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Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Was A New Kind Of Costume Drama For Lily James
After being corseted up in Downton Abbey, Cinderella and the BBC's current hit adaptation of War & Peace, it's hardly surprising that Lily James landed the lead role as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 5th February 2016
Dad's Army Was A Balancing Act For Toby Jones
British actor Toby Jones has crafted a career that spans big franchises like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Captain America, plus serious arthouse hits and award-winning performances as Alfred Hitchcock (in 2012's The Girl)...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 5th February 2016
Trumbo
An entertaining film about sobering true events, this is the story of notorious screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who defied McCarthy's communist witch-hunt hearings in the late-1940s and was blacklisted by Hollywood for more than a decade....
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2016
Goosebumps
Mixing the action, comedy and horror from novelist R.L. Stein's books into a family-friendly package, this lively romp is entertaining enough to amuse the audience even when it veers off the rails. It helps that...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2016
Dad's Army
The beloved 1970s British sit-com gets the big screen treatment, although there's been very little attempt to do anything clever with it aside from A-list casting. There are some terrific gags in Hamish McColl's script,...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2016
Jack Black Says Kung Fu Panda 3 Is The Best One Yet
Even as critics are calling Kung Fu Panda 3 the best in the trilogy, Jack Black knows that it's the public that demanded another movie. "I think there's a hunger for panda," he laughs. "People...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th January 2016
Chris Pine Felt Humbled By His Role In The Finest Hours
The story immediately caught the attention of actor Chris Pine. "The script starts and pretty immediately you get involved in essentially a rollercoaster ride of human endurance," he says. "It was just a quick, wonderful,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th January 2016
Spotlight Was A Passion Project For Mark Ruffalo
And he's especially proud of this one because, as he says, "It has no actor-y moments." It follows journalists trying to find the truth about how the Catholic Diocese in Boston covered up child abuse,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th January 2016
Spotlight
This film demonstrates that you don't need guns to make an exciting thriller. Based on a true story, this is a journalistic procedural following a team of newspaper writers who take on a corrupt system....
Movie Review posted on 28th January 2016
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Not the subtlest director working in Hollywood, Michael Bay brings his surging machismo to this retelling of the notorious attack on an American compound in Libya on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2012. As always,...
Movie Review posted on 28th January 2016
Dirty Grandpa
There's nothing clever about this deliberately rude and vulgar comedy, but certain audiences will find it absolutely hilarious. Never afraid to head straight into the cheapest, nastiest gag, director Dan Mazar and writer John Phillips...
Movie Review posted on 28th January 2016
For Kevin Hart, Ride Along 2 Was About Having Fun
When they made the first Ride Along two years ago, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube found an unusual bond as collaborators. "Literally there wasn't a day that we stepped on set with any bad energy,"...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd January 2016
On Dirty Grandpa, Zac Efron Bonded With Idol Robert De Niro
Zac Efron seems genuinely dazzled by the fact that he's now made a film in which he appears alongside with one of cinema's finest actors. "Robert De Niro is the cool dude of all cool...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd January 2016
The 5th Wave Put Chloe Grace Moretz Into 'Anti-Training'
Moretz's new movie is based on the first novel in Rick Yancey's planned trilogy of books about teens facing an alien invasion. But this is a genre Moretz never really pursued."I enjoy books that aren't...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd January 2016
The Big Short
Smart and snappy, this comedy is one of the scariest films of the year, using humour to outline the 2008 economic collapse from the inside. With characters who are based on real people, the film...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2016
The 5th Wave
Also based on the first in a trilogy of post-apocalyptic teen novels, this thriller feels like it could be a worthy successor to The Hunger Games saga, with its smart story and strong characters. The...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2016
Ride Along 2
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart reteam for a sequel no one really asked for, following up their lacklustre 2014 action-comedy with a film that's even lazier. While the first one at least had a sense...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2016
Creed Was A Passion Project For Ryan Coogler
Rocky Balboa first appeared on-screen in 1976. This year's Creed was written and directed by Ryan Coogler, who at 29 says that Rocky has been part of life as long as he can remember. "This...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th January 2016
Oscar Nominations Both Refine And Muddle The Awards Race
This year's race feels like the tightest in years, with no clear frontrunner. Instead, four very different films lead the pack. Two are true-life, issue-based movies: the tense Spotlight and the more comical The Big...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th January 2016
Room Was Like A Dream For Brie Larson
Critical attention grew with her breakout performance in the 2013 film Short Term 12. And this week the 26-year-old earned an Oscar nomination for her work in Room. "It seems so far removed from my...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th January 2016
Room
One of the most extraordinary films of the year, this drama cleverly weaves in events from the news headlines to tell a raw, deeply involving story that's unnervingly personal. Irish director Lenny Abrahamson and writer...
Movie Review posted on 14th January 2016
Creed
While this film is basically Rocky VII, it's also much more than that, and perhaps the best in the series as it tells a standalone story with energy and skill. Reteaming writer-director Ryan Coogler with...
Movie Review posted on 14th January 2016
A Perfect Day
An irreverent comedy in the style of the original M.A.S.H., this wartime romp takes an entertaining look at 24 hours in the life of a group of humanitarian workers in the Balkans in 1995. The...
Movie Review posted on 14th January 2016
Eddie Redmayne Committed To Trans Role In The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl tells the story of Einar Wegener, the first person to undergo gender-reassignment surgery, becoming Lili Elbe. Eddie Redmayne committed to the role several years ago, while he was making Les Miserables with...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th January 2016
Awards Season Shifts Up A Gear With BAFTA Nominations
This is the point where the industry weighs in on the conversation that has been limited mainly to critics so far. Unsurprisingly, Carol and The Revenant feature heavily in the Bafta race. But unlike the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th January 2016
The Revenant Changed Leonardo Dicaprio
"Glass was a campfire legend," DiCaprio says, "and it's all true! He survived a savage bear attack, was left for dead, then travelled through this uncharted territory of interior America, crawling through hundreds of miles...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th January 2016
Partisan
With his feature debut, young Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman tells a creepy story about a cult-like commune, anchored by a riveting performance from French actor Vincent Cassel. Set in an eerily worn-out landscape (it was...
Movie Review posted on 7th January 2016
The Revenant
A wrenching saga of survival and revenge, Alejandro G. Inarritu's new epic is just as technically astounding as his Oscar-winning previous film Birdman. But it's a much muddier and bloodier, set in a a snowy,...
Movie Review posted on 7th January 2016
The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker who simply can't be ignored, especially when he lobs a three-hour wide-screen epic whodunit Western into the cinema. This strikingly entertaining film is packed with his trademark plot twists and...
Movie Review posted on 7th January 2016
Daddy's Home Rekindles The Rivalry Between Wahlberg And Ferrell
"We weren't necessarily actively looking to work together again," admits Ferrell. "However, it goes without saying that at the end of that movie, after it was released and the reaction to it, we both were...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st January 2016
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
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
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
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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