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Irish produciton companies Bman Entertainment and Forty Foot Pictures in partnership with London-based sales agent Bankside Films have selected three projects to receive a share of €50,000 from their genre writer scheme.

The scheme is for emerging Ireland-based writers with first or second-timethriller, horror or sci-fiprojects that Bman said are “bold, original and eminently shootable”.

Tornado by Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair follows the tumultuous journey of a couple as they traverse the land, leaving a trail of chaos and murder in their wake.

Skinny Dip, penned by Ben Conway and Roisin Mulligan, sees a carefree weekend at a secluded country lake turn...

Exclusive:Photography has wrapped in County Donegal, Ireland, on John-Paul Davidson and Stephen Warbeck’s comedy The Man With The Urn, starring Ciarán Hinds.

Olga Kurylenko, Stephen Dillane, Stephen Fry and Sinéad Cusack also star.

David Collins and Eamon Hughes of Ireland’s Samson Films produce the follow-up to 2020 France-set film The Man In The Hat, with backing from Screen Ireland.

Hinds reprises his role of The Man, on a journey to scatter his wife’s ashes back home in Ireland. Along the way, he meets estranged relatives and unusual characters.

”The kindness of strangers is one of the most reassuring...

It’s a potent moment for a film like “Words of War,” as press freedoms and other accoutrements of democracy seem to be under attack around the world. There remain few stronger recent-history illustrations of that threat than the case of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist noted for her relentless exposure of government corruption and harmful policies, particularly around the Second Chechen War. Presumably in retaliation, she was assassinated two decades ago — on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, yet.

Politkovskaya certainly merits the admiring dramatic treatment accorded by “Words of War,” which counts Sean Penn among its executive producers. But this U.K. production, with Maxine Peake in the central role, earns more points for its noble intentions than artistic inspiration or raw impact. It’s a polished, pedestrian biopic, with direction by British TV veteran James Strong that smooths over instead of elevating Eric Poppen’s cliche-riddled script. While the subject matter is compelling,...

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Domina is a British-Italian historical drama series created by Simon Burke. The Sky Atlantic series chronicles the life of Livia Drusilla, from her early years when Julius Caesar was assassinated to her marriage to the Roman emperor Augustus, which makes way for her to become the most powerful and influential empress in the Roman Empire. Domina stars Nadia Parkes, Tom Glynn-Carney, Enzo Cilenti, Peter Campion, Darrel D’Silva, Tom Forbes, Liam Garrigan, Oliver Huntington, and Alexandra Moloney. So, if you loved the historical drama, a captivating story, and compelling characters in Domina, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Sean Penn, the Hollywood star and two-time Academy Award winner, has always tilted towards a progressive political standpoint and has even shown himself beside controversial left-wing figures. It shouldn't be a secret that he doesn’t see eye to eye with President Donald Trump's views, and at some point, he even compared voting for Trump to "masturbating our way into hell." His latest statement is no different, as the actor has said that Trump "might try to destroy the world before he ages out of life," and that "we should consider worst-case scenarios" if he decides to run for a third term.

Per the report by Variety, Penn appeared on Jim Acosta's podcast to talk about his latest project as producer, Words of War. "We are tasting in our country what the Russians have gone through," the actor said when comparing Russia and the U.S. and how politicians treat the people.

Anna Politkovskaya emerges in Words of War as a reporter defined less by front‑line spectacle than by the faces she meets. Tasked by Novaya Gazeta to serve as a “people correspondent,” she trades bullet‑ridden press tents for small Chechen villages, where whispered testimonies carry the weight of unspoken horrors. The film follows her path from Grozny in 1999 through that fatal October day in 2006, when her pursuit of truth met a bullet.

Against a backdrop of escalating state control, Politkovskaya’s dispatches confront the Russian military’s tactics in Chechnya—torture cells, mass graves, burned‑out homes—while her editor pushes back when she veers toward despair. Tension tightens in Moscow, at the Dubrovka theater and Beslan school hostage crises, where her empathy becomes both shield and vulnerability.

Scenes shift between war‑scarred streets and sterile newsrooms, underlining the gap between battlefield suffering and editorial deadlines. Every frame hums with moral urgency,...

Having recently been BAFTA nominated for her role as former Ira member and hunger striker Delours Price in the hugely acclaimed Disney+ series “Say Nothing” about the Troubles, Maxine Peake is now heading to cinema screen as another political figure.

In “Words of War,” releasing May 2, the British star — best known for her roles in “The Theory of Everything,” “Black Mirror” and “Peterloo” — plays late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. In the early 2000s, Politkovskaya’s investigative work reporting from Chechnya and her fearless coverage of the Russian military invasion and atrocities committed by its troops brought her national and international reputation, but also saw her become a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin’s regime. After years of battling intimidation, threats and even a poisoning, she was assassinated outside the elevator of her Moscow apartment in 2005.

