for a Deran/J SpinoffAnimal Kingdom Showrunner Explains Why Ellen Barkin's Smurf Didn't Even Appear in Series-Finale FlashbacksAnimal Kingdom EP Tells the Part of Deran's Story Viewers Didn't Get to See
The Lazarus Project will thus mark the first new scripted...
- 10/12/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
This Star Wars: Andor article contains spoilers.
Five episodes in, it’s clear that Andor is following a very specific pattern to tell its story. The first season is broken up into four arcs of three episodes each. The first episode of each arc introduces the setting, characters, and Cassian Andor‘s new objective, while the second slows things down to a crawl to heighten the drama and flesh out each character. The third part is presumably the one where things actually happen — it’s the one you’ve been waiting for all along.
The problem is that this means two-thirds of Andor‘s episodes so far just feel like a waiting game. Sit through this episode where nothing happens except Cassian rents a transport, Syril rides a ship, and Luthen takes a bus because you know the next one’s going to be the banger. Watch the rebels on Aldhani wake up,...
Five episodes in, it’s clear that Andor is following a very specific pattern to tell its story. The first season is broken up into four arcs of three episodes each. The first episode of each arc introduces the setting, characters, and Cassian Andor‘s new objective, while the second slows things down to a crawl to heighten the drama and flesh out each character. The third part is presumably the one where things actually happen — it’s the one you’ve been waiting for all along.
The problem is that this means two-thirds of Andor‘s episodes so far just feel like a waiting game. Sit through this episode where nothing happens except Cassian rents a transport, Syril rides a ship, and Luthen takes a bus because you know the next one’s going to be the banger. Watch the rebels on Aldhani wake up,...
- 10/6/2022
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
When Muppets creator Jim Henson died in 1990, the future of the Muppets franchise felt up in the air to its fans. At the time, Disney had already been in negotiations to purchase the Muppets, but Henson was on record with his refusal. Disney, still with a foot in the door, co-financed two Muppet feature films in the 1990s -- "The Muppet Christmas Carol" and "Muppet Treasure Island," both directed by Henson's son Brian -- which proved to audiences that the Muppets were capable of living on. Indeed, the two films provided a fascinating new premise for the Muppets: they would be stock players in adaptations of classic literature. Sadly, this tack did not play itself out, and after the not-very-good, straight-to-video "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz," that angle was abandoned.
Come now, Disney, "Muppet Midsummer Night's Dream," "Muppet Dracula," and "Muppet Moby-Dick" await.
"The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992) is both one...
Come now, Disney, "Muppet Midsummer Night's Dream," "Muppet Dracula," and "Muppet Moby-Dick" await.
"The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992) is both one...
- 9/14/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Jefferson Mays’ one-man A Christmas Carol is coming to Broadway this holiday season, with a 66-performance engagement previewing at the Nederlander Theatre on Tuesday, November 8 with an official opening night set for Monday, November 21. The production runs through Sunday, January 1, 2023.
“After everything we’ve been through in the past few years it seems fitting to tell the story of one man’s reflection and redemption on the Broadway stage” said Hunter Arnold, who produces with Kayla Greenspan. “In a time where the world needs each of us to look within and find our own best selves we are ecstatic to bring this iconic tale of metamorphosis and catharsis to audiences this holiday season.”
Mays (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) currently portrays Mayor Shinn in Broadway’s The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. The actor will depart that role on Oct. 23.
In this version of...
“After everything we’ve been through in the past few years it seems fitting to tell the story of one man’s reflection and redemption on the Broadway stage” said Hunter Arnold, who produces with Kayla Greenspan. “In a time where the world needs each of us to look within and find our own best selves we are ecstatic to bring this iconic tale of metamorphosis and catharsis to audiences this holiday season.”
Mays (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) currently portrays Mayor Shinn in Broadway’s The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. The actor will depart that role on Oct. 23.
In this version of...
- 9/7/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoilers for "Better Call Saul" follow.
Who could have imagined, back when "Breaking Bad" was the reigning non-genre drama on TV, that almost a decade later we would be talking about a prequel focusing on the funny lawyer as one of the best TV shows of the decade, on par if not better than the original? "Better Call Saul" quickly proved to be more than just a spin-off of "Breaking Bad," but a show as complex, if not more so.
After six seasons, we finally said goodbye to James Morgan McGill, Kimberly Wexler, and the characters of the two-shows-and-a-movie universe with a perfect finale. After the previous episode ended with Gene on the run after being uncovered by Carol Burnett's Marion, the finale, aptly titled "Saul Gone," ties up loose ends, brings the themes of the show to the foreground and closes the book on Jimmy/Saul/Gene.
