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Natalie Burn Joins Anthony Hopkins In ‘Eyes In The Trees’

Exclusive: Natalie Burn (Til Death Do Us Part) has joined Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ashley Greene in sci-fi thriller Eyes in the Trees. She will play the role of Marcy, a seasoned military veteran who reluctantly agrees to join former teammates for a final mission. They are dispatched to investigate the work of Dr Moreau’s enigmatic successor, Dr. Addis, a brilliant yet mysterious geneticist. Soon, the team finds their resolve tested as they delve into a world of chilling and dangerous experiments taking place on a remote island. Shooting is taking place on location in Thailand. Burn recently starred opposite Jason Patric and Cam Gigandet in action-comedy Til Death Do Us Part and was in period action flick The Last Redemption, which stars Angus Macfadyen and Kevin Sorbo. She also completed shooting comedy Dashing Through the Snow...

John Curran’s 2023 thriller film introduced us to Tom Roth (Luke Brace), an everyday man having a very bad day. The movie kicked off with him reversing his car. Tom wiped the blood on his face with a piece of cloth, looking all confused and frightened. It seemed like he had committed a crime and was now trying to hide from it. The blood on his knuckles suggested that he’d been in some kind of fight. He called his daughter, Ruby, to ask her not to go home before calling him, but the call went straight to the voicemail. But what were the events that led to his predicament?

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Where Is Ruby?

Tom hadn’t heard from his daughter for a while, and when he did, it was not all rainbows. Ruby (Martha Kate Morgan) called Tom a day ago, crying and begging him to help her.

“My name is Ruby, and I am with my father,” a frantic young woman moans through a voice message. “Everyone just stay away from us.” Well, Ruby certainly has everybody’s attention in director John Curran’s’s intense new film, Mercy Road. Immediately everybody is calling Tom (Luke Bracey of One True Loves and Little Fires Everywhere), whom we meet covered in blood and hopping into his work truck. Thing is, Tom isn’t with Ruby, and he has not abducted her as everyone suspects.

Tom is on the run, however, fleeing from something ominous that occurred, and as he frantically speeds down the road in the dark of night in his truck, he’s bombarded with one call after another. A few of them come from people barking out instructions he must follow — or else. One caller, in particular, known as “the associate,” is a psychopath who kidnapped his daughter because,...

Four years after director Kitty Green and actor Julia Garner channeled whispers and silence into the stuff of workplace horror in The Assistant, they reunite for a movie that turns up the volume and ratchets up the fear and loathing. Way up.

Instead of the careerist corridors of Manhattan, the setting is a mining town in Australia — specifically, a hotel bar frequented by hard-drinking men. Garner, again, is extraordinary, and the chemistry between her and an equally superb Jessica Henwick, as best friends whose backpacking adventure takes a detour into a kind of hell, doesn’t hit a false note. Yet despite the flawless performances and outstanding craftsmanship, The Royal Hotel is a pummeling experience rather than a revelatory one.

For her second narrative feature, and her first film set and filmed in her native Australia, Green was inspired by the 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie, in which Pete Gleeson chronicles the...

"Mercy Road" is a new 'psychological thriller' feature, directed by John Curran, starring Luke Bracey, Toby Jones, Alex Malone, Martha Kate Morgan, Susie Porter and Huw Higginson, releasing October 6, 2023 in theaters:

"....after committing a stupid, impulsive crime while searching for his missing daughter, a frantic father goes on the run from law enforcement and soon begins receiving chilling calls from an unknown entity claiming to know the girl's whereabouts.

"As he faithfully follows the caller’s increasingly unhinged instructions, he is driven perilously close to the edge of sanity while discovering exactly how far he is willing to go to save his child..."

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"Tell me what you want!" "Don't ever stop driving." An official trailer is out for an indie crime thriller from Australia titled Mercy Road, the latest film made by director John Curran. Not to be confused with Jim Cummings' Thunder Road. This recently premiered at the Melbourne Film Festival and already opened in Australia this month, with a US release coming up soon. In Curran's thriller Mercy Road – an unrelentingly tense psychological thriller – Luke Bracey plays a flawed everyday man who commits an impulsive and vicious crime. In this ultimate journey to redemption, he soon learns just how far he is willing to go to save his child. The cast includes Huw Higginson, Susie Porter, Alex Malone, Martha Kate Morgan, and Toby Jones. Early reviews are positive, saying "Bracey plays a dad on a mission to save his daughter in this strangely surreal film set mostly in a truck.

This Penny Dreadful: City of Angels review contains spoilers.

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Episode 8

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels episode 8, “Hide and Seek,” begins a new cat and mouse game. Detectives Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) cleared the police docket by pinning a series of murders on one suspect, Diego Lopez (Adan Rocha) and were given a week’s paid leave as a thank you. But the two cops are having a devil of a time filling their idle hours.

Last week’s episode, “Maria and the Beast,” ended with a change of plans. Lewis called in his favor and enlisted Tiago in his understaffed and unfunded war against Nazis in Los Angeles. But the takedown became a stakeout when the two cops saw other major players sitting down to dinner with the first wave of the Third Reich, Richard Goss (Thomas Kretschmann). As “Hide and Seek” gets moving,...

“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” — Showtime’s reboot of the London-set “Penny Dreadful,” which aired from 2014-16 — takes us back to 1938 Los Angeles. It’s not film noir, explains costume designer Christie Wittenborn. “It’s a hot L.A. summer.” Hollywood here features zoot suits, evangelical radio singers and Mexican folklore as the series flits around social and racial issues as well as political and religious questions. The series debuts April 26.

Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) stars as the demon Magda, who can take on various human forms, providing an eclectic canvas for Wittenborn’s work.

One of Magda’s early manifestations is Alex Malone, a tough character with a mannish edge who serves as an aide to Councilman Townsend (Michael Gladis).

“Natalie gave me a sense of how she was going to carry her body, so I wanted to keep the silhouette of what she wore rigid,” Wittenborn explains.

The Legend of Gavin Tanner.

We Were Here and Flushed have scooped the nominations for the West Australian Screen Awards.

The West Australian Screen Awards celebraes excellence and achievements in feature film, short film, web series, music videos, television production, documentary, games and interactive productions.

Short drama We Were Here, directed by David Vincent Smith and produced by Joshua Gilbert and Simon Camp, earned six nominations, the most for the awards.

Short comedy Flushed, directed and produced by Richard Eames, also received six nominations.

ABC comedy TV series The Legend of Gavin Tanner, written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott received five nominations, as did short drama Sol Bunker, produced by Glen Stasiuk and directed by Nathan Mewett.

Film and Television Institute Wa (Fti) chief executive, Paul Bodlovich, said the WASAs were one of the most important events on the cultural calendar in Western Australia.