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Nate Parker Faces His Personal Past While Talking The Birth Of A Nation
Parker immediately expressed "profound sorrow" when he heard about her death, and has added that he was "devastated" by the news. Now that the film is coming into cinemas, he is finally prepared to speak...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2016
Michael Pena Was Kept On His Toes While Making War On Everyone
The film is a messy crime comedy about criminals and corrupt cops in the American Southwest, and Michael Peña plays a particularly nasty policeman in Alburqueque. He laughs when asked about the dodgy morality of...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2016
Emily Blunt Loved Playing Drunk For The Girl On The Train
For her role in the film adaptation of the bestseller The Girl on the Train, Emily Blunt was excited to get her head around a character unlike anyone she's ever played. "Rachel is very toxic,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2016
The Girl on the Train
As the director of The Help, Tate Taylor may seem like an odd choice to make a movie based on Paula Hawkins' sexy mystery thriller bestseller. While the film features three central female characters, it...
Movie Review posted on 7th October 2016
Blood Father
It's been four years since Mel Gibson played a lead role in a movie, and with all of the tabloid headlines in the meantime it's been easy to forget how magnetic he is on screen....
Movie Review posted on 7th October 2016
Under the Shadow
While the horror genre in Hollywood seems to be trapped in a tired found footage loop, filmmakers from further-flung places are reinventing the genre with clever twists on the old formula. With this horror thriller,...
Movie Review posted on 7th October 2016
Tim Burton And Eva Green Feel Like They Were Made For Miss Peregrine
So he was clearly a perfect fit to direct the adaptation of Ransom Riggs' bestseller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. "One of the things that I loved about the story is that I think...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th September 2016
Shia Labeouf Got 12 Tattoos While Making American Honey
His off-screen antics very nearly put an end to his career, as filmmakers didn't want him on their sets. He's been arrested multiple times for alcohol-fuelled displays, fired from a Broadway play and accused of...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th September 2016
Mark Wahlberg Enjoyed The Risks He Took In Deepwater Horizon
The film recounts the real events of April 2010, when the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded into flames, causing the worst oil-spill in US history. "All the images that I saw from the actual event...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th September 2016
Free State of Jones
Since its true story is still so timely after some 150 years, we can forgive this film for being somewhat dull in the way the events are recounted. Solid acting helps give the characters some...
Movie Review posted on 29th September 2016
Deepwater Horizon
This reunion of actor Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg feels like a natural successor to their previous collaboration Lone Survivor, another true story adapted into a movie that wallows in both heroism and violence....
Movie Review posted on 29th September 2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs' bestselling novel is appropriately adapted into a movie by Tim Burton, the gothic maestro who so expertly infuses his creepy movies with vivid emotions. The film looks flat-out amazing, with lush production design,...
Movie Review posted on 29th September 2016
The Girl With All the Gifts
Like a 10-years-later follow-up to 28 Days Later, this small British thriller takes a refreshingly original approach to the zombie genre. The most engaging difference is the fact that the central character is infected with...
Movie Review posted on 24th September 2016
The Magnificent Seven
Director Antoine Fuqua brings his usual fascination with violence to this remake of the iconic 1960 Western, itself a remake of the masterful 1954 Japanese original Seven Samurai. Reteaming with his Training Day stars Denzel...
Movie Review posted on 24th September 2016
Kelsey Grammer And Andy Samberg Think Storks Celebrates Family
And for the voice cast, this made creating the characters a lot of fun. "For me," says Kelsey Grammer, father of six children, "it's about just celebrating babies, celebrating life, celebrating the gift that every...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd September 2016
Lupita Nyong'o Thinks Queen Of Katwe Is A Normal Story
Lupita jumped at a chance to work with her longtime friend, filmmaker Mira Nair, shooting Queen of Katwe in Uganda, next door to Kenya, where she grew up. Most films set in Africa, she says,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd September 2016
Washington And Pratt Ignore The Serious Themes In The Magnificent Seven
Both are playing against type, and they say they avoided rewatching the 1960 version, although they did make a point of sitting down to see the original 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Pratt says that...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd September 2016
Imperium
First-time filmmaker Daniel Ragussis takes an unusual approach to this thriller. Since it's based on a true story, he avoids the usual cliches and formulas, which makes it an unusually thoughtful film. On the other...
Movie Review posted on 22nd September 2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
As it's been 12 years since the last Bridget Jones movie, expectations aren't too high for this sequel. So it's a very nice surprise that this film stands on its own as a charming and...
Movie Review posted on 16th September 2016
Adam Wingard Wanted To Make A Thrill-Ride Version Of Blair Witch
Blair Witch is a 17-years-later sequel to 1999's sleeper hit The Blair Witch Project, which launched the found-footage craze. Wingard was approached to make the sequel back in 2013 and immediately thought it was something...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th September 2016
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Learnt A Lot Whilst Researching For Snowden
Thinking back to the beginning of the project, Gordon-Levitt says his first impression was simply awe at getting to work with Oliver Stone. "When I first got the job offer, I was just excited to...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th September 2016
Renee Zellweger Says She Has Matured Along With Bridget Jones
It's been 12 years since we last saw Bridget, and Zellweger feels like the break helped prepare her to revisit the character. "I have a different perspective now," she says. "I worked on the other...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th September 2016
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
A-list director Ron Howard worked with the surviving Beatles to assemble this engaging documentary, which offers an inside look at Beatlemania, the three years when the best pop band in history toured the world. The...
Movie Review posted on 15th September 2016
Blair Witch
It's been 17 years since The Blair Witch Project shook up the cinema and created the found-footage craze. Since then, filmmakers have tried pretty much every variation on the approach, with only a few properly...
Movie Review posted on 15th September 2016
Natalie Portman Talks About Jackie Kennedy In New Biopic
Critics have especially been raving about Natalie Portman's performance in the title role. The Oscar-winning actress admits that playing Jackie was "right up there" with her most challenging parts. "It felt like the most dangerous...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th September 2016
SNL's Molly Shannon And Jesse Plemons Talk About Their New Dramedy Other People
It's a warm, edgy comedy drama that grapples with issues of illness, mortality and sexuality in fresh, thoughtful ways. Shannon says the material connected to her as a mother. "I really related to what a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th September 2016
Tom Hanks Thinks The Time Is Right For Sully
Sullenberger was the pilot who, in 2009, miraculously landed a passenger jet in New York's Hudson River after the engines were disabled by a flock of geese on take-off. And Hanks thinks that the time...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th September 2016
Anthropoid
Outside the Czech Republic, few people know about Operation Anthropoid, a spy mission in 1943 Prague to assassinate a top Nazi official. Certainly the material is perfect for a big-screen thriller, and filmmaker Sean Ellis...
Movie Review posted on 9th September 2016
Kubo and the Two Strings
From Laika (The Boxtrolls), this is one of the most beautiful, sophisticated animated films in many years. Not only does every moment of the movie look exquisite, but the story is smart, original and hugely...
Movie Review posted on 9th September 2016
Captain Fantastic
An offbeat comedy-drama with a timely kick, this charming family road trip takes on some very deep topics without flinching. It's essentially an impassioned plea to snap out of the way people in the West...
Movie Review posted on 9th September 2016
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
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Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
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WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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