Movies
WWII Drama 'Pressure' Tackles D-Day's Weather Forecast
A World War II drama with a unique twist will explore the meteorological planning behind World War II's D-Day invasion.
Movies
'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' to Open the 2025 London Film Festival
For all that Rian Johnson's Knives Out series of films is really just Agatha Christie stories reset for the 21st century, outside of lead Daniel Craig, who plays Detective Benoit Blanc (he of the Foghorn Leghorn style southern drawl), the cast has been almost entirely American. There are
Netflix
'Too Much' Leans Into Too Many Rom-Com Tropes
With its heroine’s infamous proclamation that she might be the “voice of my generation line … or at least a voice of a generation” to the way it almost completely ignored topics like gentrification and student loans, Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy Girls premiered in 2012 as a send-up of
Netflix
The 'Too Much' Trailer Is Never Enough
Netflix initially announced it was greenlighting Too Much from American cultural lightning rod Lena Dunham at the end of 2023, which notably included British actor Will Sharpe, who was coming off his star-making turn in The White Lotus Season 2 at the time. However, the streamer did not specify that
Theater
Andrew Scott Will Reprise His West End 'Vanya' Off-Broadway in 2025
American Anglophiles will have multiple reasons to head to New York next spring, as yet another recent smash hit from London’s West End is making its way Stateside. Olivier Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat is already set for a U.S. transfer next spring. Another recent critically acclaimed production will
Movies
Damian Lewis Joins WWII-Set 'Pressure' Starring Andrew Scott
World War II films seem to proliferate every time you turn around, especially since 2016. That was the year the NSA released a vast treasure trove of previously classified documents detailing many lesser-known missions, including the feats of derring-do undertaken by the spy community, of which writer Ian Fleming was
BritBox
BritBox to Stream 2024 Olivier Awards with Hannah Waddingham
Awards season may have ended for film, but for live theater and television, the season is hitting the main event, as those disciplines still function on seasons that begin in the summer and end in the spring. While the Emmys will wait until the fall to hand out statues, late
Movies
'All of Us Strangers' to Debut on Hulu
All of Us Strangers was one of the best British films to be released in 2023, at least according to our film reviewer Rory Doherty here at Telly Visions. A romantic fantasy ghost story, the film stars Andrew Scott (Ripley) and Paul Mescal (Normal People) as a couple that meets
Netflix
'Ripley' Will Fool Netflix Viewers Come April
Patricia Highsmith published The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1955, almost 75 years ago, and ever since, the handsome grifter and his mark Dickie Greenleaf, and the woman trying to stop him, Marge Sherwood, has captured the imaginations of generations. The most famous adaptation, the 1999 film starring Matt Damon as
Netflix
Andrew Scott Makes A Very Hot 'Ripley'
It's been a few years since anyone heard anything about Steven Zaillian's planned TV adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Originally sold to Showtime pre-pandemic, during the height of the streaming scramble in September 2019, the series was commissioned
Movies
'All of Us Strangers' is a Visually Gorgeous Paean to Grief, Acceptance & Love
With All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Weekend, Looking) has made a film that’s about a few things. Foremostly, it’s about ghosts – literal ghosts, but also figurative ones, phantoms created by emotions we don’t know what to do with or feel like forgetting. All of Us Strangers
Actors and Actresses
Irish Actors You Should Know: Andrew Scott
Where to start when profiling such a talented and charismatic actor as Andrew Scott? How about the fact that, aside from some youth theater workshop experience, this Dublin-born actor has had no official drama training? At 17, he was cast in a substantial role in an Irish film called Korea