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It’s 2010, and Gemma Arterton is describing to Empire Magazine having spent an entire day shooting kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed in tears. “Your body’s not supposed to cry that much. It is exhausting.” Martin Compston, her co-star in the crying scene, agrees in earnest and the interviewer jokes off-camera, “So what you’re saying is: feel-good hit of the summer?”

Compston laughs, “Yeah, Disney Channel!” and Arterton repeats the gag, shaking her head at its ridiculousness “Disney Channel!”

13 years, a brand shift and a streaming revolution later, and Disney is now the UK home of The Disappearance of Alice Creed. Disney+ is also the UK home of writer-director J Blakeson’s latest collaboration with Arterton: TV thriller Culprits, which is out on Hulu in the US.

That eight-part series is the story of consequences catching up with the diverse crew who pulled off a mega-money heist years earlier.

The Oscar nominee resurrects the icy menace of her Gone Girl performance in a darkly comic and bracingly nasty tale of a morally bankrupt legal guardian

Watching Rosamund Pike slink and vape her way through crafty, cruel thriller I Care A Lot, a trail of acid in her wake, had me scratching my head over just who else could pull off such a specifically, supernaturally savage performance. There can be something inherently unsettling about her otherworldly beauty, something that David Fincher deftly spotted and utilised in Gone Girl, where she combined brittle Upper East Side elegance with the ferocity of the shark from Jaws. She’s not always picked the best projects since, often disappearing in films where she should be forcing her way to the front but British writer-director J Blakeson, who broke out with another crafty thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed before tailing off somewhat, has landed...

A Medical Examiner conducting autopsies on victims of a horrible car crash, imagines how they may have lived their lives. "Tales from the Dead Zone" is written and directed by Barry J. Gillis, while starring Bret Hart, Corey Feldman, Kim Sønderholm, Tom Malloy, Gabriel Jarret, Len J. Phillips, Dakota House. Terrence Van Camp, Madison Nyenhuis, Maria J. Parker, Ken F. Campbell, Dori Book, Ramez Fawzy, Charlene Michalko, Alice Creed, Holly Reiter, Herb Stanley. Trailer Voice Over: Scott Fortney Stories in the Anthology include, Legend of the Peoples Demon, Rope a Dope, Inside the Room, and L.J.'s Finest Hour. "Tales from the Dead Zone" is in the works and is set for release in 2020. Meanwhile, Gillis' latest film "House of Many Sorrows" has been picked up...

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