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Will Smith Feels Changed By Collateral Beauty
In the new drama Collateral Beauty, Will Smith plays a man who, after his daughter dies, begins to question the nature of love, time and death itself. And he found an unexpected resonance in his...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th December 2016
Felicity Jones Was Inspired By Princess Leia For Rogue One
After being Oscar-nominated for her role in 2014's The Theory of Everything, Felicity Jones takes a surprise trip into space for the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One. But she thinks her character Jyn Erso is...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th December 2016
Neruda
Clever Chilean director Pablo Larrain (who also directed Natalie Portman's Jackie) takes on the Nobel-winning poet Pablo Neruda in this inventive biopic, which playfully creates a cat-and-mouse adventure as it traces two years in which...
Movie Review posted on 15th December 2016
The Eagle Huntress
Narrated by Daisy Ridley (The Force Awakens), this documentary is one of the most gripping adventure stories put on film this year, as cameras follow a group of remarkable real people. For his directing debut,...
Movie Review posted on 15th December 2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
With the tagline "A Star Wars Story", this first spin-off from the saga isn't actually a stand-alone movie. It requires some understanding of the context as it chronicles events that lead directly into 1977's Episode...
Movie Review posted on 15th December 2016
Michael Shannon Caps A Busy Year With Frank & Lola
Easily the busiest actor of the year, Michael Shannon has had 10 films in cinemas and festivals in 2016. The latest to arrive in American multiplexes is Frank & Lola, a romantic mystery set in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th December 2016
Emma Stone Thinks La La Land Is Just What The World Needs Right Now
When the Hollywood musical La La Land, by Whiplash writer-director Damien Chazelle, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the positive reaction instantly propelled it to the top of Oscar buzz, winning Emma Stone the festival's...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th December 2016
Jennifer Aniston Struggled To Keep A Straight Face During Office Christmas Party
The new holiday comedy Office Christmas Party is a gleefully adult romp that reunites Jennifer Aniston with Jason Bateman and their The Switch directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck. "This movie has everything," Aniston laughs,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th December 2016
Office Christmas Party
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman reunite with The Switch directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck for a holiday comedy based on a story by the guys who wrote The Hangover movies. Yes, this is pretty...
Movie Review posted on 8th December 2016
Snowden
Here's another remarkable biopic from Oliver Stone, who has used all-star casts and intensely pointed filmmaking to trace the lives of such people as JFK, Nixon, Jim Morrison and George W. Bush. And now he...
Movie Review posted on 8th December 2016
The Birth of a Nation
This true story from 19th century America feels eerily relevant today in its depiction of the divisions that define society. It's an engaging film, sharply written and directed by actor Nate Parker to pull the...
Movie Review posted on 8th December 2016
Isabelle Huppert Loved The Contrast Between Elle And Things To Come
Over her 45-year career, French actress Isabelle Huppert has made more than 100 movies, winning awards all over the world. Paris Match magazine calls her the "un-dethronable" queen of the film industry, and yet she's...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th December 2016
Incarnate Gave Aaron Eckhart A Chance To Have Fun
He's playing Tom Hanks' copilot in Sully, Miles Teller's boxing coach in Bleed for This and now a maverick exorcist in Incarnate. And he is enjoying the variety. "Early on in my career, I was...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd December 2016
Natalie Portman Loved The Complex Layers Of Jackie
Born in Israel and raised in New York, she is a Harvard-educated Oscar winner whose career ranges from action (Leon) to science-fiction (Star Wars) to arthouse (Closer) to comic book adventures (Thor). And now there's...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd December 2016
The Edge of Seventeen
An unusually realistic teen movie, this drama gets deep under the skin of its characters, breathing new life into the genre. First-time director Kelly Fremon Craig (who previously wrote the rom-com Post Grad) has created...
Movie Review posted on 2nd December 2016
Bleed for This
This is such a ripping true story that it can't help but grab hold of the audience, even if the film never quite breaks through the surface. A story of tenacious triumph in the face...
Movie Review posted on 2nd December 2016
Moana
In a clear echo of Frozen, this Disney animated adventure centres on a fiercely independent young woman who doesn't follow the rules, doesn't need a man and sings songs of empowerment. But this story is...
Movie Review posted on 2nd December 2016
Dwayne Johnson Was Challenged And Moved By 'Moana'
After conquering movie genres from action to comedy, Dwayne Johnson is finally getting around to voicing an animated character in Disney's new hit Moana. And what he liked about this film is the way it...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th November 2016
Billy Bob Thornton Thinks 'Bad Santa 2' Is Cathartic
It's been 13 years since Billy Bob Thornton created the indelible character of Willie Soke in Bad Santa. And as he finally reprises the role for Bad Santa 2 this year, Thornton is still bemused...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th November 2016
Brad Pitt And Marion Cotillard Loved The 1940s Stylings Of Allied
In the romantic thriller Allied, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard play spies who fall in love with each other then face a crisis of trust. The setting is a familiar one for Pitt ("Yeah, I...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th November 2016
Bad Santa 2
The 2003 comedy Bad Santa is a holiday classic that skilfully mixes gross-out humour with resolutely unsentimental emotion. So it's very disappointing that this 13-years-later sequel reassembles the cast then merely coasts on the vulgarity,...
Movie Review posted on 24th November 2016
Allied
There's a terrific script at the heart of this World War II thriller, with a blast of complex romance alongside some dark Hitchcockian twists. But filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) was probably the wrong man...
Movie Review posted on 24th November 2016
A United Kingdom
Based on a powerful true story from the late 1940s, this drama is packed with present-day resonance as it explores a relationship that sparks intense social and political fallout. And it's made properly engaging with...
Movie Review posted on 24th November 2016
Eddie Redmayne Learned To Live In The Wild For Fantastic Beasts
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne still finds it difficult to believe that he's starring in a new series of five movies that are part of the Harry Potter universe, starting with Fantastic Beasts and Where to...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th November 2016
Hailee Steinfeld Saw Herself In The Edge Of Seventeen
The trailers may make it look like another lively comedy, but Steinfeld says viewers are in for "an honest telling of being a teenager and growing up".She says that reading the script was her first...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th November 2016
Miles Teller Bleed For This Eating Nails
Pazienza won world championships in three weight classes and kept fighting even after a crippling car accident, after which he wasn't supposed to even walk. "This comeback is the greatest comeback in sports history, and...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th November 2016
Indignation
Philip Roth's layered novels are a challenge for filmmakers (see also 2003's The Human Stain or this year's American Pastoral), but they're so rich and provocative that they can't be ignored. For his directing debut,...
Movie Review posted on 17th November 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
It's been five years since the last Harry Potter movie, and J.K. Rowling has been busy. Not only has she shepherded her two-part sequel play to the West End, but she has also written the...
Movie Review posted on 17th November 2016
Dog Eat Dog
Yet another bonkers thriller starring Nicolas Cage, this trashy crime comedy comes from director Paul Schrader, who wrote classics like Taxi Driver before turning director with American Gigolo. This movie has a kitsch tone as...
Movie Review posted on 17th November 2016
Ang Lee Takes A Bold Risk With Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
For his latest film, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee has deployed an all-new technology that he calls "The Whole Shebang" for its ability to fully immerse the audience in the story. "Whole Shebang...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th November 2016
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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...
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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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