Bill Nighy
‘The First Omen’ Review: Horror Prequel Is a Fever Dream With More Atmosphere Than Narrative Coherence
Debuting feature director Arkasha Stevenson returns the unholy franchise to Rome, exploring the backstory behind the birth of the Antichrist Damien in this prequel to the 1976 horror classic.
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‘The Beautiful Game’ Review: Bill Nighy Leads a Game Cast in Netflix’s Sweet, Predictable Soccer Dramedy
Micheal Ward costars in Thea Sharrock's film about a half dozen unhoused men competing for England in the Homeless World Cup.
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Brian Cox to Voice Santa in Netflix’s Animated ‘That Christmas’ With Bill Nighy, Fiona Shaw
Netflix on Wednesday unveiled the voice cast of CG animated feature film That Christmas from Locksmith Animation (Ron’s Gone Wrong) and director Simon Otto’s (How to Train Your Dragon trilogy). The movie will star Brian Cox as Santa, Fiona Shaw as Ms. Trapper, Jodie Whittaker as Mrs. Williams, and Bill Nighy as Bill. They are the residents of a […]
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Bill Nighy, ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Standout Roman Griffin Davis to Star in Road Movie ‘500 Miles’
Bill Nighy (Living, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Jojo Rabbit’s Roman Griffin Davis will star in road movie 500 Miles from director Morgan Matthews (X+Y, Williams), which Beta Cinema will start selling at the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market. The Origin Pictures, Port Pictures and Minnow Films project is described as “a thrilling […]
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‘Role Play’ Review: Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo Get Trampled by Tired Action-Comedy Tropes
The 'Flight Attendant' star plays a veteran assassin living a double life as a suburban wife and mother in this Amazon Prime Video action-comedy.
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Anna Wintour and Bill Nighy Walk Arm-in-Arm on Met Gala Red Carpet
Anna Wintour has organized and presided over the Met Gala since 1995, but this year’s edition must be pretty special for the Vogue guru, as she turned up to the event arm-in-arm with Oscar nominee Bill Nighy. While some saw it as confirmation of a romance, Nighy’s rep shot down such talk in a brief […]
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‘Living’ Star Bill Nighy on His Character’s Radical Restraint “and That’s on Top of the English Stiff Upper Lip”
There are great films in the canon that cinema purists consider to be hands-off when it comes to remakes — especially anything in the filmography of the great Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa. But when you have a script written by Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day, an English-language adaptation […]
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Cate Blanchett Begs to Work With Viola Davis at Palm Springs Film Awards: “I Want Some of Her Stardust”
Cate Blanchett really wants to work with Viola Davis. So much that she stood on the Palm Springs Convention Center stage Thursday night during the Palm Springs Film Awards to present Davis with a Chairman’s Award and took the opportunity to detail the many reasons why. “There’s some actors that you aspire to be, there’s […]
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Bill Nighy-Narrated Doc and Concert Film Celebrating 50th Anniversary of ‘Tubular Bells’ Sells to U.S. (Exclusive)
Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield’s seminal debut album that became a global smash hit in 1973 when its opening theme was used in the soundtrack to The Exorcist (providing a very early boost to Richard Branson’s then infant Virgin Group along the way), turns 50 years old next year. To mark the occasion, Cleopatra Entertainment has […]
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Tokyo Film Festival to Open With Takahisa Zeze’s ‘Fragments of the Last Will,’ Close With Oliver Bill Hermanus’ ‘Living’
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will open on Oct. 24 with Takahisa Zeze’s postwar drama Fragments of the Last Will, while Oliver Bill Hermanus’s Living, a reinterpretation of an Akira Kurosawa classic, will bring proceedings to a close on Nov. 2. Takahisa’s film, based on real events, tells the story of a Japanese prisoner of […]
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Showtime’s ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’: TV Review
Chiwetel Ejiofor plays an extraterrestrial being with planet-saving powers in Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet's expansion on the Walter Tevis novel and David Bowie film.
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‘Living’: Film Review
The Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa's 'Ikiru' stars Bill Nighy as a British civil servant who searches for meaning after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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