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“Honeytrap” will be like a skewed, tilted version of the more romantic films I’ve done before,” said the multi-awarded Danish writer-director Lone Scherfig to a packed audience of industry delegates Jan. 30, at the opening session of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market Discovery program.

In an express on-stage interview, the triple Oscar-nominated helmer of “An Education,” said “Honeytrap” will be her first ever Swedish project, based on a script by Pelle Rådström, credited for Netflix’s “Black Crab” and the Swedish show “Pressure Point” which just picked up the Nordic Series Script Award in Göteborg.

“I felt the script (handed out to me by producer Rebecka Hamberger) had everything I love: a thriller element, love and humor. It’s set in the 60s, an era from my early childhood, that I’ve also portrayed in several works including in “An Education.” It’s super good and I’m very confident with it,...

Hey, "S.W.A.T." fans. We've got another new Swat spoiler session for you guys today. In this one, we're going to take a look at what is going down in the next, new episode 9 of this current season 7, which is due to arrive tonight, April 19, 2024. We were able to track down another three, new, official teaser scoops for this new episode 9 straight from CBS via their official episode 9 press release synopsis. So, we will certainly dig into it and break it down. First thing's first. There is an official title for this new episode 9 of Swat season 7. It's called, "Honeytrap." It sounds like episode 9 will feature some very scandalous, intense, dramatic, action-filled, suspenseful, interesting and emotional scenes as a female robbery crew wreaks deadly havoc. Hicks gets stunned. An important decision is made and more. The first spoiler scoop reveals that a female robbery crew that goes by the name, "Honeytraps...

S.W.A.T. fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 7 Episode 9 episode titled Honeytrap!

Find out everything you need to know about the Honeytrap episode of S.W.A.T., including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

S.W.A.T. Honeytrap Season 7 Episode 9 Preview

Get ready for an action-packed episode of “S.W.A.T.” titled “Honeytrap,” airing on CBS at 8:00 Pm on April 19, 2024. In this thrilling installment, viewers will be taken on a gripping journey as a Los Angeles S.W.A.T. lieutenant navigates the delicate balance between loyalty to his job and the streets where he was raised.

Starring in this adrenaline-fueled drama are Shemar Moore as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, the dedicated leader of the S.W.A.T. team, and Stephanie Sigman as Jessica Cortez, the confident captain of the Special Weapons and Tactics unit. Together with their team of elite officers,...

Get ready for an action-packed episode of “S.W.A.T.” as Season 7 Episode 9, titled “Honeytrap,” hits the screens on CBS at 8:00 Pm this Friday, April 19th. In this thrilling installment, viewers will be taken on a rollercoaster ride as a Los Angeles S.W.A.T. lieutenant grapples with the delicate balance between loyalty to his job and his roots in the streets where he grew up.

As tensions rise and loyalties are put to the test, the team must navigate through a web of challenges and dangers to uphold justice and protect their community. With high-stakes operations and pulse-pounding action sequences, “Honeytrap” promises to keep viewers on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

Join the elite S.W.A.T. team as they confront the complexities of duty, honor, and loyalty in a city where the line between right and wrong is often blurred. Tune in at 8:00 Pm on Friday,...

Exclusive: Allen Leech and India Mullen will lead the cast of an Irish drama series for AMC Networks’ Sundance Now and local broadcaster Virgin Media Television, we’ve learned.

The pair will topline six-part drama The Vanishing Triangle, which goes into production later this year with a U.S.-UK-Ireland production set-up, and Eccho Rights attached as international distributor. The show is inspired on true events that shook Ireland in the 1990s, when several women disappeared. While the characters and events in the series are fictional, the producers have spoken to several of the real life victims’ families, and hope the show will keep their stories in the Irish public’s mind. The show title is regularly used in the Irish media to refer to the events, which began with the disappearance of American woman Annie McCarrick in 1993 and spiraled to involve many similar cases.

French drama made the shortlist for the best international feature film Oscar.

Filippo Meneghetti’s award-winning French drama Two Of Us is being lined up for an English-language remake.

Film producer Sarah Sulick, of London-based Bright Pictures, and Eve Gabereau, CEO of UK distributor Modern Films, have teamed up to option the English-language remake rights to the feature, which made the shortlist for best international feature film at this year’s Academy Awards.

