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The Brit-produced action crime TV series "Gangs of London", following struggles between rival gangs and other low-life criminal organizations in London, loosely based on the 2006 video game of the same name , airs Season 3 in 2025 on AMC and AMC+:

"...in Season One, set in the heart of London,UK, one of the world's most dynamic and multicultural cities, 'Gangs of London' tells the story of the city being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of the international gangs that control it and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.

" For 20 years, 'Finn Wallace' (Colm Meaney) was the most powerful criminal in London. Billions of flowed through his organization each year.

“But now he's dead, and nobody knows who ordered him killed. With rivals everywhere, it's up to impulsive 'Sean Wallace' (Joe Cole), with the help...

The Brit-produced action crime TV series "Gangs of London", following struggles between rival gangs and other low-life criminal organizations in London, loosely based on the 2006 video game of the same name , airs Season 3 in 2025 on AMC and AMC+:

"...in Season One, set in the heart of London,UK, one of the world's most dynamic and multicultural cities, 'Gangs of London' tells the story of the city being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of the international gangs that control it and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.

" For 20 years, 'Finn Wallace' (Colm Meaney) was the most powerful criminal in London. Billions of flowed through his organization each year.

“But now he's dead, and nobody knows who ordered him killed. With rivals everywhere, it's up to impulsive 'Sean Wallace' (Joe Cole), with the help...

Beam us up and away from spoilers. This article discusses major plot developments from the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

"Lower Decks" has been getting a whole lot of mileage out of alternate universe antics during its fifth and final season, starting with the premiere episode that threw our Cerritos crewmembers alongside their mirror selves and kickstarted Ensign Boimler's (Jack Quaid) obsession with growing out that fugly-looking facial hair. That pattern continues in episode 7, titled "Fully Dilated." The action kicks off when Boimler and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) clumsily drop their obnoxious martinis all over the delicate transporter controls, dooming the away team to months (if not years) on the surface of a nearby planet currently undergoing severe time dilation. While Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Tendi (Noël Wells), and T'Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) are trapped indefinitely, they continue to investigate the reason they embarked on the mission in the first place: a purple-colored,...

AMC’s Gangs of London are back in action: UK broadcaster Sky has released a teaser trailer for Season 3 of the high-octane crime drama, which airs on AMC here in the United States.

“As chaos erupts in London after a spiked shipment of cocaine kills hundreds, fan-favorite characters collide with new faces bound by blood ties, sparking brutal power struggles, unexpected alliances, and fierce rivalries,” per the official Season 3 synopsis. (Press Play above for a sneak peek.)

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Paramount+ is ready with an entertainment-packed December this year. The upcoming month will see the premiere of some of the best Paramount+ original shows including Dexter: Original Sin and the streaming release of the comedy film The Fabulous Four. Just like every month, Paramount+ is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 5 best movies and TV shows coming to Paramount+ in December 2024.

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King Richard is a biographical sports drama film directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green from a screenplay by Zach Baylin. Based on the true stories of Serena, Venus, and Richard Williams, the 2021 film revolves around Venus and Serena Williams who rise to the top in the world of women’s tennis with the help and support of their strict father Richard Williams.

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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed December this year. The upcoming month will see the release of the brilliant action thriller series Paris Has Fallen and also horror thriller movies like Cuckoo. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 8 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in December 2024.

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Paris Has Fallen is a French and English-language action thriller series created by Howard Overman. Based on the Has Fallen film franchise, the Canal+ series follows a French protection officer and an MI6 operative who must team up after a terrorist organization attacks Paris. Paris Has Fallen stars Tewfik Jallab, Ritu Arya, Sean Harris, Ana Ularu, Camille Rutherford, Jérémie Covillault, and Emmanuelle Bercot.

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"Look what you've done Michael!" Mubi has unveiled a quick teaser for Bring Them Down, a new Irish thriller about families from filmmaker Chris Andrews. This recently premiered at TIFF and Fantastic Fest this fall, plus Beyond Fest and London and a few others. An Irish shepherding family thrust into battle on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ireland. TIFF adds: "Bring Them Down bristles with twists and tension, its gorgeous pastoral landscapes turning into sites of escalating violence. Yet the film never settles for simplistic hero/villain binaries. Instead, brilliantly shifts perspective, revealing the fears and aspirations driving all its characters — a strategy that succeeds in no small part due to Abbott and Keoghan, who share an incredible ability to reveal for the camera what their characters are hell-bent on hiding.

The Mubi production, Bring Them Down, starring Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, is hitting theaters on Feb. 7, 2025.

