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Mix in a dash of Mike Leigh and a sprinkling of Hitchcock suspense and you have an approximation of the atmosphere of this odd couple tale from Paul Andrew Williams who previously gave us the noir drama London To Brighton and revenge thriller Bull.

It starts off amiably enough by describing the mundane existence of 80-year-old Elsie (Brenda Blethyn almost unrecognisable from her Vera persona) and her neighbour Colleen (Birdman’s Andrea Riseborough) who offers to help after social services fall far short.

Both women share a common bond in that they have been consigned to the fringes of society yet seem to rub along - Elsie doesn’t like to make fuss, while Colleen’s precise motives remain unclear although it’s doubtful if she is purely altruistic in her intentions.

The performances of double Oscar-nominated Blethyn and Riseborough provide hypnotic accounts of their characters as two vulnerable souls...

Director David Zellner has credits going back to 1997, when he made his feature directorial debut with the comedy Plastic Utopia, working from a screenplay he wrote with his brother, visual effects artist Nathan Zellner. As of the 2018 Western Damsel, the Zellner Brothers became a directing duo, and in 2020 it was announced that they were going to be making an alien invasion comedy called Alpha Gang, with Andrea Riseborough, Jon Hamm, Nicholas Hoult, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mackenzie Davis, Sofia Boutella, and Steven Yeun attached to star in the film. But Alpha Gang missed its 2021 production start date and the Zellner Brothers made Sasquatch Sunset instead. Nine months ago, it was announced that the Zellners were circling back to Alpha Gang, and the impressive cast they originally had lined up was replaced by a different impressive bunch of actors: Cate Blanchett (Disclaimer), Dave Bautista (Knock at the Cabin), Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die...

Mix in a dash of Mike Leigh and a sprinkling of Hitchcock suspense and you have an approximation of the atmosphere of this odd couple tale from Paul Andrew Williams who previously gave us the noir drama London To Brighton and revenge thriller Bull.

It starts off amiably enough by describing the mundane existence of 80-year-old Elsie (Brenda Blethyn almost unrecognisable from her Vera persona) and her neighbour Colleen (Birdman’s Andrea Riseborough) who offers to help after social services fall far short.

Both women share a common bond in that they have been consigned to the fringes of society yet seem to rub along - Elsie doesn’t like to make fuss, while Colleen’s precise motives remain unclear although it’s doubtful if she is purely altruistic in her intentions.

The performances of double Oscar-nominated Blethyn and Riseborough provide hypnotic accounts of their characters as two vulnerable souls on the edge -.

Presented by Broke Horror Fan (that’s me!), Mandy is now available on VHS from Witter Entertainment.

Written and directed by Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow), Nicolas Cage stars in the 2018 cult classic alongside Andrea Riseborough (Possessor) and Linus Roache (The Chronicles of Riddick).

The film returns to VHS with two variants: a standard slipcase with artwork by Vasilis Zikos for $30, and a Cheddar Goblin book box edition featuring a gatefold cover and a glow-in-the-dark orange tape, limited to 150, for $50.

A very small quantity of leftover editions from earlier pressings are also available while supplies last.

Expected to ship in September, it’s officially licensed from Rlje Films and has been approved by producers SpectreVision. For optimal VHS viewing, the film has been cropped from its original aspect ratio to 4:3 full frame.

The quiet life of devoted couple Red (Cage) and Mandy (Riseborough) takes a dark and bizarre...

All six of Connery’s ‘official’ 007 films will be screened in 4K restorations, with big names including Andrea Riseborough, Peter Dinklage and Renée Zellweger also on show

Andrea Riseborough, Peter Dinklage, Renée Zellweger and – inevitably – the late Sean Connery will be among the big names on show at the Edinburgh international film festival, which announced its programme today.

A clutch of world premieres at the festival includes a remake of trash classic The Toxic Avenger, starring Dinklage alongside Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood and Julia Davis, while Riseborough appears opposite Brenda Blethyn in Paul Andrew Williams’s Tribeca festival hit Dragonfly. Zellweger appears in a behind-the-scenes role, with the world premiere of her directorial debut, an animated short film called They. And in what appears something of a coup, the festival will screen 4K restorations of Connery’s six “official” James Bond films: Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball,...

