SEE TRAILER FOR NETFLIX HEARTWARMING MOVIE DRAMA THE BEAUTIFUL GAME WITH BILL NIGHY

  THE BEAUTIFUL GAME  

BILL NIGHTY NETFLIX MOVIE TRAILER

Netflix has released the first trailer for Bill Nighy's latest heartwarming movie drama THE BEAUTIFUL GAME which streams from March 29th but will hit British cinemas a week before that from

The Beautiful Game streams this March

March 22nd with him playing the manager of England's homeless team as they journey to Rome to compete in the tournament. 

THE FILM FOLLOWS

Mal (Bill Nighy) the manager of England’s homeless football team, taking his players to Rome with the hope of being crowned champions of the Homeless World Cup, a global street soccer tournament. At the last minute he decides to bring with them a talented striker Vinny (Micheal Ward), who could give them a real chance at winning, but only if he’s ready to let go of his past and become part of the team. See the trailer below:

 

CHANNEL 5 REVEALS LEAD CAST FOR THEIR NEW MALTA SUMMER RESORT SET THRILLER TV SERIES THE WIVES

 THE WIVES TV SERIES 

CHANNEL 5 UNVEILS LEAD CAST

Channel 5 has just unveiled the cast for their new six-part thriller THE WIVES that depicts the unravelling of one family in a summer that changes all their lives. Last year, four sisters-in-law and their families escaped to their Maltese holiday apartments, as they’ve done every summer for fifteen years. Sylvie Morgan (Tamzin Outhwaite) was happily married, Natasha Morgan (Angela Griffin) was swimming in wealth, and Beth Morgan (Jo Joyner)

Jonathan Forbes, Jamie Bamber and Ben Willbond will lead the cast

and Annabelle Morgan (Christine Bottomley) were thick as thieves. But this year, as they come together again, everything is different. Sylvie’s now single and loving life, Natasha’s hiding a desperate financial situation, Beth is barely keeping her life together and Annabelle is, well… dead. When Annabelle’s widower Charlie (Jamie Bamber) arrives with a new woman in tow, Beth tries to be happy for them, but something doesn’t sit right. Charlie’s new girlfriend Jade (Katie Clarkson-Hill) looks exactly like Annabelle. Beth’s plans to have a great summer are quickly scuppered by Charlie’s odd behaviour, and her suspicion that there is more to Annabelle’s death is heightened. With lies coming to light and evidence building, the women work

Jo Joyner, Louis Boyer and Tamzin Outhwaite will also star

together and against each other to unravel the mystery and bring the culprit to justice. But with corrupt officials, drug cartels and career criminals closer to home than ever expected, have they bitten off more than they can chew? Ben Willbond stars as the eldest Morgan brother and Beth’s husband Frankie, Jonathan Forbes is Natasha’s loving husband Sean Morgan, Louis Boyer is charming local businessman Luca Vella and Ajay Chhabra is consulate official Vinay Taneja.

SEE JANNIS NIEWOHNER, GIJS NABER IN BRAND NEW IMAGES FROM HAGEN EPIC FANTASY TV SERIES INSPIRED BY NIBELUNG SAGA

   HAGEN EPIC TV SERIES  

FIRST IMAGES ARE HERE FROM GERMANY

As you all probably well remember your trusted spy was among the first ones to inform you about this one and then kept you informed throughout the years about it, but now we can feast our eyes on our lieblings Jannis Niewohner in the brand new images from RTL+ series adaptation of HAGEN epic fantasy saga inspired by the Nibelung myths! Freemantle is doing the world wide distribution and will present it to the buyers this Friday at London TV Screeningss. 

 

THE STORY OF HAGEN EPIC TV SERIES

follows weapons master Hagen (Gijs Naber) as he keeps a crisis-ridden kingdom together, while hiding his secret love for the king’s daughter Kriemhild (Lilja van der Zwaag) and his own unpredictability. He is forced to decided between love and loyalty after the inexperienced king asks dragonslayer Siegfried von Xanten (Jannis Niewöhner) to help him secure the hand of the dangerous Valkyrie Brunhild in marriage. Dominic Marcus Singer, Rosalinde Mynster, Jördis Triebel and JörgHartmann also star.

