Ben Wheatley

Jul 19, 2024 | madinamerica.com | Ben Wheatley

During my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. A nurse was assigned to watch over me. I was terribly uncomfortable, and over and over I begged her to release me. Finally, after a considerable time, I was released. This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel.

Jun 6, 2024 | thehealthcareblog.com | Ben Wheatley

By BEN WHEATLEYThe U.S. is in the midst of an ongoing—and still expanding—health care cost crisis. Even among people with health insurance, has become a persistent problem. Top executives at nearly 90% of large employers believe the cost of providing health benefits to employees will become unsustainable in the next 5-10 years.

Apr 18, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Alice Lowe |Ben Wheatley |Jessica Hausner

In gardening-obsessed UK, marrow-harvesting is a highly competitive endeavour. The contestants have the ego the size of a giant pumpkin, and they are determined to defend their hard-earned title. In order to do so, they must prove that they are indeed growers not showers. A not-very-sweet Caroline (played by a sullen Jo Hartley) devotes as much TLC to her enormous vegetables as she does to her to newfound lover Willy (Celyn Jones), who also happens to be her neighbour.

Feb 15, 2024 | popstar.one | Ben Wheatley

15.02.2024 - 09:47 / variety.com Marta Balaga Films Boutique has reunited with “Green Border” director Agnieszka Holland on her Franz Kafka biopic “Franz,” currently in pre-production. Set to begin principal photography in April in the Czech Republic and Germany — during the centenary of the author’s death — the film has already been acquired for theatrical distribution by Bac Films Distribution (France), X Verleih (Germany), Bioskop (Czech Republic) and Kino Świat (Poland).

Feb 14, 2024 | popstar.one | Ben Wheatley

14.02.2024 - 19:09 / nme.com IDLES have released the official video for ‘Grace’, an AI recreation of Coldplay’s iconic ‘Yellow’ video, but with Chris Martin singing the words to this song instead.The video sees Martin strolling down the same beach that he walked along for his own 2000 song, as night turns to day inside four minutes.IDLES frontman Joe Talbot says the concept to use the Coldplay imagery for ‘Grace’ came to him in a dream, and he contacted Martin directly to ask for his...