Not everything has to be about something: THE ROVER at BFI
Melbourne, 10 years after a “collapse”: no civil order, the only currency is the American dollar, streets are populated by soldiers and citizens crucified; the scenery is wild and the guns lay down the rules. In a bar, located in a worthy road of a post-apocalyptic scenario, Eric (Guy Pearce) is robbed of his car…
A Whisper(s) with a Hero(es): interview with Milo Ventimiglia
It’s been 19 years since an 18 years-old boy has had the honor to debut on the TV screen alongside to Will Smith. It was the 1995 and, for young teenagers like me who were born in the early ’80s, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was the signal that the study day was over and it…
How does it end? Happily. Yes, but how? I don’t know.It’s a mystery: Shakespeare in Love
From the book to the theater. From the book to the screen. From the theater to the screen. These are adaptations to which we have become accustomed over the years. Many say it’s because the scriptwriters are now devoid of imagination; in a society in which the role of culture is bound to suffering and…
The Whispers: first trailer for the new ABC series
Ambition is a sin: Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies
Turning a novel into a play is always something difficult and complicated. It is even more so when you have to adapt a novel set during the intrigue of the Tudor court of Henry VIII through the political intelligence of Thomas Cromwell. But Mike Poulton as adaptor and Jeremy Herrin as director have done a…
ROAD: when death is just a split second far away
Sport is like a book of short stories. Some are stories that make us laugh, cry, pray and dream. Fairy tales that leave us with a happy ending, as it is doing in these very last days the story of Michael Schumacher, or the victory against cancer of champions such as the Spanish national goalkeeper Iker…
Read not Dead: an exciting season finale
The project Read Not Dead was founded in 1995 with the intent to bring to light surviving plays produced between 1567 and 1642. A wonderful opportunity to spend the Sunday afternoon in company of great plays and a stunning cast because, not everyone can get a script at 10 am in the morning and be…
To win a war you have to start one: The Normal Heart
A terrific cast brings on TV one of the greater movies of the year: The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (Glee show running) it’s a message of intolerance and fear but, most of all, it’s a heartbroken and moving story about the struggles to fight a battle that no one has any interest in seeing through to the…
Friday Night Lights meets Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries for the new UK thriller Take Down
What happens when three of the most acclaimed TV series of recent years are combined into a single project? Well, to answer that we can just borrow the words of Mimi Steinbauer: “I believe Take Down is definitely one of the hottest titles at the market”. Take Down is a thriller set on a remote island…
Gossip Girl goes mental
Chace Crawford is back on set. The former Gossip Girl‘s star has in fact been hired to take part in the thriller Eloise, a new movie whose filming bagan on May 5th in Michigan. The film is set in a defunct insane asylum known as Eloise. Four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of…
Vampire’s Lullaby: Michael Malarkey from The Vampire Diaries to London gigs
On TV he is Enzo, the Italian vampire as well as the best friend of Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) in the acclaimed television series The Vampire Diaries. No matter in which state you live, the U.S. or the UK, in both cases you saw him die and become an annoying ghost decided to return on Earth…
Great Expectations reunion: A Streetcar Named Desire
Just the day when NBC has confirmed that there will not be a second series of Crisis (one of our article about the series with One Tree Hill star James Lafferty), the beautiful Gillian Anderson has been announced in the cast of the new production of Tennessee Williams‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire. Anderson will be reunite…
Max Irons, Sam Claflin, Freddie Fox, Josh O’Connor, Sam Reid and Douglas Booth in the first trailer of Posh:The Riot Club
We published the first pictures few months ago…well now there are the first trailer and the first poster for Posh: The Riot Club (read here our article).
We are the British Army, this is cowardice: The Patrol at Riverside Studios
It was screened last week, at the Riverside Studios in London, the British war movies The Patrol (watch the trailer). During the special evening, were present at the screening the director Tom Petch, the editor Luke Deverill and the actors Owain Arthur (One Man, Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket) and Nav Sidhu (How…
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