The project will be made into a cinematic film and six part TV series

You will remember that our favourite German star Jannis led Maximilian epic TV series, Turncoat WW2 drama and Narcissus und Goldmund medieval movie and Felix Krull.

 

1ST IMAGES FROM NEW TV SERIES BOY THAT NEVER WAS WITH COLIN MORGAN, RED EYE WITH RICHARD ARMITAGE, LOST BOYS AND FAIRIES WITH FRA FREE

  1ST NEW SERIES IMAGES  

FROM THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS

Over at London TV Screenings Irish broadcaster RTE will be presenting a four hour drama based on the novel by Karen Perry THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS starring Colin Morgan and Toni O'Rourke with Kerr Logan and Simon Callow also in the cast. In Dublin, Harry thinks he glimpses in a crowd a six-year-old boy who he’s convinced is his son Dillon, disappeared in an earthquake in Morocco three years before. His obsession tears apart his marriage, exposing shameful secrets.

 

  FROM RED EYE WITH RICHARD ARMITAGE

Also joining London TV Screenings is new thriller TV series RED EYE which will stream on ITVX. In this action-packed thriller, Jing Lusi stars in the role of police officer Hana Li who escorts Dr. Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage) when he is renditioned to China from the U.K. When inexplicable deaths occur onboard the red eye flight raise, Li forms an unlikely alliance with Head of MI5 Madeleine Delaney and journalist Jess Li, her sister, to uncover a wider global conspiracy. 

FROM BBC'S LOST BOYS AND FAIRIES

British broadcaster will, meanwhile, present their new gay TV series LOST BOYS AND FAIRIES. Set in Cardiff, this tender, and possibly tear-jerking, drama shows a longtime gay couple, happy with their life and finally getting ready to adopt a child. Or so they think, as this big step will force at least one of them – seemingly fearless drag artist Gabriel (Sion Daniel Young) – to revisit painful memories that marked his childhood following his mother’s passing. The very same ones he already tried his best to forget. Fra Fee takes the other male lead as Andy!

SEE JOSEPH FIENNES, JARED HARRIS IN NEW 17TH CENTURY MINI TV SERIES ROYAL KILL LIST ON KING CHARLES I

 ROYAL KILL LIST SERIES 

WITH JOSEPH FIENNES AND JARED HARRIS

Sky History has announced March 12th as the start date for their three part docu historical mini series ROYAL KILL LIST which goes back to January 1649, when for the first and only time, a British

The series starts this March

monarch, King Charles I, was publicly executed,having been tried and convicted of treason by Parliament. This heralded ten years of Britain as a republic before, in May 1660, the monarchy was restored with the accession of King Charles II. While publicly planning his own lavish coronation to take place the following year, in April 1661, the new king had, behind the scenes, ordered an exhaustive search for the death warrant ordering his father’s execution. On finding it and the 59 signatories appended to it, Charles ordered the biggest manhunt in royal history. Told through dramatic reconstruction, with the actors serving as primary storytellers – Sheila Atim for the Royalists, Jared Harris for the Regicides, and Joseph Fiennes for King Charles II – the mini-series plays out as a Jacobean tragedy detailing the king’s lifelong obsession to hunt down, try and kill all those responsible for his father’s execution and his own desperate flight into exile.

