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Julianne Moore Enjoyed The Pointed Comedy Of Maggie's Plan
The film sprang from a conversation Moore had with her close friend, writer-director Rebecca Miller. "Years and years ago," she recounts, "I told Rebecca that I knew this woman who had gotten divorced, and because...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20th May 2016
Gosling And Crowe Had A Lot Of Fun With The Nice Guys
While Gosling has some comedy experience (Crazy Stupid Love, The Big Short), Crowe isn't known for his levity. But he saw more than humour in the project. "I just really liked the density of this...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20th May 2016
Bryan Singer Played God With X-Men: Apocalypse
Having directed the first two films, X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003), and the last two, Days of Future Past (2014) and now Apocalypse. So what keeps bringing him back to this world? "I think it's...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20th May 2016
X-Men: Apocalypse
This closing chapter of the First Class trilogy falls into the same trap as The Last Stand, the final part in the original X-Men trilogy: it shifts the focus from character detail and social commentary...
Movie Review posted on 19th May 2016
Sing Street
A buoyant celebration of the power of music, this is the third blissfully entertaining musical romance from John Carney, who also wrote and directed Once and Begin Again. Set in the 1980s, this brightly comical...
Movie Review posted on 19th May 2016
Departure
Complex, dark and very moving, this British drama never makes things easy for the audience, but those who connect into its rhythms will find a witty, engaging coming-of-age story that finds hope in unexpected places....
Movie Review posted on 19th May 2016
Ewan McGregor Enjoyed The Human Side Of Our Kind Of Traitor
He has recently said that he thinks James Bond is a boring character. And he's also admitted that he has never read a John le Carre thriller. Until now, that is. Because he's starring in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13th May 2016
Jason Sudeikis Channelled His Rage Into Angry Birds
Now he's playing the leading role in The Angry Birds Movie, an animated adventure based on the phone-app game. But he found the job a bit lonely, recording his character's lines in a sound studio...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13th May 2016
Jodie Foster Went Old School For Money Monster
Jodie Foster says the combination of real drama and meaningful action were what drew her to the project. "When I first read it, it was a really cool satire," she says. "It evolved from there....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13th May 2016
Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater loosely follows on from two of his most acclaimed films with this lively university comedy set in 1980. It's billed as a "spiritual sequel" to his high school classic Dazed and Confused, which...
Movie Review posted on 12th May 2016
Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carre's novel is adapted with plenty of inventive style into a remarkably personal thriller, packed with thrills that find suspense in the characters and their predicament rather than pushy movie cliches. It's so...
Movie Review posted on 12th May 2016
The Angry Birds Movie
There's nothing particularly memorable about this frantic animated romp, which adapts the iconic phone-app game into a movie using a rather corny plot. But the film is so random that it can't help but get...
Movie Review posted on 12th May 2016
Being Charlie Made Nick Robinson Nervous
In Being Charlie, the 20-year-old actor plays a teen struggling with drug abuse as his family implodes around him. To prepare, Robinson attended addiction support meetings and spent time with director Rob Reiner's son Nick,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th May 2016
Zac Efron And Seth Rogen Were Happy To Take On Neighbors 2
But Rogen, who also produced both films and cowrote the sequel, wanted to make sure the moment was right. "A few things made us want to do a sequel," he explains. "We thought that the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th May 2016
Meryl Streep Calls Florence Foster Jenkins 'Heartbreakingly Funny'
Florence Foster Jenkins was a socialite who threw parties in 1930s and 1940s New York and turned to singing, oblivious to the fact that she couldn't quite hit a note. "The first time I heard...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th May 2016
![Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising [Bad Neighbours 2]](https://www.contactmusic.com/images/reviews2/neighbors-2-sorority-rising-fr-670-380.jpg "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising [Bad Neighbours 2]")
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising [Bad Neighbours 2]
While it's amusing and sometimes very funny, there's an air of desperation about this sequel to the 2014 breakout hit comedy. The main problem is that, instead of pushing the characters forward in any way,...
Movie Review posted on 6th May 2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
Although this comedy-drama seems to have been written specifically to give Meryl Streep a chance to dress up and put on a silly show, it's actually all true. And it's hugely entertaining, generating gut-wrenching laughter...
Movie Review posted on 6th May 2016
I Saw the Light
Writer-director Marc Abraham gets ambitious with this biopic about iconic country music star Hank Williams, but the film is far too choppy to provide much insight. Leaping through the decades without much context, the film...
Movie Review posted on 6th May 2016
Jennifer Aniston Worked With Her Idol On Mother's Day
"Garry Marshall was the reason I think most of us said yes to this movie," she says of the cast that includes Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis. "Without even reading a script, it...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th April 2016
Chris Evans Injured Himself In Captain America: Civil War
"I've said it before, and it's only getting more and more accurate as cast members keep joining, there has never been an ensemble like this in cinematic history," says Marvel president Kevin Feige, who produces...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th April 2016
Captain America: Civil War
After the formulaic thrills of The Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron, Marvel's Avengers were in danger of getting stuck in a rut, but a smart script for this surprisingly focussed thriller kicks everything into...
Movie Review posted on 28th April 2016
Son of Saul
From Hungary, this year's Oscar-winning foreign film is a remarkably fresh take on the Holocaust drama. It's difficult to imagine a new way of approaching that topic, but writer-director Laszlo Nemes has come up with...
Movie Review posted on 28th April 2016
Demolition
With its darkly emotive themes and brittle humour, this well-made drama by Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club) isn't quite what it appears to be. It's not, for example, an exploration of grief, although that's in...
Movie Review posted on 28th April 2016
Michael Shannon And Kevin Spacey Bond As Elvis & Nixon
Inspired by an iconic photograph of Nixon shaking Presley's hand and appointing him as an honorary federal drug-enforcement agent, the screenwriter spun the meeting into a full-on screwball comedy. Kevin Spacey plays Nixon in the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd April 2016
Idris Elba Brought His Focussed Attitude To Bastille Day
He essentially plays an American version of the rogue superspy on the trail of a terrorist in Paris alongside Richard Madden, a fellow Brit also playing American on-screen. Elba is quick to point out that...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd April 2016
Tom Hanks Found Another Everyman In A Hologram For The King
His new film A Hologram for the King feels like a true story, but is actually based on the Dave Eggers novel. In the movie, which he also produced, Hanks plays Alan Clay, a 54-year-old...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd April 2016
Bastille Day
An attempt to muscle in on Luc Besson's Taken-style of thriller, this is an odd mix of French setting, American characters and British cast and crew. The inclusion of hugely current issues like immigration, terrorism...
Movie Review posted on 21st April 2016
Secret Cinema Presents: 28 Days Later
Expectations are a problem with this year's Secret Cinema event. After the jaw-dropping, goosebump-inducing surprises of both 2014's Back to the Future and 2015's Star Wars, this immersive take on Danny Boyle's classic zombie movie...
Movie Review posted on 21st April 2016
Jane Got a Gun
With its grindingly low-key tension and unusual perspectives, this Western has a chance to revamp the genre in intriguing ways. The first-rate cast adds plenty of depth to the usual roles, including a strong female...
Movie Review posted on 21st April 2016
Jon Favreau Enjoyed Creating A New-Look Jungle Book
Indeed, the film was originally released on his first birthday. And now he has remade it using state-of-the-art photorealistic animation so detailed that it's as if he travelled to India to shoot it. Actually, the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th April 2016
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Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
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![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
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Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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