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Much of Dr. Martens’ popularity can be attributed to the grunge era of the ’90s when plaid and alternative music reigned supreme. It was a time when creativity was unrestrained, and a shared sense of nonconformity characterized the alternative nation of the decade.

Bella Hadid elevates her street style in New York City on February 9, 2018, pairing oversized Vivienne Westwood tailoring with edgy Dr. Martens Holly Lolita platform oxfords, Christianahjones orange sunglasses, and a playful Prada comic-print bag (Credit: INSTARimages)

Even individuals from fashion-forward families found their voice through Dr. Martens. Julia Restoin Roitfeld, daughter of the iconic Carine Roitfeld, once reflected, “I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn’t girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

Hollywood star James Franco, celebrated for his performances in films like 127 Hours, often finds himself in the spotlight not only for his on-screen performances but also for his turbulent romantic life. The Oscar-nominated actor has been in a long-term relationship with actress-director, Izabel Pakzad.

James Franco | Credit: Bridget Laudien/Cca By-Sa 4.0/Wikimedia Commons

However, his name has frequently been linked with several high-profile stars previously. Some of the most notable names in his romantic history also include the Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke and the Friends actress Marla Sokoloff, placing him almost on par with Hollywood’s Leonardo DiCaprio, who also remains single into his 40s.

James Franco’s Star-Studded Romantic History

Hollywood star James Franco has been quite successful in his on-screen endeavors. However, the actor has also been surrounded by several controversies, even admitting his past infidelities before settling into his current relationship with actress Izabel Pakzad.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Fever (Maya Da-Rin)

The Fever, director-cum-visual artist Da-Rin’s first full-length feature project, puts a human face to a statistic that hardly captures the genocide Brazil is suffering. This is not just a wonderfully crafted, superb exercise in filmmaking, a multilayered tale that seesaws between social realism and magic. It is a call to action, an unassuming manifesto hashed in the present tense but reverberating as a plea from a world already past us, a memoir of sorts. – Leonardo G. (full review)

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

French New Wave

Dive into one of the most fertile eras of moving pictures with a new massive 45-film series on The Criterion Channel dedicated to the French New Wave. Highlights include Le...

Network: Hulu.

Episodes: Six (hour).

Seasons: One.

TV show dates: March 7, 2018 — March 7, 2018.

Series status: Cancelled.

Performers include: Jim Sturgess, Agyness Deyn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Jojo Macari, Derek Riddell, Owain Arthur, Varada Sethu, Adrian Rawlins, Lorraine Burroughs, Aisling Bea, and Joplin Sibtain.

TV show description:

A pre-apocalyptic crime drama from Luther creator, Neil Cross, the Hard Sun TV show centers on Di Elaine Renko (Deyn) and Dci Charlie Hicks (Sturgess). Although Renko and Hicks are mismatched, these partners are out to enforce the laws and keep safe their loved ones, as encroaching natural disaster threatens to end the world.

Although he's a family man and a devoted officer, Dci Hicks is also thoroughly...

At the end of every calendar year, critics rank the best movies of the past 12 months. But why wait that long when first-rate cinema is opening every month? This ongoing list is proof that there’s plenty worth celebrating all year long. While the quality of studio movies tends to peak in the summer and fall seasons, they represent just one small piece of the much larger equation. For those of us tracking a range of quality movies released throughout the year, the hunt often begins much earlier, when many of these titles first surface on the festival circuit. Other indies benefit from savvy marketing strategies, a cavalcade of rave reviews, or awards season buzz, but all of them deserve singling out as the best indies of the year so far.

The format for this developing resource is simple: Any movie reviewed by IndieWire that has received a B+ or higher makes the cut.

As a model, Agyness Deyn walked runways for Chanel and graced the cover of British Vogue, but never trained as an actor. You’d never guess, judging by her kinetic performance as swaggering bass player Marielle Hell in Alex Ross Perry’s punk rock epic “Her Smell.” Since officially retiring from modeling in 2012, she learned on the job — not a bad tactic, considering she’s worked with pedigree directors like Terence Davies and the Coen brothers in her relatively short career.

