The distinction between heroes and villains isn’t as clear in Free Fire as most action movies. And it’s partly because co-writer/director Ben Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump give all their characters lives outside of the shootout – lives you want to see them find a way to escape back to. Out of the ensemble, some eggs are more rotten than others, but […]
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Ben Wheatley ‘couldn’t give a f***’ about cinema walkouts for his film High-Rise EXCLUSIVE
Last year the controversial movie hit cinema screens and completely split the critics. Some reviews called it “thrilling” but “batsh** crazy”, while others slammed it for being “pointless and pretentious.” Based on J G Ballard’s novel of the same name, High-Rise is set in an alternate 1970s and follows Hiddleston’s neurologist – who moves into […]
Alicia Vikander Joins ‘Freakshift’ (and It’s Time For You to Get on the Ben Wheatley Hype Train)
The news here is that uber-talented Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander will headline the cast of Freakshift, a monster movie that was originally announced back in 2012. The other way to look at that news is that director Ben Wheatley, one of the most inventive and thrilling people making movies on the planet at the moment, has landed […]