BBC UNVEILS CAST FOR DOPE GIRLS SERIES SET IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY LONDON WHEN FEMALE GANGS RULED SOHO

   BBC'S DOPE GIRLS  

PERIOD SET TV SERIES UNVEILS CAST

BBC has unveiled cast for their new period set series DOPE GIRLS set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine! Julianne Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-

Eliza Scanlen, Rory Flecky Byrne, Julianne Nicholson

World War One London, embracing a life of criminal activities with the dedicated aim of providing for her daughter Evie (Eilidh Fisher). Eliza Scanlen plays Violet Davies, one of the first wave of female officers for the Metropolitan Police, who is assigned to go undercover and investigate the

Geraldine James, Dustin Demri Burns, Harry Cadby

illicit world of underground Soho nightclubs. Umi Myers is Billie Cassidy, a dazzling bohemian dancer whose life is turned upside down by Kate’s arrival. Geraldine James will be Isabella, the leader of the criminal Salucci family that also includes our dearest Rory Fleck Byrne, Dustin Demri-Burns

Eben Figueiredo, Ian Bonar and Nabhaan Rizwan

and Sebastian Croft. Also cast are Michael Duke, Ian Bonar, Laura Checkley, Will Keen, Fiona Button, Harry Cadby, Eben Figueiredo, Nabhaan Rizwan, Priya Kansara and Jordan Kouamé.

SEE TRAILER FOR KEVIN COSTNER'S SPRAWLING WILD WEST TWO PART EPIC MOVIE HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA WITH SAM WORTHINGTON, LUKE WILSON, SIENNA MILLER

  KEVIN COSTNER TRAILER 

FOR HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA MOVIE

It will be a movie event: Kevin Costner has split his epic movie HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA into two parts with the first one

Horizon the saga will be split into two movies

opening June 28th, and the second one August 16th! Sam Worthington, Danny Huston, Sienna Miller, Tatanka Means, Luke Wilson also star in the story that follows the 15-year span of pre- and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. 

Experienced through the eyes of many, the epic journey is fraught with peril and intrigue from the constant onslaught of natural elements, to the interactions with the indigenous peoples who lived on the land, and the determination and at many times ruthlessness of those who sought to settle it. You can check out the first trailer released today below and tell us what you think, will you be watching when the saga hits theatres near you or not?

 

SEE TEASER FOR RUSSIAN TV SERIES VERSION OF FAMOUS MASKED AVENGER ZORRO WHO IS NOW LOST IN 1840'S SNOW COVERED RUSSIA

  NEW ZORRO TV SERIES  

BUT RUSSIAN VERSION IN PRODUCTION

New Zorro will air on TV3 in Russia

While you can watch the latest Spanish version of popular ZORRO over at Amazon Prime, Russian channel TV 3 has announced work on their own version of it, but in it the masked hero is over in Russia of course. It is not yet, though, known who will play the lead role even though we have the first mysterious images from the new adventure series revealing the masked hero riding his black steed through the snow. We even have a first teaser for the series which will be set in year 1840. With the action of the new series set to take place in Russia of the early 19th century, the Mexican folk avenger ends up there pursued by the hired killers of the governor of California. TV 3 is also airing the latest Spanish version which hit Prime Video earlier in January. It is interesting that after the major streamers and channels from USA have left Russia, domestic streamers and broadcasters have been having a massive increase in viewership which influenced the capital and creative juices flowing much more potent and thus so many great new projects, both for the small and the big screen, are currently brewing over in Russia.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NOLLY MINI TV SERIES WITH HELENA BONHAM CARTER, MAX BROWN, MARK GATTIS, AUGUSTUS PREW

  NOLLY MINI TV SERIES  

STARRING HELENA BONHAM CARTER

Nolly starts March 17th on PBS

While this is already available for streaming as of this month over at ITVX for viewers in United Kingdom, it will hit Northern American audience March 17th when the three episode mini series NOLLY will start airing on PBS. If I got it right it will also stream on Foxtel in Australia and it had its linear UK premiere on ITV during New Year holidays. Created by Russell T. Davies, this series is exploring the reign, and fall from grace, of the inimitable British soap star, Noele Gordon played by Helena Bonham Carter. The cast also includes Max Brown, Mark Gattis, and Augustus Prew.

The series was shot in three episodes

 

 NOLLY MINI TV SERIES TELLS THE STORY OF 

Noele (Helena Bonham Carter) who was a legend in her own lifetime. As flame-haired widow Meg Richardson in the long-running soap opera Crossroads, she was one of the most famous people in Britain. Then in 1981, at the height of the show’s success and the peak of Nolly’s fame, she was axed without ceremony, without warning and with no explanation. With the boss’s words “all good things must come to an end” ringing in her ears, Noele Gordon found herself thrown out of the show that was her life for over 18 years. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be tuning in next month?