In between all of these,...
Who could have imagined, back when "Breaking Bad" was the reigning non-genre drama on TV, that almost a decade later we would be talking about a prequel focusing on the funny lawyer as one of the best TV shows of the decade, on par if not better than the original? "Better Call Saul" quickly proved to be more than just a spin-off of "Breaking Bad," but a show as complex, if not more so.
After six seasons, we finally said goodbye to James Morgan McGill, Kimberly Wexler, and the characters of the two-shows-and-a-movie universe with a perfect finale. After the previous episode ended with Gene on the run after being uncovered by Carol Burnett's Marion, the finale, aptly titled "Saul Gone," ties up loose ends, brings the themes of the show to the foreground and closes the book on Jimmy/Saul/Gene.
In between all of these,...
- 8/16/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire, 11.05pm, Film4, Monday, May 9
As always, Danny Boyle brings every ounce of energy to this tale of a teenager who finds himself under police interrogation after he is poised to win the jackpot on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Jamal Malik (played in the present by Dev Patel and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar and Tanay Hemant Chheda in flashbacks) relates the tale of how he came to know all the answers, as we see his childhood unfold in a blend of romance, humour and, of course, tragedy. Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy keep mainstream audiences firmly in their sights but there's plenty of home truths about the plight of street kids in India beneath its shiny surface.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield, on All4 catch up for a month
If Slumdog Millionaire is Dickensian in sweep, you can also treat yourself to the.
As always, Danny Boyle brings every ounce of energy to this tale of a teenager who finds himself under police interrogation after he is poised to win the jackpot on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Jamal Malik (played in the present by Dev Patel and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar and Tanay Hemant Chheda in flashbacks) relates the tale of how he came to know all the answers, as we see his childhood unfold in a blend of romance, humour and, of course, tragedy. Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy keep mainstream audiences firmly in their sights but there's plenty of home truths about the plight of street kids in India beneath its shiny surface.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield, on All4 catch up for a month
If Slumdog Millionaire is Dickensian in sweep, you can also treat yourself to the.
- 5/9/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.The Kid.For over a century, Charles Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” has been a global icon. His signifiers are simple: the derby hat and cane; the toothbrush mustache; the tight jacket and baggy trousers; the giant shoes. His significations, however—what the Tramp has meant to audiences around the world—have been profound.The most diminutive of men, the Tramp has had an outsized role in film history. Indeed, he is a portrait in paradoxes: a tragic-comic hobo-gentleman, flea-riddled but fastidious; a poet of pantomime, whose silence speaks volumes; a prat-falling klutz, who is the most graceful of danseurs; and a loner, who is worthier than most of human intimacy. Obtuse to the socioeconomic realities that structure his existence, he is an idealist hero akin to Don Quixote, as pointed out...
- 4/13/2022
- MUBI
Sky has revealed a first look trailer for new Sky Original drama ‘The Lazarus Project,’ a riveting and gripping 8-part action thriller from acclaimed writer Joe Barton.
When George (Essiedu) wakes up one day and finds himself reliving a day from months ago, he thinks he’s lost his mind. All of his recent milestones have been undone, including his success at work and his marriage to the love of his life Sarah (Clive). Worst of all, he seems to be the only one who has noticed what’s happened.
That is until he meets Archie (Mohindra), who recruits George for the Lazarus Project – a secret organisation that has harnessed the ability to turn back time every time the world is at threat of extinction. Like George, those who work at Lazarus are the few people on earth with the ability to remember the events that are undone when time goes back.
When George (Essiedu) wakes up one day and finds himself reliving a day from months ago, he thinks he’s lost his mind. All of his recent milestones have been undone, including his success at work and his marriage to the love of his life Sarah (Clive). Worst of all, he seems to be the only one who has noticed what’s happened.
That is until he meets Archie (Mohindra), who recruits George for the Lazarus Project – a secret organisation that has harnessed the ability to turn back time every time the world is at threat of extinction. Like George, those who work at Lazarus are the few people on earth with the ability to remember the events that are undone when time goes back.
- 2/10/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The long promotional campaign for “Stranger Things” Season 4 added a harrowing new wrinkle on Saturday with a first look at the “Creel House” — i.e. the home of new character Victor Creel, played by 1980s horror icon Robert Englund (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”). Creel has been imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital since his family was violently murdered in the 1950s, which Creel blamed on a vengeful demon.
Of course, no one believed him at the time, but since Creel is a character on “Stranger Things,” it’s seems safe to say the Upside Down has been haunting Hawkins far longer than anyone realized.