The Old Vic has announced the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe, starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon and Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough. Directed by Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, the production will run from 23 September to 1 November 2025, with press night on Wednesday 8 October. This marks Sarandon’s UK stage debut and Riseborough’s return to the theatre after 15 years. Mary Page Marlowe is a sweeping, time-jumping portrait of one woman’s life, told across 90 minutes, 70 years, 11 scenes, and 5 different portrayals of Mary. Sarandon and Riseborough will play Mary at different stages of her life. Additional casting will be announced soon. The play premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in 2016 and...

Oscar winner Susan Sarandon said she’s “terrified but excited” to be making her UK stage debut this fall at London’s The Old Vic Theatre starring with Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough in the U.K. premiere of Tracy Letts’ play Mary Page Marlowe which spans 70 years in a woman’s life.

Sarandon and Riseborough will play the title character at different stages of her story.

The production will be directed by The Old Vic’s artistic director Matthew Warchus in his final season before stopping down in September 2026.

Sarandon has appeared both on and off Broadway several times beginning with An Evening with Richard Nixon and … that ran 16 performances at the Shubert Theatre in 1972. She last trod the boards in NYC in Jesse Eisenberg’s Happy Talk at the Pershing Square Signature center in 2019.

I saw her in Eisenberg’s play.

As he approaches his 76th birthday, which falls on July 26, Jeremy Thomas shows no signs of slowing up.

“I am never going to stop [producing]. It’s my life,” said the taboo-breaking UK producer of The Last Emperor, Crash and Naked Lunchat Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival (Mff),where he is receiving a lifetime achievement award.

As ever, the Recorded Picture Company founder has plenty of new work in the pipeline, including“five or six workable scripts that I am trying to make”.

He is also readying a slate of projects to be unveiled in the coming months: Takashi Miike’s...

Two movies from 2013 are making headway on the streaming charts currently. An underrated movie starring Jason Statham and Frank Grillo is climbing up Prime Video’s Top 10 streaming chart and has now surpassed a Tom Cruise sci-fi blockbuster. As of June 28, Homefront is now up one spot in Prime Video’s top 10, per FlixPatrol. The film, written by Sylvester Stallone, is currently No. 7 in the top 10 Prime Video movies, while Cruise’s Oblivion has dropped to No. 9.

Satham also has another film in the Top 10, as The Beekeeperis currently in the No. 10 spot of all movies on Prime Video. Ben Affleck’s The Accountant 2 retains the top spot for now on the streamer.

Prime Video Top 10 Movies Image via FlixPatrol James Franco and Winona Ryder Co-Star

Homefront stars Statham as a former DEA agent named Phil Broker who moves to a quiet town in the bayou with his daughter.

Karla Sofía Gascón will not be voting for the next Best Picture winner. The Spanish actress, who was nominated this year for Best Actress for “Emilia Pérez,” was not on the list of 534 people whom the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited to join. Gascón’s co-star Adriana Paz, who was not nominated, was among the 2025 invitees. Their “Emilia Pérez” co-star Zoe Saldaña, who won this year for Best Supporting Actress, was already a member.

While an Oscar nomination automatically qualifies someone for Academy membership, an invitation is not a guarantee. In this case, the Actors Branch would make a recommendation and then the Academy Board of Governors has final say. But Gascón, who found herself at the center of a prolonged controversy this past winter due to the discovery of racist tweets she had previously sent, is only the second first-time Best Actress nominee from the past...

Stellan Skarsgård will receive the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Skarsgård will also present his latest film, Joachim Trier’s quiet stunner “Sentimental Value,” which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Vicky Krieps will also receive the President’s Award. Johnson will present her two latest films, Michael Angelo Covino’s hilarious “Splitsville” and Celine Song’s deconstructed rom-com “Materialists,” while Sarsgaard presents the underrated 2003 journalism drama “Shattered Glass” and Krieps her new drama “Love Me Tender.”

Among many other attendees, there will also be American director, actor, and screenwriter Jay Duplass who will presents his latest bittersweet comedy “The Baltimorons,” French actress Camille Cottin who will present the world premiere of her film “Out of Love,” Hungarian director Bence Fliegau who will be there...

F1: The Movie is set to race into theaters next week, but Prime Video viewers are doing some last-minute pre-race preparations by watching one of director Joseph Kosinski's previous films. Oblivion, the science-fiction thriller Koskinski made in 2013 with Tom Cruise, has climbed up to #4 on the Prime Video charts. Oblivion was Kosinski's sophomore effort, coming three years after he made his film debut with Tron: Legacy.

