Hasitha Fernando dives into ten John Wick-inspired movies to give you your action fix… Every couple of years an action movie would come along that instantly becomes a gamechanger in the genre and the template to be followed for the next decade or so – John Wick was such a film. Released in 2014 the […]
Nikita vs Anna: When Luc Besson Retraced His Steps
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the film which broke Luc Besson out to the world, and his more recent and pale imitator, Anna… Cinema is almost bereft of an original idea these days. There are very few that arrive which feel like something unique, and even then, the smart-arses among us might start pinpointing similarities […]
Movie Review – Anna (2019)
Anna, 2019. Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Sasha Luss, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy, Helen Mirren, Lera Abova and Eric Godon. SYNOPSIS: A Russian woman escapes her abusive home when she is offered a chance at a new life if she agrees to work for the KGB. It’s fair to say that, if you’ve seen a […]
Luc Besson’s latest action thriller Anna gets a trailer
A new trailer has arrived online for the upcoming action thriller Anna. Written and directed by Luc Besson, the film stars Sasha Luss as a feared government assassin alongside Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, and Luke Evans; check it out here… Beneath Anna Poliatova’s striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and […]
Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy and Sasha Luss cast in Luc Besson’s Anna
Luc Besson may have denied reports that he’s following Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets with a sequel to Lucy, but the French filmmaker is sticking with the female mononyms for the title of his next project, the action thriller Anna. Variety is reporting that Besson has cast Helen Mirren, Luke Evans and […]
