Interviews
Interviews with stars, directors and VOD professionals.
Interview: Director Sian Heder talks Netflix’s Tallulah
July 28, 2016 | David FarnorWhen was the last time you saw a film with three complex female leads get a high-profile, wide release? That’s what’s happening tomorrow to Tallulah, which Netflix snapped up at Sundance Film festival this year.
Written and directed by … Read More
Interview: Ben Wheatley, director of High-Rise
July 17, 2016 | Matthew TurnerBen Wheatley’s High-Rise is out now to stream in the UK.
Starring Tom Hiddleston, the bold masterpiece from the director of A Field in England is adapted from JG Ballard’s novel by Amy Jump and features an all-star cast, … Read More
Interview: Malin-Sarah Gozin talks The Out-Laws (Walter Presents)
July 15, 2016 | David FarnorRead our review of The Out-Laws here.
“Oh, I could kill him!” It’s something we’ve all said at some point our lives. But how many of us have actually gone ahead and done the deed? That’s the jumping off point … Read More
Interview: Brian Cox talks Forsaken, Netflix and turning down Game of Thrones
July 4, 2016 | Matthew TurnerDonald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland share the screen for the first time in Jon Cassar’s brooding Western. A story of an estranged father and son’s reunion, the mending of old wounds and searching for redemption while tensions run high in … Read More
Interview: Q talks directing Netflix’s Indian sex comedy Brahman Naman
July 2, 2016 | Matthew TurnerSet in Bangalore in the 1980s, Netflix’s latest original film, Brahman Naman, follows the exploits of a high school quiz champ who leads his nerdy friends on a trip to Calcutta to win a major college prize. Young, smart and … Read More
Interview: Rob Burnett talks Netflix’s The Fundamentals of Caring
June 19, 2016 | Nathanael SmithThe Fundamentals of Caring is the latest Netflix Original acquired by the streaming site, a thoroughly charming indie in which Paul Rudd cares for a teenager with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) – played brilliantly by Craig Roberts. Before its release … Read More
The Living and the Dead: A horror show to savour
June 15, 2016 | David Farnor“Most of the time, there’s a ghost, you put it to bed and go home. How do you do it week after week?”
That’s Ashley Pharaoh, creator of The Living and the Dead, speaking at the premiere of BBC … Read More
Interview: Patrick Fugit and Philip Glenister talk FOX UK’s TV show Outcast
June 5, 2016 | Matthew TurnerFox’s new series, Outcast, begins in the UK this week. Based on the Skybound/Image comic title by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta, the series follows Kyle (Patrick Fugit), a man who has been plagued by … Read More
Interview: Anthony Horowitz on BBC’s New Blood
June 2, 2016 | David FarnorIt is a truth universally accepted that a detective on TV must be in want of a divorce or a drinking problem – or both. Not so in New Blood, the BBC’s new crime drama. The main characters are younger … Read More
Cannes 2016 Interview: MUBI curator Chiara Marañón on competing to acquire the best of the fest
May 22, 2016 | Simon KinnearInside VOD: We take you behind the scenes of the video on-demand industry by interviewing key figures in the streaming world.
It was a year ago that VOD platform MUBI shocked the industry at the Cannes Film Festival by announcing … Read More