Barbie was a smash hit at the cinemas, but could every doll become that? Mattel was working on a Polly Pocket film with Lena Dunham, but the filmmaker says she’s moving away from it now. During a recent interview with The New Yorker, Dunham confirms her split from the project. The Girls creator was attached […]
Movie Review – Treasure (2024)
Treasure, 2024. Directed by Julia von Heinz. Starring Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wenanty Nosul, Tomasz Wlosok, André Hennicke, Iwona Bielska, David Krzysteczko, Oliver Ewy, and Maria Mamona. SYNOPSIS: An American journalist Ruth who travels to Poland with her father Edek to visit his childhood places. But Edek, a Holocaust survivor, resists reliving his […]
Movie Review – Sharp Stick (2022)
Sharp Stick, 2022. Written and Directed by Lena Dunham. Starring Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Luka Sabbat, Scott Speedman, Lena Dunham, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Taylour Paige, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liam Michel Saux, Janicza Bravo, and Ben Sidell. SYNOPSIS: Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just […]
Lily Collins to play Polly Pocket for Lena Dunham-directed Mattel movie
Following the $400 million and counting for Barbie at the box-office, it was inevitable that Mattel would be rummaging through their toybox for the next IP to adapt for the big-screen, and one of the properties they’ve dusted off is diminutive ’80s dolly Polly Pocket. Among a slew of project announcements reported by Variety, including […]
Movie Review – Catherine Called Birdy (2022)
Catherine Called Birdy, 2022. Written and Directed by Lena Dunham Starring Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Lesley Sharp, Paul Kaye, Ralph Ineson, Archie Renaux, Douggie McMeekin, Isis Hainsworth, Antony Bunsee, Saskia Chana, Rita Bernard-Shaw, Christophe Tek, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Jordan Adene, Moya Brady, David Bradley, Adam Aziz, Jake Middleton Cooke, Angus […]
Movie Review – Sharp Stick (2022)
Sharp Stick, 2022. Written and directed by Lena Dunham. Starring Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Scott Speedman, Lena Dunham, Taylour Paige, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. SYNOPSIS: Sarah Jo is a naïve 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her […]
Lena Dunham-directed Sharp Stick gets a red band trailer
Utopia has released red band trailer for writer-director Lena Dunham’s comedy drama Sharp Stick which centres on Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth), a naive 26 year old woman living with her mother on the fringes of Hollywood, as she begins an affair with her older employer (Jon Bernthal). Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) is a sensitive and […]
Ruth Wilson to lead the Mob Queens in limited series
Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) will become a mob wife in WarnerMedia’s upcoming limited series Mob Queens, based on the life of Anna Genovese, the wife of crime boss Vito Genovese. Anna Genovese was Vito’s second wife and when they divorced in the 1950s, she broke Costa Nostra law by detailing his illegal dealings in open […]
Lena Dunham to write A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea for Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams
Producers Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams have enlisted Lena Dunham (Girls) to pen an adaptation of Melissa Fleming’s non-fiction book A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea, which is being developed as a feature by Paramount Pictures and Amblin Partners. The book tells the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a Syrian refugee who fled […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood adds Lena Dunham, Maya Hawke and more
Quentin Tarantino has continued his quest to add every single actor in Hollywood to the cast of his new movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Deadline reporting that Lena Dunham (Girls), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Austin Butler (The Shannara Chronicles) and Lorenza Izzo (Knock, Knock) have become the latest additions to the cast […]
