Michael Winterbottom Series 'This Sceptred Isle' Will Feature Kenneth Branagh As Boris Johnson
Kenneth Branagh will play Boris Johnson in This Sceptred Isle, a new UK series about COVID-19 from director Michael Winterbottom.
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The Quarantine Stream: 'The Trip To Greece' Ends The Franchise, But Simultaneously Makes The Case For More
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they've been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: The Trip to Greece Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: UK actor/comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite for the fourth entry in this long-running franchise to travel across another country, eat…
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'The Trip To Greece' Review: Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon's 10-Year Food Odyssey Comes To A Bittersweet End
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon come to the end of the road with The Trip to Greece, the fourth and final film. Read /Film's The Trip to Greece review here.
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'The Trip To Greece' Trailer: Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon's Final 'Trip' Is Full Of More Good Food And Great Impressions
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon return for one final vacation in The Trip to Greece trailer, showing off more delicious food and more hilarious impressions.
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'The Trip To Greece' Clip: Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon Hit The Road Again
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon hit the road one final time in Michael Winterbottom's new sequel. Check out this The Trip to Greece clip.
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This Week In Trailers: The Wedding Guest, The Gospel Of Eureka, The Biggest Little Farm, Donnybrook, A Vigilante
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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'The Trip To Spain' Trailer: Roger Moore Impression And Good Food – What Else Could You Want?
IFC Films has unveiled a new The Trip to Spain trailer, promoting the new sequel starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon traveling through another country.
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'The Trip To Spain' Trailer: Sing Along With Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon
Once again, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are again playing fictionalized versions of themselves for Michael Winterbottom in the Trip to Spain trailer.
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This Week In Trailers: The Trip To Spain, All This Panic, Oklahoma City, Attack Of The Lederhosen Zombies, Neal Brennan: 3 Mics
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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Michael Winterbottom In Talks To Make 'Russ And Roger Go Beyond'
Michael Winterbottom is now in talks to chronicle the creation of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, as he's tipped as the Russ and Roger director.
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This Week In Trailers: The Emperor's New Clothes, A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, 10 Milliarden, I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, Reality, Redding
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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This Week In Trailers: The Face Of An Angel, Altman, SCORE: A Film Music Documentary, Tangerines, Sunshine Superman
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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Sequel Bits: '22 Jump Street', 'Sin City 2', 'Transformers 4', 'Dolphin Tale 2'
Lots of things to see in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump: See a Transformers viral video and prepare for another trailer Michael Bay comments on the cool cars in Transformers 4 22 Jump Street gets another clip and another featurette Check out the trailer for Steve Coogan's The Trip to Italy Another…
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'The Trip To Italy' Teaser: Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon On The Road Again
The first The Trip to Italy teaser puts us back on the road with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they jaunt to Italy for food, drink, and comedy.
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First Look Video: Daniel Brühl Leads Amanda Knox-Inspired 'The Face Of An Angel'
After starring in the WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate last year, Daniel Brühl is taking on another controversial recent event in The Face of an Angel. Well -- kind of. Though the Michael Winterbottom-directed drama is inspired by the notorious Amanda Knox case, it presents a fictionalized version of the tale with renamed characters. The…
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This Week In Trailers: Aroused, The Alan Partridge Movie, Fools Day,The Look Of Love, Don't Stop Believin'
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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This Week In Trailers: Everyday, Skokie: Invaded But Not Conquered, The Joy Of Six, In Organic We Trust, Journey To The West, The Liability
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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Sundance Acquisitions: 'Austenland', 'The Look Of Love', 'The Spectacular Now', 'The Rambler', And More
A few days after the kickoff the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, deal-making is in full swing. The well-reviewed drama The Spectacular Now, by Smashed director James Ponsoldt, is headed to newish distributor A24, while the crowdpleasing comedy Austenland, from Napoleon Dynamite writer Jerusha Hess, is nearing a deal with FilmDistrict. Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan's The…
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Michael Winterbottom's 'Everyday' Teaser Trailer: A TIFF Film Five Years In The Making
Michael Winterbottom has to be one of the most versatile filmmakers working today. Seemingly every single film he releases is completely different whether its a thriller, comedy, period piece, documentary or some kind of hybrid. That's what his latest film, Everyday, is. A blend of fiction and documentary, the film tells the story of how…
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'Trishna' Trailer: Michael Winterbottom And Frieda Pinto Adapt 'Tess Of The d'Urbervilles'
Michael Winterbottom loves to flip between genres. In the past couple years he has adapted the Jim Thompson novel The Killer Inside Me, made the road trip comedy series The Trip, which was edited into feature version, and completed an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, with Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) starring…
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'Trishna' Trailer: Michael Winterbottom Makes A Star Of Freida Pinto
You've got to hand it to Michael Winterbottom: he's a prolific director who isn't afraid to experiment. The results of his experiments are pretty hit and miss, but he's got as many hits as misses, and that's a better track record than many can boast. His latest is Trishna, which is also his third Thomas…
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Jack Black And Michael Winterbottom Teaming Up For 'Bailout'
Is Jack Black trying to make a serious career course correction? First he's working with Richard Linklater and Shirley MacLaine on the strange true-life comedy Bernie, and now he is set to star in Bailout, a dramedy to be directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film is based on a novel by Jess Walter called The…
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'The Trip' Trailer – Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon Bicker In Some Of England's Finest Restaurants
A new trailer has been released for Michael Winterbottom's The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves -- similar to what they did in 2006's Tristram Shandy: A C**k and Bull Story. When Coogan's (fictional) foodie girlfriend dumps him, he reluctantly invites Brydon to join him on a ten-restaurant tour…
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Freida Pinto Cast In Michael Winterbottom's 'Trishna'
Michael Winterbottom sure does love author Thomas Hardy. He has made two adaptations of the author's work -- Jude and The Claim, neither sadly among the director's best work -- and now is at it again. He's doing a version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles with the action transplanted to Rajasthan and Mumbai, and has…
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Michael Winterbottom And Colin Firth May Chronicle Murder; IFC Buys Winterbottom's 'The Trip'
It's been a busy year for Michael Winterbottom. He made it to Sundance with The Killer Inside Me, which hit theaters earlier this year. He put together The Trip, which reunited him with actor Steve Coogan. That film appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival and was just picked up by IFC. And now Winterbottom…
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'The Killer Inside Me' Domestic Movie Trailer And Poster
If you haven't already seen the UK trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me, go watch that now. Then come back here. Because IFC has released a domestic trailer and poster for the film, which adapts Jim Thompson's daylight noir novel of the same name, but this new trailer isn't nearly as effective as…
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'The Killer Inside Me' Movie Trailer: Looking Like A Perfect Adaptation Of Jim Thompson's Pitch-Black Tale
Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Killer Inside Me has long seemed like one of the best bets of 2010. There was the lead casting: Casey Affleck as secretly sociopathic sheriff Lou Ford could be perfect . And then that sales trailer that suggested all the actors, including Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson,…
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