The story centres on a lesbian couple facing up to the challenge of coming out after two decades of secret passion and companionship.

It marks the first film optioned by Modern Films.

We’re getting the first look at Season 2 of Sony Crackle’s Snatch starring Rupert Grint. The Hill gang heads to sunny Costa del Sol for the sophomore run, where they’re on the lam in another fight to save their fortune and their lives.

This season, the Hills run afoul of the local kingpin and find themselves pressed into the malevolent crime boss’ service. The heroes attempt to outsmart their enemies even as they take over the town. The new season debuts Thursday, September 13 with all 10-episodes.

Grint, best-known for his role as Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter film franchise, returns as the utterly posh, Charlie Cavendish-Scott, alongside an ensemble cast featuring Luke Pasqualino as Albert Hill, Lucien Laviscount as Billy Ayres, Phoebe Dynevor as Lotti Mott, Juliet Aubrey as Lily Hill, Tamer Hassan (House Red...

The second season of its scripted original drama Snatch starring Rupert Grint returns to Sony Crackle on Sept. 13, with all 10 episodes available for streaming.

The series takes viewers to Spain’s Costa del Sol and follows the Hill Gang on the lam in a fight to save their fortune and their lives.

This season, Hills run afoul of the local kingpin and find themselves pressed into the malevolent crime boss’ service. The heroes attempt to outsmart their enemies even as they take over the town.

Grint, best-know for his role as Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter film franchise, returns as the utterly posh, Charlie Cavendish-Scott, alongside an ensemble cast featuring Luke Pasqualino (Skins, The Borgias) as Albert Hill, Lucien Laviscount (Scream Queens, Honeytrap) as Billy Ayres, Phoebe Dynevor (The Village, Dickensian) as Lotti Mott, Juliet Aubrey (The Infiltrator, Primeval) as Lily Hill, Tamer Hassan (House Red) as Hate ‘Em...

Joan Collins and Pauline Collins play silver-years friends on a jolly to a funeral in France, in a sentimental comedy that tests indulgence to the limits

There is a creeping and depressing awfulness to this sentimental silver-years comedy, whose silly and twee style of humour and cardboard characterisation jar with its strained moments of attempted poignancy. It stars Joan Collins as the former movie star Helen, now washed up in a retirement home, who bamboozles an unhappy grandmother (Pauline Collins) into travelling with her to France for her ex-lover’s funeral. There, they have adventures with a gallant Italian artist (Franco Nero). Pauline Collins plays a next-gen variation on her Shirley Valentine persona, just as she did in a comparably terrible Brit film called Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, from 2002. Writer-director Roger Goldby has a great track record in television and, incidentally, executive-produced Rebecca Johnson’s tremendous urban drama Honeytrap.

MaryAnn’s quick take… One of the most inept films I’ve ever seen. Cheaply made, poorly directed, badly acted, oddly edited, and ultimately insultingly stupid. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): not a fan of most mainstream horror movies

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

So, three university students in Madison, Wisconsin, rent an absurdly large and ridiculously rambling off-campus house. Inside is a haunted night table — that’s right, I said “haunted night table” — that summons the most feeble boogeyman horror movies have ever seen. He’s called the Bye Bye Man, and he’s like Slender Man without the catchy memes. He drops coins on the floor, makes you hear the sound of a train in the distance, scratches up your walls, and — this is the eeriest bit of all — he makes...

Rebecca Johnson’s 2015 SXSW and Urbanworld Film Festival Official Selection “Honeytrap,” is a well told story of Layla, a beautiful 15 year old girl who, after living most of her life with her grandparents in Trinidad, arrives in Brixton, London, to… Continue Reading →...

"Do you want to kiss me?" Array has debuted a new official trailer for an indie drama called Honeytrap, which premiered at the London Film Festival back in 2014 and is finally getting released in Us theaters this year thanks to Ava DuVernay's new distribution company. The film stars Jessica Sula as a 15-year-old girl in high school in the UK who, after a bullying incident, decides to "transform herself inside and out." She then gets caught up in various romances with older men. Also starring Lucien Laviscount, Naomi Ryan, and Ntonga Mwanza. This looks like a unique coming-of-age drama with some strong performances, but not sure if it's worth checking out in theaters or not. The music they use in this trailer is lovely. Take a look. Here's the new official trailer (+ poster) for Rebecca Johnson's Honeytrap, direct from Array's YouTube: Girlhood and gang culture collide in Rebecca Johnson...