Englund, however, doesn’t appear in the preview; instead, it starts with a flashback of the Creel family moving into their gorgeous new home in the 1950s. But then lights begin to flicker mysteriously. The daughter finds a disemboweled bunny on their front lawn. And suddenly,...
Of course, no one believed him at the time, but since Creel is a character on “Stranger Things,” it’s seems safe to say the Upside Down has been haunting Hawkins far longer than anyone realized.
Englund, however, doesn’t appear in the preview; instead, it starts with a flashback of the Creel family moving into their gorgeous new home in the 1950s. But then lights begin to flicker mysteriously. The daughter finds a disemboweled bunny on their front lawn. And suddenly,...
- 9/25/2021
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Red Planet Pictures, the UK drama producer behind BBC/PBS series Death In Paradise, has sold a majority stake to Asacha Media Group, the emerging Paris-based production group founded by three former Endemol Shine and Zodiak executives. Financial details were not disclosed.
Red Planet was founded in 2006 by Tony Jordan, who now serves as executive chairman. The Sandition and Dickensian producer’s day-to-day activities are overseen by joint managing directors Belinda Campbell and Alex Jones. As part of the deal, all three will become minority shareholders in Asacha.
Asacha is building a portfolio of production companies after being founded last April by Gaspard de Chavagnac, the former Zodiak Media France boss; ex-Endemol Shine Group international COO Marina Williams; and former Zodiak CEO Marc Antoine d’Halluin. In February, it took a stake in British production and distribution company Wag Entertainment.
Chavagnac and Williams said: “Under the leadership of Tony,...
Red Planet was founded in 2006 by Tony Jordan, who now serves as executive chairman. The Sandition and Dickensian producer’s day-to-day activities are overseen by joint managing directors Belinda Campbell and Alex Jones. As part of the deal, all three will become minority shareholders in Asacha.
Asacha is building a portfolio of production companies after being founded last April by Gaspard de Chavagnac, the former Zodiak Media France boss; ex-Endemol Shine Group international COO Marina Williams; and former Zodiak CEO Marc Antoine d’Halluin. In February, it took a stake in British production and distribution company Wag Entertainment.
Chavagnac and Williams said: “Under the leadership of Tony,...
- 6/21/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Little Rascals Volume 1
Blu ray – The ClassicFlix Restorations
ClassicFlix
1929-30 / 1.37:1 / 3 Hr. 43 Min.
Starring Allen Hoskins, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson
Cinematography by Art Lloyd, F. E. Hershey
Directed by Robert F. McGowan, Anthony Mack, James W. Horne
An epic celebration of the American melting pot, E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime ends with a beginning; an immigrant named Tateh escapes the tenements to produce a string of comedies about mischievous slum kids. It’s a fitting, if fanciful, origin story for Hal Roach’s own series of films featuring footloose small fry; visions of ethnic harmony as idealistic as Tateh himself. Roach’s world view was formed during his early adventures as a jack of all trades—mule skinner, iron worker, and miner. And though he ended up as a movie producer he remained a prospector—one day, thanks to some bickering children, he struck gold. The dispute was...
Blu ray – The ClassicFlix Restorations
ClassicFlix
1929-30 / 1.37:1 / 3 Hr. 43 Min.
Starring Allen Hoskins, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson
Cinematography by Art Lloyd, F. E. Hershey
Directed by Robert F. McGowan, Anthony Mack, James W. Horne
An epic celebration of the American melting pot, E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime ends with a beginning; an immigrant named Tateh escapes the tenements to produce a string of comedies about mischievous slum kids. It’s a fitting, if fanciful, origin story for Hal Roach’s own series of films featuring footloose small fry; visions of ethnic harmony as idealistic as Tateh himself. Roach’s world view was formed during his early adventures as a jack of all trades—mule skinner, iron worker, and miner. And though he ended up as a movie producer he remained a prospector—one day, thanks to some bickering children, he struck gold. The dispute was...
- 6/19/2021
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
It’s hard to imagine a football coach starting off with less than real-life hero Rusty Russell (Luke Wilson) does when he arrives at Fort Worth’s Masonic Home in “12 Mighty Orphans”: No shoes for his team, no field for his team and no team. Nothing but potential, you might say, and that’s just enough for an optimist to work with.
A veteran of World War I and an orphan in his own right, Russell took those shortcomings and revolutionized the game. He motivated just enough players to form a team and then innovated the so-called spread offense to take on bigger squads from stronger schools. The “Mighty Mites,” as they came to be known, embody practically everything that underdog sports movies are made of, and director Ty Roberts’ treatment (derived from Jim Dent’s fact-based book) hits nearly all the feel-good notes we’ve come to expect from the genre,...