Pic directed by Christopher Andrews, who is making his feature directing debut, follows Michael (Abbott) who is the last son of a farming family, and lives an isolated existence with his ailing, cantankerous father Ray. Burdened by a terrible secret from his past, Michael has isolated himself from the world and dedicates himself to his prized flock. When the ongoing conflict with rival farmer Gary and his wayward and unpredictable son Jack (Barry Keoghan) stirs old tensions and grievances, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devastating turns, leaving both families permanently altered.

The movie also stars Colm Meaney (The Problem with People, Layer Cake), Nora-Jane Noone (The Magdalene Sisters, Brooklyn) Paul Ready and Susan Lynch (Enduring Love, Waking Ned Davine).

Bring Them Down...

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Landman is a neo-Western drama series created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace. Based on the podcast Boomtown by Imperative Entertainment Texas Monthly, the Paramount+ series is set in West Texas within the world of oil rigs and it follows Tommy Norris, a crisis executive at a fictional oil company who handles the chaotic day-to-day job of the oil rigs while also dealing with his unhinged family. Landman stars Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland, Michelle Randolph, Paulina Chávez, Kayla Wallace, Jon Hamm, Demi Moore, and James Jordan. So, if you loved Landman’s chaotic drama, thrilling story, and compelling characters, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Yellowstone is a neo-Western family drama series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. The Paramount Network series...

Cousins Barry and Ciáran connect across continents in The Problem with People. The heartwarming family comedy sees American entrepreneur Barry journey to Ireland at his father’s behest, hoping to mend fences with relatives separated for generations.

He finds himself in Ciáran’s small hometown, worlds apart from bustling New York. Though each man carries the old grievances of their families, together Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney fill the screen with humor and humanity.

Their easy rapport draws laughs as their characters butt heads, yet warmth emerges that feels authentic. Director Chris Cottam keeps things light, prioritizing pleasant scenes of reunited kin over preachy resolutions. Reiser brings wit and heart to the brash Barry, finding understanding for locals through Ciáran’s example.

Meanwhile, Meaney imbues the reserved undertaker with layers of depth, passion simmering below his reserved facade. Their chemistry anchors each feel-good scene, from early bonding to later conflicts,...

Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney go into cliche mode when an Irish patriarch wills half his legacy to his son’s unknown American cousin

Never mind people. The problem with this comedy is the cliches. It could not be more Irish if it was dropped into a pint of Guinness and rolled in shamrocks by a dancing leprechaun. The script is co-written by the American actor Paul Reiser, with a very broad sense of humour, though it’s likable enough. Colm Meaney is also on decent form as undertaker Ciáran, whose elderly father Fergus (Des Keogh) has a deathbed request: he wants to heal a rift with the American side of the family that has rumbled on for a couple of generations.

Over in New York, Reiser plays American cousin Barry, a real-estate tycoon. He’s recovering from the double whammy of a heart attack and divorce, which puts him...

Members of the armed services can and will argue amongst themselves, but in the minds of people and pop culture, Navy SEALs loom large as the picture of the United States' most elite military men. We can probably thank the fiction of Tom Clancy, and the fact that a Seal team that killed 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, but Hollywood has been enamored with the special operations force for at least the last three decades. When a character in any movie is declared to be either a current or former Navy Seal, it's a given that they won't go down easily. When we discuss the most ruthless thing a U.S. president can do short of a nuclear strike, more often than not it's, "Send in Seal Team 6!"

While movies often take artistic license, it's fair to say that some of the movies featuring Navy SEALs are significantly more accurate than others,...

On Facebook, longtime "Star Trek" production designers Mike and Denise Okuda announced the passing of Jeri Taylor. She was 88.

Jeri Taylor was one of the key producers and writers throughout the 1990s "Star Trek" heyday, having joined the staff of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in its fourth season. Trekkies will tell you that "Next Generation," having already hit its stride, broke into a sprint in its fourth season, producing multiple capital-g great episodes at that time. Taylor's impeccable writing contributions to "Next Generation" were so widely recognized that she was promoted to the role of co-executive producer of the series in its sixth season, overseeing most of the production alongside head honchos Rick Berman and Michael Piller. In the show's seventh season, Taylor became the full-bore showrunner.

Taylor wrote multiple scripts for "Next Generation" and is credited for co-creating the Cardassians, a fascistic species that would go on to...

