Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Adam Bakri, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Conleth Hill, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, Hattie Morahan and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: A GCHQ employee leaks a top secret memo to the press in the run-up to the Iraq War, sparking criminal proceedings against her […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Official Secrets
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Conleth Hill, MyAnna Buring, Jack Farthing, Katherine Kelly, Adam Bakri, and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the […]
Netflix’s interrogation drama Criminal gets a first trailer
Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming crime drama Criminal. Split across four countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK – the series is based entirely within the confines of police interrogation rooms and stars Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Pinnock, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall, and Shubham Saraf with guest appearances from […]
Movie Review – Official Secrets (2019)
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Conleth Hill, Hattie Morahan, Ray Panthaki, Kenneth Cranham, Chris Larkin, John Heffernan, Shaun Dooley, Katherine Kelly, Jack Farthing, Monica Dolan, Hanako Footman, Clive Francis, Peter Guinness, Chris Reilly, Darrell D’Silva, Lindy […]
Movie Review – Dirty God (2019)
Dirty God, 2019. Directed by Sacha Polak. Starring Vicky Knight, Bluey Robinson, Rebecca Stone, Katherine Kelly, Dana Marineci and Eliza Brady-Girard. SYNOPSIS: A young woman tries to rebuild her life in the aftermath of an acid attack that left her horribly scarred. The prevalence of acid attacks in the UK – London has been called […]
Exclusive Interview – Dirty God star Vicky Knight and director Sacha Polak on telling the story of an acid attack survivor
Tom Beasley sits down with Sacha Polak, director of Dirty God, and her leading lady Vicky Knight to discuss their powerful tale of a young woman dealing with the aftermath of an acid attack that leaves her scarred… London has been referred to in various reports as “the acid attack capital of the world”, which […]
Acid attack drama Dirty God gets a poster and trailer
A UK trailer and poster have arrived online for Sacha Polak’s English-language debut Dirty God. The gritty drama stars Vicky Knight, Rebecca Stone, Dana Marineci, Katherine Kelly, and Bluey Robinson; take a look here… DIRTY GOD is a film about a young mother from London who must pick up the pieces after an acid attack […]
Class Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did’
Alex Moreland reviews the seventh episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… At some point today, should everything go according to plan, there will come a moment… when you start to believe. This episode is interesting primarily because of how different it is from the average episode of Class. Consider the difference between this episode […]
Class Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart’
Alex Moreland reviews the fourth episode of Class, ‘Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart’… “You remember what I told you, about being at war with myself? I’m losing.” Once again, Doctor Who forms a useful counterpart to contrast Class against, as we have our first two-part story of the series – interestingly, it’s exactly halfway through […]
Class Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘For Tonight We Might Die’
Alex Moreland reviews the first episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… “You can’t seriously expect these juveniles to deal with whatever’s going to come through these tears in space and time?!” Class starts as any typical Doctor Who episode might: someone’s running from a monster in a darkened corridor. In beginning this way, there’s […]