It was on Davies’ “Sunset Song,” in which she plays a farmer’s daughter dealing with abusive men and impending war, that Scottish actor and director Peter Mullan taught her the art of leaving a character’s darkness on the set. While shooting in Luxembourg, she opted to share a car with Mullan every morning, where she wisely picked his brain.

“That was one of my biggest roles that I’ve played,...

A ferocious Elisabeth Moss elevates Her Smell’s rickety rise-and-fall storyline.

Elisabeth Moss’ incandescent performance, probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen her do before, is the raw, beating, bloody heart of Her Smell, the sixth feature film from writer/director Alex Ross Perry. In her third collaboration with Perry, Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Becky Something, leader of the influential all-female punk rock trio Something She. Once an arena-filler, Something She is playing smaller venues and clearly on the decline, with Becky herself a drug-addled, slow-motion catastrophe whose personal downward spiral is pulling everyone within her circle into the abyss with her.

Bass player Marielle (Agyness Deyn) is fighting to keep the band together while strapped with a cocaine habit of her own; drummer Ali (Gayle Rankin) is the only seemingly straight one but the victim of some of Becky’s most vicious barbs; and Becky’s long-single...

There’s a temptation to call “Her Smell” a greatest-hits compilation of the films of writer-director Alex Ross Perry. After all, it’s got the pitch-black humor of “The Color Wheel,” the narcissism of artists behaving badly from “Listen Up Philip” and the spectacle of Elisabeth Moss as a character spiraling out of control, just like “Queen of Earth.”

There’s more than a little nihilism in these films, delivered with those laughs that get caught in your throat, and Perry couldn’t be less interested in how likable or redeemable his characters might be. Something of a cult filmmaker until now, Perry calls things as he sees them, and he would appear to see them through the bleakest perspective possible.

But this is new material from the challenging auteur, one that reflects a deeper sense of maturity, displayed mainly in the idea of the possibility of redemption. Moss’ Becky Something,...

Women and music are at the center of two new Specialty releases this weekend. Ld Entertainment/Bleecker Street is taking Elle Fanning starrer Teen Spirit by Max Minghella to New York and L.A. before a fairly wide expansion next weekend, while Gunpowder & Sky is opening Alex Ross Perry’s punk drama Her Smell with Elisabeth Moss in New York and Toronto. The titles join a fairly packed group of new limited releases this weekend. Molly Shannon stars as Emily Dickinson in Greenwich Entertainment’s Wild Nights with Emily by Madeleine Olnek which launches in New York and L.A. before heading to 50 markets in the coming weeks. In the wake of its lucrative if controversial opening in China, Kino Lorber is opening Bi Gan’s Cannes debut Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Also from China is Well Go USA’s Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, launching in 20 North American markets.

Fame knocks the hell out of Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss in a five-alarm fire blaze), a ’90’s indie punk rocker who leads a riot grrrl band that she bombards with near-constant verbal abuse. Those backstage tantrums can do damage to anyone who gets too close. Narcotics or narcissism? Pick your poison. Becky chooses both — and you don’t want to get in her way. Can you really commit to a movie that makes you want to bolt for the exits? You can if it’s this one.

How Elisabeth Moss...

This month: Elisabeth Moss is a rocker on the brink of a breakdown; Robert Pattinson plunges into deep space: Andrew Garfield takes a tour of the old, weird L.A.; and Terry Gilliam finally unveils a pet project that’s literally been decades in the making. And there are also teen-singer dramas, animated comedies and no less than three big superhero films coming out — perhaps you’ve heard of these crazy kids called “the Avengers?” Here’s what you need to see in April.

Avengers: Endgame (Apr. 26th)

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We have a trailer for Her Smell, written and directed by Alex Ross Perry (Christopher Robin) and starring Elisabeth Moss as an aging ‘90s rockstar who needs to get her shit together. It premiered at Tiff to good reviews from critics who generally found it uneven but still worthwhile. Christina Newland at Sight and Sound said, “What really elevates the film's darkness is its propensity to find light, redemption and communal love in the destructive throes of the music scene.” So that sounds pretty good.

