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Movie Review – Bird (2024)

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Bird, 2024 Written and Directed by Andrea Arnold. Starring Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Jason Buda, Frankie Box, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce, Joanne Matthews, Rhys Yates, Jason Williamson, Kirsty J. Curtis, Sarah Beth Harber, and Carlos O’Connell. SYNOPSIS: Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a […]

First look at Barry Keoghan in the Peaky Blinders film

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With production on the Peaky Blinders feature film underway, we have our first look at Barry Keoghan’s character who is seemingly a new member of the Peaky Blinders gang. Peaky Blinders is based off the Shelby crime family which operated in Birmingham for the early 20th century. The series focused on Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby as […]

Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski and Nykiya Adams

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Ahead of its theatrical release this November, MUBI has shared a trailer for writer-director Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age drama Bird which stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and Nykiya Adams; watch it below… Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much […]

2024 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bird

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Bird, 2024.  Directed by Andrea Arnold Starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, James Nelson-Joyce, and Jason Buda. SYNOPSIS:  Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere. […]

Masters of the Air Part One & Part Two Review

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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 […]

Austin Butler, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks discuss Masters of the Air with inside look at Apple TV+ WWII epic

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Apple TV+ has dropped a behind-the-scenes trailer for their epic WWII limited drama series Masters of the Air, which features stars Austin Butler (Elvis) and Callum Turner (The Boys in the Boat), as well as producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman (Band of Brothers and The Pacific), talking about what it was like to bring […]

The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn

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It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]

Movie Review – Saltburn (2023)

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Saltburn, 2023. Directed by Emerald Fennell. Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, and Carey Mulligan. SYNOPSIS: A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family’s sprawling estate for a summer never to […]

Barry Keoghan recalls the infamous Saltburn ending: “It’s ownership. This is my place”

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Spoilers ahead for Saltburn, but if you’ve been on the internet this weekend, you’ve heard all about the ending of Saltburn. As the twisted Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) lies, cheats, and steals his way into owning Saltburn, he takes a stroll around his new house. After slurping up bodily fluids and making love to graves, […]