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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Trailer – Lily James heads to the Channel Islands just after WWII

February 13, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s perhaps not surprising that in the US, the movie version of Annie Barrows’ popular novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, is going by the simpler title, Guernsey. However, in the UK we’re get the more verbose name for the Channel Island set film.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Lily James plays free-spirited journalist Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

‘Directed by Mike Newell, the film also stars Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some, Hidden Figures), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), Jessica Brown Findlay (Victor Frankenstein, Downton Abbey) and Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, The Boat That Rocked) with Tom Courtenay (45 Years, Doctor Zhivago) and Penelope Wilton (The BFG, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).’

The movie is due in UK cinemas on April 20th. Take a look at the trailer for the movie below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay, Penelope Wilton, MICHIEL HUISMAN, KATHERINE PARKINSON DIRECTORS: Mike Newell

England Is Mine (DVD Review) – The early days of Morrissey gets a movie

December 3, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Jack Lowden, Jessica Brown Findlay, Adam Lawrence, Jodie Comer, Simone Kirby
Director: Mark Gill
Running Time: 90 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: December 4th 2017 (UK)

To some, Morrissey is a figure who inspires devotion – the musician-poet of outsiders and of those wish the world were a different place. To others though, he’s a man who’s spent the past 35 years whining and becoming increasingly out of touch with life as lived by everyone else (not helped by the messianic adoration he still attracts from those who love him). He’d also probably be the last person to collaborate on a film biopic, so England Is Mine is very much unofficial, picking up Steven Patrick Morrissey’s life in the 70s, before anyone knew who he was. By concentrating on the time before he started collaborating with Johnny Marr, also helps the movie get around the fact that it would have been difficult, if not impossible, for them to get the rights to use any of The Smiths’ music. [Read more…]

Monster Family Trailer – A normal family turns Munster-esque in the British animated comedy

October 31, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The problem with a lot of the CG animated movies that aren’t backed by big studios and enormous budgets is that the end result looks a little shoddy. It’s great to see then a British/German independent production that both looks polished and as if it might be quite fun.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘This truly global family adventure features an all-star voice cast, including Emily Watson (On Chesil Beach), Jason Isaacs (The Death of Stalin), Nick Frost (The Huntsman: Winter’s War), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones’s Diary) and Catherine Tate (Doctor Who).

‘Based on David Safier’s best-selling novel, MONSTER FAMILY follows the very much unhappy Wishbone clan, Frank, Emma and their kids Max and Fay – under pressure and constantly at each other’s throats. When they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into their own monstrous party costumes, they must pull together to battle real-life beasts; reverse the curse; and prove that even a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and Frankenstein’s monster can eventually form one big happy family. When the Wishbones snap, only love can stitch them back together…’

Monster Family will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on 2nd March, 2018. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Jessica Brown Findlay, Celia Imrie, Catherine Tate

Jessica Brown Findlay Joins Daniel Radcliffe & James McAvoy In Frankenstein

September 11, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

At this rate there won’t be anyone in Downton Abbey who doesn’t have a burgeoning movie career (or in the case of Maggie Smith and Shirley Maclaine, an incredible, decades-spanning one). Now Lady Sybil Branson, aka actress Jessica Brown Findlay, is set to join the cast of Frankenstein, according to THR.

James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe are already set to star, with Paul McGuigan directing from a script by Max Landis. There still aren’t many details on the exact direction that this new take on Mary Shelley’s classic tale will take, although Landis has said he’s planning to put a sci-fi spin on the tale of a creature that is produced by a scientific experiment.

Radcliffe will be the manservant, Igor, with McAvoy and Dr. Frankenstein. Brown will be a ‘trapeze artist who is saved by Igor after an accident, with the two becoming very close in the aftermath’.

It certainly seems the Igor role will be significantly expanded from previous films (he is, after all, a movie creation rather than being in the book. Daniel Radcliffe recently said at the Toronto Film Festival, “It’s about two young, brilliant guys pushing each other. Eventually one loses his morality and the other has to bring him back.”

20th Century Fox is hoping to get the film into production as soon as possible, as there are various other Frankenstein movies in development all over Hollywood – and that’s not to mention the more modern I Frankenstein, starring Aaron Eckhart, which is out early next year.

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ACTORS: Jessica Brown Findlay, James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe DIRECTORS: Paul McGuigan FILMS: Frankenstein

Emilia Clarke & Jessica Brown Findlay Eyed For Captain America 2

October 3, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Once production wraps on Thor 2 and Iron Man 3, they’re quickly moving on to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Before then they need to get the new cast members sorted. Marvel and directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo are currently eyeing their leading lady, with Deadline reporting numerous actresses are testing for the role.

On the shortlist is Emilia Clarke (who’s worked with the Russos on Game of Thrones), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Imogen Poots (Fright Night) and Alison Brie (Community). The character they would be playing has not been announced, but it will be a modern day love interest for Steve Rogers. Some suggest the female lead will be somehow related to Peggy Carter, and it’s interesting that as with Hayley Atwell in the first film, they’re mainly looking at English actresses for the part.

It is also being reported that Scarlett Johansson will be making a cameo as Black Widow in the movie, ensuring the continuation of the broad Marvel Universe. Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be released April 4th, 2014.

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ACTORS: Emilia Clarke, Jessica Brown Findlay, Imogen Poots, Alison Brie DIRECTORS: Anthony Russo, Joe Russe FILMS: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Matt Bomer & Lucy Griffiths Head For The Promised Land

September 24, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It feels like Akiva Goldman has been putting together his directorial outing, Winter’s Tale, forever. It’s been slowly coming together for several years, and now it’s moved forward once again, with Deadline reporting that Matt Bomer, Lucy Griffiths and the legendary Eva Marie Saint have signed up to appear in the movie.

They join Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, William Hurt, Russell Crowe and Will Smith, with the last two taking very small roles as a favour to Goldsman, who’s worked with the previously on the likes of I Am Legend and A Beautiful Mind.

The romance, which will be producer/screenwriter Goldsman’s directorial debut, is based on Mark Helprin’s fantasy novel that splits it story of star-crossed lovers between 19th century and present-day Manhattan. Colin Farrell will play Peter Lake, an uneducated, middle-aged Irish burglar who meets the love of his life, sickly heiress Beverly Penn, while attempting to rob her palatial mansion in the Upper West Side. Jessica Brown Findlay of Downton Abbey will play his invalid lover.

Oddly though Bomer and Griffiths have been cast to play Peter’s parents, although quite how that will work, seeing as Farrell is older than both Bomer and Griffiths, isn’t clear. The producers haven’t revealed what role Saint will play, as apparently it would be a bit of a spoiler.

The movie will finally go in front of the cameras starting October 27th.

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ACTORS: Matt Bomer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Colin Farrell DIRECTORS: Akiva Goldsman FILMS: Winter's Tale