Oblivion was a financial success, making $286 million Usd on a $120 million budget, although reviews were mixed. It currently holds a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Collider's Matt Goldberg landed on the negative side. In his review, he criticizes the film for being "more concerned with its gorgeous visuals and rousing score while the emotions become lost in a shuffle of reveals and fragmented ideas." The film turned out to be a prelude for Kosinski and Cruise's next collaboration, Top Gun: Maverick, which busted...

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The Waterfront is a family crime drama series created by Kevin Williamson. The Netflix series is set in North Carolina, and it follows the Buckley family, who own and operate the state’s most storied fishing empire, but when the family business faces trouble, they decide to turn to a life of crime and begin smuggling drugs. The Waterfront stars Holt McCallany, Maria Bello, Melissa Benoist, Jake Weary, Rafael L. Silva, Humberly González, Danielle Campbell, and Brady Hepner. So, if you loved the intense family drama, thrilling crime story, and compelling characters in The Waterfront, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The chaos and the constant danger from both the drug dealers and cops is extremely thrilling to watch in The Waterfront, and that’s why this series had an...

It’s always risky to mix genres, but some movies pull off the trick with more skill than others. Dragonfly, which had its world premiere this week in Tribeca, starts as an intimate character drama, with two Oscar-nominated British actresses — Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough — at the top of their game. (They were given a joint acting award by one of the juries at the festival.) Paul Andrew Williams’ movie unfolds at a fairly leisurely but rewarding pace until an event occurs that unhinges one of the characters and turns the movie closer to the horror genre, with a blood-splattered finale. Reactions will surely be mixed about this surprise tonal shift, but there is no doubt that the film sticks in the memory.

Blethyn plays Elsie, an elderly woman living in a drab housing complex and tended to by caregivers who do the bare minimum to meet her needs. Her...

Exclusive: Vantage Media, the U.S. distribution offshoot of sales firm Vmi Worldwide, has hired Kellie Mutch as President of North American Distribution.

Mutch formally served as Vice President of Partner Management for Gravitas Ventures, Director Digital Customer Marketing for Twentieth Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company and was the Director of Sales and Marketing at The Orchard.

Vantage Media’s releases have included What Remains starring Stellan Skarsgärd and Andrea Riseborough, Haunted Heart with Matt Dillon and directed by Fernando Trueba, Popeye The Slayer Man, Camera starring Beau Bridges, and Junction with Bryan Greenberg, Jamie Chung and Sophia Bush.

LA-based Vmi Worldwide was founded in 2010 by Andre Relis. The company specialises in independent commercially-oriented film distribution.

Mutch said: “I am very impressed with Vantage Media and what Andre and the team have accomplished over the years. I am excited to bring my background and knowledge of independent distribution to such an innovative team.

A challenging film to both review and market without spoiling, Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly largely succeeds because it never quite telegraphs where it’s going until its third act. My thoughts are with the distributor that eventually picks up this film and has to decide what kind of trailer to cut for a work that largely spends its runtime as a straightforward social-realist story centered on the loneliness of neighbors. Those familiar with the output of writer-director Williams (including Bull and London to Brighton) will know better than to expect a traditional drama about working-class England in the vein of contemporary Mike Leigh and Ken Loach––even if Williams certainly can pull it off as well as those masters for his first half.

Of course, excellent casting helps, and Dragonfly works well because of the sympathetic performance of its leads, including the great Brenda Blethyn (perhaps best-known stateside for her...

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the winners of its audience and jury prizes for the 24th installment. Charliebird, the story of a bond between a music therapist at a children's hospital and one of her patients from director Libby Ewing, took the top honor in the U.S. Narrative Feature competition.

Also taking top prizes were the winner of Best International Narrative Feature, Happy Birthday, from Egypt, and winner of Best Documentary Feature, Natchez, from director Suzannah Herbert.

Natchez focuses on the American South and the region's relationship to its Antebellum history through the lens of one town in Mississippi.

An examination of childhood and class in Egypt, Happy Birthday follows an 8-year-old maid as she tries to ensure that her employer's daughter has a perfect birthday celebration.

You can find a complete list of the winners from the 24th Tribeca Film Festival below.

U.S. Narrative Competition

Founders Award for Best U.

Charliebird, Happy Birthday and Natchez took top honors Thursday in the U.S. Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary competitions, respectively, at the 24th annual Tribeca Festival.

