Review: The Two Popes

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: On the eve of his retirement, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) is called to the Vatican for an emergency meeting with Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins), formerly one of his biggest opponents in the church. REVIEW: Fernando Meirelles’s...

Oscar winner Gary Oldman to star in Apple TV+ show Slow Horses

Posted 5 years ago

Before you ask no it's not a show about equines who've ingested too much tryptophan. While Gary Oldman (THE DARK KNIGHT, DARKEST HOUR) has certainly compiled quite the movie resume since he began his career with director Colin Gregg's 1982...

Darkest Hour director sets The Woman in the Window as his next feature

Posted 7 years ago

After helming the Winston Chruchill biopic DARKEST HOUR, the in-demand director, Joe Wright, has announced that he's signed on to bring a big screen adaptation of A.J. Finn's bestselling novel, The Woman in the Window, to theaters. Finn's novel centers on the...

Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking has died at age 76

Posted 7 years ago

Legendary British physicist and cultural icon Stephen Hawking has passed away at the age of 76. The announcement was made by his family who said he passed peacefully at his home in Cambridge, England. The press release put out by...

Gary Oldman smoked $20,000 worth of cigars while filming Darkest Hour

Posted 7 years ago

In order to play Winston Churchill in DARKEST HOUR, Gary Oldman underwent an incredible transformation which involved a fat suit, prosthetics, and hours upon hours of study, but one crucial piece of embodying Churchill wound up making the actor sick...

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in talks to re-team for The Aeronauts film

Posted 7 years ago

Word has come in this afternoon via Deadline that THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are in talks to re-team for THE AERONAUTS, an action adventure based on true events film for Amazon Studios. The project would...

Review: Darkest Hour

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2017 coverage. PLOT: Newly appointed prime minister Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) tries desperately to mobilize parliament against the on-coming Nazi onslaught in the early days of WW2. REVIEW: Joe Wright's DARKEST HOUR and...

Oldman is a tour de force in new Darkest Hour trailer

Posted 8 years ago

Fans of Gary Oldman may rejoice, for this year may finally be the year the acclaimed actor begins to gather the awards he has been denied for years with his stirring performance in DARKEST HOUR. Oldman has been receiving wild...

Gary Oldman is Winston Churchill in first Darkest Hour trailer

Posted 8 years ago

Gary Oldman has graced audiences for years by portraying a wide swath of diverse and complex characters. But more often than not he’s the supporting player (HARRY POTTER, THE DARK KNIGHT trilogy), even though we know full well he can...

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