Rebecca Johnson’s 2015 SXSW and Urbanworld Film Festival Official Selection “Honeytrap,” is a well told story of Layla, a beautiful 15 year old girl who, after living most of her life with her grandparents in Trinidad, arrives in Brixton, London, to… Continue Reading →...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Drafthouse Films has announced that they will release Stephen Kijak’s “We Are X” in New York and Los Angeles on October 21, followed by nationwide expansion. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize for editing, and follows the enigmatic Yoshiki, leader of the Japanese band X Japan.

“You will not believe the trials and tribulations that the arena-filling, mega-band X Japan have faced in their 30 year career,” said Drafthouse Films founder Tim League of the news. “This documentary will leave you equally breathless and uplifted. It is the best music doc of the year, and we are honored to bring it to American audiences.”

– Array has announced the acquisition of “Honeytrap,...

Rebecca Johnson’s “Honeytrap” is a well told story of Layla, a beautiful 15 year old girl who, after living most of her life with her grandparents in Trinidad, arrives in Brixton, London, to live with her estranged mother. Based on… Continue Reading →...

Exclusive: It's been a busy week for Ava DuVernay with the director's $100 million budgeted Disney pic A Wrinkle In Time awarded over $18 million in California tax credits and her Queen Sugar Ep'd Own series snagging an early Season 2 pick-up. Now the Selma helmer's film collective Array has acquired inner-city UK crime drama Honeytrap. Based on a real 2009 crime, the debut feature from director/writer Rebecca Johnson follows 15-year old Layla, newly transplanted from…...

Exclusive: Filming has commenced on The Time Of Their Lives, also starring Franco Nero and Joely Richardson; Sir Tim Rice to oversee the soundtrack.

Shoot is underway in France on road-trip-comedy The Time Of Their Lives, starring Golden Globe-winner Dame Joan Collins (Dynasty) and BAFTA-winner Pauline Collins, OBE (Shirley Valentine).

In writer-director Roger Goldby’s (Call The Midwife) feature, a former Hollywood siren Helen (Joan Collins), who is determined to gatecrash her ex-lover’s funeral, escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a downtrodden English housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage.

Franco Nero (Django Unchained) will play Alberto, a famous and eccentric Italian painter. Alberto becomes entangled with the two ladies and inspired by their madness, joins their road trip and, in turn, becomes part of an uneasy love triangle between Helen and Priscilla, who both vie for his attentions.

The main cast are joined by Joely Richardson (101 Dalmatians) and Ronald Pickup (Best...

With the release of Captain America: Civil War less than two weeks off, Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to shift into overdrive. It may be a long time before Captain Marvel sees action in 2019, but is it possible that Marvel’s already got the perfect lead actress and director in mind?

During this week’s episode of Meet The Movie Press, The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider had some interesting insight into the forthcoming Captain Marvel flick. Although cryptic, Sneider did offer up a curious possibility.

“There was a rumour about an actress being up for it; an already existing rumour, that’s not new. I’ve definitely heard there’s some truth to that rumour, and that there’s a director with the same first name who has also been eyed. I don’t think that [an announcement] is too far off. If they can make it to Comic Con,...

"Honeytrap" makes its New York Premiere at the the Urbanworld Film Festival this Saturday, September 26 at 5 Pm at AMC Empire Theater. For ticket information click here. Rebecca Johnson’s "Honeytrap" is a well told story of Layla, a beautiful 15 year old girl who, after living most of her life with her grandparents in Trinidad, arrives in Brixton, London, to live with her estranged mother. Based on the case of a real-life murder which made UK news headlines in 2008, in which a young girl is used to lure her naïve ex-boyfriend into the trap of her older ex-boyfriend and his posse, "Honeytrap" eschews the headlines and plays out the...

Asif Kapadia’s Amy, Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother, Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, John Maclean’s Slow West and Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood are among the fiction and documentary line-up.

