©Courtesy of Neon Somehow, you feel the title is almost unjustified, the rescue in Na Hong-Jin‘s “Hope” appears to be compromised before the disaster fully reveals itself. Communication has collapsed in a remote South Korean village, and a creature is nearby, resulting in human panic, which often turns fear into something messier, more violent, and…
©Courtesy of Vertical In retrospect, recruiting a not-so former KGB agent to run your country yields predictably disastrous consequences. Yet, the Russia’s oligarchs heedlessly did exactly that when they bankrolled Vladimir Putin’s presidential campaign. For some, like Boris Berezovsky, it wasn’t just the biggest mistake of their lives. It was the beginning of the end….
©Courtesy of Vertical Following Premieres at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, Vertical has acquired North American rights to “The Wizard of the Kremlin.” Directed by Olivier Assayas (“Irma Vep”,“Personal Shopper“, “Clouds of Sils Maria“), the film stars Golden Globe nominee Paul Dano (“The Fabelmans“), Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander (“The Assessment“), Tom Sturridge…
Photo by Larry Horricks/Larry Horricks – © Brouhaha Entertainment Limited 2023 Firebrand : In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Catherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Jude Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished,…
Photo by Larry Horricks/Larry Horricks – © Brouhaha Entertainment Limited 2023 Firebrand : In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Catherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Jude Law). Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either…
@Courtesy of Roadshow Attractions/Larry Horricks Adapting the 2013 novel Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Freemantle, Firebrand brings back to the big screen one of the most controversial figures in Great Britain’s History, King Henry VIII (1491-1547). In the past magnificent actors like Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933), Robert Shaw (A Man For…
@Ron Howard Origin of Species, the upcoming survival thriller by Ron Howard, will begin shooting in Queensland, Australia this fall with an all-star cast that includes Ana De Armas, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, and Daniel Brühl. Noah Pink of Tetris fame will be penning the script. The project is being masterminded by Howard’s Imagine Entertainment…
MGM has lost the rights to its Tomb Raider film franchise, which is based on the popular video game series of the same name, TheWrap is reporting. As a result, other Hollywood movie studios have begun a bidding war for the franchise’s film rights. MGM had until this past May to greenlight a sequel to…
Synopsis : From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved…
There’s something about being in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language that can make a bad situation infinitely worse. Even if a person’s communication skills are decent and enough English is understood by locals to transmit important information, there are still cultural elements and norms that may be missed and make it…
Arthurian tales have always been a wealth of resources for story-tellers through the years. Yet, we keep getting the same old stories or Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Merlin being told over and over again. Different takes on the same point of legend get old, pretty fast. Enter David Lowery, with his interpretation of the anonymously…
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