Magpie, 2024. Directed by Sam Yates. Starring Daisy Ridley, Matilda Lutz, Shazad Latif, Alistair Petrie, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Niall Wright, and Cherrelle Skeete. SYNOPSIS: A couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star. There are horny guys, and then there is Shazad Latif’s Ben of director Sam Yates’s […]
Trailer for neo-noir thriller Magpie starring Daisy Ridley
Shout! Studios has released a poster and trailer for director Sam Yates’ neo-noir thriller Magpie. The film centres on married couple Anette and Ben who find their relationship begin to fracture when their young daughter is cast alongside a controversial movie star, with whom Ben develops an intense infatuation. The cast includes Daisy Ridley, Shazad […]
Movie Review – Eight for Silver (2021)
Eight for Silver, 2021. Written and directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly. SYNOPSIS: In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger – and exorcise some of his own demons […]
Movie Review – The Cursed (2022)
The Cursed, 2022. Written and Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Kelly Reilly, Boyd Holbrook, Alistair Petrie, Uhm Ji-won, Roxane Duran, Nigel Betts, Stuart Bowman, Gary Oliver, Richard Cunningham, Simon Kunz, Áine Rose Daly, Amelia Crouch, Tom Sweet, Max Mackintosh, Tommy Rodger, Sean Mahon, Mish Boyko, Paul Bandey, Alun Raglan, Oisín Stack, Annabel Mullion, Jicey Carina, […]
Period werewolf horror The Cursed gets a trailer, poster and images
Ahead of its release this February, a trailer, poster and images have been released for writer-director Sean Ellis’ upcoming horror The Cursed. Previously titled Eight for Silver, the film follows pathologist John McBride (Boyd Holbrook) as he investigates what was believed to be an attack by a wild animal in a remote country village, only […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Cursed
The Cursed, 2021. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly. SYNOPSIS: In the French countryside during the 1800s, John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether the body of a young boy found in the works was the work of man or beast. After the […]
Second Opinion – Hellboy (2019)
Hellboy, 2019. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim, Stephen Graham, Sophie Okonedo, Alistair Petrie and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS: The titular demon turned paranormal investigator fights to prevent the return of the Blood Queen before she destroys mankind. “It’s 517 AD,” intones the gravelly voice […]
Movie Review – Hellboy (2019)
Hellboy, 2019. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Daniel Dae Kim, Sasha Lane, Penelope Mitchell, Brian Gleeson, Sophie Okonedo, Alistair Petrie, Mark Stanley, and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress […]
Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly and Alistair Petrie to star in period horror Eight for Silver
Anthropoid director Sean Eillis has enlisted Boyd Holbrook (The Predator), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education) to star in his 19th-century set horror Eight for Silver. Produced by LD Entertainment, the film takes place in the French countryside in the 1800s and sees Holbrook as John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether […]
Hellboy reboot adds three more to its cast
As pre-production on Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot continues, Deadline is reporting that Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Brian Gleeson (mother!) and Alistair Petrie (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) have joined the cast of the film. Okonedo will play Lady Hatton, a resident seer at the Osiris Club, with Gleeson as the wizard Merlin and Petrie as Lord Adam Glaren, […]