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Another Mip In The Cannes

“A fun run”: Stewart, Jake and Max returned from Cannes yesterday following another invigorating few days at MIPCOM. This year’s international TV market hit a milestone as MIPCOM turned 40, and it also became the first that will not be followed by MIPTV in April (more on that later). The team was on the ground for talks from some of the TV industry’s biggest names including Warner’s Channing Dungey and outgoing Sony Pictures Entertainment chief Tony Vinciquerra. “It’s been a fun run and it’s time to do something different,” said the latter, as he...

The independent UK film industry is “coming to grips” with leaving the European Union, suggestedBring Them Down director Chris Andrews, at the Rome Film Festival this week.

The sheep-farming revenge tale starring Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott and Colm Meaney was produced by the UK’s Wild Swim Films; Ireland’s Tailored Films and Belgium’s Frakas Productions.

“We’re in a point in the UK where we are coming to grips with what’s happened post b-word [Brexit],” said Andrews. “The space that we’ve found ourselves in, because we don’t have the access to the [Creative Europe] Media programme anymore [we need to be] thinking...

Exclusive: Actor and comedian Paul Reiser is back behind the mic with Life, Death and Rice Pudding, a new stand-up special for Comedy Dynamics, which is his first in over three decades. Directed by Comedy Dynamics CEO Brian Volk-Weiss, the special premieres across platforms on November 19. Check out a trailer above.

Reiser’s new hour comes on the heels of Paul Reiser: 3 ½ Blocks from Home and Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim, which were respectively released in 1991 and 1987. In it, he discloses the secret to successful downsizing, explains why the whole “Do unto others” thing doesn’t work in marriage, and why boiling pasta naked is never a good idea. And for absolutely no additional charge, you will come to understand why finding raisins in rice pudding underscores the very meaning of life.

Volk-Weiss and Reiser exec produced alongside Cisco Henson, Michael Pelmont, and Doug Edley.

“I had so much...

One of the highlights of Mipcom premiere screenings on Oct. 21, the buzzy international action thriller “Safe Harbor” repped by Eccho Rights, gathered in Cannes its starry creative team: Showrunner and “Ozark” co-creator Mark Williams, actors Colm Meaney Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”) and Martijn Lakemeier.

At Mipcom, Night Train Media-owned Eccho Rights was discussing the show with broadcasting clients and platforms.

Led by Mediawan’s Dutch banner Submarine, producing alongside Germany’s Night Train Media and Williams’ Zero Gravity for Dutch streamer Videoland and Belgium’s Streamz, the series combines the best of Hollywood savoir-faire with European talent and production expertise.

“The European [filmmaking] world is new to me,” admits the Emmy-nominated Williams, who serves as creator, executive producer, head-writer and co-helmer on the show. “As the only American onboard, I could help them expand a little bit more than what they’re used to. I loved the process and had a great time,...

As we enter into another awards season to keep the cold winter days at bay, Directors Notes is thrilled to partner with the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) for the longlist announcement of The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) sponsored by BBC Film. An award named in honour of the British film and television director’s commitment to supporting new talent, a mission very close to our hearts, it feels particularly apt that Dn gets to share the following list of 13 impressive feature debut directors. The final five nominated filmmakers will be announced on Tuesday 5th November, with the winner revealed at the 27th BIFA awards ceremony on Sunday 8th December at iconic Camden venue the Roundhouse. As in previous years of the awards, we look forward to delving into the working processes behind these outstanding films through our signature deep dive interviews with the nominated directors. Now without further ado,...

Exclusive: Adam Barth has left his role as Director of Co-Productions, Development and Acquisitions at European distributor Eccho Rights and its parent Night Train Media.

We’ve got word of the news less than a week ahead of MIPCOM Cannes, where Eccho Rights will be shopping Safe Harbor, the buzzy crime drama from Ozark co-creator Mark Williams. Barth will remain as an exec producer on the show.

Barth has been with Eccho Rights since 2021, having joined after exiting Nent Studios UK (aka Drg), where he was SVP for Emea. Further back, he worked at New Media Vision, acting as an executive producer on international formats adaptations of shows such as NBC procedural Mysteries of Laura.

Eccho confirmed his departure to Deadline this week.

At Eccho, he has worked on shows such as Sundance and Virgin Media drama Vanishing Triangle and BBC drama Granite Harbour. He has worked as an exec producer on Safe Harbor,...

We here at /Film consider Daniel Craig to be the greatest James Bond of all. But when he was first cast in "Casino Royale," there was an uproar of complaints from people who thought they knew better than the filmmakers.