Also pretty good is the rest of the cast, which includes Dan Stevens, Cara Delevingne, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Eric Stoltz, and Amber Heard. It hits theaters on April 12.

I am a sucker for a ‘90s girl band, so I am in. I also am generally in awe of Elisabeth Moss and am pretty willing to watch her in anything, and she has...

"You're a mess." "No, you're a mess." Gunpowder & Sky has released a new, full-length trailer for Alex Ross Perry's latest, titled Her Smell, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. This received some rave reviews from critics, another music film following so many others from the festival circuit last year. Elisabeth Moss (who also starred in Alex Ross Perry's films Queen of Earth and Listen Up Philip) plays a self-destructive punk rocker named Becky Something who struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. The impressive cast includes Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Amber Heard, Eric Stoltz, with Virginia Madsen. This looks like a wild 'n crazy punk rock drama with all the usual punk nonsense. Here's the full-length official trailer for Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell, direct from G&S's YouTube...

Elisabeth Moss plays guitar and sings a grungy anthem about flirting with death in the trailer for Her Smell, a new film by Alex Ross Perry. Her blonde hair and the tone of the song, a cover of the Only Ones’ “Another Girl Another Planet,” recall Hole and Courtney Love. But despite the glee she feels onstage, the clip shows that Moss’ character, Becky Something, has a darker side.

“Becky Something, she’s a woman,” Agyness Deyn’s character, Marielle, tells her. Something rejoins, “She’s a user.” “You’re a mother.

Elisabeth Moss’s latest role has her flirting with death…or at least singing about it.

In “Her Smell,” Moss plays a former ’90s punk rock star named Becky Something. The singer and her band, Something She, once filled arenas but now she struggles with addiction, motherhood, getting older and fading fame.

“I always flirt with death, I look ill, but I don’t care about it,” Moss sings in this first trailer for the film. “I think I’m on another world with you.”

Also Read: Amy Poehler to Direct Punk Rock Riot Grrrl Film 'Moxie' at Netflix

Alex Ross Perry directed the film, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and will next play at SXSW. The movie features an original score and songs by Keegan DeWitt, who wrote the indie-pop jams for last year’s Sundance darling “Hearts Beat Loud.”

But in addition to Moss, the cast includes Cara Delevingne,...

The '90s are enjoying there heyday as Millennials continue to feel nostalgic for the era. With Captain Marvel heading into theaters soon, scorching across a landscape embedded firmly in the year 1995, we get an entirely different look at the era with Her Smell, which revisits the grunge decade in rock music, peering into the lives of those who lived it first hand.

Becky Something pumps up the volume and shines a light on the terrifying moment when superstardom wanes - and quiet becomes the new loud.

Alex Ross Perry wrote and directed the future life of Beck Something, bringing it all together with a strong ensemble led by Elisabeth Moss. She's backed up by Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Amber Heard, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Virginia Madsen and Eric Stoltz. The movie will hit New York theaters first on April 12th (NY); followed by an expansion...

Elisabeth Moss has become one of television’s most powerhouse performers thanks to her Emmy-winning role on Hulu’s drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale” — not to mention seven previous Emmy nominations (six for “Mad Men” and one for “Top of the Lake”) — and now she’s about to become the same on the big screen thanks to “Her Smell.” The punk music drama reunites Moss with her “Listen Up Philip” and “Queen of Earth” director Alex Ross Perry, but never has the actress gotten this volatile and monstrous of a role to sink her teeth into.

“Her Smell” stars Moss as Becky Something, the lead singer of the all-female punk group Something She. Perry’s script uses a five-act structure that tells Becky’s entire story through fiv extended scenes that match the character’s drug-raddled claustrophobia and emotional release. Becky has a young daughter but has not given up her hardcore punk edge,...

In a not-so-bold prediction, when the books are closed on 2019 films, few performances will stand out as much as Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell. Alex Ross Perry’s punk epic tackles a fierce range of emotions across its five intimate scenes as we follow Becky Something (Moss), a rock ‘n’ roll legend who is dealing with a different side (and level) of fame. The director, with his team of composer Keegan DeWitt, cinematographer Sean Price Williams, and editor Robert Greene, create a music film no other and now the first trailer has arrived ahead of an April release.

