‘Encounter’ Film Review: Riz Ahmed Shines in Confused Sci-Fi Hybrid

Married at First Sight UK star Amy Christophers has revealed how she was “pressured” into filming a topless video during her time as a glamour model.The 34-year-old, who is now a successful sports journalist, has been surrounded by drama on and off the screen after marrying Josh Christie on the E4 show. Following her appearance on the show, the “topless tease”, which was filmed with another female model for paying customers of Babe TV, resurfaced online.

The stars are out in force as “No Time To Die” finally makes its highly anticipated debut at Britain’s Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday.

Host has been awarded the title of the scariest film of all time, according to a new study.Directed by Rob Savage and released last year, Host is a British supernatural horror which centres around a screencast of a video call on Zoom, presented entirely on a computer screen.The film’s synopsis reads: “Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.

Naman Ramachandran Talks with Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue and European editorial director of Vogue and Ed Guiney, producer of “Normal People” and “Room,” are among the highlights of the BFI London Film Festival’s industry program.The festival’s LFF Connects strand, which celebrates the intersection between film and other creative industries, features Enninful and will explore how innovation, activism and inspiration meet within creative spaces to tell stories across all

Liza Foreman French director Claire Simon is putting the spotlight for her next documentary on the steps of life from birth to death for the bodies of women.Simon, who was at the San Sebastian Film Festival with her latest film “I Want to Talk About Duras,” starts shooting this week at the Paris public hospital, Hopital Tenon, in the city’s 20th Arrondissement.With “This Body of Women” (the literal English translation of the title) she plans to trace all of the female health cycles from birth

deputy Prime Minister tried to duck responsibility. At PMQs the SNP deputy Westminster leader said families were facing a “Tory cost-of-living crisis” as she called on the Government to “scrap Tory cuts to Universal Credit and to introduce an emergency energy payment”.Oswald said: “Across Scotland and the UK, millions of families are seeing their incomes slashed by the Tory government with a toxic combination of Tory cuts, tax rises and the growing cost of Brexit.

Film and TV Charity, have concluded that the agendas and initiatives that have been implemented avoid any substantial interrogation of racism in either industry.As reported by Variety, the studies have also stated that there is “no formal accountability” on racism in the industry.Sasha Salmon, a senior expert in anti-racism and equality, told the publication: “Many of the commitments made by large institutions in the UK point to ‘diversity schemes.’ There are strong and very mixed views as to

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Guy Lodge Film CriticIn multiple interviews over the years, British filmmaker Terence Davies has baldly stated that being gay has ruined his life: “I hate it, I’ll go to my grave hating it … it has killed part of my soul,” he said in 2011, adding that his sexuality is the reason he remains single and celibate.

Naman Ramachandran Producer and European Film Academy Chair Mike Downey is being honored with the Kristián Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest.The award will be presented at the opening of the festival on Friday by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning British filmmaker Stephen Daldry.

After 18 months of delay due to the pandemic, tickets are finally available for MGM/United Artist Releasing/Eon’s 007 movie No Time to Die. Daniel Craig’s swan song as the MI6 agent with a license to kill opens Oct. 8 in the U.S. and Sept. 30 in the United Kingdom.

‘Tis the season.  Well almost. And perhaps that is why AMC+ and RLJE recently swooped in and took the new holiday-themed dramedy Silent Night off the market (domestically at least) before its Toronto International Film Festival premiere tonight.  Who doesn’t love a good ‘ol Christmas movie, perhaps the most reliable genre for feel good feelings?

Encounter is more of a promising indication of things to come from rising star Riz Ahmed and British director Michael Pearce than a satisfying work in its own right. A not-entirely-felicitous combination of family melodrama and sci-fi bug invasion, the roots of this Amazon feature stretch straight back to the paranoia-saturated fantastical thrillers of the 1950s, albeit with more realistic effects, violence and profanity.

Jamie Lang Raindance Film Festival, Britain’s largest independent film festival, will return to cinemas this year, reimagined and restructured with a host of new partners and new films. Running Oct.