Tessa Thompson (Thor: Love and Thunder) has joined Netflixès His & Hers, a limited drama series based on the novel of the same name by Alice Feeney. Thompson will play Anna, a woman who “lives in haunting reclusivity, fading away from her friends and career as a journalist. But when she overhears about a murder in […]
Movie Review – Eileen (2023)
Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, Sam Nivola, Jefferson White, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Tonye Patano. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. There are several ongoing plot threads in William Oldroyd’s Eileen […]
Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway strike up a dangerous friendship in Eileen trailer
We called it a “superb the-less-you-know-the-better jolt of high-end trashy drama” in our ★★★★ review (which you can read here), and now you can get your first look at Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway in William Oldroyd’s Eileen. Oldroyd’s first film since 2016’s Lady Macbeth is an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning book, which tells […]
2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Eileen
Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sam Nivola, Tonye Patano and Owen Teague SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eileen is habitually on the cusp of something. Things that threaten […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Eileen
Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Owen Teague, and Marin Ireland. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s feature debut Lady Macbeth should know to expect more from his follow-up than the […]
Lady Macbeth director set for Chimerica
Lady Macbeth helmer William Oldroyd has been tapped to adapt a four-hour TV series based upon Lucy Kirkwood’s acclaimed stage play Chimerica, which is being produced by Playground Entertainment for the UK’s Channel 4. According to Deadline, Chimerica “starts in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 as young American photojournalist captures a piece of history as […]
Movie Review – Lady Macbeth (2016)
Lady Macbeth, 2016. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, and Christopher Fairbank. SYNOPSIS: Lady Macbeth is an adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. It tells the plight of the young newlywed whose loveless marriage leads her into a forbidden and adulterous love […]
Exclusive interview with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd
Paul Risker chats with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd… From the theatre and opera stage, director William Oldroyd has emerged as a filmmaking talent, named BAFTA’S ‘Brit to watch’ in 2016. His theatre work comprises adaptations of the works of Sartre, Beckett and Shakespeare, while his opera credits include work in Portugal as well as […]
