Call it the Covid Exception.Back in the virtual Sundance Film Festival of 2022, the world was in the middle of an Omicron surge when Oscar perennial Searchlight and its streaming partner Hulu acquired Sophie Hyde’s “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” The film scored raves for Best Actress Oscar-winner Emma Thompson (“Howard’s End”), who plays […]
Continue readingWith popular actor Cillian Murphy in the lead role as gangster Tommy Shelby and a formidable ensemble cast backing him up, “Peaky Blinders” has never shied away from star power. From the series premiere in 2013 to this year’s grand finale (an upcoming feature film will continue the adventures of the Shelby clan), every season has […]
Continue readingSteven Knight’s beloved British crime series “Peaky Blinders” recently ended its six season run, but fans of the show still have plenty to look forward to. Knight has long been open about his plans to continue the story with a feature film. And according to the showrunner, it could begin filming relatively soon.“Yes, I’m writing […]
Continue readingYou’d be hard-pressed to find moments of genuine levity in the dreary and blood-soaked world of “Peaky Blinders.” Instead, you’ll find the insatiable aspirations of Thomas “Tommy” Shelby (Cillian Murphy), a man who’s built an empire to fill the hole inside him, even as the bodies of vile enemies and family members alike pile up. The closest […]
Continue readingThe Irish actor might have been a sports star. Instead, he’s playing a sex worker opposite Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and fulfilling his grandad’s movie dreamYou wouldn’t think of Daryl McCormack, 29, as a chameleon of an actor. Chiselled face, green eyes, leading man material, sure, but not a shape-shifter. In […]
Continue readingYou know what they say about God laughing at those who make plans, right? Nobody would understand that sentiment more than Tommy Shelby himself, the head of the Shelby crime family and the Ptsd-ridden main character of the hit show “Peaky Blinders.” Played with a deft (and almost comically heavily-accented) touch by Cillian Murphy, the violent […]
Continue readingWe might be peaking, but “Peaky Blinders” still has a few tricks up its TV sleeves. In the eternal style of #SixSeasonsAndAMovie, your favorite old time-y English TV show isn’t content to let season 6, which hits Netflix on June 10, 2022, be the final word on the Peaky gang. Instead, the last season is […]
Continue readingThe finale of “Peaky Blinders” will be a feature-length episode that builds expectations for an upcoming franchise film, director Anthony Byrne says.Byrne told RadioTimes.com the Season 6 send-off has a run time of 81 minutes.“It’s such a Peaky thing to do for the last hurrah. It’s the 10:22 news for one night only,” Byrne said. […]
Continue readingCillian Murphy’s icy stare has transfixed viewers around the world as Brummie gang boss Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. As the stellar series reaches its finale, he talks about music, empathy and trying not to overthink thingsCillian Murphy pops up on screen with the discomfited gaiety of a man about to submit to dentistry. He […]
Continue reading“Peaky Blinders” is gearing up for its sixth and final season in early 2022, and now, the show’s official Twitter account has unveiled a new teaser for what’s to come. It’s another one of those 10-second teasers, like the one they posted in November, but this time, there’s a little more to see than just […]
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