The fiction selections are: Chus Gutiérrez’s Ciudad Deliro (Colombia); Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India); Miguel Llansó’s Crumbs (Ethiopia-Spain); Girlhood (France), Mario Crespo’s Gone With The River (Venezuela); Ana V. Bojórquez, Lucía Carreras’ The Greatest House In The World (Guatemala-Mexico); Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Güeros (Mexico); Rebecca Johnson’s Honeytrap (UK); Shonali Bose’s Margarita, With A Straw (India); Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s My Friend Victoria (France); and Carolina Borrero, Pinky Mon, Luis Franco, Abner Benaim and Pituka Ortega Heilbron’s Panama Canal Stories (Panama).

The section continues with: Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rainbow (India); Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming (UK); The Second Mother (Brazil, pictured); Walter Tournier’s Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe (Uruguay-Argentina-Chile-Spain); John Maclean’s Slow West (UK-New Zealand); Jim Chuchu’s Stories Of Our Lives (Kenya-South...

Fifteen candidates selected from 250 scheme applicants; previous mentees include Laura Hastings-Smith.

A total of 15 candidates have been selected from 250 applicants to take part in the seventh iteration of UK mentoring scheme Guiding Lights.

This year’s line up includes directing pair James Spinney and Peter Middleton, who have begun production on their feature film Notes on Blindness, as well as Aneil Karia, Emily Greenwood, Mahdi Fleifel, director of A World Not Ours, and Billy Lumby, whose short won the Pears Short Film prize.

Writers include Jennifer Majka, who wrote the screenplay for BAFTA-winning short The Bigger Picture, Matthew Orton, and Hannah Patterson.

Brian Falconer, producer of Oscar-nominated Boogaloo and Graham, made the cut alongside producers Daisy Allsop, Michael Ford, and Chi Thai.

The final two candidates were exhibitors Sophie Easterbrook, who programmed Farnham Maltings, a creative arts centre in the South East, and Carmen Slijpen, who is developing a new community cinema in East Sussex.

Mentors for the...

★★★★☆ Cinema has recently been gifted with not one but two vital films on contemporary black girlhood. Both probe deep into the confines of class, race and gender construction to tease out the finely-tuned truths of what it means to come of age in today's urban landscapes. From France comes Céline Sciamma's Girlhood (2014) and, in reply, England has delivered the quietly stunning Honeytrap (2014). Director Rebecca Johnson's first foray in the feature-length format is at equal times tender, tense, hopeful and heartbreaking. After being raised by her grandparents in Trinidad, 15-year-old Layla (Jessica Sula) is back in Brixton to live with her distant and often distracted mother, Shiree (Naomi Ryan).

Exclusive: Titles include thriller The Barber starring Scott Glenn.

London/La-based outfit The Little Film Company has added a hat trick of titles to its slate on the eve of the Cannes Marche.

The first is Basel Owies’ thriller, The Barber, starring Scott Glenn and newcomer Chris Coy (Deliver Us From Evil).

They play a serial killer masquerading as a small town barber and a young man looking to get into the business of murder.

The second title is romantic drama Patrick’s Day, written and directed by first-timer Terry McMahon, starring Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford and Philip Jackson.

The film centres on a young man with mental health issues who becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant before his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

The final title is comedy One Night In Istanbul, directed by James Marquand, starring Steve Waddington (The Imitation Game), Paul Barber, Lucien Laviscount ([link...

Two films about poor black teen girls offer harrowing — and very universal — portraits of how our culture tries to crush the spirit out of all girls. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about girls and women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

You want to know what it feels like to be a teenaged girl? The opening sequence of Girlhood nails it in a way I promise you have never seen before on film. A group of rowdy, rambunctious girls is walking home from their sporting match — American football, of all things, with all its rough and tumble — chatting and laughing among themselves. Until they come upon a gang of teenaged boys just hanging out… and then they shut up in an instant as they scurry past. The boys don’t do or say anything to them; they don’t have to.

Rebecca Johnson's Honeytrap tells the story of Layla (Skins star Jessica Sula), a 15-year-old from Brixton, south London, who is persuaded by a gang leader on whom she has a crush to lure a boy into a violent confrontation. Honeytrap works in broad strokes, but it's a promising debut, says Peter Bradshaw. The film is released in the UK on 8 May Continue reading...

