72nd Venice International Film Festival: A BIGGER SPLASH
Five years after Io Sono l’Amore (I Am Love), Luca Guadagnino returns to Venice and, once again, is a shower of boos. This doesn’t mean that the boos are completely justified. We have just to think that I Am Love has grossed $5 million at the US box office; but, above all, it has collected…
72nd Venice International Film Festival: THE DANISH GIRL
Few years ago, he introduced the verb to weep into the common use instead of the form to cry…they were the days when Les Miserables (Tom Hooper again as director) conquered the scene during the Oscar Night. And since then, Mr Eddie Redmayne has never ceased to make us weep, to excite us with his…
72nd Venice International Film Festival: BLACK MASS
TAKE YOUR SHOT. BUT MAKE SURE ITS YOUR BEST! ‘CAUSE IF I DON’T GO DOWN, I’LL EAT YA Drop shades, icy eyes and a heart of stone. He is the Irish gangster James “Whitey” Bulger; one of the ten FBI most wanted felons. Turned in to a beast by a family tragedy, Bulger becomes…
Dear Lupin: I’m very fond of you…
Roger Mortimer was born in 1909, went to Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards, was a prisoner of war and became a correspondent for The Sunday Times. His son Charlie was nicknamed by him as Lupin (probably after Mr Pooter’s useless son in The Diary Of a Nobody). Dear Lupin is a great dramatization by Michael…
LFCC: One for all and all for one. Few words with The Musketeers
We met two of the main characters from the BBC successful series The Musketeers at LFCC. First, we approached Milady de Winter (Maimie McCoy). She was seat at the table between her on screen husband Athos (Tom Burke) and D’Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) in the full splendour of her soon mum to be beauty. Despite her…
LFCC: Good-bye Cap America, there is a new beloved in Agent Carter’s heart
After the first season (we’ll not do spoilers in this article) a wonder popped into my mind: “How different would have been Peggy and Captain America love story if they continued to live in the same era?” I think a lot, actually. Let’s face it. Peggy Carter has literally kidnapped thousands and thousands of hearts…
LFCC: Don’t worry dear BACK TO THE FUTURE, 30 is only 12 in Scrabble
July 1985: Marty McFly manages to get Back To The Future after a week stuck in 1955. July 2015, 30 years later Marty McFly and Doc manage to get Back To The New Future, for the excitement of a great numbers of fans, with an amazing reunion at London Film And Comic Con. Over the…
Scusate se esisto: incontro londinese con Paola Cortellesi e Riccardo Milani
Domenica 31 maggio, Cinema Italia Uk, ha avuto l’onore di regalare al pubblico Londinese, italiano e non, la piacevolissima e al quanto attuale commedia Scusate se esisto. La pellicola del 2014, diretta da Riccardo Milani (Auguri Professore, Piano Solo, Rebecca-La prima moglie, Atelier Fontana) vede come protagonisti una, come sempre magnifica Paola Cortellesi (David di…
The Elephant Man: Real charm is always planned
It’s hard to find words good enough to describe a such marvellous play; so please, be kind with us because this review will be a really hard job. The Elephant Man at the Royal Haymarket Theatre it’s, for sure, one of the most emotional play of the season. We are not here to link this…
Jonathan Groff: the Broadway star fires London audience
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962. It’s a wonderful piece of musical theatre. Set in 1960’s New York, the musical tells the story of young window cleaner who buys a book about rising up the corporate ladder. This is a classic Broadway show with an irreverent libretto…
ADAM JONES: first poster for Bradley Cooper
The Weinster Company has just released the first poster for John Well’s new movie, written by Steven Knight and starring Bradley Cooper in the main role. Filmed last year in London, Adam Jones follows a chef (Bradley Cooper) as he assembles a crew together in the attempt to create the best restaurant ever. Starring opposite…
Londoners and musical lovers save the date: Jonathan Groff is coming to town!
For Broadway addicted it could seems too good to be true but actually it is not. It’s all real, so bring your pen and your agenda and open it on May 19 because Broadway and Glee star, Mr. Jonathan Groff himself will star in the London concert staging of the 1960s musical How To Succed…
BUYER & CELLAR: in the corner of my rounded mind
Amazon is getting crazy; in a week, in the Uk shop there are just 3 copies left of the book My Passion for Design by former Broadway star Barbra (please is Barb-ra without the middle A) Streisand. And it’s all Michael Urie fault. Because Buyer and Cellar it’s so great and funny you can’t go…
Merlin star Colin Morgan in a new Bonnie & Clyde Irish Western
The Scavengers is described as a modern Bonnie and Clyde western set in Ireland, produced by Jonny Paterson (Halfway) and starring Colm Meaney (Star Trek, Con Air, Get Him To The Greek), Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Fall, Parked, Testament of Youth) and Sarah Bolger (In America, Spiderwick Chronicles, Once Upon a Time).
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