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the Performance Award for international narrative feature Dragonfly, leading a strong showing by women across the majority of categories at the ceremony held today at Racket NYC. Winners also highlighted first-time feature directors and a notable presence of Latin American cinema throughout the competition.

The festival wraps on June 15 in NYC.

“Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” said fest director and SVP Programming Cara Cusumano. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

All winning films in the U.S. Narrative category are first-time directors including Libby Ewing for Charliebird; Cristian Carretero...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival has announced this year’s award winners.

Charliebird, Happy Birthday and Natchez took the top awards in the U.S. narrative, international narrative and documentary competitions, respectively.

Happy Birthday won three awards in total including best screenplay in an international narrative feature and the Nora Ephron award for first-time director Sara Goher.

Natchez also received special jury mentions for cinematography and editing. And Esta Isla won two awards — best new narrative director for Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina and best cinematography in a U.S. narrative feature — and received a special jury mention for best U.S. narrative feature.

In addition to the Founders Award for best U.S. narrative feature, Charliebird‘s Gabriela Ochoa Perez won best performance in a U.S. narrative feature.

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the performance award for Dragonfly. All winning films in the U.S. narrative category were from first-time directors,...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival has announced its jury winners. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” leads the awards, taking the top honor in the U.S. Narrative section. “Happy Birthday” and “Natchez” were both recognized in the respective International Narrative and Documentary competitions, with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn sharing the Performance Award for “Dragonfly.”

“Every year at Tribeca we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” Tribeca Festival director and SVP of programming Cara Cusumano said. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

The Tribeca 2025 awards championed first-time directors such as Ewing (“Charliebird”), Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina (“Esta Isla”) with the Best New Narrative Director Award, Isabel Hagen (“On a String”) with the Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature award, Walter Thompson-Hernandez (“Kites”) with the Viewpoints Award,...

The Tribeca Festival 2025 has announced the complete list of winners for each of its competition categories. Libby Ewing’s “Charliebird” won the Founders Award for Best U.S. narrative feature, Sarah Goher’s “Happy Birthday” won best international narrative feature and Suzannah Herbert’s “Natchez” won for best documentary feature.

Awards were given out for the following categories: U.S. narrative, international narrative, documentary, viewpoints, the Albery Maysles award, the Nora Ephron award, short film, best new directors, storytelling, games, AT&T untold stories and Tribeca X.

“Every year at Tribeca, we set out to spotlight the most exciting new voices from around the world,” Cara Cusumano, Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming said in a statement. “We are thrilled our jury honored this mission with winners that brilliantly represent the vibrancy and diversity of global independent storytelling today.”

The winners of the audience award, which are determined by audience votes throughout the festival,...

In the quiet landscape of suburban Britain, where identical bungalows stand shoulder to shoulder, director Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly opens not with a bang, but with a profound silence. We meet two women living lives that are mirror images of solitude.

In one home is Elsie (Brenda Blethyn), an elderly widow whose days are measured by the impersonal visits of agency nurses. She’s not a person; she’s a checklist of duties—bathed, fed, left alone. Her existence has become a sterile routine. Next door, separated by a single wall, lives Colleen (Andrea Riseborough), a much younger woman whose isolation is more feral.

Guarded and reclusive, her only real companion is Sabre, her enormous bull terrier. She is a ghost in her own life, a fringe dweller in a world that has largely forgotten her. The film lets us sit in their loneliness until a simple offer to fetch...

In Panos Cosmatos' psychedelic 2018 heavy-metal horror cult/revenge epic "Mandy," the laconic lumberjack Red (Nicolas Cage) lives in connubial bliss with his beloved girlfriend Mandy (Andrea Riseborough) in a remote cabin way out in the middle of the Oregonian woods. They spend their days listening to music and staring lovingly at one another. Rather suddenly, though, their idyll is interrupted by a local religious cult, led by the drugged-out, sex-crazed Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roach). Jeremiah is convinced that he is an actual messiah after years of taking hallucinogens and seems to have access to legitimately supernatural demonic bikers (who look like trashier versions of the cenobites from "Hellraiser"). Jeremiah kidnaps Mandy and tries to convince her to be one of his concubines. When she laughs at his naked body, Jeremiah gets mad and burns her alive while Red watches. Everything is bleak and bloody and terrible.

"Mandy" is a stylish,...

