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Revolver Entertainment has acquired the UK rights to Ill Manors, rapper Ben Drew’s directorial debut. Ill Manors is a dark, multi-character story set on the tough streets of East London, and stars Drew (Adulthood), Riz Ahmed (Four Lions) and Natalie Press (Red Road). Film London, BBC Films and Skillset are financing the low-budget feature film, which [...]
Tonight saw the fall of the 31st Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which was held for the first time at London’s BFI Southbank. Our full report will be online later today with all the red carpet gossip and winner’s reactions. Want to see Danny Boyle advertising Moët, hear about Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series, or find [...]
Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Liya Kebed, Mark Strong and Tahar Rahim have been cast in Warner Bros. and Universal’s oil-centric drama Black Gold. Deadline confirm that Jean-Jacques Annaud will direct from a script from by Menno Meyjes. Black Gold tells the story of the rivalry between Arabian rulers in the 1930s just as oil is being [...]
HeyUGuys bumped into an old friend on our journey home tonight. We exchanged civilities and they asked the inevitable question “what have you been up to?” “Well,” we replied “actually we’ve been watching a film in a Soho car park”. And do you know what faithful readers – we spoke the truth. This evening our [...]
As with the other DVDs of Morris’s work, and I’m thinking specifically of The Day Today and the sublime Brass Eye, there is a wonderful menu when you load up the disc – totally surreal, and completely correct for the film. Immediately you know you’re in good hands. I reviewed this film when it was [...]
When Chris Morris announced he was making a comedy film about terrorism, specifically suicide bombers, it was inevitable that there would be a backlash. The BBC are running a story today which details the reaction to Four Lions, Morris’s debut feature film which is out in cinemas today, from some of the people who lost [...]
With the hugely influential media satires of Brass Eye and The Day Today behind him Chris Morris has fixed his eye on a subject which doesn’t so much court controversy but stick its tongue down its throat – a comedy about suicide bombers. And it takes someone with the comic genius and moral intelligence of [...]
To celebrate the release of Four Lions, in cinemas 7th May, we have two posters signed by the legendary Chris Morris give away! For more information about the film visit http://www.four-lions.co.uk/ Chris Morris’ Four Lions is a funny, thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. [...]
In AD 117 the Roman Empire spanned territory from Egypt to Spain and as far as the Black Sea to the East. In Northern Britain though, the Roman onslaught ground to a halt when it met an elusive enemy whose guerrilla tactics and surprise attacks made dominos of their rigid formations. These were the savage [...]
We’ve got 69 brand new high resolution images from the Neil Marshall directed Centurion. The movie stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Noel Clarke, Olga Kurylenko, David Morrissey, JJ Feild, Axelle Carolyn and Riz Ahmed. These awesome new images show both behind the scenes shots and shots from the movie itself. It’s scheduled for release 23rd [...]
A favourite at Sundance and long awaited by fans of Chris Morris’s work on The Day Today and Brass Eye, the jihadi comedy Four Lions has a great new poster. Empire had this one first and it shows a total understanding of the pitch black humour expected to fuel the film. The film tells of [...]
Last week, the guys at IGN gave us a lovely new trailer to feast our eyes on for Neil Marshall’s new Roman Empire epic, Centurion. Today they bring us a shiny new poster for the movie which stars Olga Kurylenko, Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Noel Clarke, JJ Feild, Imogen Poots, David Morrissey, Paul Freeman, Lee [...]
