Sydney Film Festival – Everyday review

By Simon Miraudo June 7, 2013 We talk about Steven Soderbergh being an outrageously prolific genre-hopper, but now that he’s supposedly retired, might we turn the conversation to Michael Winterbottom? It feels as if a new film of his is out every other week, be it a collaboration with his favourite star, Steve Coogan, or […]

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Sydney Film Festival – The Look of Love review

By Simon Miraudo June 7, 2013 Steve Coogan takes on the role of Steve Coog … er, I mean, Paul Raymond in The Look of Love, his fourth collaboration with director Michael Winterbottom. No one would accuse the distinctive British comedian of disappearing into his roles. Yet, just as Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party […]

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Teaser Debut: Everyday

For the past five years, Michael Winterbottom has been shooting a movie with John Simm and Shirley Henderson. Finally, that movie is ready to be shared with the world. Everyday stars Simms as an imprisoned father, and Henderson as his wife who must care for their four children during his incarceration. The picture was shot in […]

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Mumbai core – Trishna review

Trishna – Starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Plotting the trajectory of writer-director Michael Winterbottom‘s career is like playing connect-the-dots with blood spatter. However, as any forensic investigator knows, you can find patterns in even the most Jackson Pollock-esque of stains. Though he veers wildly from […]

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Coogan and Brydon may reunite for The Trip 2

The Trip was one of our favourite movies of 2011 (despite it technically being a shortened edit of a six-part TV series). Therefore, it’s hard not to be excited by the news that stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon may soon ride out on another culinary adventure. It was revealed last year that director Michael Winterbottom, […]

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Michael Winterbottom, Liam Gallagher making Beatles break-up flick

Director Michael Winterbottom looks set to direct The Longest Cocktail Party, an adaptation of the Richard DiLello book about the recording of The Beatles’ final album, Let It Be. The Playlist reports Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop, Four Lions) will write the screenplay, while Liam Gallagher of Oasis fame will produce. Gallagher, who holds the […]

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It’s a metaphor! – The Trip review

The Trip – Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. By Simon Miraudo. So, this is new: a frequently hilarious comedy that is also totally satisfying on an emotional level. A satire of fame that is never mean-spirited, and isn’t filled with obnoxious jokes aimed only at insiders. Two actors playing slightly-warped […]

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Trailer Debut: The Trip

Plot? Who needs it when you’ve got the endlessly entertaining Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon swapping insults whilst impersonating celebs in a variety of English restaurants? The trailer for Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip has debuted online, capitalising on the stars’ uncanny impressions of Michael Caine, Woody Allen and Al Pacino among others. The hilarious Coogan (I’m Alan […]

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Slaughter is the best medicine – The Killer Inside Me review

The Killer Inside Me – Starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Casey Affleck is a phenomenal actor. He burst from the shadow of his older brother (yes, that Affleck) with his vulnerable, Oscar- nominated supporting turn in The Assassination of Jesse James by the […]

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Controversial Killer Inside Me gets a new trailer

A new trailer for Michael Winterbottom‘s controversial film The Killer Inside Me has debuted online, along with a suitably eerie poster. See, here it is: Based on Jim Thomson’s novel of the same name, The Killer Inside Me stars Casey Affleck as a West Texas deputy sheriff with a penchant for killing (of the serial […]

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