Paul Andrew Williams’s feature debut was called London to Brighton (2006), but the British director has never been much interested in capital cities. His latest, Dragonfly, is another example of this, being a dark, low-key drama about the ways in which the unnoticed lives of suburban people can make surprising headlines. In a direct way, it’s a sister piece to his provocative 2010 home invasion film Cherry Tree Lane, in which—pre-empting Adolescence—a middle-class couple’s humdrum live is turned upside down when they are inexplicably attacked by violent teenage rebels without any apparent cause.

In reality, though—and despite the blood spilt both onscreen and off—it turns out to be more like the film Williams made in 2012. Called Song for Marion, it starred Terence Stamp as an emotionally shut-down widower who joins a choir to pay homage to his late wife (Vanessa Redgrave). It wasn’t a commercial success,...

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Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough, along with a very alarming dog, are superb as two neighbours thrown together by their neglected circumstances

Twenty years ago, Paul Andrew Williams announced himself as a smart new British talent with his ferocious gangland picture London to Brighton, and his creativity has continued in film and TV ever since. His new film is a haunted, social-realist drama with elements of Mike Leigh but also moments of thriller and even horror. Williams isn’t shy of stabbing us with an old-fashioned jump scare towards the end, which in fact challenges the audiences with its refusal of categorisation. There are two superb lead performances from Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn and an outstanding supporting turn from Jason Watkins.

Dragonfly is about loneliness and alienation and about the eternal mystery of other people, the fear of intimacy and the unknowable existence of urban neighbours.

The 24th annual Tribeca Film Festival 2025 kicked off Wednesday, June 4, with the world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Screening at the Beacon Theatre, the HBO original two-part documentary offers an expansive look into the legendary artist’s life, tracing the love, loss, and personal struggles that profoundly influenced his songwriting.

The opening night of the fest was attended by the film’s producer Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Mariska Hargitay, Whoopi Goldberg, Mira Sorvino, Gary Goetzman, Steve Zahn, Rick Gomez, and many more. Joel, who is recovering from an illness, did not attend tonight.

The festival’s feature film slate includes Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer starring in Tow; The Best You Can starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick marking their first co-starring roles in 20 years; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going to be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

The Tribeca Festival will launch its 24th edition Wednesday night with a brighter spotlight on shorts and more music documentaries then ever dotting its characteristically eclectic slate, and amid growing financial challenges for arts and entertainment.

World premieres like Tow by Stephanie Laing with Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer and Demi Lovato, Everything’s Going To Be Great by Jon S. Baird starring Allison Janney and Bryan Cranston, Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn, Michael Weithorn’s The Best You Can with Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, and Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s Re-Creation with Vickey Krieps join animated psychedelic horror Dog of God from Latvia — the land of Flow. The lineup is heavy on directorial debuts with Kites from Brazil’s Walter-Thompson Hernández set in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, The Scout by Paula Andrea González-Nasser about a location scout in NYC, Westhhampton by Christian Nilsson...

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 59th edition, including new features by Bence Fliegauf, Miro Remo and Ondřej Provazník.

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The festival, which runs from July 4-July 12 in the Czech spa town, has announced 11 titles for its main Crystal Globe Competition, comprising nine world premieres and two international premieres.

Artistic director Karel Och said that one more title from Iran will be added to the Competition closer to the festival, with the announcement postponed “for the safety of its makers.”

Hungarian director Bence Fliegauf, whose Forest - I See...

The upcoming Josh O’Connor film “Rebuilding” will screen as part of the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival along with multiple world premieres, Kviff organizers announced on Tuesday.

The festival announced 11 films in its Crystal Globe competition section, but added that the section will include a 12th film from Iran. Artistic director Karel Och said in a release that the announcement of this final feature has been postponed until closer to the festival out of consideration for “the safety of its makers.”

“Rebuilding,” which makes its international premiere at the festival, immerses us in the life of a rancher (O’Connor) whose ranch has been destroyed in a wildfire and must now pick up the pieces in his life. It’s written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, who previously made his feature debut with the delicate drama “A Love Song” in 2022. “Rebuilding” previously premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival...

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Mountainhead is a satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Jesse Armstrong. The HBO film revolves around four billionaire friends as they gather for a secluded weekend retreat at a mountain head villa while the whole world struggles because of major financial turmoil. Mountainhead stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef. So, if you loved the biting dark comedy, pointed satire, and compelling but unlikable characters in Mountainhead, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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In the Loop is a British satirical dark comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, and Tony Roche. Based on the British series The Thick of It, the 2009 film revolves around the fallout that followed after...

