Andrew Scott

All Of Us Strangers movie review: How is the world different for queer people? Ask any gay man about their relationship with their parents and there will no easy way out. The wobbly, transient space for queer relationships out in the open, to be accepted by our dear ones, is still inaccessible to many. There's coming out and there's no going back from there. A gay man might just be different because he wasn't heard long enough, and so he has forgot what it feels like to be heard, or even seen for what they are. These…

Netflix has released the first official teaser for their upcoming suspense series Ripley, starring All of Us Strangers‘ Andrew Scott. Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Zaillian, the series follows Tom Ripley (Scott) as a New York grifter in the early 1960s. When a wealthy man pays him to venture to Italy and persuade his son to come home, deceit, fraud, and murder quickly follow. The black and white-toned teaser leaves much to the imagination, flashing images of a typewriter, a rotary phone, a staircase, and…

Unlike the scores of paranormal investigators on reality TV, Andrew Haigh has made a career as a successful cinematic ghosthunter, chasing after entities whose presence is unquestionably felt. The British filmmaker’s apparitions take the forms of suppressed pain, unresolved trauma, unspoken resentment, and earth-shattering secrets in movies often, though not exclusively, focused on romantic (gay) relationships. In his latest drama, All of Us Strangers, loosely adapted from Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers,…

Andrew Haigh‘s All of Us Strangers has its share of mysteries and dreamscapes and detours into the mystical, but it drops a breadcrumb morsel of a clue to viewers early on. You don’t know it on a first viewing — and this is the sort of rich, layered, remarkable work of art that requires more than a few — yet the detail that the filmmaker momentarily fixates on is telling. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter, struggling to start work on a project. He alternates between staring at a blank page and lounging on his couch,…

If you haven’t read or watched His Dark Materials, it’s hard to explain how weird it is. This is its greatest strength, I believe, but also its biggest weakness, because while each part is intensely creative, when more closely examined in isolation, these parts can be utterly bizarre. Case in point: I just watched…Read more... If you haven’t read or watched His Dark Materials, it’s hard to explain how weird it is. This is its greatest strength, I believe, but also its biggest weakness, because while each part is…

Andrew Scott and Joe Alwyn have had a diverse filmography so far. Whether it is haunting Sherlock or serenading Fleabag, Andrew has done it all, and similarly Joe, has had his fair share of memorable roles in biopics, fantasy thrillers, and what not. Now, the two are being transported to medieval England in their upcoming coming-of-age period drama Catherine Called Birdy. The two actors discussed the film and their roles in a recent exclusive chat with Hindustan Times.Catherine Called Birdy is based on the eponymous 1994…

Screenshot: DisneyBarbara Broccoli says it’ll be a while before we get to start seeing the next evolution of James Bond. New Black Adam merch teases the villain Sabbac. Plus, bad news for Tom Swift and The Time Traveller’s Wife, and what’s coming on Westworld. Spoilers now!StrangersVariety reports Claire Foy, Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal,and Jamie Bell are attached to star in Strangers, a horror film from director Andrew Haigh that sounds like an adult-oriented remix of Coraline. The story is said to follow “screenwriter…