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Known for his commanding presence and impressive skill with prose, Sir Ian McKellen is among the best actors of a generation who can bring depth to any role he’s given, create great chemistry with other actors and capture the audience’s attention whenever on screen. Appearing in several films over decades, the actor has performed in all sorts of genres and has consistently chosen projects that engage with the viewer, while also highlighting great filmmaking on display.

At the same time, some dedicated fans may assume that Ian McKellen’s work extends to only franchise-heavy material, however, the actor’s expansive filmography ranges in size of spectacle, drama and narrative scale, where no matter the film, Ian McKellen commits himself to the performance and helps make each project that much better. Moreover, with each Ian McKellen film offering something different to say to viewers, it re-establishes how truly versatile...

BritBox has announced that Shetland Season 9 will premiere on December 11, 2024. New episodes will air weekly until the finale on January 15. Previous seasons of Shetland are available to stream on BritBox.

The new season of the acclaimed murder-mystery drama sees Ashley Jensen and Alison O’Donnell reprise their roles as Detectives Ruth Calder and Alison ‘Tosh’ McIntosh.

A double missing persons case blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, as Calder and Tosh are drawn into a labyrinthine investigation. When Tosh’s friend, Annie Bett, goes missing she suspects something is seriously wrong.

Ruth Calder – now living in Shetland – has no time to recover from a life-threatening ordeal of her own, as together they set out in search of Annie and her young son, Noah. They discover accountant Annie is estranged from her husband, Ian, and has been staying with mussel farmer John Harris and his two sons, Patrick and Fergus.

Here’s one mystery Detectives Calder and McIntosh won’t have to solve — when Shetland Season 9 will hit BritBox.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Season 9 of the Scottish murder-mystery drama will premiere Wednesday, Dec. 11 on BritBox, with episodes airing weekly until the finale on Jan. 15, 2025.

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With Ashley Jensen and Alison O’Donnell reprising their roles as Detectives Ruth Calder and Alison “Tosh” McIntosh,...

While working on studio projects, Kenneth Branagh had also been pursuing a more ‘indie’ project with All Is True, returning to his longtime interest in Shakespeare. Starring Branagh along with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, the filmmaker/actor called up his pals at Sony Classics about taking on the title, which it opens stateside this weekend. Following doc hits Apollo 11 and Amazing Grace, Neon is going for three with the Friday release of documentary The Biggest Little Farm, which debuted in Telluride last fall. IFC Films is opening crime biodrama Charlie Says by director Mary Harron and starring Matt Smith and Hannah Murray in the top 25 markets this weekend ahead of its on-demand availability beginning May 17, while Cohen Media Group is out with French-language drama My Son starring Guillaume Canet in New York and L.A.

Other limited releases include Kino Lorber’s Pasolini from Abel Ferrara, starring Willem Dafoe...

On Monday, June 9, 2014, Sir Kenneth Branagh presented the Shakespeare Medal to Richard Easton and The Public Theater's Oskar Eustis presented the Linda Gross Playing Shakespeare Award to Hamish Linklater at the Shakespeare Society's Annual Playing Shakespeare Celebration. Scroll down for photos of the event, which included guests such as Lily Rabe, Jack O'Brien, Stephen DeRosa, Jacob Fishel, Jimmy Yuill, Dakin Matthews, Chukwudi Iwuji, and more...

Interview Simon Brew 22 Jan 2014 - 05:47

We catch up with Kenneth Branagh to chat Jack Ryan, In The Bleak Midwinter and paying Joan Collins in postal orders.

It's a very quiet, calm, polite and considered Kenneth Branagh we meet in the midst of a posh hotel in London. Outside the door of the allotted room there's a buzz of activity. Behind it? There's Branagh, hours away from the premiere of his latest movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, enjoying the simple pleasure of a cup of tea. Which is when we hit him with our bombshell...