Granted, Craig is the one who looks the least like the other Bonds. They all shared the tall, dark, and handsome look of Sean Connery's original, truer-than-even-Ian-Fleming James Bond. Craig has the third feature, but he's of average height and blond. He was also cast over a young Henry Cavill, who doesn't have Craig's acting chops but definitely looks more like the typical James Bond. So, why Craig? "Casino Royale" director Martin Campbell was impressed by his lead performance and "terrific charm" in 2004 crime thriller "Layer Cake."

In that film, Craig plays an unnamed cocaine dealer (Xxxx); the title "Layer Cake" refers to the rungs of London's criminal underworld,...

A film about Ireland, written by an American. We all know it when we see it. There’s the camera now, drifting across the water to a lush green shore. There’s the tinkle of traditional music. Ciáran (Colm Meaney) stands outside his house having a smoke, looking up to see a rainbow forming over the lake. Then abruptly, it starts pissing it down, and one realises that this particular American might understand something about Ireland after all.

He is Paul Reiser, and we’ll see him soon enough, as he not only co-wrote (with Wally Marzano-Lenevich), but he stars in the film, playing Ciáran’s long lost cousin Barry. There’s been a rift in the family, you see, and Ciáran’s miserable old father (Des Keogh), who insists he’s on his deathbed, wants to see it reunited whilst he still can. At his insistence, Ciáran phones Barry and persuades him to visit.

“The Problem With People” starts with a montage of the many wars and conflicts happening in the world right now. A dying Irish man, Fergus (Des Keough) bemoans this crushing violence affecting humanity as his TV blares out the news. It’s the broadest starting point in a film that always chooses the broadest jokes and situations. While the comedic script, written by the film’s star Paul Reiser with Wally Marzano-Lesnevich, favors stereotypes to specificity, director Chris Cottam keeps the rhythm humming nicely enough for its 100-minute running time for the film to be mildly amusing.

Before he goes, Kes wants to settle at least one war: the one raging inside his own family. Many years ago, his grandfather had a falling out with his brother, who then immigrated to America. He tasks his son Ciaran (Colm Meaney) with contacting his long-lost cousin Barry (Reiser) in New York to initiate a family reconciliation.

Colm Meaney and Paul Reiser in The Problem With People

What is it with people? They pick fights at every opportunity, or so Chris Cottam’s new film. The Problem With People, would suggest. It follows two cousins, an Irishman and an American, from different sides of a family which has been divided by a longstanding rift. Brought together again at the behest of an old man, they have the opportunity to build a lasting peace – if they can overcome the urge to squabble over big things and decidedly petty ones.

The cousins are played by Paul Reiser (who co-wrote with Wally Marzano-Lesnevich) and Colm Meaney. When we meet they start by asking if I'm Irish, and I explain that I’m from Scotland, which is, as somebody states in the film, a totally different country.

“Totally different country,” Paul agrees. “Who knew?”

I ask if he had Colm in mind when writing the film.

Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney are two of those actors who when you actually study their careers and roles they’ve undertaken, you’re met with a hugely impressive list, both appearing in such a large share of brilliant comedies and dramas across the years. Their latest film, which falls into the former genre, is The Problem with People, and to mark its release – we had the pleasure in speaking to the affable duo.

We discuss the background to the project, which Reiser also co-wrote, and they talk about their own friendship, and shooting in Ireland. Through this we talk about the Irish charm and storytelling, and naturally, we get onto the subject of a good pint of Guinness. They also both look back across their respective careers and we talk about pride, and nostalgia.

Watch the full interview here with Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney:

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Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott in ‘Bring Them Down’ (Photo Courtesy of Fantastic Fest)

Bring Them Down starring Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, and Nora-Jane Noone was named Best Picture at the 2024 Fantastic Fest held September 19-26 in Austin, TX. The annual festival spotlights the best in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and action. Screenings at the popular festival have included the world or US premieres of critically acclaimed films including Smile, Frankenweenie, Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, John Wick, and There Will Be Blood.

“Our jurors faced the formidable challenge of selecting winners from a remarkable array of stories, each representing different cultures and perspectives. Their task was not easy, but it truly reflects what Fantastic Fest is all about: embracing the richness of global cinema and the shared human experiences that unite us all,” stated Annick Mahnert, Director of Programming for Fantastic Fest.

“Main Competition” Features

Best Picture: Bring Them Down,...

Star Trek fans are some of the best in the world. They represent the best aspects of the franchise, keeping alive fandoms that are anywhere from two years to 60 years old, depending on the show or film. They are a marvelous bunch who do a great job making the men and women who play these characters feel larger than life.

