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“The Wasp” is a new ‘psychological thriller’, directed by Guillem Morales, starring Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Dominic Allburn, Jack Morris, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Naomi Richards and Evelyn Temple, opening August 30, 2024 in theaters:

“…estranged childhood friends, ‘Heather’ and ‘Carla’, reunite for a cup of tea after not having spoken in many years.

“But at their meeting, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition …

‘…asking her to kill the abusive man in her life, that will change their lives forever…”

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Guillem Morales’s thriller The Wasp is about two women, Heather (Naomie Harris) and Carla (Natalie Dormer), who haven’t spoken since high school. They both still live in the same English town, and their houses are probably only a brief bus ride apart. But they live in different worlds, mostly because only one of them would ever take the bus.

Living a prettified suburban existence, Heather has a posh accent, a beautiful home, and a stylish wardrobe. Her husband, Simon (Dominic Allburn), is successful, though the audience never finds out exactly what he does, just that his is the sort of job that involves hobnobbing with other elegantly dressed people over bottles of presumably expensive wine.

As for Carla, she huddles up with her four kids inside a cramped apartment alongside her husband, Jim (Rupert Holliday-Evans), who seems to divide his time between snoozing in his armchair and gambling away their rent money.

Shout! Studios will be giving the psychological thriller The Wasp, starring Naomie Harris of Skyfall and Natalie Dormer of Game of Thrones, a theatrical release on August 30th, and with that date just eight weeks away a trailer for the film has made its way online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Julia’s Eyes director Guillem Morales was at the helm of The Wasp, working from a screenplay written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, based on Malcolm’s stage play of the same name. Harris and Dormer are said to deliver captivating performances in this “tense, twist-filled” film as two estranged friends who reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.

Dominic Allburn (A Place to Call Home), Jack Morris (Into the Deep), Rupert Holliday-Evans (Silent Witness), Naomi Richards (The Ballad of Lucy Sands), Jake Donald-Crookes (Hill of Vision...

“The Wasp” is a new ‘psychological thriller’, directed by Guillem Morales, starring Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Dominic Allburn, Jack Morris, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Naomi Richards and Evelyn Temple, opening August 30, 2024 in theaters:

“…estranged childhood friends, ‘Heather’ and ‘Carla’, reunite for a cup of tea after not having spoken in many years.

“But at their meeting, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition …

‘…asking her to kill the abusive man in her life, that will change their lives forever…”

Click the images to enlarge...

The tension and suspense in The Wasp is incredible, leading to wild and engaging twists. Natalie Dormer and Naomie Harris deliver exceptional performances that leave a lasting impact. The directing and writing of The Wasp are top-tier, creating a thrilling and enthralling viewing experience.

Adapting a play into a film is no easy task. Something that can be so intimate onstage may not always translate well onscreen. But the way in which director Guillem Morales interprets Morgan Lloyd Malcolms material in The Wasp a script Malcolm adapted herself is truly transcendent. Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer give awards-worthy performances, trusting each other and the filmmakers to deliver intense, nail-biting portrayals of characters who are each deserving of sympathy. I didnt really know what to expect from The Wasp, but I can say the less you know about its plot, the better.

The Wasp (2024)

Director Guillem MoralesRelease Date June 8, 2024Writers Morgan Lloyd MalcolmCast Jake Donald-Crookes,...

"Your defenses are gone, your drawbridge is down... you've been taken over." Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official US trailer for a British crime thriller titled Nemesis, which already opened in the UK earlier this year, and arrives on VOD in the US this summer. An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder. When the Morgan family gather in John's apartment to meet their daughter's new girlfriend Zoe, it turns out she is not what she seems and her arrival triggers a deadly game of cat and mouse ending in revenge and murder, as the family are trapped in their own home by a gang of armed intruders. Starring Billy Murray as John, with Nick Moran, Frank Harper, Julian Glover, Ricky Grover, Bruce Payne, Lucy Aarden, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, Ambra Moore, Danny Bear,...

As Netflix continues to assert itself as a major television company with such acclaimed series as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Amazon Studios is racing to catch up by ordering series it hopes will be equally well-received. So far, Amazon has scored one big hit in the form of Jeffrey Tambor-led dramedy Transparent, and it hopes to find some more in the new lineup of pilots, which will be made available for viewing as part of the company’s first pilot season of 2015.

Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...

Amazon is entering pilot season strong with seven pilots for shows with big names attached. The pilots will include hour-long shows Cocked, Mad Dogs, The Man in the High Castle, and Point of Honor, half-hour shows Down Dog and Salem Rogers, and the half-hour docu-series The New Yorker Presents. Cocked is the hour-long dark comedy from Lie to Me's Sam Baum and Manhattan's Sam Shaw. It stars Sam Trammell as Richard Paxson, a man who returns to his rural Virginia family after leaving acrimoniously 20 years ago. Now, Paxson returns with his liberal family to the dysfunctional family he left behind,...

