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We've been asked once or twice why there was no review of the film Entourage on this site. Bluntly, the answer was this: I had the chance to see it, or Jones' Everyone's Going To Die instead. I plumped for the smaller British film, and am mightily glad I did.
Made back in 2013 but only now getting a UK release, Everyone's Going To Die pretty much had me on side from its opening credits. That 'A Film By' screen you sometimes get? It was filled with the name of everyone who worked on the film. A really lovely touch, and a welcome precursor for what turns out to be a far, far sweeter film than the title might lead you to believe.
It's a kind of Before Sunrise with harsher edges, at times showing the confines of its miniscule budget,...
We've been asked once or twice why there was no review of the film Entourage on this site. Bluntly, the answer was this: I had the chance to see it, or Jones' Everyone's Going To Die instead. I plumped for the smaller British film, and am mightily glad I did.
Made back in 2013 but only now getting a UK release, Everyone's Going To Die pretty much had me on side from its opening credits. That 'A Film By' screen you sometimes get? It was filled with the name of everyone who worked on the film. A really lovely touch, and a welcome precursor for what turns out to be a far, far sweeter film than the title might lead you to believe.
It's a kind of Before Sunrise with harsher edges, at times showing the confines of its miniscule budget,...
- 6/25/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Max Barron: "It's totally about people being lonely. People being lonely is a very real thing - now more than ever"
In 2013, directorial duo Jones - better known to their mums as Max Barron and Michael Woodward - brought their debut feature film Everyone's Going To Die up to the Edinburgh Film Festival, fast-forward two years and, as this year's festival reaches its final weekend, their blackly comic indie drama is finally reaching cinemas, courtesy of a Kickstarter project (it will be released on VoD on July 6). The title might suggest that it's the latest grim shoot-em up from London but, in fact, it's a quirky off-beat drama between world-weary hitman Ray (Rob Knighton) and a young German emigre (Nora Tschirner).
When I caught up with Barron a couple of weeks ago, I asked him why they picked such an unusual title, given that that might well add to...
In 2013, directorial duo Jones - better known to their mums as Max Barron and Michael Woodward - brought their debut feature film Everyone's Going To Die up to the Edinburgh Film Festival, fast-forward two years and, as this year's festival reaches its final weekend, their blackly comic indie drama is finally reaching cinemas, courtesy of a Kickstarter project (it will be released on VoD on July 6). The title might suggest that it's the latest grim shoot-em up from London but, in fact, it's a quirky off-beat drama between world-weary hitman Ray (Rob Knighton) and a young German emigre (Nora Tschirner).
When I caught up with Barron a couple of weeks ago, I asked him why they picked such an unusual title, given that that might well add to...
- 6/25/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
★★☆☆☆ "I feel like I should say something important," says Ray, the melancholic career criminal in the midst of a midlife crisis. This essential emptiness plagues, Everyone's Going to Die, the visually shiny debut film from British collective 'Jones', which first premiered at Edinburgh in 2013 and is now in cinemas. Despite the dramatically apocalyptic promise of the title, not much happens in the kind of oddball day-in-the-life movie Hal Hartley made in the early nineties. The Unbelievable Truth in particular seems to have been an inspiration with its leftfield romance and monosyllabic hero. Melanie (Nora Tschirner) is a German girl who we first meet waking up on a floating mattress in a swimming pool with a Hitler moustache.
- 6/24/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The debut film by writing-directing collective Jones, Everyone's Going to Die matches a bored hitman with a woman coming out of a relationship defined by its rom-com perfection. In this clip Ray (Rob Knighton) visits the reincarnation of his dead brother. Everyone's Going to Die, which also stars Nora Tschirner, is released in the UK on Friday 26 June Continue reading...
- 6/17/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Ricky Gervais has confirmed that The Office's David Brent will be heading to the big screen with his own movie, Life on the Road.
So as we anticipate what Brent has been up to since the end of the BBC hit comedy, here's what the cast have done since:
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais played the lead role as David Brent - the embarrassing, toe-curling and cringeworthy boss of company Wernham Hogg, devoid of self-awareness but poised with an unwavering love for the paper merchants he manages.
Gervais went on to create comedy Extras with Stephen Merchant, which was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and aired between 2005 and 2007. Gervais played ambitious actor Andy Millman, afflicted with a useless agent played by Merchant. Guest stars have included Patrick Stewart, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Stiller and Kate Winslet.
In 2009, Gervais starred in, wrote and directed his feature comedy debut The Invention of Lying.
So as we anticipate what Brent has been up to since the end of the BBC hit comedy, here's what the cast have done since:
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais played the lead role as David Brent - the embarrassing, toe-curling and cringeworthy boss of company Wernham Hogg, devoid of self-awareness but poised with an unwavering love for the paper merchants he manages.
Gervais went on to create comedy Extras with Stephen Merchant, which was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and aired between 2005 and 2007. Gervais played ambitious actor Andy Millman, afflicted with a useless agent played by Merchant. Guest stars have included Patrick Stewart, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Stiller and Kate Winslet.
In 2009, Gervais starred in, wrote and directed his feature comedy debut The Invention of Lying.
- 8/6/2014
- Digital Spy
Sean Ellis's Metro Manila was the big winner at last night's Moët British Independent Film Awards.
The film, which centres on a family who flee the rice fields of the Philippines to start a new life in Manila, won Best Director, Best Achievement in Production and Best British Independent Film.
The Best Actor prize went to James McAvoy for Filth, while Le Week-End's Lindsay Duncan took home the Best Actress award. Imogen Poots collected the Supporting Actress gong for The Look of Love and Ben Mendelsohn won Best Supporting Actor for Starred Up.
Special awards on the night were handed to Julie Walters, who took the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution to British film, and Paul Greengrass, recipient of the Variety Award for helping to shine the world spotlight on the UK.
The Bifa winners in full are as follows:
Best British Independent Film
Metro Manila -...
The film, which centres on a family who flee the rice fields of the Philippines to start a new life in Manila, won Best Director, Best Achievement in Production and Best British Independent Film.
The Best Actor prize went to James McAvoy for Filth, while Le Week-End's Lindsay Duncan took home the Best Actress award. Imogen Poots collected the Supporting Actress gong for The Look of Love and Ben Mendelsohn won Best Supporting Actor for Starred Up.
Special awards on the night were handed to Julie Walters, who took the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution to British film, and Paul Greengrass, recipient of the Variety Award for helping to shine the world spotlight on the UK.
The Bifa winners in full are as follows:
Best British Independent Film
Metro Manila -...
- 12/9/2013
- Digital Spy
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