The first trailer has arrived online for The Critic, director Anand Tucker’s u[coming adaptation of Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call. Set in the 1930s, the period thriller stars Ian McKellen as a feared theatre critic who takes pleasure in regularly tearing down actress Nina Land (Gemma Arterton), until his newspaper is taken over and he […]
Ben Barnes and Mary-Louise Parker to lead Stephen King adaptation The Institute
MGM+ has announced that it has given a eight-episode series order to The Institute, an adaptation of the 2019 novel from Stephen King. The series is being executive produced by King veterans director Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) and writer Benjamin Cavell (The Stand), and will see Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) […]
Black Mirror season 6 trailer announces June premiere, episode synopses revealed
The official trailer for the sixth season of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror has been released with June 15th announced as the premiere date. The trailer teases of a space mission gone wrong, a mysterious Scottish countryside and someone’s life being turned into a TV series in real-time. Alongside the release of the trailer are the […]
Black Mirror season 6 images and episode titles revealed
As part of its Summer Preview, Entertainment Weekly has debuted a batch of new images from the sixth season of Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror featuring stars Ben Barnes, Salma Hayek Pinault, Annie Murphy, Samuel Blenkin, Myha’la Herrold, Josh Hartnett, Zazie Beetz, Clara Rugaard, and Anjana Vasan; check them out below along with […]
Aaron Paul, Zazie Beetz and Salma Hayek star in the Black Mirror season 6 trailer
Netflix has signalled the long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series by dropping a teaser trailer for the sixth season of Black Mirror. With a lot going on in the world over the past few years there is so much for the Emmy-Award winning series to get its teeth into, and even though […]
Netflix shares Shadow and Bone season 2 sneak peek teaser trailer
Netflix has released a sneak peek teaser trailer for the second season of Shadow and Bone, the small screen adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s ‘Grishaverse‘ fantasy book series; watch it below… In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, where unnatural creatures feast on human flesh, a young soldier uncovers a […]
Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong and more set for thriller The Critic
Deadline reports an all-star cast for The Critic, a period thriller of “blackmail, deceit and murder.” Starring in the film from director Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) will be Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) as the principle trio. The Critic is set in “1934 London, McKellen plays […]
The Punisher’s Ben Barnes has spoken to Marvel Studios about a superhero role
Ben Barnes, who was one of the stars of The Punisher, says he has spoken to Marvel Studios about a possible movie role. It is not unheard of for actors to play multiple Marvel characters and it sounds like Ben Barnes is hoping he might be next to do so. The actor has finished playing […]
Jigsaw actor Ben Barnes comments on The Punisher’s cancellation
Ben Barnes, who starred as Jigsaw in seasons one and two of The Punisher, has commented on the show’s cancellation. We now know that Netflix’s The Punisher will not continue past 2019’s second season, joining Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist on the chopping block. Whether we will see these characters again on […]
The Punisher season 2 motion poster teases Billy Russo’s Jigsaw transformation
With The Punisher season 2 confirmed to arrive on Netflix this month, the streaming service has continued the promotion for the returning Marvel series with the release of a new motion poster which teases Billy Russo’s (Ben Barnes) transformation into the villain Jigsaw (although as Barnes has recently revealed, he won’t actually be going by […]