Spirits in restrooms, blood from the walls and a hand cranked camera add up to something, but we are not sure what.Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) smells a rat. Maybe it is that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) seems distracted by her business associate Alex (Carl Shaaban) and seems to be pulling away from David. That could be because she is having an affair with Alex. Then, again, it could be because David is having these recurring dreams of rivers of blood coming out of the walls. Or, it could be that she saw “The Shining” and is afraid her […]...

  Power, The Man in The High Castle, and other TV productions have made recent TV show casting, TV movie casting, and TV directing news. These shows and movies air on Starz and Amazon. Mr. Robot (USA) Portia Doubleday (Her, Carrie) and Carly Chaikin (Suburgatory) have been [...]

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Nightmare on Elm Street star and comic-book legend set for horror festival.

Film4 FrightFest (Aug 21-25) has unveiled its guest list, topped by A Nightmare On Elm Street star Robert Englund.

The Us horror actor will attend the festival to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Wes Craven classic, screening on Aug 24, and to launch the latest production in which he stars, The Last Showing, which screens Aug 22.

Festival co-director Alan Jones described Englund as “one of the genre’s originals” and “an icon of fright”.

In support of opening film The Guest, Us actress Maika Monroe will present the UK premiere of the thriller, directed by Adam Wingard and co-starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens. Monroe is also the star of horror It Follows, which debuted at Cannes.

Alan Moore, the author of bestselling graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell, will attend the festival to introduce and discuss his short film trilogy Show Pieces...

The line-up for this year's Film4 FrightFest in London has just been announced – and boy, is it a doozy! Sporting a record-breaking 38 UK/European premieres and 11 world premieres, this August is going to be an exciting time in the genre calendar.

Check it all out right here, including lots of new images!

This year Film4 FrightFest will be moving from its previous home at Leicester Square's Empire Cinema to the nearby Vue Cinema (also on Leicester Square), prompting an ingenious reshuffle of the screening arrangements.

All main screen films will be presented at different times across three different screens, with two extra screens reserved for single-slot screenings of the various films hitting this year's Discovery Screens.

Here's the full list of goodies:

Main Screens (5, 6, 7)

Thursday Aug 21

Opening Night Film - The Guest (UK Premiere)

Director: Adam Wingard. Cast: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser. USA 2014. 99 mins.

Film4 FrightFest 2014, returning for its 15th year, unveils its biggest line-up ever. From Thurs 21 August to Monday 25 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Vue West End, Leicester Square, to present sixty-four films plus twenty shorts across five screens. There are sixteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-eight UK or European premieres and eleven world premieres.

Are you ready for a monstrous and memorable mayhem of killer claws, cannibalism, cult classics, murderous musicals, chiller thrillers, graphic novel action and sick celluloid masterpieces? Then prepare yourself for the biggest, strongest and most eclectic must-see programme in Film4 FrightFest’s history.

From the opening night turbo-driven thrill-ride The Guest to the UK premiere of the closing night mesmeric sci-fi fantasy The Signal, FrightFest has netted the latest works from genre big-hitters such as Eli Roth (The Green Inferno), Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins (Show...

(Warning: This review contains spoilers regarding the plot of The Canal as well as descriptions of disturbing violence and sexual imagery.)

David (Rupert Evans) is a film archivist with the National Archive, living happily with his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) and his son Billy (Calum Heath), or so he believes. When reviewing film of a crime scene, David realizes that a brutal murder happened in his family’s home, and shortly after, Alice’s body is found in a nearby canal. In the days and weeks following her death, David starts to question his own senses and suspects that Alice was killed by a ghost or other-worldly creature, and he worries that the ghost will return to claim his son Billy as well. Is David’s home and family haunted by the ghosts of an ancient murder, or is David losing his mind because he really killed Alice?

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(Warning: This review contains spoilers regarding the plot of The Canal as well as descriptions of disturbing violence and sexual imagery.)

David (Rupert Evans) is a film archivist with the National Archive, living happily with his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) and his son Billy (Calum Heath), or so he believes. When reviewing film of a crime scene, David realizes that a brutal murder happened in his family’s home, and shortly after, Alice’s body is found in a nearby canal. In the days and weeks following her death, David starts to question his own senses and suspects that Alice was killed by a ghost or other-worldly creature, and he worries that the ghost will return to claim his son Billy as well. Is David’s home and family haunted by the ghosts of an ancient murder, or is David losing his mind because he really killed Alice?

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Playing as part of this year's Tribeca Film Festival is Irish director Ivan Kavanagh's new film The Canalm and right now we have some fresh stills for ya! Look for the flick to have its world premiere at Tribeca, which takes place from April 16th to April 27th in New York City.

Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Rupert Evans, Steve Oram, and Hannah Hoekstra star.

Synopsis

Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy—or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder. David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

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Fleming

Lara Pulver ("Sherlock"), Anna Chancellor ("The Hour"), Rupert Evans ("Homeland"), Samuel West ("Mr. Selfridge"), and Lesley Manville have all joined the cast of Sky Atlantic and BBC America's biopic mini-series "Fleming".

Dominic Cooper stars as James Bond creator/author Ian Fleming in the project. Pulver will play Ann O’Neill, with whom Fleming had a longterm on-off relationship before she became his wife in 1952. [Source: Deadline]

The Tunnel

Clémence Poésy ("Harry Potter") and Stephen Dillane ("Game Of Thrones") have scored the lead roles in "The Tunnel," the British/French remake of the Scandanavian hit "The Bridge."

Set primarily in Folkestone and Calais, detectives Karl Roebuck (Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Poésy) are called to investigate the death of a French politician. [Source: Deadline]

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

Syfy's "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome" has finally scored a television air date - February 10th from 9-11 Pm for the world premiere of two-hour full-length movie.

A group of actors including Da Vinci’s Demons’ Lara Pulver, is joining the cast of Sky Atlantic/BBC America biopic, Fleming. The upcoming four-part drama stars Dominic Cooper as James Bond creator/author Ian Fleming and, as I reported last week, also has Annabelle Wallis lined up as Muriel Wright, the original inspiration for the Bond Girl. Sky confirms today that Pulver will play Ann O’Neill, with whom Fleming had a longterm on-off relationship before she became his wife in 1952. She is said to have heavily influenced the writer: a year after they wed, the first 007 book, Casino Royale, was published. Mr Selfridge‘s Samuel West is also aboard as Admiral John Godfrey with whom Fleming worked during WWII and who put him in charge of Operation Golden Eye. Godfrey is generally accepted to have been the inspiration for the M character in the Bond books. British actress...

Lara Pulver, who had viewers' pulses racing with her nude scene in 'Sherlock', is to star as a real-life Bond girl.

The 32-year-old, whose roles have also included appearances in BBC1's 'Spooks and Robin Hood', will portray the wife of 007 creator Ian Fleming.

The life of the author is being dramatised in a four-part series - starring Dominic Cooper as the writer - being made for Sky Atlantic, to be screened later this year.

Lara Pulver will star in an Ian Fleming biopic

She will play Ann, a society figure who was Viscountess Rothermere for several years after marrying the proprietor of the Daily Mail, and was later married to Fleming for 12 years, until his death in 1964.

Lara said: "I am thrilled to be playing Ann, a real life high society siren worthy of Fleming's finest fictional femme fatales.

"In extraordinary times Ann had the ear...

Last week brought with it Drew Goddard’s directorial debut, The Cabin in the Woods, to our shelves, penned by Goddard and the ever-brilliant Joss Whedon.

And this week, we’ve got a huge selection of films and TV shows coming to our shelves, so without further ado…

My picks of the week:

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom & Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman.

Modern Family – Season 3.

And James Cameron’s The Terminator Blu-ray release.

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DVD and Blu-ray

Breaking records upon release with the highest ever per-theatre-average in its opening weekend (which Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master broke again last month), Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom is something of a masterpiece.

His first live-action film since 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited, Anderson takes us back to childhood with two young secret romantics running away together, on the fictional island of New Penzance.

The...

This week sees the Oscar-winning Jean Dujardin (The Artist) in his follow-up performance, The Players, the 18-rated comedy that promises a very different side to his silent-film award-winning performance. We are also treated to the Carnegie Hall performance of blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, who performed late last year a fantastic array of pieces, including one of his own, written in dedication to the memory of the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March last year.

My picks of the week:

The omnibus comedy, with multiple directors, The Players.

Nobuyuki Tsuki: Live at Carnegie Hall.

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DVD

After taking the Oscar for Best Actor earlier this year in The Artist, Jean Dujardin returns behind and in front of the camera in The Players (Les Infidèles), a series of vignettes based on the theme of male infidelity.

As you can imagine, it looks to be...

We've got great news for fans of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — not to mention miniseries fans in general. Reelz is set to be the premiere home for the eight-part adaptation of the sequel, World Without End, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 26 weeks.

Set in Kingsbridge 200 years after the events of Pillars, World Without End picks up with a new cast of characters. Caris, a feisty young woman played by Charlotte Riley (The Duchess, Wuthering Heights), inspires her medieval town to confront the most powerful forces of her time, the Church and the Crown, as Kingsbridge fights to save the town from ruin and, ultimately, usher in a new era of freedom, innovation, and enlightenment.

World Without End also stars Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, The Big C) as the beautiful and deadly schemer Petranilla, Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,...