Kyle Pletcher said in our Nyff review, “Distinct from musicals, music biopics, and documentaries, fiction films about the challenges faced by musicians in practicing their craft have been around since the earliest days of cinema. From The Jazz Singer and A Star Is Born to recent releases such as Not Fade Away and Inside Llewyn Davis,...

The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (House In The Fields), French director Laurent Cantet (The Class), German actor Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Mexican director Michel Franco (April’s Daughter). As previously revealed, director James Gray will serve as jury president.

A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.

The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...

Jim Sturgess has been cast in Apple’s upcoming drama based on the life of 11-year-old investigative journalist Hilde Lysiak, the tech giant announced Tuesday.

Led by “The Florida Project” breakout Brooklynn Prince, the 10-episode drama follows a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind, where her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.

Sturgess will play Matthew Lysiak, Hilde’s father in the series created by Dana Fox and Dara Resnik.

“Crazy Rich Asians” helmer Jon M. Chu will direct and executive produce the untitled drama, which hails from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television. Joy Gorman Wettels and Sharlene Martin also serve as executive producers.

Also Read: Steve Carell to Star in Apple Morning-Show Drama With Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston

The drama is one...

More October fun for our readers in today's Horror Highlights. Seventh.Ink starts things off with images of their Haunted Collection IX apparel, which is available now, and we also have Patient Zero Blu-ray / DVD details and info on Terrortory II coming to Amazon Prime.

Seventh.Ink's Haunted Collection IX Apparel Release Details: "Haunted Collection IX includes four shirts and a ton of other great items such as enamel pins, embroidered patches, and 9x12 screen prints.

As always, the shirts are tagless and screen printed with water-based ink on Next Level blanks.

Everything is now available at www.seventhink.com"

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Patient Zero Blu-ray and DVD Release Details: Press Release: "Matt Smith (“Dr. Who”), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci star in Patient Zero, debuting on Blu-ray and DVD October 23rd from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. After a super-virus has turned humankind into highly intelligent,...

Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the domestic rights to Alex Ross Perry’s drama “Her Smell,” starring Elisabeth Moss as a tormented punk rock singer.

The deal was announced Thursday following the film’s sold out screenings on the opening weekend of the 56th New York Film Festival. “Her Smell” had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is planned for a theatrical release in 2019, followed by an awards push for Moss.

Moss stars as Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star and leader of the seminal all-female rock band Something She, who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family, and followers to the limit as she wages a years-long war against sobriety, while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover success. The cast also includes Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Amber Heard, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Virginia Madsen,...

Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the domestic rights to Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell” starring Elisabeth Moss, the content studio announced Thursday.

The punk rock epic also stars Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz and Amber Heard.

The film, marking the third collaboration between Moss and Perry, chronicles the fall and rise of a ’90s riot grrrl. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Books Nicole Kidman, Elisabeth Moss Films for Platform Section

Gunpowder & Sky is planning a theatrical release in 2019, followed by an awards push for Moss.

“Her Smell” was produced by Bow and Arrow Entertainment and Faliro House Productions. Producers include Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Sherman, Adam Piotrowicz, Perry and Moss. Christos V. Konstantakopoulos executive produced.

“I am so intensely proud of this film and of everyone involved who...

Gunpowder & Sky has acquired domestic rights to Her Smell, the punk-rock tie-up written and directed by Alex Ross Perry and starring Elisabeth Moss. The pic, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, just had its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival. Gunpowder & Sky now plans a 2019 release with an awards push for Moss.

The film, the third collaboration of Perry and Moss, centers on her Becky Something, a ’90s punk rock superstar who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio, but who crashes down to earth into the harsh realities of mid-life. Forced to get sober, temper her demons, and reckon with the past, she retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. The narrative is told across five scenes that span 10 years

Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Amber Heard, Gayle Rankin,...

Distributor plans 2019 theatrical release with awards push.