A veteran of World War I and an orphan in his own right, Russell took those shortcomings and revolutionized the game. He motivated just enough players to form a team and then innovated the so-called spread offense to take on bigger squads from stronger schools. The “Mighty Mites,” as they came to be known, embody practically everything that underdog sports movies are made of, and director Ty Roberts’ treatment (derived from Jim Dent’s fact-based book) hits nearly all the feel-good notes we’ve come to expect from the genre,...
- 6/17/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
“My favorite thing to do is to build a world, musically,” says composer Joseph Trapanese, who got to do just that for “Shadow and Bone,” the eight-part fantasy series that drops April 23 on Netflix.
Based on novels by Leigh Bardugo, the show combines elements of magic, horror, war, crime and romance in a setting that resembles 19th-century Russia. Fans know this as the Grishaverse — the name is derived from the world’s elite sect of magicians — and Trapanese’s music helps to guide viewers through the many characters and their complex relationships.
Executive producers Eric Heisserer and Shawn Levy contacted the composer before shooting began in Hungary in late 2019. “The challenge to Joe,” Heisserer tells Variety, “was to give us a sweeping, Russian-inspired, big orchestral space that would go with the cinematography of the wide landscapes, and the big, unnatural elements like The Fold [the foreboding, malevolent darkness between lands].
“But when we hop over to Ketterdam,...
Based on novels by Leigh Bardugo, the show combines elements of magic, horror, war, crime and romance in a setting that resembles 19th-century Russia. Fans know this as the Grishaverse — the name is derived from the world’s elite sect of magicians — and Trapanese’s music helps to guide viewers through the many characters and their complex relationships.
Executive producers Eric Heisserer and Shawn Levy contacted the composer before shooting began in Hungary in late 2019. “The challenge to Joe,” Heisserer tells Variety, “was to give us a sweeping, Russian-inspired, big orchestral space that would go with the cinematography of the wide landscapes, and the big, unnatural elements like The Fold [the foreboding, malevolent darkness between lands].
“But when we hop over to Ketterdam,...
- 4/22/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
The trick to crafting a don’t-miss film out of Charles Dickens’ 1850 novel David Copperfield is to get someone who isn’t afraid to be irreverent in the director’s chair. And, presto, here’s Armando Iannucci, the political satirist behind the profanity-filled delights of Veep, In the Loop and The Death of Stalin, cutting this literary doorstop into pieces. It proves Iannucci’s theory that the Victorian-era author had a comic side, with a twist of Monty Python-level absurdity.
Dickens’ fanatics know that Copperfield was the author’s favorite child among his 15 books,...
Dickens’ fanatics know that Copperfield was the author’s favorite child among his 15 books,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
When Mike Makowsky decided to tackle the mid-2000s Roslyn Union Free School District embezzlement scandal for the screen, he wasn’t entirely sure how to navigate the story.
Makowsky, who went to school in the district and met one of the key figures, Frank Tassone, as a child, visited his former high school and spoke to a few teachers there. Then he re-read and optioned Robert Kolker’s New York magazine piece on the case, which morphed into HBO’s Emmy-nominated “Bad Education.”
And Makowsky is hardly alone: All five of this year’s television movie nominees are adapted, to some extent — Netflix’s “American Son” from the Broadway play of the same name; Netflix’s “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones” from Parton’s 2002 song “These Old Bones”; and the same streamer’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,...
Makowsky, who went to school in the district and met one of the key figures, Frank Tassone, as a child, visited his former high school and spoke to a few teachers there. Then he re-read and optioned Robert Kolker’s New York magazine piece on the case, which morphed into HBO’s Emmy-nominated “Bad Education.”
And Makowsky is hardly alone: All five of this year’s television movie nominees are adapted, to some extent — Netflix’s “American Son” from the Broadway play of the same name; Netflix’s “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones” from Parton’s 2002 song “These Old Bones”; and the same streamer’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,...
- 8/18/2020
- by Marisa Roffman
- Variety Film + TV
As UK independent production Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop wrapped shoot this week, the film’s co-star Kelsey Grammer offered some thoughts to stateside actors.
“Although Covid presented a new set of challenges, we were able to work very effectively through new standards of film production,” the Frasier alum said today. “I would urge my family of actors at SAG-AFTRA to take a page out of the British playbook; we can responsibly get back to work.”
Grammer stars with Brit actress Nathalie Cox (Kingdom of Heaven) in the family-adventure, which follows the escapades of history professor, detective and adventurer Elizabeth Willoughby, who investigates a series of hauntings at an antique bookshop. Grammer plays a retired U.S. Marine who raised the orphaned Willoughby and runs the family business.
