Contributions from Charles Bramesco | Little White Lies

Contributor Charles Bramesco

Horse-drawn wagons and people on horseback in a dusty desert landscape, with mountains visible in the background.
Review

News of the World

by Charles Bramesco

Tom Hanks saddles up for a classically-styled western about a Civil War veteran who rescues an orphaned girl.

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A man in a "Night Moves" jumper and a woman in a yellow jacket having a conversation.
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Todd Haynes will direct Michelle Williams in a film about Peggy Lee

by Charles Bramesco

Billie Eilish is also reported to be starring in the director’s upcoming biopic of the American jazz singer.
Two people, a man with greying hair and a woman with long dark hair, standing together outdoors against a colourful background.
Review

Bliss

by Charles Bramesco

Mike Cahill’s disastrous sci-fi parable sees Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek slip into a simulated realty.

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Two people, a woman in a bold dress and a man with a beard, conversing in a dimly lit room with candles and wooden panelling.
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Yorgos Lanthimos is reworking Frankenstein with Emma Stone

by Charles Bramesco

The pair are set to adapt the novel ​‘Poor Things’, about an undead woman pieced back together.
Close-up of a person wearing a spacesuit helmet, with a serious expression visible through the transparent visor.
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George Clooney is reviving Buck Rogers for the small screen

by Charles Bramesco

The old-times hero of pulp fiction paperbacks will get the blockbuster treatment from Legendary.
Person wearing red coat and black hat, looking pensively out of window.
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Get your first look at Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana

by Charles Bramesco

She’s playing the late People’s Princess in Pablo Larraín’s upcoming biopic Spencer.
A serious-looking woman with blonde hair, wearing a scarf, and looking out of a window.
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Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams will reunite on Showing Up

by Charles Bramesco

The director’s regular collaborator is set to play an artist preparing the exhibition of a lifetime.
A woman reclining on a patterned sofa, staring at her mobile device. Man lying on the floor, staring up.
Review

Malcolm & Marie

by Charles Bramesco

John David Washington and Zendaya play out a tedious lovers’ tiff care of writer/​director Sam Levinson.

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Three adults - two men and one woman - walking together, smiling and conversing in an outdoor setting.
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Terence Davies has begun work on a Stefan Zweig film

by Charles Bramesco

While we await his next feature, Benediction, there’s news of his adaptation of The Post Office Girl.
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Tilda Swinton will star in Joanna Hogg’s other upcoming film

by Charles Bramesco

After The Souvenir Part II, we’ll see her in the writer/director’s The Eternal Daughter.