Hard Truths, 2024. Written and Directed by Mike Leigh. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Elliot Edusah, Tiwa Lade, Jonathan Livingstone, Samantha Spiro, Sophia Brown, Hiral Varsani, and Bryony Miller. SYNOPSIS: Pansy is a woman tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offense, and ever ready to fly off […]
Movie Review – Hoard (2024)
Hoard, 2024. Written and Directed by Luna Carmoon. Starring Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires, Lily-Beau Leach, Deba Hekmat, Samantha Spiro, Cathy Tyson, Nabil Elouahabi, Alexis Tuttle, James Cooper, Tim Bowie, Ceara Coveney, Pena Iiyambo, Sandra Hale, Honey Makwana, Petra Markham, Sam Retford, and Frankie Wilson. SYNOPSIS: The story follows Maria – a teenager […]
Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires star in trailer for Hoard
Following a premiere at the Venice International Film Festival last year, Vertigo Releasing has shared a trailer for Hoard, the psychological drama from writer-director Luna Carmoon and starring Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach and Samantha Spiro. Watch the trailer below… 1984, London: 7 year old Maria and her mother live in […]
Movie Review – One Life (2023)
One Life, 2024. Directed by James Hawes. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Pryce, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Lena Olin, Samantha Spiro, Adrian Rawlins, Marthe Keller, Ziggy Heath, Tom Glenister, Tim Steed, Samuel Finzi, Matilda Thorpe, Daniel Brown, Jirí Simek, Barbora Váchová, Ella Novakova, Juliana Moska, Michal Skach, Samuel Himal, Matej Karas, […]
Movie Review – One Life (2023)
One Life, 2023. Directed by James Hawes. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Samantha Spiro, Jonathan Pryce, and Lena Olin. SYNOPSIS: One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children […]
Second Opinion – Me Before You (2016)
Me Before You, 2016. Directed by Thea Sharrock. Starring Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Jenna Coleman, Brendan Coyle, Samantha Spiro, Matthew Lewis, Stephen Peacocke and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she’s taking care of. As a disabled man myself (although I wasn’t […]
Movie Review – Me Before You (2016)
Me Before You, 2016. Directed by Thea Sharrock. Starring Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Jenna Coleman, Brendan Coyle, Samantha Spiro, Matthew Lewis, Stephen Peacocke and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralysed man she’s taking care of. Many filmgoers’ thoughts on a new lovey-dovey film […]
Game of Thrones casts the Tarly family and Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men
Having cast Freddie Stroma (UnREAL) earlier this month as Dickon Tarly, HBO has now announced that it has filled out the cast of Samwell’s (John Bradley) family, with James Faulkner (X-Men: First Class) set to play patriarch Lord Randyll Tarly, Samantha Spiro (From Hell) as mother Melessa and Rebecca Benson (Macbeth) as younger sister Talla. […]