Jessica Sula is outstanding in a story based on the 2009 case of a teenage girl who lures a lovestruck admirer in a brutal trap set by gang members

A quietly excellent lead performance from Jessica Sula (a graduate of TV’s Skins) carries this raw, powerful movie from feature newcomer Rebecca Johnson – comparable to Girlhood. It is based on the notorious “Honeytrap” case from 2009, when a teenage girl in Brixton, south London, lured a lovestruck admirer into a brutal trap set by gang members. Johnson paints a picture of abuse, machismo and paranoia, mixing true-crime, urban-realist melodrama with a photolove nightmare.

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"Honeytrap" opens in UK cinemas tomorrow, Friday, May 8. No word of a USA pickup yet. Rebecca Johnson’s "Honeytrap" is a well told story of Layla, a beautiful 15 year old girl who, after living most of her life with her grandparents in Trinidad, arrives in Brixton, London, to live with her estranged mother. Based on the case of a real-life murder which made UK news headlines in 2008, in which a young girl is used to lure her naïve ex-boyfriend into the trap of her older ex-boyfriend and his posse, "Honeytrap" eschews the headlines and plays out the classic fish out of water trope to a devastatingly tragic conclusion. With Layla initially sticking out like...

Anyone who saw it will know that Celine Sciamma’s “Girlhood,” released back in January, is one of the best films of 2015 so far. Are we about to get a British-set companion piece for it? This week sees the UK release of drama “Honeytrap,” and the film looks to be playing in similar territory as Sciamma’s picture, though it’s actually based on real events. Read More: The 25 Best Films Of 2015 We've Already Seen Directed by Rebecca Johnson (who was nominated for Best Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival, where the film debuted), it’s a fictionalized retelling of the story of Samantha Joseph, who in 2008, led a boy who was enamoured with her into an ambush set-up by her boyfriend, resulting in his murder. A gritty drama examining the unfamiliar world of women in London gangs, it seems to be a major launchpad not just for Johnson,...

A new trailer for gritty urban drama Honeytrap has launched exclusively on Digital Spy.

Written and directed by Rebecca Johnson, the film stars Skins actress Jessica Sula in her movie debut as 15-year-old Layla, a girl who sets up the murder of a boy who is in love with her.

"Jess stood out for her intensity - a sort of understated intensity, which was always there, even when she was doing very little," said Johnson .

"She understood both sides of Layla and how important it would be to balance them - the vulnerability and the shield of hardness she is trying to create for herself.

"She was absolutely committed; I could tell that immediately even though she was so young, and I knew I could trust her."

Sula said: "I think Honeytrap will surprise people because it's a very different film than we're used to seeing in terms of urban films.

Honeytrap, written and directed by BFI Best British Newcomer nominee Rebecca Johnson, stars Jessica Sula as Layla, a teenager from Brixton, south London, who gets embroiled in a plot to ambush a man who's fallen in love with her. After critical acclaim at the London film festival and SXSW, Honeytrap is released in the UK on Friday 8 May Continue reading...

Honeytrap

Written and directed by Rebecca Johnson

UK, 2014

As Honeytrap opens, 15-year-old Layla (Jessica Sula) arrives in London, having traveled from her native Trinidad to live with her mother. With her doe eyes and cherubic face, she looks displaced on the gritty streets of South London. Over the course of Honeytrap, Layla’s innocence is slowly dismantled by this harsh environment, and director Rebecca Johnson depicts this process with broad strokes and heavy-handed characterization.

Layla’s purity comes under attack in almost no time at all. She starts hanging out with a couple of delinquents from her school, shoplifting for them as a form of ingratiation. It is through these friends that Layla is introduced to Troy (Lucien Laviscount), a local musician whom Layla immediately falls for. Troy is the film’s namesake. His good looks and charm lure Layla into his arms, and it is only when she resides...

Exclusive: Urban drama - set to play at SXSW this weekend - sets UK theatrical and home ent dates.

Urban drama Honeytrap is to receive a UK theatrical release from May 8 through Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Inspired by true crime cases, the film will be released on DVD on May 25. A VOD release has yet to be confirmed.

Honeytrap marks the feature debut of writer-director Rebecca Johnson, a former Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

The film received its world premiere at the London Film Festival in October and will get its Us premiere at SXSW on Friday (March 13).

Set in London, the story centres on 15-year-old Layla who gets sucked into gang activity and sets up the boy who is in love with her to be killed.