Los Angeles-based Gunpowder & Sky has picked up Us rights to Her Smell starring Elisabeth Moss hot on the heels of the Us premiere at the 56th New York Film Festival last weekend.

Alex Ross Perry’s film received its world premiere at Tiff last month and charts the fall and rise of a 1990’s riot grrrl. It marks the third collaboration between Moss and Perry after Queen Of Earth and Listen Up Philip.

Gunpowder & Sky plan a 2019 theatrical release and awards push for Moss as the fictional once-great punk rock star Becky...

Distinct from musicals, music biopics, and documentaries, fiction films about the challenges faced by musicians in practicing their craft have been around since the earliest days of cinema. From The Jazz Singer and A Star Is Born to recent releases such as Not Fade Away and Inside Llewyn Davis, the tribulations of musicianship have long fascinated filmmakers and audiences alike. Although these struggles are typically emphasized for dramatic purposes, rarely is the viewer subjected to the downward spiral of one of these artists for the overwhelming majority of the runtime, let alone with such intoxicating lucidity; a feat that Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell accomplishes with flying colors.

Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) is the frontwoman of Something She, a famous indie rock trio in the vein of iconic riot grrrl groups like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney. It becomes immediately apparent that Becky has almost completely lost her grip on reality,...

In “Her Smell,” Elisabeth Moss tears into the role of Becky Something, a strung-out hellion indie rock star of the early ’90s, like an angry lioness ripping through a slab of raw meat. Just taking on the part of a rock ‘n’ roller represents a major change of pace for Moss, who has tended to play cautious and pensive characters. But in “Her Smell,” Moss doesn’t just “let loose”. She dives headfirst into crazy, abandoned, fuck-it-all grunge narcissism. She plays Becky as a walking train wreck of borderline personality disorder who has elevated herself into a theatrically self-destructive druggie dominatrix. Becky may be an unholy terror, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a star. The stardom and the rancid solipsism are two sides of the same spectacularly damaged coin, and Moss herself has the star quality, and the fearlessness, to pull that off.

As it turns out,...

It’s easy to hate Becky Something, the hurricane of rock n’ roll destruction at the center of Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell.” Played with ferocious intensity by actress and producer Elisabeth Moss, the star’s third teaming with Perry sees Moss hitting another high note after the pair’s vicious “Queen of Earth,” but it also comes with a timely addiction narrative that she was eager to get right.

Told in a five-act structure and interspersed with flashbacks, “Her Smell” unfolds over nearly a decade as Becky and her bandmates struggle with the price of fame and creative freedom as their band, Something She, rises and falls, mostly due to Becky’s whims.

As the band cycles through bad gigs (three out of five of the film’s acts take place in grimy backstages) and even worse trips, Becky is forced to grapple with the havoc she’s wreaked on everyone around her,...

"Your honor, is it a crime in this country to prefer the witching hour?" The first festival teaser is available for the new Alex Ross Perry film, titled Her Smell. This just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival over the weekend, and it will also screen at the New York Film Festival next month. Elisabeth Moss (who also starred in Alex Ross Perry's films Queen of Earth and Listen Up Philip) plays a self-destructive punk rocker named Becky Something who struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. The impressive cast includes Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Amber Heard, Eric Stoltz, with Virginia Madsen. This teaser gives us a look at how wild & crazy Moss is in this, for those who might be curious. Take a look. Here's the festival teaser trailer (+ Tiff poster) for Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell,...

Benjamin Naishtat’s ’Rojo’ still leads the way.

Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell and Simon Jaquemet’s The Innocent are the latest titles to land on Screen’s Toronto Platform jury grid, and have moved into third and fourth place respectively to date.

Her Smell achieved a 2.8 average, splitting the opinion of Screen’s grid critics. Both Justin Chang of the La Times and Radheyan Simonpillai of Now/CTV gave it top marks of four stars (‘excellent’); Vincent Le Leurch of Le Film Français was less enamoured, giving it one star (‘poor’).

Elisabeth Moss takes centre stage in the film as a talented,...

