J.G. Ballard

High-Rise (Movie Review)

PLOT: The assorted rich and poor tenants of a technocratic tower block begin to unravel after a sudden suicide is committed. REVIEW: With a prolific half-decade of moviemaking that has yielded four wildly disparate but equally astounding results – DOWN...

Posted 10 years ago

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It’s all fun and games until somebody takes a dive in this High-Rise clip

Posted 10 years ago

Ben Wheatley's HIGH-RISE has already been one of our most anticipated flicks of the summer, but this new clip might just be the straw that broke the back of my personal enthusiasm. A surrealistic nightmare of a party with scalpel-sharp sound...

The final High-Rise trailer is a lofty success

Posted 10 years ago

Ben Wheatley's HIGH-RISE is prepping for its UK release (on March 18th), so the final trailer has dropped. In it, you get a much clearer sense of what the film is about, but enough about that. The score in this trailer...

Things get dangerous for Tom Hiddleston in new High-Rise trailer

Posted 10 years ago

Ben Wheatley, director of such films as KILL LIST, SIGHTSEERS, and A FIELD IN ENGLAND appears to have brought an amazing visual style to his adaptation of the 1975 J.G. Ballard novel HIGH-RISE, a film that doesn't yet have a...

Ben Wheatley’s High Rise acquired by Magnet Releasing

Posted 10 years ago

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have acquired U.S. rights to HIGH-RISE, the new film from KILL LIST director Ben Wheatley. HIGH-RISE stars Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Elizabeth Moss....

First images from Bleed For This, Spotlight, High Rise and Daughter of God

Posted 11 years ago

We have a few first images to look at tonight from some promising movies heading our way this year. I’ll get right into it with something I hadn’t heard of until now and that’s BLEED FOR THIS. The first image...

Luke Evans & Elisabeth Moss join Tom Hiddleston in Ben Wheatley’s High Rise

Posted 12 years ago

Ben Wheatley's HIGH RISE already has a solid cast with Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons and James Purefoy, and now Variety is reporting two more actors have joined the latest project from the KILL LIST director. Luke Evans and...

Ben Wheatley talks his Tom Hiddleston starring adaptation of High Rise

Posted 12 years ago

Back in August of last year we told you about KILL LIST and SIGHTSEERS director Ben Wheatley's plans to take the helm on a long-gestating adaptation of J.G. Ballard's HIGH RISE, learning earlier this month that THOR and ONLY LOVERS...

Tom Hiddleston cast as lead in Ben Wheatley’s High Rise

Posted 12 years ago

We've been keeping close tabs on Ben Wheatley's upcoming adaptation of J.G. Ballard's HIGH-RISE with our latest report on it coming just yesterday when we shared Wheatley's plans to keep the darker tone of the novel in his film version....

Ben Wheatley talks plans for his adaptation of High Rise

Posted 12 years ago

Back in August of last year we told you about KILL LIST and SIGHTSEERS director Ben Wheatley's plans to take the helm on a long-gestating adaptation of J.G. Ballard's HIGH RISE, and now Wheatley has spoken out about his vision...

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