Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star in a World War II drama called The War Magician, Variety Reports. A director is yet to be named, but Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will adapt David Fisher’s book into a screenplay. Cumberbatch will play Jasper Maskelyne, a magician who’s illusionist abilities helped fight against the Nazis. Maskelyne… Continue reading Benedict Cumberbatch to star in The War Magician
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Eye in the Sky – Trailer
A thriller set in the world of remotely piloted aircraft warfare.
Son of Saul – Trailer
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
13 Hours – ‘The Men Who Lived It’ featurette
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Sunset Song – Trailer
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year – Review
Directors Saeed Taji Farouky and Michael McEvoy never lose sight that this documentary is at its most powerful when being personal, and thanks to its intimacy, a bigger picture unexpectedly forms around these young men.
Closer to the Moon – Trailer
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Trailer 2
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year – Trailer
The war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.
Beasts of No Nation – Review
The loss of innocence is one of cinema’s favourite themes, but it’s rarely because an AK-47 is aiming at someone’s head. Beasts of No Nation, a Netflix exclusive from True Detective director Cary Fukunaga, is a spellbinding yet harrowing parable about a nation’s destructive past and uncertain future, and a boy’s horrific journey across the thin… Continue reading Beasts of No Nation – Review