 

THE EMPRESS DIRECTOR PREPARING NEW 18TH CENTURY TV SERIES ON MARQUIS DE SADE THE WEREWOLF AND RENEE

 THE WEREWOLF AND RENEE 

NEW EPIC SERIES FROM EMPRESS CREATOR

After bringing German empress Sisi to Netflix in The Empress series which is getting a second season later this year, over at Series Mania and at Berlinale's CoPro Series, Katrin Gebbe is presenting to the buyers historical erotic thriller series THE WEREWOLF AND RENEE, based on true events and set in Paris in 1780, following a young noblewoman Renée who discovers she was in fact “sold” to Marquis de Sade. She seeks revenge – but de Sade will actually be her partner in crime. Gebbe is also preparing A Thousand Blows period set series for Disney+.

SKY ANNOUNCES NEW HISTORICAL TV SERIES ON WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART WITH WILL SHARPE IN THE LEAD ROLE

 SKY SETS MOZART SERIES 

WITH WILL SHARPE IN THE LEAD ROLE

Sky has just announced that Will Sharpe will take the lead role in their AMADEUS mini series set within the musical hub of bustling Vienna at the end of the 18th century, where 25 year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in the city no longer a child and determined to carve his own path. Recently unemployed and without the management of his father, Amadeus finds an unlikely ally in a young singer who will become his wife, fiery Constanze. Her connections help bring him into the orbit of the court composer Antonio Salieri, setting the three of them on a collision course that will ultimately define their lives and their legacies for years to come.

NEW ELIZABETHAN PICARESQUE MOVIE ADVENTURE ON SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST FOLIO SET BY PETER STRAUGHAN

  PETER STRAUGHAN SETS  

NEW FILM ON SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST FOLIO

As Variety reports, Peter Straughan, who adapted “Wolf Hall” has set the story of William Shakespeare’s first folio as his next movie. FOLIO will tell

Peter Straughan is directing and penning

how a collection of Shakespeare’s works were assembled seven years after his death and preserved for future generations. Four hundred years on from its original publication, FOLIO follows the journey of Shakespeare’s former Kings Men colleagues, actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, as they embark on a picaresque road trip through an England on the brink of Puritanism and gather the material to keep their friend’s work and memory alive. Historians believe that had it not been for Heminges and Condell’s efforts, half of Shakespeare’s works would not be known to us today.

BBC ANNOUNCES TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF TIME TRAVELLING THE MINISTRY OF TIME BOOK

 THE MINISTRY OF TIME 

BBC ANNOUNCES NEW TV ADAPTATION

Among the twelve rather uninspired new shows announced yesterday at BBC the only one that caught my little spy eye was THE MINISTRY OF TIME a six part series based on Kaliane Bradley's novel about a newly established government department, which is gathering ‘expats’ from across history in an experiment to test the viability of time-travel. Commander Graham

The book is coming soon to the bookshops

Gore (an officer on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition) is one such figure rescued from certain death, alongside an army captain from the fields of the Somme, a plague victim from the 1600s, a widow from revolutionary France, and a soldier from the seventeenth century. They are placed with 21st century liaisons, known as 'bridges', in unlikely flatshares. Gore has to learn about contemporary life from scratch: from air travel to industrial warfare, from cinema to indoor plumbing; and he must negotiate cohabiting with the ambitious modern woman who works as his bridge. After an awkward beginning, the pair start to find pleasure and comfort in each other’s company, developing a relationship that is simultaneously tender, intense and profoundly unprofessional; and the expats, adrift in a new era, form friendships that ground and support them in the lonely 21st century, where they have outlived everyone they ever knew and loved. When a deeper conspiracy at the Ministry begins to reveal itself, the bridge must reckon with what she does next. Will she save or sacrifice the exiled misfits she has come to care for so deeply?

MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN TO BE TURNED INTO A HISTORICAL TV SERIES ON THE FAMOUS ROMAN EMPEROR

   MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN  

ANCIENT ROMAN SERIES ANNOUNCED

Iervolino and Lady Bacardi Entertainment are set to turn Marguerite Yourcenar's famous novel MEMOIRS OF HARDIAN into a historical TV series on the famous Roman emperor. From childhood, the life of a profound and sensitive man, aware of his imperial role and the burden he carries, is told. A wise and far-sighted diplomat and a human being marked by splendors and fears, Hadrian defended his immense love for the arts to cover the shame caused by the emptiness of his youth. And then his passions: a natural and complete bisexuality that was also controversial and self-centered. The sorrows and tragedies, feelings of deep friendship and respect for humanity. All these themes will be explored in the series, offering an intimate look at the emperor’s complex psychology and his lasting impact on European history and culture

SEE CATE BLANCHETT, EDGAR RAMIREZ, KEVIN HART STORM ALIEN PLANETS IN BORDERLANDS EPIC SF COMEDY TRAILER

 BORDERLANDS TRAILER 

SENDS CATE BLANCHETT TO ANOTHER PLANET

Borderlands is out in cinemas this August

Storming alien planets as an intergalactic gang leader is defo not what you would imagine for Cate Blanchett but that is exactly what she does in first BORDERLANDS sf movie trailer for the video game adaptation that will hit the big screens August 9th!

It follows Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, who reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Edgar Ramirez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland (Kevin Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector, Krieg (Florian Munteanu); Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must then battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. 

 

RUSSELL CROWE, COLIN HANKS, RICHARD E. GRANT, MICHAEL SHANNON, LEO WOODALL TO LEAD WW2 TRIALS MOVIE NUREMBERG

  NUREMBERG WW2 MOVIE  

ADS COLIN HANKS, RUSSELL CROWE, RAMI MALEK, MICHAEL SHANNON, RICHARD E.GRANT

It is quite a stellar cast that writer and director James Vanderbilt has gathered for his World War II trials movie drama NUREMBERG. Colin Hanks and Mark O'Brien are the latest to join the cast that already has Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek and Andreas Pietschmann. O’Brien will play Colonel John Amen, one of the chief interrogators at the trial, while Hanks will play Dr. Gustav Gilbert, a military psychiatrist assigned to evaluate the Nazis in the film that chronicles the eponymous trials held between 1945 and 1946 by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime.

MAKE AN IRISH WISH WITH ED SPELEERS, ALEXANDER VLAHOS AND LINDSAY LOHAN IN NEW NETFLIX FANTASY ROMCOM TRAILER

  IRISH WISH MOVIE TRAILER  

WITH ED SPELEERS AND ALEXANDER VLAHOS

You can make an Irish Wish March 15th

Plus Lindsay Lohan in the lead role of course of new Netflix romantic comedy IRISH WISH which will hit the streamer March 15th also starring Jane Seymour as her mother, James Rottger and Elisabeth Tan. This fantasy comedy movie is set of course on the Emerald Isle.

When the love of her life gets engaged to her best friend, Maddie puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the pair are to marry, Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love, and the next morning she wakes up as the bride-to-be. With her dream seeming to come true, Maddie soon realizes that her real soulmate is someone else entirely.

 

LUKE EVANS AND ALEX PETTYFER HAVE A SHOWDOWN IN 5LBS OF PRESSURE ACTION MOVIE TRAILER

  5LBS OF PRESSURE TRAILER  

WITH LUKE EVANS AND ALEX PETTYFER

The movie is out this March

Well, that is quite a hot tandem, isn't? Only they are not a tandem but enemies in 5LBS OF PRESSURE action movie for which I have a trailer today. Both written and directed by Phil Allocco it should hit cinemas March 8th! Rory Culkin also stars. 