One of the ways they do that is by immortalizing them. So far two of these individuals have been given the honor of having their likeness used in statues. The first was William Shatner's James Kirk being erected in Riverside, Ia. The real-life city that would eventually see the fictitious birth of James T. Kirk.

Not long after that, another ceremony was held in Bloomington, In. This time, for the wonderful Kathryn Janeway. While Shatner hasn't been too keen on his statue, Kate Mulgrew, the woman behind the captain that was Janeway,...

When Christopher Abbott was tapped for Christopher Andrews’ first film “Bring Them Down,” set in remote Ireland, he asked the writer-director, “Do you want to just get someone Irish to do it?”

The “It Comes at Night” actor stars alongside Irish actor Barry Keoghan in the thriller film and admitted he was intimidated by the gruesome project at first. But, the “Poor Things” actor has not shied away from a challenge before and certainly didn’t this time, he told TheWrap’s Joe McGovern at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“Otherwise, you know, we all have Add, and we get bored if we don’t feel like we’re being sort of pushed in any sort of way,” Abbott joked at TheWrap’s 2024 TIFF Studio sponsored by Moët & Chandon and Boss Design.

Keoghan echoed these sentiments of craving meatier films such as this one. The “Saltburn” star told TheWrap...

If Gene Roddenberry were around today, he’d probably be proud of how Star Trek: Deep Space Nine tackled some hard truths. One of its darkest episodes, set in 2024, shockingly parallels the real-world crisis America’s facing right now. With a storyline that’s more about current events than distant galaxies, the episode feels like a cautionary tale we failed to heed.

Gene Roddenberry and Patrick Stewart on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation | Paramount Domestic Television

Instead of futuristic space battles, it focused on societal breakdowns that hit close to home. Roddenberry’s vision of the future wasn’t just about technology and adventure—it was a mirror reflecting humanity’s ongoing struggles. The eerie accuracy of this episode shows just how ahead of its time Star Trek always was.

From Fiction to Reality: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Dark Vision of 2024 Hits Home with Today...

Patrick Stewart is as legendary as an actor can get in their career. From starring as several iconic characters over the years to being knighted by the Queen herself, there is a reason why audiences love him as much as they do. However, like all in the film industry, Stewart also had a time when he was starting out and rather than being an inspirational figure, he had one of his own.

Colm Meaney and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation | Credit: Paramount Pictures

Stewart once revealed that he looked up to David Warner for most of his professional life, with him being his biggest inspiration as an actor. With this in mind, one can only imagine what it must have been like for the actor to work with his hero.

Tortured by One’s Savior?

In a part of his memoir, Making It So: A Memoir, Patrick...

A brutally violent directorial debut, Christopher Andrews’ rural Irish drama “Bring Them Down” veers between pitch-black humor and pervading melancholy. A tale of fathers, sons, and mutilated sheep, it toys with narrative point of view in “Rashomon”-like fashion, but keeps pressing questions of masculinity and cycles of sadness hovering just out of view. Fittingly, like its emotionally stunted male characters, it doesn’t confront these notions head on, but lets them quietly build in the form of a simmering blood feud that feels all-encompassing in the moment, but upon taking a step back, reveals a pitiable quality.

A brief but distressing prologue — told through alternating chaos and silence — reveals a car crash. Michael (Christopher Abbott), upon finding out that his mother had planned to leave his father, sped off in a fit of uncontrollable emotion and swerved off the road. His mother, in the passenger’s seat, was killed on impact.

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural Ireland, the film soon adds scenes of gruesome animal cruelty, an ear literally being blown off someone’s head, and then further sequences of gruesome animal cruelty. Such onscreen acts can be tremendously moving, of course, when presented in great films––Andrea Arnold’s 2021 documentary Cow a recent example.

Bring Them Down is not a great film. It’s occasionally compelling thanks to its haunting, almost otherworldly locations in Ireland. Mainly, though, what stands out are performances of the ever-intense Christopher Abbott, Nora-Jane Noone, and, most notably, Barry Keoghan. But the actors serve a drama that is relentlessly violent and thoroughly unpleasant. It’s a testament to these performers that they make so much of so little.

Abbott plays Michael, a man still dealing with the...

