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David Lynch: the 6 films and TV shows you need to watch to understand the master moviemaker

Jan 17, 2025 | timeout.com | Ian Freer

NewsThe perfect intro to the late great filmmakerWritten by Ian FreerFilm journalist and authorFriday 17 January 2025FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppPhotograph: Universal PicturesAdvertisingDavid Lynch, who died on January 15, 2025, was a real renaissance man, working in all different mediums (film, TV, music, painting) and putting his unique imprint on all of them.
15 Book-To-Movie Adaptations To Get (Very) Excited About In 2025

Jan 16, 2025 | timeout.com | Ian Freer

NewsIs your favourite novel coming to the big screen this year? Written by Ian FreerFilm journalist and authorThursday 16 January 2025FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppPhotograph: Time OutAdvertisingAs 2025 gets into gear, perhaps the best way to fulfill that new year resolution about reading more might be going to the movies. There is a raft of book-to-film adaptations that are heading to multiplexes this year.
A Real Pain

Jan 6, 2025 | empireonline.com | Ian Freer

Jewish American cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) join a tour of Poland to pay respects to their recently departed grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Soon old familial tensions begin to surface against the broader backdrop of their ancestral history. Original Title:A Real PainA Real Pain is a sublime, Rolls-Royce version of that often mis-handled genre: the mismatched-buddy comedy.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3

Dec 18, 2024 | empireonline.com | Ian Freer

Super-swift hedgehog Sonic (Ben Schwartz) takes on new nemeses: the malevolent Shadow The Hedgehog (Keanu Reeves) and evil brainiac Gerald Robotnik (Jim Carrey). Original Title:Sonic The Hedgehog 3After the Paramount logo (the stars replaced by gold rings flying towards the iconic mountain) and the Sega ident, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 rather ironically segues to a large credit for Neal Moritz’s production company, ‘Original Film’.
Kraven The Hunter

Dec 11, 2024 | empireonline.com | Ian Freer

After being saved from a lion attack by a mysterious voodoo potion as a teenager, Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) becomes a hunter of criminals, driven by his tempestuous relationship with his gangster father Nikolai (Russell Crowe). For the comic-book-illiterate, Kraven The Hunter, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1964, is a Spider-Man antagonist and co-founder of the supervillain gang the Sinister Six (rumour has it they were known as the Foreboding Five before Vulture joined).
'Steve McQueen’s most accessible film to date'

Oct 30, 2024 | empireonline.com | Ian Freer

Evacuated during the Blitz by his loving mother Rita (Ronan), nine-year-old George (Heffernan) jumps off the train and embarks on a long journey home. Original Title:Blitz (2024)There’s a scene early on in Steve McQueen’s Blitz in which Rita (Saoirse Ronan), a munitions-factory worker with a talent for singing, reluctantly packs off her young, mixed-race son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside to avoid the horrors of continuous bombing.
Venom: The Last Dance

Oct 22, 2024 | timeout.com | Ian Freer

Former investigative reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his symbiote Venom, a sticky black parasite straight out of the Deadpool School Of Annoying Quippery, return for a superhero threequel that never feels any need to be darker or more portentous, but isn’t that much fun either.
Why Daniel Day-Lewis’s un-retirement is the best movie news of the year

Oct 3, 2024 | timeout.com | Ian Freer

NewsThe Oscar winner is back – and here’s why it mattersWritten by Ian FreerFilm journalist and authorThursday 3 October 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppPhotograph: Focus FeaturesAdvertisingNot since Leicester rapper Mark Morrison’s ‘Return of the Mack’ has there been a comeback to rival Daniel Day-Lewis’s decision to come out of retirement. The I actor has officially stepped in front of the camera for the first time since 2017’s Phantom Thread.
Halle Berry enlivens this enjoyable slice of Southern gothic

Sep 23, 2024 | timeout.com | Ian Freer

Liane Hentscher/LionsgateAmarradosFilmRecommendedReview3 out of 5 starsHalle Berry livens up this familiar but enjoyable slice of Southern gothicTuesday 24 September 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingTime Out says‘Sultan of Splat’ Alexandre Aja’s films flit between the grimly horrific (Mirrors, his The Hills Have Eyes remake) and the pulp-y fun (Piranha 3D, Crawl).
Zoë Kravitz’s #MeToo Thriller Is One Of The Wildest Rides Of The Year

Aug 20, 2024 | timeout.com | Ian Freer

Photograph: Warner Bros. FilmRecommendedReview4 out of 5 starsZoë Kravitz’s #MeToo thriller is one of the wildest rides of 2024Wednesday 21 August 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingTime Out says‘Are you having a good time?’ It’s a refrain heard constantly throughout Blink Twice, always delivered by men to women as a thinly veiled threat. For the audience, the answer is never in doubt.