 

5LBS OF PRESSURE 

follows Adam (Luke Evans) who, fresh out of prison after serving time for murder, returns to his old stomping grounds to seek out a son (Rudy Pankow) who doesn't know him. Eli (Zac Adams), the brother of the man he killed is looking for revenge. There is also Mike (Rory Culkin), who is trying to escape a life of crime living under the thumb of his gangster Uncle Leff (Alex Pettyfer). Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:

 

SEE LUCY BOYNTON IN 1ST IMAGES FROM A CRUEL LOVE: THE RUTH ELLIS STORY PERIOD SET SERIES WITH LAURIE DAVIDSON, TOBY JONES, TOBY STEPHENS, MARK STANLEY, JOE ARMSTRONG

  A  CRUEL LOVE SERIES  

FIRST THE RUTH ELLIS STORY IMAGES

ITV has released first images from their upcoming four part series A CRUEL LOVE: THE RUTH ELLIS STORY with Lucy Boynton as the last woman hanged in UK. Laurie Davidson, Toby Jones, Toby Stephens, Mark Stanley, Joe Armstrong and Arthur Darvill complete the stellar cast of the series set in 1955 in the glamorous and intoxicating world of London club-land. Ellis was the capital’s youngest club manager but her success soon unraveled as she became entwined in a relationship with racing driver David Blakely and then fell into a love triangle. On trial for his murder, she was condemned to hang and she became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

ZACH BRAFF HAS A FRENCH GIRL IN NEW ROMANTIC COMEDY MOVIE TRAILER WITH VANESSA HUDGENS AS HER LESBIAN EX

  FRENCH GIRL TRAILER  

FOR ZACK BRAFF NEW ROMANTIC COMEDY

Coming from James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright who both wrote and directed it together is FRENCH GIRL romantic comedy movie which has

French Girl does not have a release date yet

premiered this month at Santa Barbara International Film Festival with Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens in the lead roles.

  Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he's fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon's dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:

 

SPOTLIGHT ON CONSTELLATION SF THRILLER TV SERIES WITH JAMES D'ARCY AND NOOMI RAPACE AS AN ASTRONAUT SEARCHING FOR TRUTH

    CONSTELLATION   

NEW APPLE TV PLUS SF SERIES

Last week we saw the return of comedy hour with new seasons of beloved sitcoms over at CBS and then the launch of The New Look Dior and Chanel series

Constellation starts next Wednesday

at Apple TV Plus, but beside The Way, which starts tomorrow on BBC, next week is only bringing us CONSTE- LLATION over at Apple. New sf series will be available for streaming from February 21st with first three episodes starring Noomi Rapace and James D'Arcy. 

 

NEW SERIES FOLLOWS
Jo, an astronaut who returns to Earth after a disaster in space – only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing. The action-packed space adventure is an exploration of the dark edges of human psychology, and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover all that she has lost. The series will stream in eight episodes. Check out the suspenseful trailer below:

1ST PERIOD SET MOVIE IMAGES FROM 18TH CENTURY SATYRE SAVAGE HOUSE WITH RICHARD E. GRANT, JACK FARTHING, POST WW2 SET ITALIAN FILM MY PLACE IS HERE

 1ST PERIOD SET FILM IMAGES 

FROM SAVAGE HOUSE 18TH CENTURY FILM

First up today, an image from Peter Glantz directed movie SAVAGE HOUSE set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – it is a darkly satirical story of Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard E. Grant) and Lady Savage (Claire Foy) and their blindpursuit of a better life. It is not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed. Filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed, this is a madcap play on class and power. Bel Powley, Jack Farthing, Pip Torrens also star.

POST WW2 SET MY PLACE IS HERE

Meanwhile, from Italy comes Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone directed MY PLACE IS HERE set in the aftermath of WWII against the conservative backdrop of Southern Italy, just as Italian women have gained the right to vote. When single mother Marta (Ludovica Martino) accepts the proposal of an older farmer, she meets Lorenzo, the village’s openly gay wedding planner (Marco Leonardi) and forges an unlikely friendship with him. Lorenzo introduces her to a hidden community of gays, sparking Marta to challenge societal prejudices.