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Eye In The Sky Offered Helen Mirren A New Challenge
But she clearly has a more mischievous, adventurous side, as evidenced in her sassy turn in Trumbo or her action-comedy series RED. Now she's adding war movies to her repertoire with the drone-strike thriller Eye...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th March 2016
J.J. Abrams Loved Surprising Fans With 10 Cloverfield Lane
It was revealed to the public just two months before its release that J.J. Abrams had produced 10 Cloverfield Lane, which stars John Goodman, Mary Wlizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr."I was surprised every time...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th March 2016
Anomalisa
As he did in films like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman continues to explore the nature of human identity in this bracingly original stop-motion animated feature. It's an...
Movie Review posted on 11th March 2016
The Witch
To make one of the most inventive and unnerving horror films in recent memory, writer-director Robert Eggers conducted extensive research into folktales from the witch-hunt era of 17th century New England. So the film feels...
Movie Review posted on 11th March 2016
Kung Fu Panda 3
This animated trilogy concludes on a very high note with this smart, involving and often hilarious adventure. Both the writing and the animation are especially strong this time around, drawing in bigger themes while still...
Movie Review posted on 11th March 2016
Tina Fey Loved The Challenges Of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, she plays real-life journalist Kim Barker, who quit her desk job to cover the war in Afghanistan for three years. Fey first heard about Barker's memoir The Taliban Shuffle because it...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th March 2016
Idris Elba Loved Getting Silly For Zootopia
The British Actor has recently won two SAG awards in January for performances in both film (Beasts of No Nation) and television (Luther), and sparking the #OscarsSoWhite protests when he failed to earn an Academy...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th March 2016
Gerard Butler Pushed Limits With London Has Fallen
The temptation to spin it into a franchise was too great to resist. Now the action shifts to London for more Taken-style violence. "Everybody got to break out in this movie really," says Butler of...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th March 2016
Hail, Caesar!
An intelligent ode to a time when Hollywood made wildly inventive movies without pressure from focus groups, there's a serious edge to what superficially looks like a madcap comical romp. But this isn't one of...
Movie Review posted on 3rd March 2016
London Has Fallen
It didn't seem possible, but somehow this action movie is even more preposterous than its predecessor, 2013's over-serious Olympus Has Fallen. Gerard Butler is back as a Secret Service agent protecting US President Aaron Eckhart,...
Movie Review posted on 3rd March 2016
Truth
That generic title obscures a surprisingly complex exploration of the real-life events surrounding the fall of iconic American newscaster Dan Rather in 2004. And while the film's script is rather talky (it's like Aaron Sorkin's...
Movie Review posted on 3rd March 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen Continues To Push Limits With Grimsby
And unusually, he's not just appearing as his on-screen alter-ego: he's facing the questions himself, offering a glimpse into how he creates these memorable characters.In Grimsby, Baron Cohen plays Nobby Butcher, a lager lout from...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2016
Taron Egerton Sees Himself In Eddie The Eagle
After setting the screen alight in films like Kingsman and Legend, he had to change everything about his appearance to play Eddie: adopting an underbite and wearing glasses that were so thick that he had...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2016
The Forest Spoke To Natalie Dormer
The Forest is Natalie Dormer's next big-screen outing, "It's a psychological, thinking-person horror movie," she says of the film, in which she plays a woman who travels to Japan to rescue her twin sister. "I...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2016
Secret in Their Eyes
It's rare for an American remake to be scruffier than the original, but this film is an intriguingly messier take on the super-slick, hugely engaging 2009 Oscar winner from Argentina. Filmmaker Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)...
Movie Review posted on 25th February 2016
Grimsby
Although it contains some memorably outrageous comedy moments, this movie (retitled The Brothers Grimsby for North America) is such an awkward combination of gross-out humour, violent action and sappy sentimentality that it never becomes a...
Movie Review posted on 25th February 2016
The Forest
Right from the start, filmmaker Jason Zada begins filling scenes in this horror movie with insinuating elements involving eerie noises, deep shadows and sudden jolts. And it succeeds in freaking the audience out entertainingly. Then...
Movie Review posted on 25th February 2016
Kate Winslet Loved Playing A 'Trashy Slut' In Triple 9
This was her first chance to play a proper villain (her baddie in the Divergent series is more nuanced), and she threw herself into it."It's nothing like anything I've ever done before," she says. "Also,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19th February 2016
Robert Eggers Loves Scaring Audiences With The Witch
Based on American folk tales, the film is one of the most unnerving movies in recent memory. In his early 30s, writer-director Robert Eggers grew up in New England, fascinated by local history. "Fairytales, folk...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19th February 2016
Freeheld Is Important For Moore And Page
In 2002 Laurel was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had to fight for a change in the law so that her pension benefits would go to her civil partner Stacie Andree. This was a landmark...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19th February 2016
The Finest Hours
With its rousing, old-fashioned tone, this fact-based epic is properly thrilling and inspirational, a tale of heroism that almost seems too good to be true. But it's the astonishing story of a real sea rescue...
Movie Review posted on 18th February 2016
How to Be Single
There isn't much originality in this rude female-led comedy, but its observations on single life are a nicely updated twist on the Sex and the City formula. The film is also often very funny, keeping...
Movie Review posted on 18th February 2016
Triple 9
After a post-apocalyptic dystopia (The Road) and Prohibition-era America (Lawless), Australian director John Hillcoat brings his edgy Wild West sensibilities to this gritty present-day heist thriller. The film is fierce and stylish, and utterly gripping...
Movie Review posted on 18th February 2016
Rebel Wilson Is Proud Of The Message In How To Be Single
Since then, her career has included Bridesmaids, two Pitch Perfect hits, the last Night at the Museum romp and now the rom-com How to Be Single."I think I came to Hollywood at the exact right...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12th February 2016
Stiller And Wilson Enjoyed Finding The Old Groove In Zoolander 2
So why did it take so long for Ben Stiller to return to one of his most beloved, iconic characters? "We probably would have made a sequel the year after the movie came out," he...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12th February 2016
Deadpool Was Ryan Reynolds' Passion Project
Not only does Reynolds have no regrets about The Green Lantern, but he felt strongly that Deadpool hadn't been given a fair shake in the Wolverine movie. So as a producer, Reynolds set out to...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12th February 2016
Zoolander 2
With virtually the same blend of wit and idiocy as the 2001 original, this fashion-scene comedy is funny enough to spark some solid laughter in between the gags that fall flat. The punchlines are simple...
Movie Review posted on 11th February 2016
A Bigger Splash
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) reteams with Tilda Swinton for this fresh, tricky drama about four people whose lives are inextricably intertwined. A remake of the 1969 French classic La Piscine, it's a...
Movie Review posted on 11th February 2016
Deadpool
Both the filmmakers and the characters on-screen are so pleased with themselves that this might just be the smuggest movie ever made. Thankfully, it's also very funny. It's a passion project for actor-producer Ryan Reynolds,...
Movie Review posted on 11th February 2016
Hail Caesar Was A Bonding Experience For Clooney And Tatum
"Literally, every time they call me, it's like, 'Well, we got another knucklehead for you to play,'" Clooney laughs. "I'm like, 'Gee thanks!' Then they say, 'Hey, we wrote this with you in mind.' So...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 5th February 2016
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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'.
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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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