There are some actors who, no matter how shaky the film around them may be, can hold your attention and never let go. Lucky for “Bring Them Down,” it has two of the very best in Christopher Abbott (“It Comes at Night”) and Barry Keoghan (“Bird”) to hold this rather bloody mess together. Without them, there’s a good chance the whole thing would simply go to pieces as this is a thriller about two feuding families so perpetually grim it risks becoming a slog. Director Chris Andrews has made a fraught feature debut that drags you through scenes of gruesome violence multiple times over, hammering you over the head with how bleak it all is to an almost comically unsubtle degree. The saving grace of the film’s world comes in the form of its two leads who, despite all the drudgery that they must push through, create something gripping.

You’ll never quite look at shepherding the same way after watching Bring Them Down, debuting writer-director Christopher Andrews’ pitch-dark drama about two Irish farmers engaged in a long and bloody turf war. Relentlessly bleak, with more livestock gore than any movie in recent memory — the film that comes the closest is fellow Irish director Billy O’Brien’s 2005 bovine thriller, Isolation — this violent first feature is carried more by leads Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan than by its dour storytelling.

The two compelling actors play herders struggling to get by in the muddy hills of west Ireland, where a longtime feud between their families degenerates into an all-out dogfight (or is that a sheep-fight?). The battle more or less kicks off as soon as the movie starts, and one problem with Bring Them Down is how we’re directly plunged into a conflict whose key players we know little about.

Barry Keoghan didn’t miss a chance to promote his young “Bird” co-star Nykiya Adams during an interview at the Variety Studio, sponsored by J.Crew and SharkNinja, during the Toronto Film Festival.

“Didn’t you say Marvel called you?” he joked.

“No,” Adams laughs. “But I love Spider-Man, and I’d love to be in something like that,” Adams said.

“We could do it together,” Keoghan responded.

The conversation naturally turned to Keoghan’s own comic book role as the Joker, which he played in Matt Reeves’ 2022 tentpole “The Batman.” Fans are eager for news about Reeves’ upcoming sequel, set for release in 2026. “There we go!” he said when asked about returning to the role, covering his mouth. “I can’t say much. The camera is looking right at me. We’ll see where that goes. Again, it was an incredible experience … and yeah, I can’t say…”

Written and directed by Andrea Arnold,...

Tulsa King is one of the most entertaining crime comedy-drama currently airing. Created by the brilliant Taylor Sheridan, the Paramount+ series follows the story of a New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi as he is released from prison after 25 years and is now exiled by his boss to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dwight realizes that his boss might not have his best interest at heart and he starts to build his own crew in Tulsa. Tulsa King stars the great Sylvester Stallone in the lead role with Dana Delany, Garrett Hedlund, Domenick Lombardozzi, Jay Will, and Max Casella starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the compelling characters, brilliant writing, and entertaining storylines in Tulsa King here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Justified is a neo-Western crime thriller series created by Graham Yost. Based on the 2012 novel...

Things are getting hairy for Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner in the first teaser trailer for Wolf Man.

Universal Pictures is set to release director Leigh Whannell’s horror feature in theaters Jan. 17, 2025. The film is a reimagining of the classic monster franchise that launched with 1941’s The Wolf Man. The new version centers on a man whose family is hunted by a deadly predator.

“It sounded like an animal,” Abbott says in the trailer. “But I swear to God, it was standing on two feet.”

Later, a young girl asks, “What’s wrong with Daddy?”

Sam Jaeger and Matilda Firth round out the cast. Blumhouse and Motel Movies are behind the film that previously had Ryan Gosling attached as the lead before Abbott took over in the title role.

Jason Blum produces the movie that counts Whannell, Gosling, Ken Kao, Beatriz Sequeira and Melanie Turner as executive producers.

Abbott...

The 68 th BFI London Film Festival has announced the full programme line-up, which will be presented in cinemas and online, across the UK.

The Lff will present a vibrant and diverse programme of 253 features, shorts, series and immersive works from 79 countries, featuring 63 languages playing across the 12 days of the festival. This includes 112 works made by female and non-binary filmmakers – 44% of the programme.

World Premieres

From filmmakers and artists include: Steve McQueen’s Blitz which opens the festival, Ben Taylor’s Cunard Gala Joy starring Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy, the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation’s restoration Silent Sherlock, Darren Thornton’s Irish comedy film Four Mothers, spellbinding performance film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard The Extraordinary Miss Flower, thriller series A Thousand Blows from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the latest documentary from Oscar®-winning directing duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Endurance,...

The Descent director Neil Marshall returns with action thriller Duchess, starring Charlotte Kirk. Here’s the first trailer for the movie.

Neil Marshall made his name with a string of successful horror films like Dog Soldiers and The Descent. The latter is often considered one of the best, most terrifying horror films of the 2000s. Marshall was only involved with the sequel as an executive producer, though.

