David Schaal says his new movie 'Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire' is inspired by Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino films.The British gangster movie is the feature film directorial debut of Michael Head and the 60-year-old actor is part of a stellar cast that includes John Hannah, Alan Ford, Maisie Smith, Adam Deacon, Linda Robson, Charlotte Kirk, Gary Webster, Charlie Clapham and more.David - who is best known for playing Jay's dad Terry Cartwright in comedy series 'The Inbetweeners' and warehouse manager Taffy in Ricky Gervais' mockumentary 'The Office' - says the gritty crime drama has the hallmarks of Ritchie's gangster films 'Snatch' and 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' as well as the flashbacks and time jumping storytelling devices of Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' with a nod to Jonathan Glazer's 'Sexy Beast' as well.Speaking to Bang Showbiz,...
- 5/21/2024
- by Philip Hamilton
- Bang Showbiz
Josh Krasinski’s If leads the charge at the UK and Ireland box office in 650 cinemas for Paramount.
The family film about imaginary friends is Krasinski’s widest opening as a director following A Quiet Place Part II which arrived in 563 cinemas in 2021.
If includes an ensemble cast of A-listers, both on-screen and on voice duties, including Ryan Reynolds, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, Steve Carrell, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper and Emily Blunt. Cailey Fleming leads the cast as a girl who, having recently experienced a traumatic loss, begins seeing everyone’s imaginary friends.
Krasinski previously wrote and directed A Quiet Place...
The family film about imaginary friends is Krasinski’s widest opening as a director following A Quiet Place Part II which arrived in 563 cinemas in 2021.
If includes an ensemble cast of A-listers, both on-screen and on voice duties, including Ryan Reynolds, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fiona Shaw, Steve Carrell, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper and Emily Blunt. Cailey Fleming leads the cast as a girl who, having recently experienced a traumatic loss, begins seeing everyone’s imaginary friends.
Krasinski previously wrote and directed A Quiet Place...
- 5/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Michael Head stars in this less than convincing story of a London crime lord and his associates
There was a period in the Cool Britannia days when you couldn’t throw a brick at a cinema in the UK without hitting a British gangster movie with a castful full of dodgy geezers blagging their way around an underground scene full of drugs and farfetched capers. Some were ludicrously entertaining creations of actual working-class talent, such as Nick Love’s The Business, others transcended genre pigeonholing to work their way into various top critics’ lists (such as Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast), and still others were Guy Ritchie movies. There were hundreds of less high-profile efforts too, destined for VHS or DVD, but each having somehow found funding.
These days the British gangster flick is no longer flavour of the week, or month, and there’s something appealingly bullish about attempts to make these films now.
There was a period in the Cool Britannia days when you couldn’t throw a brick at a cinema in the UK without hitting a British gangster movie with a castful full of dodgy geezers blagging their way around an underground scene full of drugs and farfetched capers. Some were ludicrously entertaining creations of actual working-class talent, such as Nick Love’s The Business, others transcended genre pigeonholing to work their way into various top critics’ lists (such as Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast), and still others were Guy Ritchie movies. There were hundreds of less high-profile efforts too, destined for VHS or DVD, but each having somehow found funding.
These days the British gangster flick is no longer flavour of the week, or month, and there’s something appealingly bullish about attempts to make these films now.
- 5/14/2024
- by Catherine Bray
- The Guardian - Film News
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has acquired worldwide sales rights for six features including footballer documentary Defoe.
Directed by James Ross, Defoe follows now-retired football star Jermain Defoe as he re-evaluates his roots, career and controversies, and explores future ambitions.
The completed film includes interviews with Defoe’s colleagues including manager Harry Redknapp and teammates Peter Crouch and Joe Cole. Kaleidoscope will conduct a single-day theatrical release in the UK on February 29.
Sales are underway on Defoe at this week’s EFM where Kaleidoscope is screening three completed acquisitions.
Andrew Gallimore’s One Night In Millstreet revisits the 1990s boxing match that...
Directed by James Ross, Defoe follows now-retired football star Jermain Defoe as he re-evaluates his roots, career and controversies, and explores future ambitions.
