Luther

There’s some good news today for fans of one of Idris Elba’s most iconic roles as Netflix finally announced the new Luther movie, called Luther: The Fallen Sun. The movie will get a dual release: in theaters the end of Feb. and on Netflix in March. Luther was a psychological crime thriller that ran for five seasons from 2010 to 2019, and featured Elba as a grizzled detective. The last time we saw Luther he was in a jail cell, and this one picks up right where the last one left off. Netflix tweeted out the news along…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIdris Elba has shared the official release date and first look at his highly anticipated movie Luther: The Fallen Sun.Rumours of a spinoff movie of the BBC original five-season drama Luther had been circulating far before its series finale in 2019. It wasn’t until September 2021 that Netflix confirmed a forthcoming adaptation.Now nearly two years later, it’s finally received a release…

Four years later, Idris Elba is finally coming back as hot-headed Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. Netflix has revealed the first look, official title, and release window for the film which will be a continuation of the BBC’s five-season series. Luther: The Fallen Sun is what the movie will be called, with Elba returning as the leading man, alongside Dermot Crowley as DSU Martin Schenk. Cynthia Erivo, and Andy Serkis are also confirmed to co-star in unknown roles — although the former is rumored to be playing…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIdris Elba has returned as John Luther in the first look at a film based on the BBC series.Netflix has announced the title of a new film that will reunite audiences with the grizzled detective. The streaming service also shared images from the film, which will be released in March 2023.Creator Neil Cross has written the script, with Jamie Payne directing. It will follow on from the BBC…

An astounding but little-known fact about Julia Roberts has resurfaced after her recent 55th birthday prompted a consultant to call attention to a link between the actor’s birth and revered civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.Roberts, whose birthday was 28 October, first shared the story about the day she was born with journalist Gayle King this September in Washington DC during a HISTORYTalks live event for the History Channel. That day, she said during the talk, the activist known to many simply as MLK – as well…

Julia Roberts recently revealed a little-known fact about herself. Back in September, the actress shared the story of her birth with Gayle King for A+E Networks and History Channel’s HISTORYTalks in Washington, D.C. The conversation went viral a month later when Zara Rahim, a former strategic adviser to President Barack Obama, tweeted the clip. In the viral clip, Julia shared that her birth was paid for by none other than civil rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. After some coaxing, Julia…

As Julia Roberts celebrated her 55th birthday yesterday, a video surfaced on Twitter from an event a month ago where the actress opened up about a surprising couple that was involved in her birth. The couple involved was Martin Luther King Jr., that’s right the civil rights leader, and his wife Coretta Scott King. The actress was taken aback by the question from Gayle King, remarking that “her research is very good.” She then dove into the story of why the Kings helped her family out during her talk for HistoryTalks. In…

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington. Nearly 60 years later, the full address has now become a part of the virtual world of Fortnite. The popular multiplayer game has included the full speech as part of a virtual event called March Through Time to provide players an immersive experience of the tumultuous civil rights struggle and King's iconic march on August 28, 1963, in a “reimagined Washington,” said Fortnite in a blog…

| Last night saw the launch of Bryan Talbot's new graphic novel, The Legend Of Luther Arkwright at London's Cartoon Museum on Wells Street, which accompanies the new exhibition of the life of Luther at the Cartoon Museum, and ahead of tomorrow's signing at Gosh Comics. Musician and record label owner, Kavus Torabi,  one of the founding members of The Monsoon Bassoon,  member of Cardiacs, Gong, Knifeworld. Guapo, The Holy Family and The Utopia Strong was on hand to talk about Bryan Talbot, Luther Arkwright and Bryan's…

| The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, is considered by many to be the first British graphic novel. Written and drawn by its creator, the acclaimed graphic novelist Bryan Talbot, it was first serialised in the adult SF comic Near Myths in October 1978, featuring the character Talbot had previously introduced in The Papist Affair in 1976, a short strip for Brainstorm Comix where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing biker nuns to recover the sacred relics of St. Adolf of Nuremberg from "a buncha male chauvinist…