Directed by James Strong and also starring a heady line up of British stars,...

James Strong’s “Words of War” is a simple-minded, unimaginative, and frankly insipid biopic of trailblazing Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who died fighting for a cause. Her steadfastness to her beliefs cost her deeply, but she remains an example of daring journalism. Maxine Peake essays the valiant journalist who fought tooth and nail with the Russian establishment, the jingoistic mood of her own nation that contravenes her beliefs. She’s ready to fling herself through hellish circumstances, the deepest peril if her truth-telling demands it. She balks at nothing.

Peake does her best to channel righteous rage, but there’s only so much she can do, stunted by Eric Poppen’s script, which displays no interest or inclination in plumbing her doubts. She’s rock-solid in her certitude. Her moral fire is abiding, not dimming in the most severe challenges. Even when her boss, played by Ciaran Hinds, tells her to go softer,...

Words of War has everything you want in a film about a David-like journalist fighting a Goliath. The movie begins as a story of someone trying to make a name for herself after spending her entire adult life in the shadows of her profession. What it ultimately reveals, however, is not a blurred line between good and evil but one that is sharply defined with dire consequences.

Words of War follows the history of a Russian reporter and how their notable reputation became cemented in history, believing that a job is more than a job but a profession with a higher purpose. That’s even if her peers, family, and friends knew their reporting came with a toxic warning label. The result is a conventional and standard telling of an incredible real-life figure.

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Bradley Cooper‘s next directorial feature Is This Thing On? has completed principal photography!

The upcoming movie, which the 50-year-old actor is directing and has a supporting role in, has been in the works for two years, with production postponed due to the strikes in 2023.

In addition to Bradley, we already knew that Will Arnett, who co-wrote the script, Laura Dern, Andra Day and Sean Hayes are also starring, and several more actors have recently been announced as part of the cast!

Keep reading to find out more…

Variety reports that Amy Sedaris, Chloe Radcliffe, Scott Icenogle, Jordan Jensen, former NFL star Peyton Manning and Reggie Conquest are the latest additions, with James Tom, Gabe Fazio, Christine Ebersole, Ciarán Hinds, Blake Kane, Calvin Knegten, Derek Gaines and Matt Richards rounding out the cast.

The film follows Alex (Arnett), a man facing middle age and an impending divorce, and Tess (Dern).

According to the logline,...

The television adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s prize-winning book The Narrow Road to the Deep North brings with it a number of firsts. It is acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s first work for television and also the first time Euphoria and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi has returned home to lead a major Australian production.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television’s Curio Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios Australia, Narrow Road debuted on Amazon Prime Video on April 18, but the limited series, speaking to its feature-like qualities, premiered its first two episodes at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. In his review, The Hollywood Reporter‘s film critic David Rooney was gushing in his praise of those first two episodes, describing Narrow Road as “big, bold and strikingly cinematic.” “Based on the first 90 minutes, The Narrow Road to the Deep North has potential to stand alongside films like Peter Weir...

Plot: The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful five-part series charting the life of Dorrigo Evans, through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney, his time held captive in a Pow camp, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero. An intimate character study of a complex man, a compelling portrayal of the courage and cruelty of war, and an unforgettable love story that sustains one through the darkest of times.

Review: War is hell, and I do not think a film or television series has ever deviated from that sentiment. While the horrors of battle and conflict have been central to screen productions for a century, some filmmakers still manage to find new ways to give us a glimpse of what it is like for the enlisted who have served throughout history. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan,...

Amazon Prime’s latest drama series, The Narrow Road To the Deep North, an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s novel of the same name, offers a brutal look at the horrific tribulations faced by The Japanese Imperial Army’s POWs during the construction of the infamous Death Railways in Thailand, through the life journey of the lead protagonist, Dorrigo Evans. Flanagan looked into the personal experience of his father to draw vivid details of the inhumane treatment imprisoned Australian Army members suffered at the hands of their captors. While giving up to the lead of his novel, Dorrigo Evans, Flanagan was inspired by the life and exploits of decorated war hero Ernest Edward Dunlop and added his own dramatic flair to make for a nuanced, layered characterization. Led by a number of prolific Australian actors, the cast of The Narrow Road To the Deep North is stacked with talent.

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World War II continues to be explored by artists in interesting and varied ways even after all these years, and you can add Prime Video's new series to the list. The difference this time around is that the show is universally acclaimed, with a 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on that and other indicators, it looks like audiences will unanimously love it, too. The Narrow Road to the Deep North is the title in question, a five-part miniseries releasing April 18 on Prime Video, and is an adaptation of the 2014 Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name by Richard Flanagan. It's directed by Justin Kurzel, who had recent success with The Order, and was a big hit at the 2025 Berlinale.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North follows a man named Dorrigo Evans, mainly during World War II and his time as a prisoner of war, but also in "the present day,...

