As we referred to our past article, it was a pleasure to see Sarah Polley in action again as writer/director in the feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel Women Talking. The novel was named a Best Book of the Year By The New York Times Book Review, NPR.Org, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Publishers Weekly and
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There is no question that every Woody Allen’s movie is a significal milestone in the annual film calendar. His new movie, that its release in many countries was delayed due to Covid, can be characterised as a classical Allen movie. Mort Rifkin, an elder film studies academic (Wallace Shawn) suspects that his wife Sue (Gina Gershon), a PR flack, cheats
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The trailer of the new film of Palme d’ Or winner Jacques Audiard (“Dheepan” (2015)) was released. The film also competes for Palme d’ Or prize in this year’s Cannes Festival. Except Audiard, the scenario is co-written by Céline Sciamma (“Portrait Of A Lady On Fire”) and Léa Mysius (“Ava” (2017)). Noémie Merlant (also from “Portrait Of A Lady On
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ITV has shared a first look at stars Steve Coogan, Sharlene Whyte and Hugh Quarshie in new drama Stephen. The mini-series will consist of three episodes and is a sequel to Paul Greengrass’ 1999 film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Whyte (Small Axe) will play Stephen’s mother Doreen while Quarshie (Holby City) reprises the role of his father, Neville. Coogan, who recently
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…and filming is set to take place in Scotland. Author Neil Gaiman announces on his blog the development of Good Omens 2, a six-episode sequel to the first season with Michael Sheen and David Tennant to return as the angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley respectively. The two actors wiill meet again after their success quarantine-mini-series “Staged”. Gaiman also announce that director
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Five women and three men will be in the jury along with the previously announced president Spike Lee. This the second time that women has the majority in Jury, The first time was in 2018, when Cate Blanchett was jury president, the split was also five women and four men. More specifically, this year’s jury members for the main competition
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Since the official selection, competing for the Palme d’Or was announced, we are going to refer the movies that we found more interesting and we predict that they can win the first prize. We excluded Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”, since this movie will be one of the most discussed movies of the year. Annette Director: Leos Carax Previous work:
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Northen Irish actor, Conleth Hill has been attached in the lead role for the ITV’s Graham Norton’s darkly comic debut novel “Holding”. Maybe we all know Conleth Hill from his role as Varys in the Game of Thrones series, but he has also played in series such as Dublin Murders (2019) and he was on the original cast of the
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Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Williem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef will star in the new movie of Yorgos Lanthimos under the title “Poor Things”. Yorgos will direct and produce the film from a script by Tony McNamara, their second collaboration on “The Favourite” (2018), for which Tony McNamara earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay. “Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque
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It was great to hear the news about the beginning of shooting of “Fisherman’s Friends” sequel, one of the most feel-good movies. Flying Fish and Entertainment Film Distributors confirmed it, by announcing that the principal photography for the sequel had started on the 15th April in Cornwall. Only after two years from the first movie, the sequel presents the next
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