Benedict Cumberbatch, Riz Ahmed, Dua Lipa and Annie Lennox are among 300 public figures to have signed an open letter calling on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to end the country’s “complicity” in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“We urge you to take immediate action to end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza,” read the letter. “Right now, children in Gaza are starving while food and medicine sit just minutes away, blocked at the border. Words won’t feed Palestinian children – we need action. Every single one of Gaza’s 2.1 million people is at risk of starvation, as you read this.

“Mothers, fathers, babies, grandparents – an entire people left to starve before the world’s eyes. 290,000 children are on the brink of death – starved by the Israeli government for more than 70 days.”

The signatories called for an immediate suspension of all UK arms sales to Israel; immediate...

Need an early must-see title for this year’s Tribeca Festival? How about “Everything’s Going To Be Great,” a family drama featuring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

Read More: 2025 Tribeca Festival Line-Up Features Films With Rose Byrne, Andrea Riseborough, Ethan Hawke, Octavia Spencer & ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Premiere

Cranston and Janney star in the film as a married couple navigating life, love, and their careers in regional theater as keep everything together.

Continue reading ‘Everything’s Going To Be Great’ Trailer: Bryan Cranston & Allison Janney Star In A Show Business Dramedy Premiering At Tribeca at The Playlist.

Miley Cyrus’ visual album world premiere will lead the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival line-up.Presented by Okx, the event will run from 4 to 15 June in New York City, and bosses have now unveiled a wide-ranging schedule of documentary, narrative and animated features for the dates – including a documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Other high-profile appearances are set to include performers such as Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will accompany select screenings.Jane Rosenthal, 68, co-founder of the Tribeca Festival and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, described the long-running New York event as a creative sanctuary ahead of its 2025 run. She was quoted by Variety saying: “Tribeca has always been more than a festival – it’s a home for artists navigating an ever-changing industry and an ever-changing world.“We’re proud of the ecosystem we’ve cultivated and can’t wait to share it with the world this June.”The event will...

Today, the 2025 Tribeca Festival revealed its main slate selection of documentary, narrative and animated features showcasing music legends, influential cultural figures and untold stories from emerging and established voices. Scheduled to run June 4 – 15 in New York City, the annual festival promises another big and eclectic selection of film and TV premieres.

Continuing Tribeca’s tradition as a premiere music documentary destination, the Festival kicks off Wednesday, June 4 with the previously announced world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” directed by Emmy winners Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin.

Continue reading 2025 Tribeca Festival Line-Up Features Films With Rose Byrne, Andrea Riseborough, Ethan Hawke, Octavia Spencer & ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Premiere at The Playlist.

The 2025 Tribeca Festival, presented by Okx, has revealed its lineup of documentary, narrative and animated features, including the premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album, a Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary and films starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney. This year’s fest will run from June 4 to 15 in New York City.

The festival kicks off on June 4 with the previously announced world premiere of “Billy Joel: And So It

Goes,” directed by Emmy winners Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin. The world premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album “Something Beautiful,” directed by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, Brendan Walter and produced by Tribeca alum Panos Cosmatos (“Beyond the Black Rainbow”), will be followed by an exclusive conversation with Cyrus.

The documentary lineup also features chart-topping performers like Counting Crows and Culture

Club. Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will deliver exclusive performances following the

world premiere of their films, while members of Metallica,...

Tribeca Festival 2025 is out with the slate of documentary, narrative and animated features for its 24th edition, a intriguing lineup showcasing music legends, key cultural figures and stories from emerging and established voices. The fest runs June 4-15 in New York City.

Films includes Rose Byrne, Demi Lovato and Octavia Spencer in Tow; The Best You Can with Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going To Be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

The world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes will open the festival, which again leans into music documentaries and live acts, including the world premiere of Miley Cyrus’ visual album Something Beautiful, followed by a sit-down with Cyrus. Counting Crows and Culture Club, Billy Idol, Becky G and Eddie Vedder will perform after their films world premiere. Members of Metallica, Depeche Mode,...

Applications are now open for the 22nd edition of Screen International’s Screen Stars of Tomorrow, our annual portfolio of new talent from the UK and Ireland.

The submissions window is open from April 16 until May 30, 2025.

Applications are open to UK and Irish citizens and long-term residents of either country. There is no upper or lower age limit, but applicants should be at an early stage in their film career, demonstrate exceptional promise and be ready to progress to the next level.

Applicants should use this Google Form and need to attach a brief bio, a headshot and contact details...

