FX has released a poster and trailer for the limited series Say Nothing, which is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s acclaimed New York Times Bestseller of the same name and spans four decades, telling the story of various IRA members during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The cast includes Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price, Hazel […]
Disney’s Tudor murder mystery Shardlake gets a trailer and poster
Disney+ has released a trailer and poster for the Tudor murder mystery series Shardlake. Based on C. J. Sansom’s novel series, the four part drama follows lawyer Matthew Shardlake as he is instructed by Thomas Cromwell to investigate the murder of a commissioner at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea. The series features […]
Apple TV+’s Lincoln assassination series Manhunt unveils first trailer
The first trailer has debuted for Apple TV+’s conspiracy thriller series Manhunt which tells the story of the high-stakes hunt for John Wilkes Booth following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on James L. Swanson’s New York Times bestselling book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, the series stars Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie […]
Masters of the Air Part One & Part Two Review
Chris Connor reviews the first two episodes of Masters of the Air… Band of Brothers revolutionised television in the early 2000s, making a star out of many of its leads and guest stars and providing one of the early signs that TV could rival cinema for top-tier storytelling. The brainchild of Steven Spielberg and Tom […]
The chase for Lincoln’s killer begins in first look at Manhunt from Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has announced a March premiere for Manhunt, a new limited series from creator and showrunner Monica Beletsky (Fargo) which is based upon the New York Times bestselling book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer and features an impressive cast that includes Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison, Brandon Flynn, Patton Oswalt, […]
Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air takes off with new trailer and posters
Apple TV+ has released a new trailer for Masters of the Air, the WWII limited drama series from Band of Brothers and The Pacific executive producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. The series follows the soldiers of the 100th Bomb Group as they fight to destroy Hitler’s Third Reich, conducting perilous bombing raids […]
Movie Review – Tetris (2023)
Tetris, 2023. Directed by Jon S. Baird. Starring Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, Ben Miles, Ken Yamamura, Igor Grabuzov, Oleg Shtefanko, Ayane Nagabuchi, Rick Yune, Roger Allam, Toby Jones, Ieva Andrejevaitė, Matthew Marsh, Togo Igawa, Miles Barrow, Aaron Vodovoz, Igor Grabuzov, Oleg Stefan, and Polina Sulim. SYNOPSIS: The story of how one […]
Second Opinion – Tolkien (2019)
Tolkien, 2019. Directed by Dome Karukoski Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Genevieve O’Reilly, Colm Meaney, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Harry Gilby, Laura Donnelly, Derek Jacobi, Pam Ferris, Mimi Keene, Ty Tennant, Aaron Neil, Holly Dempster, Jack Riley, Nia Gwynne, and Owen Teale SYNOPSIS: Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned […]
Movie Review – Tolkien (2019)
Tolkien, 2019. Directed by Dome Karukoski. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Derek Jacobi, Colm Meaney, Pam Ferris and Craig Roberts. SYNOPSIS: The story of J. R. R. Tolkien during his university years, and the wartime experiences that would shape his Lord of the Rings novels. There seems to be […]
Exclusive Interview – Tolkien stars Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney and Anthony Boyle on friendship and chemistry
Tom Beasley sits down with three of the cast members of Tolkien to chat about forming the film’s crucial central ‘fellowship’… With Peter Jackson’s epic Middle Earth saga now consigned to cinema history, fans of J. R. R. Tolkien may be a little bereft when it comes to the cinema. That’s set to change this […]