Bits & Pieces: The Christmas Jones Edition

23rd December 2017

We get sent a lot of film treats here at BRWC, so here’s a place we can share them with you. They’ll be clips, trailers, images and posters, links and all sorts. Enjoy.

How to booby trap your house – Home Alone style.

Entirely shot on green screen, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been reinvented by director Kit Monkman (The Knife That Killed Me) in an exciting new film adaptation. Starring Mark Rowley, (The Last Kingdom, Luther) the film will be distributed by CinEvents as an exclusive, one night only, Event Cinema release on Tuesday 13th March 2018 in select multiplex & independent cinemas nationwide.

It might feel a lot like Christmas, but Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, and Noomi Rapace will be picking up the action this holiday in the Netflix film Bright. In this brand new featurette, the fearless cast of Bright discuss shooting explosive action sequences, including the infamous gas station scene, working with the legendary David Ayer, and how Noomi Rapace is the scariest villain we’ve seen yet. “It’s BIG stars and BIG actions,” says Ayer. From running from LAPD, to amazing fight choreography, Suicide Squad’s director, David Ayer created “crazy entertaining ride” says Joel Edgerton.

Thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved. Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction towns. Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan)—who hails from a Lower Tier of the great traction city of London—finds himself fighting for his own survival after he encounters the dangerous fugitive Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar). Two opposites, whose paths should never have crossed, forge an unlikely alliance that is destined to change the course of the future.

Boasting an $80 million budget and based on true events, RENEGADES stars Sullivan Stapleton (TV’s Strike Back, 300: Rise Of An Empire), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Patriot’s Day), Ewen Bremner (Wonder Woman, Snowpiercer) and Dimitri Leonidas (TV’s Riviera) in an action-packed adventure perfect for knocking off those post-Christmas cobwebs and guaranteeing you start 2018 with a bang.

In a future where you can change your body like changing clothes, nothing is eternal…except life itself. Explore immortality with Joel Kinnaman and Laeta Kalogridis in this exclusive look at the concept of eternity within the cyberpunk world of ALTERED CARBON where consciousness can be downloaded onto any stack and put into any sleeve, at any time. Watch the new featurette here, plug into another body, and save a murder!

We bring you the first look teaser trailer for the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 2015 Academy Award Nominated Sicario, Sicario 2: Soldado. In Sicario 2: Soldado, the drug war on the US – Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) reteams with the mercurial Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro).

The first look image for THE LITTLE STRANGER.

In his first film since Room, Oscar nominated Lenny Abrahamson directs THE LITTLE STRANGER, a chilling ghost story written by BAFTA nominee Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl) which is adapted from Sarah Waters’ novel of the same name.

MINDHUNTER features Jonathan Groff (Looking), Holt McCallany (Sully), Anna Torv (Fringe), Hannah Gross (Unless) and newcomer Cameron Britton, who portrays serial killer Ed Kemper on the series, and has drawn raves for his performance. Joe Penhall (The Road) created the series. David Fincher (Gone Girl, The Social Network, Zodiac), Joshua Donen (Gone Girl, The Quick and the Dead) Charlize Theron (Girlboss, Hatfields & McCoys) and Cean Chaffin (Gone Girl, Fight Club) are executive producers. Check out the featurette/reviews spot celebrating Cameron Britton’s superb portrayal of Ed Kemper, on Facebook and Twitter.

The hugely acclaimed thriller BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 is out on Digital Download now and on Blu-ray and DVD from 26th December 2017. From the writer and director of the critically lauded western, ‘Bone Tomahawk’, a stellar cast, including Don Johnson (‘Django Unchained’), Udo Kier (‘Iron Sky’), Jennifer Carpenter (‘Dexter’) and featuring Vince Vaughn (‘Hacksaw Ridge’) in the most powerful and transformative performance of his career. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 is a brutal account of one man’s journey to the most punishing incarceration imaginable.

Spaced’s Julia Deakin stars in 35mm short film Mausoleum.

That’s your lot for now, more soon enough.

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