The world has changed a lot since “Black Mirror” premiered in 2011; mostly as the lines between fact and fiction blur. The sci-fi show from Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones became shorthand for our bleakest and most dystopic realities, whether that was a caricature rising to the highest office in the nation, technology used to monitor and manipulate human behavior, or alternate realities and artificial intelligence.

With Season 7 now on Netflix — after the questionable prescience and potency of Season 6 — IndieWire is updating our ranking of every installment. Comparing episodes of an anthology series like this one is inherently tricky, even if there is a certain “We’re all doomed” throughline present in most..

Arranging the episodes by quality also doesn’t guarantee the ideal viewing order, but IndieWire’s list naturally punctures defeatism with hope. We don’t recommend binge-viewing, but if you want to journey back through “Black Mirror,” allow...

Exclusive: Anthony Edwards and J. Smith-Cameron join Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti in the FX drama pilot Seven Sisters.

The project, from FX Productions, follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.

We hear that Edwards will portray family patriarch Paul Bosco and Smith-Cameron will portray his wife, Francesca, in series regular roles should the pilot get picked up to series. They join Milioti, who we revealed yesterday will portray Olsen’s character’s sister.

Seven Sisters is executive produced by Will Arbery, who wrote the pilot; Sean Durkin, who will direct it; and Garrett Basch. If the pilot goes forward, it would mark Basch’s fifth series for FX, where his company Dive has a long-standing first-look deal, following Devs, Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows...

One of the directors of No Other Land is calling out the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science letter, and he isn't alone as he has support from major A-list stars. On Mar. 24, Hamdan Ballal, the co-director of the Oscar-winning Best Documentary Feature film No Other Land, was assaulted by Isreali settlers and detained near his home by the Israeli armed service. After 24 hours, when he was blindfolded and held at an Israeli army base and fearing for his life, Ballal was released.

No Other Land's Yuval Abraham, one of the film's four co-directors alongside Ballal, criticized the Academy's failure to support Hamdan following his arrest. It wasn't until after the director publicly criticized the Academy leadership that they sent out an open letter to Academy voters. Via Deadline, the Academy's letter said they were against “harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints” but also...

Updated: Hamdan Ballal and his fellow “No Other Land” filmmakers are expressing gratitude to top members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for signing a letter urging Academy leadership to take a stronger stance in condemning an attack on Ballal by Israeli settlers.

The Academy released a statement Wednesday condemning “harming artists” but did not name the individuals involved. By Thursday morning, a letter began circulating among AMPAS members criticizing the Academy’s leadership for failing to publicly support Ballal.

As of Monday afternoon, nearly 900 Academy members — including actor Mark Ruffalo, director Ava DuVernay and Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón — had signed the letter denouncing the Academy’s silence following Ballal’s reported detainment by Israeli authorities. Most recent signatories include J.J. Abrams, Guillermo del Toro, Ben Affleck, Jane Fonda and more.

Ballal and his fellow “No Other Land” directors shared the following letter with all the signatories:

Dear friends,...

A new open letter signed by around 600 Oscar voters, including Ava DuVernay, Olivia Colman and Javier Bardem, has criticized the leadership of the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its initial response to the recent assault and arrest of Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.

“It is indefensible for an organization to recognize a film with an award in the first week of March, and then fail to defend its filmmakers just a few weeks later,” the open letter updated Friday and signed by AMPAS members across a range of genres, including documentaries, stated.

The AMPAS voters were reacting to a statement put out Wednesday by Academy leaders Bill Kramer and Janet Yang that suggested the beating and arrest of recent Oscar-winner Hamdan Ballal is something Academy members will have “many unique viewpoints” on.

Other well-known Academy members who signed the letter include Mark Ruffalo, Oscar-winning Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer,...

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Dope Thief is a crime drama series created by Peter Craig. Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Dennis Tafoya, the Apple TV+ series is set in Philadelphia, and it follows two best friends who pose as DEA agents to rob drug dealers’ houses. Still, when they accidentally rob someone extremely dangerous, their and their family’s lives are put in danger. Dope Thief stars Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Marin Ireland, Amir Arison, Nesta Cooper, Kate Mulgrew, and Ving Rhames. So, if you loved the intense story, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in Dope Thief, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Banshee is an action crime thriller drama series created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler. The Cinemax series is set in the...

Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen – awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes for “Compartment No. 6” – has joined forces with Finland’s Elisa Viihde on upcoming six-episode series “Yours, Margot.” Elisa Viihde is an entertainment service of Elisa, which has been commissioning original drama series since 2014.

“The project has been in stand-by mode and I’m happy to see it proceed with Elisa. We are still writing, because the script is crucial – even more in TV than in cinema,” he told Variety.

“We are not interested in making a TV series; we are interested in making a good TV series. And that takes time.”

What makes a good TV series? “A good script and a great ensemble. And a brilliant location scout,” he added. Previously, Kuosmanen directed series “Zone B” and “Alice & Jack,” the latter starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson. He also served as the show’s executive producer.

“Yours,...

Kate Winslet is hard at work on her upcoming directorial debut movie and she has a talented cast set for the project!

The Oscar-winning actress is starring in and directing the upcoming family drama Goodbye June for Netflix. She was spotted on the set of the film on Tuesday (March 11) in London, England.

Also spotted on set were co-stars Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Timothy Spall.

Kate‘s son Joe Anders wrote the movie, which is “a present day, fictional drama, set in England. A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.”

This will be Kate‘s second time as a producer on a movie project following her work on the film Lee, which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film of the Year.

Browse through the gallery for 75+ photos of Kate Winslet directing her first movie…...

/Film has been dutifully reporting on all the failed "Crow" remakes as news of their formation as dissipation came across our desks. Back in 2008, Stephen Norrington was attached. Then, in 2014, it was Corin Hardy. Andrea Riseborough was supposed to be a part of that one. In 2016, it was said that Jason Momoa was going to star in a new "Crow" remake. Then that project fell apart. Rupert Sander's remake of "The Crow" was released in late August of 2024, and it came and went without much positive fanfare. It bombed at the box office, making only $26 million on a $50 million budget, and it was panned by critics, including by /Film. This was an inauspicious reaction to a film that had been trapped in development hell for literally decades. 

Speaking of development, Rob Zombie famously wrote a script for a sequel called "The Crow 2037," which would have taken the series in a sci-fi direction,...

Exclusive: Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee novels are being given the small screen treatment.

Robin Cass and Robert Munroe are behind the adaptation of the Canadian author’s books, with a writer still being sought.

The deal is with Cass & Co and Blacktop Recess for 17 Ava Lee novels plus four Uncle Chow Tung prequel books. A globe-traveling enigma, Ava Lee is an unexpected heroine – a formidable forensic accountant, a fearless sleuth and a master of an ancient martial artform, Bak Mei – historically taught only to males. She is a true original as she outruns, outsmarts and outpaces the most dangerous criminals in the world. The 17 books include The Water Rat of Wanchai, The Disciple of Las Vegas and The Fury of Beijing.

“From my first read of the first novel in the series, Ava firmly implanted herself in my imagination and my heart. Bond is one thing. Ava Lee is quite another.

Kate Winslet going to be directing for the first time – and it’s a family affair!

The Titanic actress will make her directorial debut with Goodbye June, a contemporary family drama produced for Netflix, via Variety.

She will also star in it alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Helen Mirren.

Keep reading to find out more…

The story was written by Joe Anders, Kate‘s 21-year-old son she shares with ex Sam Mendes.

The movie is set in present-day England and revolves around a “fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances,” according to the report.

The movie will go into production on location in the United Kingdom later in 2025.

This is her first time officially directing a film, although she was heavily involved in the making of her movie Lee. Joe previously starred in Lee with his mother.

Find out which actress...

Matt Damon goes Greek for The Odyssey

Matt Damon is looking epic. Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan revealed a first-look image from his upcoming adaptatation of Homer‘s The Odyssey, which will feature Damon in the lead role of Odysseus. The star-studded ensemble also includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron, as well as Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Mia Goth, John Leguizamo, Jon Bernthal, and Benny Safdie.

According to Universal, Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer, which he wrote and will coproduce with wife Emma Thomas, will be a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new Imax film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to Imax film screens for the first time.” It is slated to open on July 17, 2026.

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After spending most of her professional career in front of the camera, Kate Winslet (“Mare of Easttown”) is set to make her first feature film effort as a director with “Goodbye June.” That exciting news hails from THR with streaming giant Netflix partnering with the new director for the family drama.

Not only that, but we’ll see Winslet take part as an actress among fellow co-stars Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, and Helen Mirren.

Continue reading ‘Goodbye June’: Kate Winslet To Make Feature Directorial Debut At Netflix at The Playlist.