I fear somebody didn't give you the handover notes when doing a Jack Ryan movie and playing a Russian character. That you either have to approach it by getting in Sean Connery, and not bother with the accent at all, or you have to get in someone like the late Richard Marner from 'Allo 'Allo.

Kenneth Branagh and Doctor Who's Alex Kingston are to star in a new production of Macbeth at Manchester International Festival 2013.

Branagh will play the title role and act as co-director alongside Rob Ashford, while Kingston will play the role of Lady Macbeth.

Royal Shakespeare Company members Jimmy Yuill and John Shrapnel will play Banquo and Duncan respectively, while Norman Bowman (Finding Neverland) takes on the role of Ross.

Merlin's Alexander Vlahos will play Malcolm, with Coronation Street's Ray Fearon cast as Macduff.

Rosalie Craig, Laura Elsworthy, Anjana Vasan and Charlie Cameron make up the rest of the cast.

Macbeth will be broadcast via a one-off live relay on a big screen in central Manchester on Saturday 20 July at 8.30pm.

*full disclosure: a Blu-Ray screener of this film was provided by 20th Century Fox for review. Director: James McTeigue. Writers: Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jimmy Yuill, Sam Hazeldine, Pam Ferris, Brendan Coyle, Adrian Rawlins, Aidan Feore, and Dave Legeno. Tagline: "The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him." The Raven originally released in theatres in April, 2012. The film was well received; but, this title was by no means a hit. Recently, this feature was released for the first time on home video formats (October 9th). The Raven is light entertainment. Although Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American writer with an interesting history, the film here is a fictional account of Poe's final days. Poe must track down his nemesis by revisiting his best works such as "The Raven...

Welcome to our new web series: Ticket or Skip It. Reporting from his room aboard the USS Echo, a small submarine conducting biological research in the Atlantic Ocean, comes reviewer Corey Wood, who has agreed to grace us on a weekly basis with an update of all the new films hitting cinemas around the world (which he gets to watch via satellite in a private screening room aboard this seafaring vessel). Watch as Corey loves up on The Raven while punching The Five-Year Engagement in the face.

About The Raven, Mr. Wood had this to say.

"I really enjoyed it. It is my favorite movie of 2012 so far."

The Five-Year Engagement brought the exact opposite reaction.

"This movie sucked. It was horrible. I was so disappointed, and baffled by how bad this film turned out to be."

Ticket or Skip It: The Raven

Ticket or Skip It: The Five-Year Engagement

This week,...

Relativity Media is releasing their thriller The Raven in theaters April 27, which stars John Cusack as the poet Edgar Allan Poe. We have a contest running and we're giving away The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe and a poster signed by stars John Cusack and Alice Eve. These prizes will surely go fast, so enter this contest today.

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The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life - and death - in this stylish, gothic thriller...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 35 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the stylish thriller “The Raven” with John Cusack! Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe.

“The Raven” also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Luke Evans, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jimmy Yuill, Sam Hazeldine, Pam Ferris, Brendan Coyle, Adrian Rawlins, Aidan Feore and Dave Legeno from director James McTeigue and writers Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. The film opens nationwide on April 27, 2012.

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Relativity Media has released a new trailer for The Raven, director James McTeigue's gothic horror tale hitting theaters April 27. John Cusack stars as the famed writer Edgar Allan Poe, who learns that his work has become the inspiration for a serial killer. This video features Alice Eve, who is being buried alive, the killer's nod to Edgar Allan Poe's story, The Tell-Tale Heart.

The Raven - A Tell Tale Heart Trailer

The Raven comes to theaters April 27th, 2012 and stars John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jimmy Yuill, Sam Hazeldine. The film is directed by James McTeigue.

In Carl Tibbetts’ debut film as a writer and director, he paints a portrait of a modern couple thrown into the most primitive of situations. While vacationing in a remote island cottage they had come to some eight years prior, Martin (Cillian Murphy) and Kate (Thandie Newton) are confronted with the true horrors of humanity when Jack (Jamie Bell) arrives to disturb their peaceful getaway.

