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The cast of Guilt is one of the standout features, with excellent performances that make the characters feel grounded and believable. The theme of guilt plays a major role in the show, affecting not only the main characters but also the supporting cast and their storylines. Season 3 of Guilt introduces new cast members, including Isaura Barbé-Brown, Amelia Isaac Jones, David Hayman, Euan Mcnaughton, Tamsin Topolski, Anders Hayward, Jonathan Watson, and Anita Vettesse, and features the return of Mark Bonnar, Jamie Sives, and more.

The cast of the British TV series, Guilt, has been one of the many standout features of the BBC's Scottish mystery series as many of the actors not only give excellent performances but their characters also feel very grounded and believable. Written and created by Neil Forsyth, the show initially follows two brothers named Max (Mark Bonnar) and Jake McCall (Jamie Sives) who accidentally run over...

Scottish thriller Guilt is back for the third and final chapter in the McCall Brothers trilogy. Neil Forsyth’s fiendishly plotted drama all began when Max and Jake – a ruthless lawyer who’d climbed his way out of his working class Leith upbringing to wealth and status, and his vinyl-loving record shop slacker sibling – were flung together when they tried to cover up an accidental hit-and-run. So began a complex and gripping story about money laundering, Edinburgh gangsters, betrayal, class, family and yes, guilt.

Series three finds Max and Jake forced back to Edinburgh where some old enemies await. They’re joined by Pi-turned legal advisor Kenny Burns, his police detective girlfriend Yvonne, criminal kingpin Maggie Lynch, dangerously unpredictable ex-con Teddy and more familiar faces from the first two series. Also appearing are a range of new characters, as follows:

Isaura Barbé-Brown as Yvonne Nixon

Police officer Yvonne joined Guilt...

The Sonis a drama movie written and directed by Florian Zeller, based on his own play.. Starring Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.

Excellent acting in an “actor’s film”.

Storyline

A successful attorney, with a new wife and a baby, accepts taking care of his adolescent son from a previous marriage after his ex wife tells him she is worried about the boy´s random behavior.

Movie Review El Hijo (2022)

Excellent, well directed, good screenplay… one really had to have a bad day, a truly bad day to want to face two hours of skin deep feelings with the emotional problems of a son, worried parents and a drama that is great for actors to act in, but you will be wanting to be (truly) wanting to watch this.

Around here we usually say that we judge a movie, not the subject and we try to focus on the artistic virtues of the art,...

Cinema just had a rough year. While there were definitely upbeat stories to accompany the now constant anxieties percolating throughout the industry—from Tom Cruise once again asserting his dominance as the king of summer via Top Gun: Maverick to the surprise and wholly welcome blockbuster status of A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once—the fact remains that “the movies” are in a state of upheaval and uncertainty. Do massive, mainstream audiences still have taste left in their palates for original adult-skewing films? And if streaming is the future for dramas, comedies, and other “mid-budget” movies, what then is the future of streaming given that market’s own recent crises?

It’s a weird time. Yet one thing stays consistent: the satisfaction that comes with seeing a good movie. Whether that film makes you laugh, cry, or shudder, there is still an ineffable joy derived from being lost for...

The Son Review — The Son (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Florian Zeller, written by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller and starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, William Hope, Hugh Quarshie, Julia Westcott-Hutton, Akie Kotabe, Kenny-Lee Mbanefo, Isaura Barbe-Brown, Reza Diako, Joakim Skarli, Rachel Handshaw, George Potts, [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: The Son (2022): Hugh Jackman Delivers the Performance of His Career in a Heart-wrenching Drama...

Warning: contains The Rising spoilers.

The Rising is filled with all the twists and turns viewers have come to expect from a murder mystery drama. Adapted from Belgian crime thriller Beau Séjour, The Rising is set in small town in the British countryside, with sweeping landscapes and a thriving motocross community. The extra supernatural twist in this particular mystery is that its central character Neve Kelly (Clara Rugaard) is dead from the start, but for some reason remains on earth. She can be seen and heard by a select few, and with their help, she’s determined to figure out who murdered her and why. In this eight-episode Sky series, the first six instalments are spent making discoveries and following false leads. The show pulls no punches, and takes you on an emotional journey where no-one, for the most part, is presented as either entirely good or bad until the killer is revealed.

Warner Bros. Pictures' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald—the second of five original adventures in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World—is premiering in theaters nationwide Friday. At the end of the first movie, 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the dark and powerful wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MacUsa, thanks to Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). Grindelwald escaped custody, of course, and now he's using his followers to ensure pure-blood wizards will one day rule over all non-magical beings. To stop him, Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) turns to Newt, a former pupil. The ensemble cast includes Isaura Barbé-Brown as Laurena...

Stars: Clem Tibber, Shaun Dingwall, Elarica Gallacher, Lyndsey Marshal, Isaura Barbé-Brown, James Capel, James Doherty, Carys Lewis | Written by Oliver Frampton, James Hall | Directed by Oliver Frampton

[Nb: With the film now – finally – available to buy in the UK (The Forgotten is out today from Metrodome), here’s a repost of my review of the film from the 2014 London Frightfest]

There has been, over the past few years, a growing trend in British horror for setting movies in abandoned housing estates and tower blocks. Joining the growing ranks is The Forgotten, which sees a father and son forced to squat in an empty London council estate scheduled for demolition, seemingly abandoned by the mother. A dark, creepy and foreboding place, the flat is no place for a family; even less so after 14 year old Tommy starts to hear strange noises coming from the boarded-up flat next door…

Shot on a London council estate scheduled for demolition, that was once used for location shoots on UK police drama The Bill, The Forgotten is, like all good horror films, not just about the physical, and in this case,...

Stars: Clem Tibber, Shaun Dingwall, Elarica Gallacher, Lyndsey Marshal, Isaura Barbé-Brown, James Capel, James Doherty, Carys Lewis | Written by Oliver Frampton, James Hall | Directed by Oliver Frampton

There has been, over the past few years, a growing trend in British horror for setting movies in abandoned housing estates and tower blocks. Joining the growing ranks is this years Frightfest film, The Forgotten, which sees a father and son forced to squat in an empty London council estate scheduled for demolition, seemingly abandoned by the mother. A dark, creepy and foreboding place, the flat is no place for a family; even less so after 14 year old Tommy starts to hear strange noises coming from the boarded-up flat next door…

Shot on a London council estate scheduled for demolition, that was once used for location shoots on UK police drama The Bill, The Forgotten is, like all good horror films, not just about the physical,...

Chicago International Film Festival 2011

David is Dying

Directed by: Stephen Lloyd Jackson

Cast: Lonyo Engele, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Brigitte Millar

Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Rating: Nr

Release Date: Tbd

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Plot: An intimate look at a young man who is forced to come to terms with his relationships when he is diagnosed with HIV.

Who’S It For? Those who like dialogue-heavy movies may be taken with Jackson’s way with words. However, it’s hard to think of a group of people who deserve to be put through this ordeal.

Overall

David is Dying puts me in the awkward position of asking, why does it take David so long to die? Can’t he do us all a favor and make it happen just a little bit faster? There are plenty of movies that suffer from awkward pacing and muddled storytelling,...