Moss plays the monstrous, self-destructive singer of an all-girl band overtaken by younger, prettier rivals in Alex Ross Perry’s unsettling punk drama

When the party’s over, who has to clean up? That’s the question posed by Alex Ross Perry’s punk drama, an unfocused if convincing account of life at the tail end of the 90s alt-rock boom. Resembling a fictionalised, feminised version of Dig!, the documentary classic about the demise of Brian Jonestown Massacre and their lead singer Anton Newcombe, Her Smell is built around a performance of near-unwatchable toxicity by Elisabeth Moss, who channels a combination of Courtney Love and Heath Ledger’s Joker with her spiteful, slowly imploding rock star.

Moss plays Becky Something, the lead singer of all-girl band Something She, one-time Spin cover stars who are now being lapped on the toilet circuit by younger, hungrier, prettier outfits. Much of the blame...

The finance initiative for female-centric films was launched in 2016.

Rebecca Long and Ian Davies’ Boudica Films, the UK finance and production initiative aimed at supporting projects with a strong female presence both in front of and behind the camera, is developing a slate of films including Greenham, set to star Agyness Deyn.

Greenham is a 1980s-set thriller about a woman who seeks refuge from her abusive partner in Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.

David Chidlow, whose credits include L’Histoire De Nos Petites Morts, will direct and Blue Iris Films’ Katie Crook will produce. The DoP will be The Levelling’s Nanu Segal.

The finance initiative for female-centric films was launched in 2016.

Rebecca Long and Ian Davies’ Boudica Films, the UK finance and production initiative aimed at supporting projects with a strong female presence both in front of and behind the camera, is developing a slate of films including Greenham, set to star Agyness Deyn.

Greenham is a1980s-set thriller about a woman who seeks refuge from her abusive partner in Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.

David Chidlow, whose credits include L’Histoire De Nos Petites Morts, will direct and Blue Iris Films’ Katie Crook will produce. The DoP will be The Levelling’s Nanu Segal.

The first teaser for Her Smell is here. Elizabeth Moss has asserted herself as a truly tremendous performer on the small screen over the last decade or so. Starting with AMC's drama Mad Men and more recently in Hulu's acclaimed and award-winning series The Handmaid's Tale, Moss has made herself into an actress worth paying attention to whenever she's got a new project on the horizon. Such is the case with Her Smell, which is getting ready to make the festival rounds as awards season starts ramping up.

This initial teaser is actually a clip from the movie and sees Elisabeth Moss in an almost unrecognizable light. She disappears as a punk rock diva whose best days are long gone. We get a glimpse of her daily life, clearly clinging onto her past and making a show of herself for those who look more than fed up with her antics,...

In the apocalyptic world of Patient Zero, the infected aren't just killed, they're interrogated by Morgan (Matt Smith), a human who was bitten, yet didn't turn into murderous creatures like the other infected. His latest interviewee, The Professor (Stanley Tucci) is his most complex and dangerous case yet, and we've been provided with an exclusive Patient Zero clip that explores the tense dynamic between Morgan and The Professor, all while the clock on humanity's lifespan ticks ever-closer to an untimely conclusion.

Following its August 14th release on VOD, Patient Zero will be released in Us theaters on September 14th from Vertical Entertainment. You can watch our exclusive clip below, and we have the official press release with more details on the movie that also co-stars Natalie Dormer.

Press Release: "Culver City, Calif. – Matt Smith (“Dr. Who”), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) and Academy Award® nominee Stanley Tucci star in Patient Zero,...

Here's the trailer for a new horror thriller called Patient Zero that tries to do something a little new and different with the zombie genre. The story follows a man played by Matt Smith who has the unique ability to speak "the Infected's new language" and leads the last survivors on a hunt to find Patient Zero and a cure. Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) is helping him on his journey. The big twist is, the infected don't feel they are diseased, they feel that they are the solution and the cure to get rid of the human infection.

This actually looks like a solid movie worth checking out. It was directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and this is the synopsis:

In this new pandemic thriller, humanity is battling intelligent, adrenaline-fueled creatures born from a viral super-strain. After being bitten, human survivor Morgan (Matt Smith) realizes he is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected,...

