Sir Ian McKellen is featured in a new social media clip from ABBA. The band recently announced it will be releasing a Christmas single Little Things. It’s the first Christmas tune in the band’s long career, the track features on the band’s comeback album Voyage. The fun video shows band member Bjorn Ulvaeus sitting alongside the legendary […]
Cats | Dir: Tom Hooper | ★ ★ ½ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-selling 80s musical finally makes it to the big screen and it’s one of the weirdest, oddest things to view. Packed with superstar appearances from Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, James Corden and Jennifer […]
McKellen: Playing The Part | Luna | til July 18 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ian McKellen finds it difficult to summarise his life, but does his best in McKellen: Playing the Part which is edited down from 14 hours of interviews by director Joe Stephenson. McKellen is relaxed as he talks about his childhood, his decision to […]
Upgrade (★★★★) is directed by Leigh Whannell, the Australian screenwriter, director, producer, actor responsible for the Saw franchise of horror films with his friend James Wan. The near future science fiction thriller opens a thrilling car chase and predictable violence when mechanic Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green) and his wife have their automatic car hijacked. […]
Revelation Perth International Film Festival returns for its 21st year with a program bursting with unique feature films and documentaries from at home and beyond. The 2018 festival will feature over 180 films, 25 world and international premieres and 57 Australian premieres. Festival founder Richard Sowada says the team are enormously proud of the program […]
Out and proud thespian Sir Ian McKellen has been cast to narrate a Channel 4 documentary that highlights the lives of Muslim drag queens. Pinknews.co.uk have reported that the British TV station released today it would air the aptly titled ‘Muslim Drag Queens’ in the UK, delving deeper into the lives of the LGBTIQ Asian community […]
Sir Ian McKellen has tweeted the first image of himself playing iconic detective Sherlock Holmes. McKellen will be playing a 93 year old incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary character in a film called ‘Mr. Holmes’. The film is also set to star Laura Linney and reportedly had ‘A Slight Trick of the Mind’ […]
‘I am rather in favor of gay marriage and adoption, I have a lot of friends—women and men—who are in this situation and I see nothing unstable or perverse in families with homosexual parents.’ Carla Bruni, in Vogue. ‘I hope that by the time I get back to Middle Earth I might even be able […]