The completed film includes interviews with Defoe’s colleagues including manager Harry Redknapp and teammates Peter Crouch and Joe Cole. Kaleidoscope will conduct a single-day theatrical release in the UK on February 29.
Sales are underway on Defoe at this week’s EFM where Kaleidoscope is screening three completed acquisitions.
Andrew Gallimore’s One Night In Millstreet revisits the 1990s boxing match that...
- 2/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Perry Benson, Michael Head, Terry Stone, Sam Gittins, Ricky London, Emily Wyatt, Rachel Warren | Written by Michael Head, Lucinda Royden | Directed by Coz Greenop
The Last Heist opens with Mick talking to his son Slips telling him he doesn’t want him following in his footsteps. And that he has an “insurance policy” to help prevent that from happening.
In the next scene, we’re at his funeral. He went to the grave with the nature of that policy still a secret. But Slips believes it’s stashed in a safe deposit box his father kept under an alias. With no other options, he pulls his old crew, Waldorf, Prozac and Fisherman (Ricky London) together for what should be the last heist they’ll need to pull off.
Director Coz Greenop and writers Michael Head and Lucinda Royden don’t structure The Last Heist as a straightforward bank robbery film.
The Last Heist opens with Mick talking to his son Slips telling him he doesn’t want him following in his footsteps. And that he has an “insurance policy” to help prevent that from happening.
In the next scene, we’re at his funeral. He went to the grave with the nature of that policy still a secret. But Slips believes it’s stashed in a safe deposit box his father kept under an alias. With no other options, he pulls his old crew, Waldorf, Prozac and Fisherman (Ricky London) together for what should be the last heist they’ll need to pull off.
Director Coz Greenop and writers Michael Head and Lucinda Royden don’t structure The Last Heist as a straightforward bank robbery film.
- 11/4/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
A ripe crew of wrong’uns hole up in a bar to pick over a raid gone awry, but does deliver one welcome departure from cliche
You might find it reassuring that, even as the pound yo-yos and democracy unravels, there will forever be a corner of the British film industry that is grim-faced geezers in boozers toting shotguns and plotting shenanigans. This very late entry in a cycle initiated during the Blair administration attempts something a little more characterful than usual, as signalled by the presence of the great Perry Benson in the prologue as a bar owner who corks it before giving up his life insurance details to his son.
The Last Heist then involves an hour of perilously muggy business, as the lad recalls his old gang to Perry’s bar to work out where their raid on the recalcitrant insurers went bloodily awry. It’s a...
You might find it reassuring that, even as the pound yo-yos and democracy unravels, there will forever be a corner of the British film industry that is grim-faced geezers in boozers toting shotguns and plotting shenanigans. This very late entry in a cycle initiated during the Blair administration attempts something a little more characterful than usual, as signalled by the presence of the great Perry Benson in the prologue as a bar owner who corks it before giving up his life insurance details to his son.
The Last Heist then involves an hour of perilously muggy business, as the lad recalls his old gang to Perry’s bar to work out where their raid on the recalcitrant insurers went bloodily awry. It’s a...
- 11/1/2022
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
"We're here to make bank robberies great again!" Platinum Pictures has revealed an official trailer + UK release date for this British crime thriller titled The Last Heist, from filmmaker Coz Greenop. It's now set to open theatrical in November in the UK, though still has no US release yet. When the stakes are this high is there really honour amongst thieves, and how far will this four go to protect each other, especially if the main threat seems to come from within the group? The Last Heist is inspired by true stories, real events and real people (with names changed to protect the not-so-innocent). The Last Heist is a witty, gritty, thrilling insight into the real south London criminal underworld - a look at real villains' psyche and ongoing volatile relationships. The Last Heist stars genre veteran Terry Stone, best known as Tony Tucker from Rise of the Footsoldier films,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Glastonbury music festival has been canceled once again due to the Covid-19 pandemic, festival organizers announced on Thursday. 2021 will mark the second summer in a row where the international festival was not held, after the 2020 event was canceled last March.
“With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us,” festival founder Michael Eavis and his daughter, Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis, wrote on Twitter. “In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth,...
“With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us,” festival founder Michael Eavis and his daughter, Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis, wrote on Twitter. “In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth,...
- 1/21/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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