Patient Zero Trailer Stefan Ruzowitzky‘s Patient Zero (2018) movie trailer stars Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, Clive Standen, Agyness Deyn, and John Bradley. Patient Zero‘s plot synopsis: “In this new pandemic thriller, humanity is battling intelligent, adrenaline-fueled creatures born from a viral super-strain. After being bitten, human survivor Morgan (Matt Smith) realizes he is asymptomatic and [...]

Continue reading: Patient Zero (2018) Movie Trailer: Matt Smith & Stanley Tucci star in a Pandemic Horror Film...

"Something new and smart is evolving..." Sony has debuted the trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Patient Zero, another attempt at mixing up the zombie genre with new ideas. The twist in this one is that one guy has the unique ability to speak "the Infected's new language" and leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure. Matt Smith stars as Morgan, the one with the skill of communicating with the undead/zombie/creatures but goes up against a formidable opponent when they find The Professor, played by Stanley Tucci. The cast includes Natalie Dormer, Clive Standen, Agyness Deyn, John Bradley, Colin McFarlane, Pippa Bennett-Warner, and James Northcote. As interesting as this "pandemic" film seems, there's so much of the usual tropes in this it doesn't seem like it really has anything new to offer. Here's the first official trailer for Stefan Ruzowitzky's Patient Zero,...

Vertical Entertainment has set an Aug. 14 digital and VOD release for the pandemic thriller “Patient Zero,” starring Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer and Stanley Tucci.

The film, which was developed and produced at Sony’s Screen Gems, is also arriving in select theaters on Sept. 14.

The story takes place after a super-virus has turned humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers. Smith portrays an asymptomatic victim who can communicate with the infected and must lead the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure. Agyness Deyn and Clive Standen (“Vikings”) also star.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky from a screenplay by Mike Le, “Patient Zero” was produced by Vincent Newman and executive produced by Glenn S. Gainor and Steve Norris. The film was shot in 2015 in London.

Smith’s credits include “Dr. Who,” Netflix’s “The Crown,” and “Mapplethorpe,” which was bought this week by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Dormer stars in “Game of Thrones,...

Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, and Dylan Gelula have joined the cast of Bow and Arrow Entertainment’s music drama “Her Smell,” starring Elisabeth Moss.

Alex Ross Perry is directing from his own script. Previously announced cast includes Amber Heard, Ashley Benson, Agyness Deyn, and Gayle Rankin.

Voltage Pictures is selling international rights at the Cannes Film Festival. Moss is producing alongside Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman of Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Adam Piotrowicz, and Perry.

Endeavor Content is representing domestic sales for the film.

Moss stars as Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star and leader of the seminal all-female rock band Something She, who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family, and followers to the limit as she wages a years-long war against sobriety, while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover success.

Delevingne will star as the leader of a new,...

Voltage Pictures has announced a huge ensemble joining Elisabeth Moss in the punk rock pic Her Smell including Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, Dylan Gelula and Eka Darville. They also join Amber Heard, Ashley Benson, Agyness Deyn and Gayle Rankin who were previously announced.

Moss stars as Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star and leader of the seminal all-female rock band Something She, who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family and followers to the limit as she wages a years long war against sobriety, while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover success. When a new, younger female band called The Akergirls, led by Delevingne’s Cassie, bursts onto the scene, Becky becomes their mentor. With added responsibility and watching her former friend Zelda E. Zekial (Amber Heard) rise to celebrity megastardom while her career falters, Becky falls deeper into her downward spiral,...

MaryAnn’s quick take… The science is ludicrous, the story is almost entirely free of drama, and the finale descends into the hoariest, most ridiculous clichés of the genre. But the future smart-house porn is lovely. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m a big science fiction fan

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film

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Oh, dear. Are we present at the birth of a new subgenre of science fiction films that might be dubbed Future House Porn? Because that’s what the feature debut of German filmmaker Lennart Ruff mostly looks like. The Titan is ostensibly the story of a Nato experiment in the year 2048 to retrofit some astronauts so they can live on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan without any protective gear or even, as we later see,...

