Stillwater, 2021. Directed by Tom McCarthy. Starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Deanna Dunagan, Lilou Siauvaud, Bastien d’Asnières, Lea McCormick, and Moussa Maaskri. SYNOPSIS: A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn’t commit. Blue-collar oil-rigger Oklahoman conservative sounds like […]
Matt Damon is a father seeking justice in the trailer for Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater
Matt Damon is a man on a mission in the first trailer for Spotlight director Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater. The Focus Features movie is the first drama from McCarthy since his Oscar winning tale of investigative journalism, and tells the story of a father (Damon) who travels to France in order to exonerate his daughter (Abigail […]
First look at Matt Damon in Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater
Matt Damon has been quite busy during the pandemic, having wrapped Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, and then flown to Australia to film his extended cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder, but we’re now getting our first glimpse of him in Spotlight director Tom McCarthy’s upcoming film Stillwater, which was delayed from its original Fall […]
Movie Review – Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020)
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. 2020 Directed by Tom McCarthy Starring Winslow Fegley, Ophelia Lovibond, Ruby Matenko, Chloe Coleman, Craig Robinson, Nicole Anthony, Kei, Ai-chan Carrier, Wallace Shawn, and Kyle Bornheimer SYNOPSIS: An 11-year old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, […]
Russell Crowe to star as Fox News founder Roger Ailes in Showtime limited series The Loudest Voice in the Room
Showtime has announced Russell Crowe (The Nice Guys) will headline a new limited series as deceased FOX News founder Roger Ailes in an adaptation of Gabriel Sherman’s book The Loudest Voice in the Room with Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Television producing. Based on the Gabriel Sherman book, the eight-episode series is set […]
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy to adapt S-Town podcast
Crime anthology podcasts have been all the rage over the last few years, with This American Life‘s Serial download becoming something of an audio blockbuster. So it comes as little surprise that Hollywood is sourcing the medium for movie content with the announcement that Spotlight director Tom McCarthy is to adapt another This American Life […]
Tom McCarthy in talks to direct Timmy Failure for Disney
Variety is reporting that Tom McCarthy may have lined up his next feature, with the Spotlight writer-director said to be in talks with Disney to adapt Stephen Pastis’ book series Timmy Failure. McCarthy would direct the project, as well as co-writing the screenplay with author Pastis. Timmy Failure “centers on an 11-year-old boy who believes […]
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy teams with Selena Gomez for Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
Oscar-nominated Spotlight director Tom McCarthy is teaming up with Selena Gomez to serve as executive producer on the upcoming Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, and will also direct the first two episodes. Based on the YA novel by Jay Asher and adapted by Brian Yorkey, 13 Reasons Why “follows a boy named Clay through an […]
Second Opinion – Spotlight (2015)
Spotlight, 2015. Directed by Tom McCarthy. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci. SYNOPSIS: A true story documenting the events that led to The Boston Globe uncovering a history of child molestation covered up by the local Catholic Archdiocese. Featured in the 2013 Blacklist as one of the […]
Movie Review – Spotlight (2015)
Spotlight, 2015. Directed by Tom McCarthy Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James, Billy Crudup and Stanley Tucci. SYNOPSIS: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its […]