The film starts out quietly, as Martin and Kate are delivered to their destination by Doug (Jimmy Yuill), the owner of the cottage, and they go about “enjoying” themselves. There is so much tension in these early scenes between the couple that I wondered why they would isolate themselves further from the world in an attempt to heal their collective wounds.

A wounded soldier (Jamie Bell) is found on the beach one morning by Martin and brought back to the cabin against Kate’s wishes.

We have added the new trailer for Sony Pictures and first time director Carl Tibbetts upcoming remote island thriller, "Retreat."The film stars Cillian Murphy, Thandie Newton, Jamie Bell and Jimmy Yuill.Watch the intense new trailer for "Retreat" below;"Retreat" is released across the Us from October 21st and the UK from October 14th.Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island "Retreat." Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

In indie film, we have new images from two Roadside Attractions releases. First up - Winter's Bone debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival and is helmed by Debra Ganik who adapts alongside Anne Rosellini based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell. The film won two awards at Sundance - The Grand Jury Prize (dramatic) as well as the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Isaiah Stone and Shelley Waggener. It's a limited release June 11, 2010, but definitely worth viewing. Make sure you read our review (5/5). Next up, there are three new images in from "Princess Kaiulani" starring Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton, Shaun Evans and Jimmy Yuill. The Marc Forby-helmed and written drama opens May 14th in limited areas...

In Part 2 of our 20 Most Anticipated Period Films, we're listing down another 10 up and coming period movies. But this time, a lot of the movies' release dates are still unavailable.

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- - - However, these period flicks have generated a lot of buzz and obviously, there's a lot of excitement in their upcoming release. With stars such as Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, James McAvoy, among others, how can they not create excitement?

More about these flicks, stills and their trailers after the jump!

# 10 - Black Death

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Timeline: The 14th Century

Director: Christopher Smith

Stars: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne

The Plot: In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to...

In Part 2 of our 20 Most Anticipated Period Films, we're listing down another 10 up and coming period movies. But this time, a lot of the movies' release dates are still unavailable.

- - -

- - - However, these period flicks have generated a lot of buzz and obviously, there's a lot of excitement in their upcoming release. With stars such as Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, James McAvoy, among others, how can they not create excitement?

More about these flicks, stills and their trailers after the jump!

# 10 - Black Death

- - -

Timeline: The 14th Century

Director: Christopher Smith

Stars: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne

The Plot: In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to...

In Part 2 of our 20 Most Anticipated Period Films, we're listing down another 10 up and coming period movies. But this time, a lot of the movies' release dates are still unavailable.

- - -

- - - However, these period flicks have generated a lot of buzz and obviously, there's a lot of excitement in their upcoming release. With stars such as Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, James McAvoy, among others, how can they not create excitement?

More about these flicks, stills and their trailers after the jump!

# 10 - Black Death

- - -

Timeline: The 14th Century

Director: Christopher Smith

Stars: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne

The Plot: In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to...

In Part 2 of our 20 Most Anticipated Period Films, we're listing down another 10 up and coming period movies. But this time, a lot of the movies' release dates are still unavailable.

- - -

- - - However, these period flicks have generated a lot of buzz and obviously, there's a lot of excitement in their upcoming release. With stars such as Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, James McAvoy, among others, how can they not create excitement?

More about these flicks, stills and their trailers after the jump!

# 10 - Black Death

- - -

Timeline: The 14th Century

Director: Christopher Smith

Stars: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne

The Plot: In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to...

In Part 2 of our 20 Most Anticipated Period Films, we're listing down another 10 up and coming period movies. But this time, a lot of the movies' release dates are still unavailable.

- - -

- - - However, these period flicks have generated a lot of buzz and obviously, there's a lot of excitement in their upcoming release. With stars such as Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, James McAvoy, among others, how can they not create excitement?

More about these flicks, stills and their trailers after the jump!

# 10 - Black Death

- - -

Timeline: The 14th Century

Director: Christopher Smith

Stars: Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Eddie Redmayne

The Plot: In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to...