The film began shooting four weeks ago in the north of England with strict Covid-19 guidelines. Also starring are Caroline Quentin...
“Although Covid presented a new set of challenges, we were able to work very effectively through new standards of film production,” the Frasier alum said today. “I would urge my family of actors at SAG-AFTRA to take a page out of the British playbook; we can responsibly get back to work.”
Grammer stars with Brit actress Nathalie Cox (Kingdom of Heaven) in the family-adventure, which follows the escapades of history professor, detective and adventurer Elizabeth Willoughby, who investigates a series of hauntings at an antique bookshop. Grammer plays a retired U.S. Marine who raised the orphaned Willoughby and runs the family business.
The film began shooting four weeks ago in the north of England with strict Covid-19 guidelines. Also starring are Caroline Quentin...
- 8/18/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Full-time TV goddess and part-time television detective Gillian Anderson is never far from our minds. Here are nine of our favorite TV roles from the actress, whose on-screen legacy reaches far past The X-Files franchise to British period dramas, eccentric Bryan Fuller shows, and animated snarkiness.
Dana Scully in The X-Files
Let’s just get this way out of the way, shall we? Not because Anderson’s turn as Agent Dana Scully over the course of 11 seasons (and counting?) of The X-Files TV show and two The X-Files movies should or could be diminished, but because most everyone is familiar with Anderson’s turn as the chronically skeptical FBI agent.
Dana Katherine Scully is more than a TV character. She’s an institution. I grew up watching The X-Files and having a female character who wasn’t the same cookie-cutter example of what it was to be a woman made...
Dana Scully in The X-Files
Let’s just get this way out of the way, shall we? Not because Anderson’s turn as Agent Dana Scully over the course of 11 seasons (and counting?) of The X-Files TV show and two The X-Files movies should or could be diminished, but because most everyone is familiar with Anderson’s turn as the chronically skeptical FBI agent.
Dana Katherine Scully is more than a TV character. She’s an institution. I grew up watching The X-Files and having a female character who wasn’t the same cookie-cutter example of what it was to be a woman made...
- 8/18/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
“This is the greatest public health crisis in a century,” said Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield bluntly on Thursday.
In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms.
“It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public,” he said, paraphrasing the opening of Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities.
The current pandemic, paired with the oncoming flu season, could create the “worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” said the CDC director in an interview with WebMD.
On which side of the scale will the U.S. fall? Redfield said that depends on how consistently Americans wear face masks, stay 6 feet away from each other, wash their hands and avoid crowded gatherings.
“I’m not asking some of America to...
In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms.
“It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public,” he said, paraphrasing the opening of Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities.
The current pandemic, paired with the oncoming flu season, could create the “worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” said the CDC director in an interview with WebMD.
On which side of the scale will the U.S. fall? Redfield said that depends on how consistently Americans wear face masks, stay 6 feet away from each other, wash their hands and avoid crowded gatherings.
“I’m not asking some of America to...
- 8/14/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Bryan Lourd stepped out today from behind the CAA curtain to express both hope for a post-covid-19 return of movies and the theater-going experience, and an agreement with the WGA over the contentious practice of packaging – if the Guild will pick up the phone.
“I fully expect that at some point in the near future we won’t be suing each other and we won’t be not talking to each other – that’s up to them,” the uber-agency co-chairman told Ken Ziffren Wednesday evening in a virtual keynote for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium. “There is a way of thinking about things that is in the past as opposed to what’s possible in the future,” Lourd circumspectly stated in the pre-recorded and sprawling conversation.
“With zero sort of apology, I hate how this has gone,” the agent added of the more than year-long battle with the Guild...
“I fully expect that at some point in the near future we won’t be suing each other and we won’t be not talking to each other – that’s up to them,” the uber-agency co-chairman told Ken Ziffren Wednesday evening in a virtual keynote for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium. “There is a way of thinking about things that is in the past as opposed to what’s possible in the future,” Lourd circumspectly stated in the pre-recorded and sprawling conversation.
“With zero sort of apology, I hate how this has gone,” the agent added of the more than year-long battle with the Guild...
- 8/13/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
David Hare, creator of the BBC and PBS drama Roadkill, said that he has written a new play based entirely on his experience contracting coronavirus. The screenwriter-playwright revealed Wednesday he had written the one-man play Beat the Devil during a panel for the Hugh Laurie-fronted drama at PBS’ TCA virtual press tour.
Hare, who penned the four-part political thriller Roadkill from National Treasure producer The Forge, said an actor had been chosen to perform Beat the Devil but that he could not disclose the identity. Due to current social distancing guidelines in London, he also did not know when the play would be performed but expressed confidence theaters will open before the end of August.
