When I was in college cinema courses I made a Super 8 film called Movie Girl. It was a Hollywood-set love letter to movies centered on a Musso & Frank waitress who put herself dreamily into the plots of classic films. It won an award...
“Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” star Morfydd Clark is set to headline a biopic “Making Noise,” about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman who became the world’s premier solo percussionist. Multi-Grammy winner Glennie, who hails from Scotland, experienced profound hearing loss as a child....
Star Agnes O’Casey brings a modern edge to this adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Uncle Silas’ In Lies We Tell, director Lisa Mucahy, working with writer Elisabeth Gooch, puts a feminist top-spin on the Victorian ‘locked-up lady’ genre exemplified by Sheridan Le Fanu’s source novel ‘Uncle...
Maggie Smith, Laura Linney and Kathy Bates play old friends on a trip from Dublin to the sacred French town of Lourdes in a film focusing less on external feats than internal healing. Those inclined to believe in miracles, especially Catholics, are the intended audience for...
“The Miracle Club” may not be a faith-based movie in the traditional sense (that is, a film made with an explicitly evangelical Christian agenda), but this Ireland-set art-house offering is a movie about faith all the same — specifically, about the conviction that drives four...
A Barbie figure of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir would be a good idea, according to Helen Mirren, who stars in both Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF) opening title Golda and narrates Warner Bros’ upcoming blockbuster Barbie. Speaking at a press conference for Golda ahead of...
Anything that brings Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney together for a smart and engaging movie that will lift your spirits these days is a miracle all by itself. Indeed, The Miracle Club is a reason to celebrate this summer, if only for the...
1. Barbie Somehow, one of the year's most anticipated films is a live-action tie-in to a range of Mattel children's dolls – and they're not even dolls that everyone likes. "We have to acknowledge that there are a lot of people who aren't fans of Barbie,"...
Story of four Irish women who leave Dublin for the first time will be screened in New York next Monday For almost 20 years, film-makers had struggled to make a heartwarming film about four riotous working-class Irish women, but they just could not make it happen...
Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s biopic Golda, starring Helen Mirren as Israel’s iconic Prime Minister Golda Meir, will open the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, running from July 13 to 23. The festival has also announced that Justine Triet’s Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or winner Anatomy...
Katharine Hepburn lived her 96 years with such a thigh-slapping can-do relish she was probably as infuriating to live with as she was captivating to watch. You sometimes sensed in Lorna Tucker’s film Katharine Hepburn: Call Me Kate (Sky Arts/Now) that she was also quite...
Following the success of “Purple Hearts,” Embankment will launch global pre-sales of new romantic movie, “The Upside of Falling Down,” at the Cannes film market. The film is directed by Oran Zegman (“Honor Society”) and stars Antonia Gentry from worldwide hit “Ginny & Georgia” alongside Calam...