INTERVIEW: ‘The Dig’ Costume Designer Alice Babidge
Alice Babidge is an Australian costume designer who has worked on two Justin Kurzel films (The Snowtown Murders and True History of the Kelly Gang). Her latest project is historical drama The Dig, about the excavation of Sutton Hoo. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Carey…
REVIEW: The Dig (2021)
Up until recently, depictions of archeologists on the big screen have pretty much been limited to the whip-cracking, fedora-toting adventurer Indiana Jones. However, with Francis Lee bringing fossil-hunter Mary Anning under the spotlight in Ammonite and now Simon Stone unearthing the little-known story behind the…
REVIEW: Rebecca (2020)
While remakes and reboots are – perhaps deservedly so – controversial, literary adaptations are more complicated. The problem can come when there is one particular adaptation of a novel which is considered ‘classic’ or ‘definitive.’ That is very much the case with Daphne Du Maurier’s…
Netflix Share First Trailer For Ben Wheatley’s ‘Rebecca’
A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death. A modern adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s gothic…
Heartwarming First Trailer For Danny Boyle’s ‘Yesterday’ Re-Imagines The Beatles Hits
“Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. From Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Richard Curtis, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love…
Tessa Thompson And Lily James Star In First Trailer For Nia DaCosta’s ‘Little Woods’
“Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is a reformed drug runner in an economically depressed small town in North Dakota, who was caught coming back from Canada with medicine for her terminally ill mother and has been toeing the line ever since. After her mother dies, Ollie’s sister…
REVIEW: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
This is going to be a weird way to start off this review, but I have a confession to make: I’m not really an ABBA fan. I enjoy a couple of their songs but they wouldn’t be my first or even third choice of music…
REVIEW: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Let’s face it, the world is going to sh*t. The world of cinema isn’t always just big explosive blockbusters, and scientific head-scratchers, and sometimes we just need a cosy, picture-perfect film to escape into and forget about all our problems. ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato…
REVIEW: Darkest Hour (2018)
Winston Churchill is as famous a British Prime Minister as you can get. Taking control of the country in a time of grave need and facing imminent destruction, he had the unenviable task of inspiring his country into believing the war was not lost. What…
Here We Go Again! First Trailer For ‘Mamma Mia’ Sequel Arrives
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSMdhfKga4&w=560&h=315] “Ten years after ‘Mamma Mia! The Movie’ grossed more than $600 million around the world, you are invited to return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA.” Directed By: Ol Parker Cast: Meryl…
Churchill Rallies A Nation In New ‘Darkest Hour’ Trailer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NukhXhl1J1c&w=560&h=315] “A thrilling and inspiring true story begins at the precipice of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a…
REVIEW: Baby Driver (2017)
Odeon’s ‘Screen Unseen’ is a regular event in which the cinema chain hand picks a film for an early screening. In the build up to the eventual screening, Odeon release very cryptic clues for the film they’re showing. This film’s clues were “Political hangover,” “Soon…
First Trailer For Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver Arrives!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byb2eJ_lLes&w=560&h=315] The much anticipated trailer for Edgar Wright (Sean of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World)’s ‘Baby Driver’ finally dropped in the wee small hours of the morning, flanking it’s premiere screening at SXSW. The outing at SXSW seems fitting for a film…