Skins star Jessica Sula plays Layla and co-stars include Lucien Laviscount, Ntonga Mwanza and Naomi Ryan.

Johnson’s short films include Top Girl, which played at more than 30 festivals internationally, including...

Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.

South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.

SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.

Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.

On the small screen,...

Her current work, which is also her feature film directorial debut, titled "Honeytrap" - previously highlighted on this blog - made its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival last month (read our review of it here), as it begins its worldwide tour. But before it crosses the pond, check out her 2010 award-winning short film, "Top Girl," which the filmmaker has made available online. A 10-year industry veteran, writer/director Rebecca Johnson's "trademark style" includes utilizing drama workshops with non-actors from the communities in which her films are set, to generate material and elicit incredibly naturalistic performances...

Rebecca Johnson’s "Honeytrap" is a well told story of Layla, a beautiful 15 year old girl who, after living most of her life with her grandparents in Trinidad, arrives in Brixton, London, to live with her estranged mother. Based on the case of a real-life murder which made UK news headlines in 2008, in which a young girl is used to lure her naïve ex-boyfriend into the trap of her older ex-boyfriend and his posse, "Honeytrap" eschews the headlines and plays out the classic fish out of water trope to a devastatingly tragic conclusion. With Layla initially sticking out like a sore thumb and keen fit in with her peers, she is lead down paths that seem unlikely she’d...

This October the London Film Festival brings a wonderful, eclectic mix of films, shorts and events to the capital once again. Firmly establishing itself as a people’s festival (it being the best of the other festivals, Clare Stewart and her team acknowledging they can’t compete on world premieres), it will look to build on last year’s impressive new direction.

From the opening night fun with The Imitation Game to the final push of Brad Pitt’s Fury there will be a number of essential films to catch. The HeyUGuys team have chosen their favourites from among the hundreds playing.

You can find everything you need to book tickets and find out more information right here.

Here are the films you need to see next month.

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There is nothing more exciting than a filmmaker attempting to push the boundaries; to shatter audiences expectations of what is...

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[via the BFI]

The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.

As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...

World premieres include Wwi drama Testament of Youth, Carol Morley’s The Falling and sci-fi sequel Monsters: Dark Continent.

The line-up for the 58th London Film Festival (Oct 8-19) has been revealed this morning and it is packed with awards contenders and the best of this year’s festivals.

Click here for full line-up

Titles already generating awards buzz that will receive gala screenings at Lff include Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which proved the breakout hit at Sundance.

Other galas will give European premieres to Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, starring Adam Sandler and Ansel Elgort with a racy voiceover by Emma Thompson, and biopic Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.

Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner will also feature among the main gala screenings as will the world premiere of Testament of Youth, a First World...

Exclusive: Franco Nero, lyricist Tim Rice, designer Eve Stewart also attached to Roger Goldby project.

Joan Collins, Pauline Collins and Franco Nero are attached to star in UK road movie The Time of Their Lives, from The Waiting Room writer-director Roger Goldby.

Former Dynasty star Collins is set to play Helen, a former Hollywood siren determined to gatecrash her ex-husband’s funeral at a glamorous French hideaway. Helen escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage.

Nero, whose prolific career includes the starring role in 1966 Western Django, will play a famous French recluse who becomes part of an uneasy love triangle with the two women.

Sarah Sulick produces for Bright Pictures, the company she set up with Roger Goldby to make his debut feature The Waiting Room, which premiered at Edinburgh and sold to Lionsgate in the UK, IFC Films in the...

Skins star Jessica Sula has been cast in the lead role of Layla in Honeytrap, the debut feature film from Rebecca Johnson (writer/director of award-winning short film Top Girl and Screen International ‘Star of Tomorrow’ 2009) – a co-production by Bright Pictures and Fierce Productions.

19 year old Jessica (represented by Waring and McKenna) is best known for her role as Grace Blood in the multiple-award winning E4 series Skins, beating 8,000 other actors to win the role, and recently appeared in ITV's Love and Marriage. Honeytrap is her debut film role.

Producer Sarah Sulick said: “Our casting director did an exhaustive search and we saw many talented actresses, but Jessica really stood out. The fact that she is of Trinidadian descent – like our main character – adds another layer of authenticity to a story that is very much rooted in a specific place and time: contemporary South London.

Writer and director Rebecca Johnson...