He then ventured into science fiction with 2008’s Doomsday followed by historical adventure Centurion. While he found little success with the 2019 reboot of Hellboy, he returned to his roots for the last couple of films, including 2020’s The Reckoning and 2022’s The Lair. He has also pivoted to the small screen in recent years, directing episodes of Hannibal, Westworld, Timeless and Lost In Space.

Now, he turns his hand to action with Duchess. The synopsis reads as follows:

From director Neil Marshall, Duchess follows a tough,...

Stars: Charlotte Kirk, Phillip Winchester, Stephanie Beacham, Colm Meany, Sean Pertwee | Written and Directed by Neil Marshall

A young crook known as Duchess (Charlotte Kirk) gets involved with the nefarious Robert (Phillip Winchester) and the underworld of diamond trafficking. Her wrong turns take her halfway across the world, and she ends up being left for dead when a deal quickly goes wrong. Duchess is quick to try and seek retribution, and that means taking everyone on.

The good thing — “thing,” not “things” — about Duchess is even just by watching the trailer, seeing a poster, or reading the cast list, you know exactly what type of movie you’re going to get. Unfortunately, that type is fairly unsavoury. Forget any Guy Ritchie film, Fight Club, or Layer Cake, this time, it’s never been a worse thing to be British. A smorgasbord of accents from across the Western Hemisphere, the Brits...

In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Power Play", the crew of the Enterprise-d find themselves visiting the surface of a seemingly uninhabited moon from whence a distress call was emanating. Data (Brent Spiner), Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes), and Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) are able to fly down in a shuttle, but violent energy storms prevent them from taking off again. They can only beam up once Chief O'Brien (Colm Meany) visits the surface and enhances their transporter pattern.

Just as they are prepping to return, however, they are all knocked unconscious by a bolt of energy, getting thrown to the ground. Data, Troi, and O'Brien are then eerily possessed by free-floating balls of energy that drift into their bodies from a cloud above. It isn't until later that those watching at home learn that the heroes have been taken over by the dead crew of a crashed ship,...

“Duchess” is a movie directed by Neil Marshall starring Charlotte Kirk. With Philip Winchester, Colm Meaney and Stephanie Beacham.

Are you on the hunt for a comedic action thriller sprinkled with mafia gang elements? “Duchess” brings these well-trodden themes to the table, but this time with a twist: a female lead. Charlotte Kirk, portrayed by Scarlett Monaghan, steps into the spotlight.

“Duchess” is a film that attempts to encapsulate the essence of Guy Ritchie’s early works. It features gangsters, a diamond heist plot, a sprinkling of humor, and is set in the gritty, less privileged neighborhoods of London. The twist? The central character is a woman. However, while the aesthetic ambition mirrors Ritchie’s style, the execution falls significantly short. The film lacks the vigor and finesse that hallmark Ritchie’s movies.

Plot Summary

After a woman suffers a brutal beating, she sets out on a path of vengeance.

From Neil Marshall, director of cult favourites like Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, The Descent, Centurion and the Hellboy reboot, comes Duchess starring Charlotte Kirk, Phillip Winchester, Colm Meany, Stephanie Beecham and Sean Pertwee.

Duchess, a small-time crook, tries to enter the treacherous underworld of diamond trafficking and ends up left for dead when a deal goes wrong. Determined to seek retribution, she launches into an unwavering pursuit for vengeance.

Duchess is available via digital download now.

The character of Transporter Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney) first appeared in "Encounter at Farpoint," the pilot episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." For many episodes, he was basically a background character, usually present to deliver a line or two of techno-jargon and to beam the senior staff from the ship to a planet and back. With each appearance, though, audiences began to get more details about O'Brien's life. He used to build ships in bottles as a boy, for instance. O'Brien would marry and have a child. All told, O'Brien appeared in 52 episodes of the show, sometimes starring in his own stories. 

The character became popular enough to be carried over to "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" in 1993, on which he was a regular character. On "Deep Space Nine," O'Brien became even more awesome, serving as the chief engineer on the station, having to familiarize himself with dated Cardassian technology,...

Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine introduced a long list of iconic characters, and while some made a bigger impact than others, Miles O'Brien understandably remains a firm fan favourite. 

Irish actor Colm Meaney played the transporter chief of the USS Enterprise-d and was later promoted to chief of operations of Deep Space Nine. Miles appeared in 225 episodes overall and clocked up the second most appearances, second only to Michael Dorn's Worf.

