Is that Ben Whishaw or Pingu?
Yes, British actors are doing well in Hollywood, but for some comedy fans, it's a stretch to believe in these all-new heroes The new wave of young British actors firmly planting their mast on the Hollywood Boulevard continues apace. Inception's Tom Hardy has just been confirmed as the lead in This Means War, Charlie's Angels director McG's new action/comedy with Reese Witherspoon. And Ben ...
Julie Taymor's The Tempest to close Venice film festival | Ben Child
Director's second Shakespeare reimagining will feature Ben Whishaw as Ariel and Helen Mirren as a female Prospero Julie Taymor's revisionist version of Shakespeare's The Tempest will be the closing feature at this year's Venice film festival. Starring Helen Mirren as a female Prospero or "Prospera" alongside Ben Whishaw as Ariel and Djimon Hounsou as Caliban, the project is Taymor's second ...
Alan Ball Casts Ben Whishaw in His New HBO Pilot
Ben Whishaw, who played Keats in Bright Star and has some sexual orientation , will be the lead in Six Feet Under and True Blood creator Alan Ball's latest HBO pilot about death , All Signs of Death . Whishaw will play a "twenty something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own ...
New film season
A MIX of classic, independent, world and art house films make up the film season at The Electric Theatre, Guildford.
A New Alias
When Bob Dylan was asked what the name Alias meant, while portraying a Western runt in Sam Peckinpahs 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, he roguishly improvised: Alias anything you please. So did we really need Todd Haynes to layer the Dylan myth with even more obfuscation in Im Not There?