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of...
Hare, who penned the four-part political thriller Roadkill from National Treasure producer The Forge, said an actor had been chosen to perform Beat the Devil but that he could not disclose the identity. Due to current social distancing guidelines in London, he also did not know when the play would be performed but expressed confidence theaters will open before the end of August.
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of...
- 7/29/2020
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
The acclaimed Dev Patel film The Personal History of David Copperfield will release in cinemas on the new date of August 14, 2020, Searchlight Pictures has announced as movie theaters in North America begin plans to reopen with social distancing guidelines this summer.
The film re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of its award-winning filmmakers — giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age. It features a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world including Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw.
Emmy® winners and Oscar® nominees Armando Iannucci, who directed the film who is joined Simon Blackwell lend their wry, yet heart-filled storytelling style to revisiting Dickens’ iconic hero on his quirky journey from impoverished orphan to burgeoning writer in Victorian England.
Earlier Iannucci said in an interview, ”I could only think of Dev to play David Copperfield,...
The film re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of its award-winning filmmakers — giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age. It features a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world including Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw.
Emmy® winners and Oscar® nominees Armando Iannucci, who directed the film who is joined Simon Blackwell lend their wry, yet heart-filled storytelling style to revisiting Dickens’ iconic hero on his quirky journey from impoverished orphan to burgeoning writer in Victorian England.
Earlier Iannucci said in an interview, ”I could only think of Dev to play David Copperfield,...
- 6/17/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Armando Iannucci’s distinctive take on David Copperfield, streaming from Monday, is just the latest chapter in TV and cinema’s endless appetite for Pip, Oliver, Miss Havisham and co
There was a BBC documentary some years ago titled Dickens on Film that posited Charles Dickens as a kind of spiritual father of modern cinema. Television might be even closer to the mark, but there’s something to it either way: the DNA of Dickens’s busy, episodic storytelling, delivered in instalments and rife with cliffhangers and diversions, is traceable in everything from Coronation Street to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson.
No surprise, then, that more than 400 big- and small-screen adaptations have been made from his novels, with Armando Iannucci’s recent, rumbustious The Personal History of David Copperfield the latest. Out on DVD and streaming platforms from Monday, it enjoyably retains all the ornate period finery and star-speckled romping of past versions,...
There was a BBC documentary some years ago titled Dickens on Film that posited Charles Dickens as a kind of spiritual father of modern cinema. Television might be even closer to the mark, but there’s something to it either way: the DNA of Dickens’s busy, episodic storytelling, delivered in instalments and rife with cliffhangers and diversions, is traceable in everything from Coronation Street to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson.
No surprise, then, that more than 400 big- and small-screen adaptations have been made from his novels, with Armando Iannucci’s recent, rumbustious The Personal History of David Copperfield the latest. Out on DVD and streaming platforms from Monday, it enjoyably retains all the ornate period finery and star-speckled romping of past versions,...
- 6/13/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
From his first roles, to his first feature, the Oscar Winning Slumdog Millionaire, to many more great performances including in Lion for which he won a BAFTA award, Dev Patel certainly has achieved an actor’s dream and received tremendous praise for his performances!
His next role is that he brings to the life the title character of the lauded author Charles Dickens’ tale of David Copperfield. Titled The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Patel stars along with Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw. Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the acclaimed motion picture releases in theaters starting May 8.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of award-winning filmmakers — giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world.
His next role is that he brings to the life the title character of the lauded author Charles Dickens’ tale of David Copperfield. Titled The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Patel stars along with Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw. Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the acclaimed motion picture releases in theaters starting May 8.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of award-winning filmmakers — giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world.
- 2/25/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
This live action-adventure film targeted for kids is about Sonic the anthropomorphic blue hedgehog, an iconic Sega video game character who battles the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik, a mad scientist. The film appears to be oft-seen and outdated fare.
The narrative begins with Sonic living a carefree life, on a digital paradise island that looks just like the Green Hills stages from the video game. However, his guardian, Longclaw the giant Owl, who Sonic refers to as "My Obi-Wan Kenobbi", warns him to underplay his powers. Sonic refuses to listen.
Soon, the two are attacked by a tribe of Echidnas, and Longclaw is killed. Before dying, Longclaw gives Sonic a bag of rings that he can use to travel to other planets. Using one such ring, Longclaw sends Sonic to Earth.
Thus, Sonic grows up living in Green Hills, Montana a small town where he plays baseball by himself, reads...
The narrative begins with Sonic living a carefree life, on a digital paradise island that looks just like the Green Hills stages from the video game. However, his guardian, Longclaw the giant Owl, who Sonic refers to as "My Obi-Wan Kenobbi", warns him to underplay his powers. Sonic refuses to listen.