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English actress Agyness Deyn and Glow star Gayle Rankin will share the screen with Elisabeth Moss in the punk-rock feature Her Smell.

Moss will star as Becky Something, the lead singer of a pioneering female rock band who struggles with the pressures of fame, her ex-husband and drugs as she attempts a comeback.

Deyn will play Marielle, Becky’s best friend, who eventually leaves the punk partying culture behind only to be reunited with her friend years later once they are able to makes amends. Rankin will play Ali, the sober, stabilizing drummer.

Alex Ross Perry, who has previously worked with ...

English actress Agyness Deyn and Glow star Gayle Rankin will share the screen with Elisabeth Moss in the punk-rock feature Her Smell.

Moss will star as Becky Something, the lead singer of a pioneering female rock band who struggles with the pressures of fame, her ex-husband and drugs as she attempts a comeback.

Deyn will play Marielle, Becky’s best friend, who eventually leaves the punk partying culture behind only to be reunited with her friend years later once they are able to makes amends. Rankin will play Ali, the sober, stabilizing drummer.

Alex Ross Perry, who has previously worked with ...

If you’re looking for a dark, complicated thriller to watch, Hard Sun, created and written by Neil Cross (Luther), is currently available to stream at Hulu. Detectives Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) find themselves partners, even though they stand on different ends of the moral spectrum and distrust each other’s motives, for good reason. But in order to survive until the end of the world, they must find some way to learn to work together. During this interview with Collider, show creator Neil Cross talked about how the story for Hard Sun evolved, his …...

If you’re looking for a dark, complicated thriller to watch, Hard Sun, created and written by Neil Cross (Luther), is currently available to stream at Hulu. Detectives Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) find themselves partners, even though they stand on different ends of the moral spectrum and distrust each other’s motives, for good reason. But in order to survive until the end of the world, they must find some way to learn to work together. During this interview with Collider, co-stars Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn talked about why Hard Sun was both …...

A clever but unformed hunk of speculative science-fiction, Lennart Ruff’s “The Titan” is essentially two parallel stories of survival that are being told at the same time. One is physical and intimate; the other is abstract and infinite. Strangely, they’re both far more interesting on their own than they are cut together, but each of them poses a handful of intriguing questions about our instinct for self-preservation, asking us to locate the point at which trauma might change the basic foundation of who (or what) we are. If only these questions were posed intriguingly, and not just churned through the machinations of genre shlock that doesn’t have the courage to be as smart as either of its stories require it to be.

The year is 2048, and the Earth isn’t going to be inhabitable for all that much longer. It’s the usual cocktail of apocalyptic trouble: nuclear war,...

Netflix has released a new trailer for Sam Worthington's upcoming sci-fi action thriller The Titan. I really like the concept of the film and it looks like it's going to make for an exciting movie. 

The story is set in the near future and Earth's lifespan is coming to an end. For mankind to continue their existence they need to find a new home and that home is the Saturn moon of Titan. Worthington plays a man who signs up for a military program that will transformer him into an enhanced human called "Titans" who would be capable of living on that moon, which they hope to colonize. As you might expect things don't go as planned.

The movie also stars Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Corey Johnson. Here's the synopsis:

A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration.

Featuring an all-star cast including Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator Salvation), Taylor Schilling (TV’s Orange is the New Black), Nathaie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones), Tom Wilkinson (Snowden) and Agyness Deyn (Clash of the Titans), The Titan is a tension-laced sci-fi action thriller that explores how conflict and adaptation can impact the human race in irretrievable ways…

When Earth’s resources start rapidly depleting, the human race is faced with the threat of swift and inevitable extinction. As the clock ticks down, and options become increasingly limited, space exploration emerges as mankind’s last hope. Hotshot Air Force pilot, Rick Janssen (Worthington), is chosen for a military experiment that will create a human being capable of surviving the harsh environments of Saturn’s moon, Titan. The experiment is successful, turning Rick into a super-human. But it also creates deadly side-effects which threaten the lives of Rick, his wife, Abigail (Schilling), his family,...