Last week, we caught up with Meaney to discuss his memorable role in Duchess. During our conversation with the actor, we asked whether he has any interest in reprising the role of Miles O'Brien (Picard recently took us back to The Next Generation era and O'Brien was sadly M.I.A.). 

"I think seven years in a space suit was enough, you know?" Meaney says in the video below. "I'm often asked...

Neil Marshall seems to want what Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino had in the early aughts. For his latest outing, the once-promising English filmmaker behind horror films like “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent” scales back his interest in frights for a more straightforward tale of fights, but fails to land nearly every punch he throws. Rather than build on the template his aforementioned peers built on themselves, Marshall does nothing for the ensemble crime thriller genre other than play the hits, which would’ve been bearable had he actually done so on key and with some care or nuance.

Right from the get-go, “Duchess” unveils itself as paint-by-numbers contrivance with an in media res sequence that drops us into the middle of a scene between main character, Scarlett (Charlotte Kirk), and an unseemly goon trying to get his rocks off. A fight ensues, blood is spurt, the goon goes out the window,...

This week brings an eclectic mix of new horror movies, including Neon’s latest in theaters, the return of Terrifier 2‘s Lauren Lavera, and even an unofficial Mickey Mouse slasher movie.

Here’s all the new horror releasing August 5 – August 11, 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

With the short film Steamboat Willie (1928) in the public domain, horror filmmakers are now free to play around with that early incarnation of Mickey Mouse, and that’s exactly what director Jamie Bailey is doing in the new indie slasher movie The Mouse Trap.

Gravitas Ventures released The Mouse Trap on VOD this past Tuesday.

In the horror movie, “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game...

Charlotte Kirk put herself on the map with Vice alongside Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane and has since starred in the likes of No Panic with a Hint of Hysteria, Ocean's 8, and The Juice. 

She's also co-written, produced, and starred in Neil Marshall's The Reckoning and The Lair and now reteams with the filmmaker for Duchess, an action-packed new British action-crime thriller also starring Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Stephanie Beacham, and Philip Winchester.

We recently spoke to Kirk and asked about creating Scarlett, a.k.a. The Duchess. "As a writer/producer, I sat down with my co-writer/director Neil Marshall...we've done two films previously and were like, 'What do you want to do next.' We wanted to do a really cool gangster movie and it came really organically," she explains in the video below.

"We'd done a drama and action/sci-fi but we started talking about the classic films: Scarface,...

London pickpocket Scarlett pulls herself up by the bootstraps after catching the eye of smuggler Robert. He brings her into his flashy criminal world, but his operation comes with risks. When betrayal leaves Scarlett dead in the desert, she rebounds from the ashes like a true phoenix. Now going by Duchess, she aims to avenge Robert with the help of loyal associates Danny and Baraka.

But does director Neil Marshall’s throwback to vintage British gangster flicks hit the mark? The flashy style nods to greats like Guy Ritchie, yet the thin plot and flat characters struggle to rise above the formula. We get a busy introduction over exposition instead of seeing Scarlett’s fire sparked onscreen. The sluggish pace waits an hour to truly ignite the vengeance action fans crave.

Still, Marshall shows flashes of his early magic. Ferocious lead Charlotte Kirk drives thrilling violence and black comedy beats.

For his latest interview, Kevin gets to fill a Top 5 interview checklist goal by sitting down to chat with Neil Marshall, director of cult favourites like Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, The Descent, Centurion and the Hellboy reboot. They chat about the upcoming release of the new action epic Duchess starring Charlotte Kirk, Phillip Winchester, Colm Meany, Stephanie Beecham and Sean Pertwee.

Duchess, a small-time crook, tries to enter the treacherous underworld of diamond trafficking and ends up left for dead when a deal goes wrong. Determined to seek retribution, she launches into an unwavering pursuit for vengeance.

Duchess hits select UK cinemas on the 9th of August and then hits digital download on the 12th.

"Sneaky bastard." Let 'em at it! Quiver Distribution has revealed the official US trailer for a comedy from Ireland called The Problem With People, which is a clever title for nowadays because almost everyone is thinking about the many problems with people. This premiered at a few film festivals in late 2023 and will open right away on VOD in the US starting in October this fall. Two distant cousins who've never met - one living in NYC, the other in the smallest town there is in Ireland - come together in Ireland to finally put an end to a generations-long family feud. It doesn't go well... The Problem With People, set in beautifully lush Irish countryside, is a heartwarming comedy about family, world peace... and sheep.