Soon, the two are attacked by a tribe of Echidnas, and Longclaw is killed. Before dying, Longclaw gives Sonic a bag of rings that he can use to travel to other planets. Using one such ring, Longclaw sends Sonic to Earth.
Thus, Sonic grows up living in Green Hills, Montana a small town where he plays baseball by himself, reads...
- 2/21/2020
- GlamSham
The trailer and poster for the new comedic drama, The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, and Tilda Swinton have been released and you can see it right here on CinemaNerdz!
The new film from Fox Searchlight e re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of its award-winning filmmakers—giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world. Emmy® winners and Oscar® nominees Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell (In the Loop) lend their wry, yet heart-filled storytelling style to revisiting Dickens’ iconic hero on his quirky journey from impoverished orphan to burgeoning writer in Victorian England.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Cast: Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Gwendoline Christie, Ben Whishaw Director: Armando Iannucci Screenplay: Simon Blackwell Produced By: Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader
The...
The new film from Fox Searchlight e re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of its award-winning filmmakers—giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world. Emmy® winners and Oscar® nominees Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell (In the Loop) lend their wry, yet heart-filled storytelling style to revisiting Dickens’ iconic hero on his quirky journey from impoverished orphan to burgeoning writer in Victorian England.
Genre: Comedy, Drama Cast: Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Gwendoline Christie, Ben Whishaw Director: Armando Iannucci Screenplay: Simon Blackwell Produced By: Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader
The...
- 2/17/2020
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Kayti Burt Feb 13, 2020
Everything you need to know about The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel.
Armando Iannucci continues to make waves on the big screen with The Personal History of David Copperfield, a dramedy adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel starring Dev Patel in the titular role. The star-studded cast also includes Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw. The film was an official selection at both Tiff and the BFI London Film Festival, and is currently sitting at a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film, like the book source material, follows David Copperfield's life from youth into adulthood, from misfortune to fortune and back again.
The Personal History of David Copperfield Trailer
Here is the latest trailer for the film...
Video of The Personal History Of David Copperfield | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures
And here is the first, UK trailer for the film.
Everything you need to know about The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel.
Armando Iannucci continues to make waves on the big screen with The Personal History of David Copperfield, a dramedy adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel starring Dev Patel in the titular role. The star-studded cast also includes Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw. The film was an official selection at both Tiff and the BFI London Film Festival, and is currently sitting at a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film, like the book source material, follows David Copperfield's life from youth into adulthood, from misfortune to fortune and back again.
The Personal History of David Copperfield Trailer
Here is the latest trailer for the film...
Video of The Personal History Of David Copperfield | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures
And here is the first, UK trailer for the film.
- 2/13/2020
- Den of Geek
If you’ve been enjoying Geralt of Rivia’s fantastical adventures during the first season of The Witcher, know that you’re not alone. Far from it, in fact.
Dropped onto Netflix last week amidst a groundswell of hype and excitement, the show is fast becoming one of the streaming giant’s most lucrative license acquisitions. Both critics and Netflix subscribers have been reacting extremely positively so far, praising the stellar fight choreography and excellent performances, with particular attention being given to Henry Cavill, who headlines the series as the aforementioned Geralt.
Indeed, the Superman actor is one of the many highlights of The Witcher and it seems he took his job very seriously, even dehydrating himself to look good for some of the scenes that required him to go shirtless. That’s not to say he completely cut water out of his diet, but he seriously lowered the amount he consumed,...
Dropped onto Netflix last week amidst a groundswell of hype and excitement, the show is fast becoming one of the streaming giant’s most lucrative license acquisitions. Both critics and Netflix subscribers have been reacting extremely positively so far, praising the stellar fight choreography and excellent performances, with particular attention being given to Henry Cavill, who headlines the series as the aforementioned Geralt.
Indeed, the Superman actor is one of the many highlights of The Witcher and it seems he took his job very seriously, even dehydrating himself to look good for some of the scenes that required him to go shirtless. That’s not to say he completely cut water out of his diet, but he seriously lowered the amount he consumed,...
- 12/25/2019
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
’The Personal History Of David Copperfield’ finished with five awards, the highest of the night, from 11 nominations.
For Sama and The Personal History Of David Copperfield were the big winners at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).
The ceremony was hosted by actress and comedian Aisling Bea and held at London’s Old Billingsgate tonight (Dec 1).
Syrian civil war documentary For Sama scooped the night’s top prize, best British independent film, as well as best director for Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, best documentary, and best editing at the previously announced craft awards last month.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield...
