Tag: eddiemarsan
BACK TO BLACK Review: Amy Winehouse Gets the Conventional Biopic Treatment
Marisa Abela stars in the music-themed drama, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Sundance 2023 Review: FAIR PLAY, All's Not Fair in Love and Gender War
There’s a moment in writer-director Chloe Domont’s impressively realized feature-length debut, Fair Play, when a collection of finance-bros, employees of the fictional One Crest Capital, a Manhattan-based hedge fund, half-watch a corporate-sponsored, obligatory, diversity and inclusion presentation while a newly...
Grimmfest 2022 Awards: Carlota Pereda's PIGGY Takes Home Best Film, Director And Actress
Grimmfest wrapped up weekend before last and the esteemed jury deliberated this past Sunday on the festival's feature and short film program. A couple hours of spirited and fun exchange later we made our final choices. Yes, we. I...
Review: THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND THE CANOE, Baffling, Infuriating, Unbelievable
Monica Dolan and Eddie Marsan star in the true story of a fake death and its multitude of devastating consequences, streaming on BritBox.
Grimmfest 2022: Full Lineup Features FINAL CUT, VESPER, PIGGY And The Proverbial More
City's doing as expected and United is shitting the bed (at the very least they've scored a goal this year, unlike my Hammers). It's not all bad news in Manchester, England, as our friends at Grimmfest have announced the full...
Review: 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE, Sympathy for the Terrorist(s)
Recognizable actors always help a film to secure financing and may increase the interest of potential audiences, but they often work against the aims of a film based on real-life events. That may be especially true for films that endeavor...
Toronto 2016 Review: THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM, A Giallo-Infused Theatre of Bedlam
We might think that in the 21st century, with social media platforms or instant video uploads, we are at the apex of what might be called the theatricality of life in the public eye. But even if Twitter didn't exist,...
Christopher Walken To Receive Award, THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM to Close Sitges 2016
Christopher Walken will receive the Grand Honourary Award at Sitges 2016 this year. A stellar career whose highlights include iconic performances in The Deer Hunter, The Dead Zone, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, and countless other films,...
Toronto 2016: Watch This Splendid Musical Number From THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Juan Carlos Medina's The Limehouse Golem, the Victorian era set horror thriller, will have it's World Premiere here in Toronto Saturday night at the Ryerson. We have a clip with a splendid musical number featuring Douglas Booth to share with...
The Many Faces Of Eddie Marsan
This week sees the premiere of Jon S. Baird's Filth, an adaptation of the novel by Irvine Welsh, him of Trainspotting fame. The film stars James McAvoy as a corrupt and addicted police detective, who screws everything and everyone to...
Bertie Carvel And Eddie Marsan Are JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL
Those who have already read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell are already fully aware that the novel is arguably a modern classic of speculative fiction, a magic-infused alternate history of England that stands with the very finest works...
Watch A Town Be Shattered By Violence In Trailer For Sean Durkin's SOUTHCLIFFE
As lines continue to blur between high end television and film, with directors and actors moving more frequently between the two and television showing an increased willingness to experiment with format, it's clear that the days of film festivals being...
Review: THE WORLD'S END Kicks Ass With Middle-Aged Insight (And Beer)
Gary King (Simon Pegg) is that guy everybody knows from high school. The cautionary tale. The guy who peaked too early and who now has to come to grips with the fact that his life will never again be as...
THE WORLD'S END World Premiere In Photos
Edgar Wright's third go-around with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World's End, had its official World Premiere in London's Empire Leicester Square cinema tonight and I had the good fortune to be among a small group of online journalists...
Hollywood Beat: I'M SO EXCITED and THE HEAT Are Box Office Winners, RAY DONOVAN And UNDER THE DOME Rule TV
In this week's column: Light-hearted fare rules the box office, both on the indie and mainstream charts. And, on the small screen, a Hollywood fixer and small-town hysteria dominate the news....
PAINLESS's Juan Carlos Medina to Direct THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Fresh off a successful festival circuit run of his historical thriller Painless, director Juan Carlos Medina's next project will be an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel, The Limehouse Golem. Announced at the Cannes film festival today, the script is...
Charlotte Rampling Broods In A Trailer For I, ANNA
If, like me, you find yourself helplessly drawn to anything Charlotte Rampling does, then the trailer for I, Anna will surely whet your cinematic appetite. Featuring a vulnerable, enigmatic Rampling in the lead role it's a psychological thriller with...
ALICE CREED review
To celebrate the local Alice Creed theater release (did I really see a DVD review a couple of days ago?), let me join my fellow ScreenAnarchistss and add another positive review ! Some young directors try to impress by throwing...
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED on DVD and Blu-ray
What? The Disappearance of Alice Creed wasn't playing at your local cinema? Well, whinge no more, because J. Blakeson's excellent feature debut is coming to UK DVD and Blu-ray on the 4th October. A supremely tight three-hander, with uniformly great...
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED Review
[Tomorrow is the strongest release day of the year and so we are taking the opportunity to pull our reviews of the key new release titles back up to the top of the stack. Yes, I'm aware parts of the...