For Sama and The Personal History Of David Copperfield were the big winners at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).
The ceremony was hosted by actress and comedian Aisling Bea and held at London’s Old Billingsgate tonight (Dec 1).
Syrian civil war documentary For Sama scooped the night’s top prize, best British independent film, as well as best director for Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, best documentary, and best editing at the previously announced craft awards last month.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield...
- 12/1/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
What a day it’s been for fans of The Witcher.
One month (and change) out from the show’s Netflix premiere, and the Powers That Be today announced season 2 of the fantasy-fuelled drama, which, if nothing else, stands as a resounding vote of confidence as we approach December 20th. And to cap things off, Netflix has now rolled out a series of HD stills, featuring a battle-ready Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) ready to draw his blade.
We also get another glimpse at what can only be Roach, Geralt’s trusty steed who accompanies the Witcher into all sorts of hairy situations. Because make no mistake, from the outstretched claw to The Witcher‘s horror tenets, it’s pretty clear Netflix and series showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich will remain overly faithful to the celebrated novels penned by Andrzej Sapkowski. And yes, that means more of a focus on Ciri...
One month (and change) out from the show’s Netflix premiere, and the Powers That Be today announced season 2 of the fantasy-fuelled drama, which, if nothing else, stands as a resounding vote of confidence as we approach December 20th. And to cap things off, Netflix has now rolled out a series of HD stills, featuring a battle-ready Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) ready to draw his blade.
We also get another glimpse at what can only be Roach, Geralt’s trusty steed who accompanies the Witcher into all sorts of hairy situations. Because make no mistake, from the outstretched claw to The Witcher‘s horror tenets, it’s pretty clear Netflix and series showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich will remain overly faithful to the celebrated novels penned by Andrzej Sapkowski. And yes, that means more of a focus on Ciri...
- 11/13/2019
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Nicole Kidman’s fine cameo cannot save an infuriating adaptation that renders a complex novel in broad brushstrokes
Despite A-list talent either side of the camera, something has gone worryingly wrong with this adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel from 2013, directed by John Crowley. It’s as if all the book’s unwieldy and digressive aspects have hypnotised the film-makers, who want to do justice to the writerly aspects of Tartt’s extravagant Dickensian adventure, all that fetishistic connoisseur detail. But they have mislaid or underplayed the straightforwardly exciting set pieces that could have put some voltage back into the film.
The film is co-financed by Amazon Studios and maybe it would have worked better as an eight-part TV drama. As it is, the story is all effortfully squeezed into two and a half hours, but with key moments suddenly whizzing past as if on fast-forward, and the most...
Despite A-list talent either side of the camera, something has gone worryingly wrong with this adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel from 2013, directed by John Crowley. It’s as if all the book’s unwieldy and digressive aspects have hypnotised the film-makers, who want to do justice to the writerly aspects of Tartt’s extravagant Dickensian adventure, all that fetishistic connoisseur detail. But they have mislaid or underplayed the straightforwardly exciting set pieces that could have put some voltage back into the film.
The film is co-financed by Amazon Studios and maybe it would have worked better as an eight-part TV drama. As it is, the story is all effortfully squeezed into two and a half hours, but with key moments suddenly whizzing past as if on fast-forward, and the most...
- 9/26/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Spencer Mullen Sep 11, 2019
Eddie Redmayne, Adam Sandler, The Goldfinch, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
Elon Musk now claims that SpaceX's starship is getting ready for flight.
"According to recent reports, SpaceX’s Starship is getting ready for flight. SpaceX has filed applications with the FCC to set up communications with the rocket and will soon receive permission from the Faa to alter its South Texas launch facilities so the rocket will be able to launch from there."
Read more at Inverse.
Here's why critics and fans are angry about the adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch.
"The Toronto Film Festival saw the first screenings of The Goldfinch, a star-studded adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel. Tartt’s modern Dickensian tale divided critics and readers in book form, and it seems the debate will continue onto the screen. The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction...
Eddie Redmayne, Adam Sandler, The Goldfinch, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
Elon Musk now claims that SpaceX's starship is getting ready for flight.
"According to recent reports, SpaceX’s Starship is getting ready for flight. SpaceX has filed applications with the FCC to set up communications with the rocket and will soon receive permission from the Faa to alter its South Texas launch facilities so the rocket will be able to launch from there."
Read more at Inverse.
Here's why critics and fans are angry about the adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch.
"The Toronto Film Festival saw the first screenings of The Goldfinch, a star-studded adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel. Tartt’s modern Dickensian tale divided critics and readers in book form, and it seems the debate will continue onto the screen. The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction...
- 9/11/2019
- Den of Geek
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