After watching The Narrow Road to the Deep North, I felt we are clearly living in the golden age of streaming television, where bold, striking, and emotionally charged works of art have found a home on the small screen—each one packed with the intensity of a powder keg. From the Taylor Sheridan multiverse, Netflix’s powerful Adolescence, and Hulu’s pulpy Paradise, to the unnerving, Kafkaesque Severance, the streaming wars have delivered incredible stories to our fingertips.

Now, Prime Video’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North joins that prestigious lineup—a series so masterfully crafted, it deserves to be seen on the biggest of screens. It’s a hypnotic and stunningly human take on the war-military genre, haunting and immersive, with a brooding, dark ambiance that lingers long after the final episode. The year may only be four months in, but this is already one of its...

The busy Jacob Elordi is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand actors of his generation. His latest project is a return to TV with Justin Kurzel’s limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” where he’s a prisoner of both war and love. Following its Berlin premiere in February, the Australian limited series secured U.S. distribution on Prime Video just days before it debuts on April 18.

Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s novel of the same name, the Aussie story follows Elordi as war doctor Dorrigo Evans in the 1940s, who is drafted to the Philippines to aid in the construction of the Burma Railway. Prior to going to war, Dorrigo is engaged to Ella (Olivia DeJonge) but falls into an all-consuming affair with his uncle’s wife Amy, played by Odessa Young. Throughout the five episodes, we see Dorrigo go to battle in both senses,...

Bradley Cooper’s Searchlight film “Is This Thing On?,” starring Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Cooper himself, Andra Day and Sean Hayes, wrapped production on Wednesday.

Amy Sedaris, Chloe Radcliffe, Scott Icenogle, Jordan Jensen, NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and Reggie Conquest are joining the cast of the film, which is also rounded out by James Tom, Gabe Fazio, Christine Ebersole, Ciarán Hinds, Blake Kane, Calvin Knegten, Derek Gaines and Matt Richards.

“Is This Thing On?” is penned by Cooper, Arnett and Mark Chappell (“See How They Run”). Cooper, who also directed, serves as a producer alongside Weston Middleton under their Lea Pictures banner, with Arnett and Kris Thykier.

Joining Cooper behind the camera are production designer Kevin Thompson, Oscar-nominated director of photography Matthew Libatique, costume designer Gali Noy (“Maestro”), editor Charlie Greene, Oscar-nominated hair department head Lori McCoy-Bell, Oscar-nominated makeup department head Nicki Ledermann and composer James Newberry (“Boy Erased”).

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"That time as a prisoner... what got you through?" Prime Video has revealed another official trailer for the streaming series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, made by Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel. It begins streaming this week on Pv. Kurzel directed The Order last year, and also made the doc Ellis Park, and has this new mini-series as well. "Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not." Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful 5-part series charting the life of Dorrigo Evans, through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney, his time held captive in a Pow camp by the Japanese, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon & reluctant war hero. "The tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of...

Justin Kurzel’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” the lushly lensed prestige series starring Jacob Elordi as an Australian war hero, has been licensed by Sony Pictures Television to Prime Video in the U.S.

Prime Video already had the series in a number of territories and will premiere it on April 18 in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan, the Australian drama series was written by Shaun Grant.

The limited series is executive produced by Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner of Curio Pictures, a part of Sony Pictures Television, with executive producers Richard Flanagan, Shaun Grant, and Justin Kurzel. They are joined by producer Alex Taussig. Principal production funding is provided by Screen Australia, with assistance from the Nsw Government through Screen Nsw’s Made in Nsw and Pdv Funds.

Elordi stars as Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans,...

Jacob Elordi-starring series The Narrow Road to the Deep North has found its U.S. buyer.

Prime Video, which already has rights to the Justin Kurzel-directed limited series in a number of territories, has taken the show on in the U.S. from Sony Pictures Television and will launch it Friday, April 18.

The Richard Flanagan adaptation sees Elordi star as Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans, a celebrated World War II hero who is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young) that sustained him through the darkest of times.

Based on the 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel by Flanagan, the Australian drama series was written by Shaun Grant and directed by Kurzel. It also stars Oscar nominee Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) as the older Dorrigo Evans, Olivia DeJonge (Elvis), Simon Baker (Limbo, Breath), Show Kasamatsu...

2025 will welcome plenty of good guys to theaters, from Tom Cruise's death-defying Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning to David Corenswet's Clark Kent in James Gunn's Superman. Amid all the fictional heroes, however, will be the story of one very real one who braved warzones, poisoning, countless threats, and attempts at intimidation to speak truth to power until her assassination in 2006. That hero is Russian-American journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, the subject of the biographical political thriller Words of War hitting theaters in the U.S. on May 2. Ahead of its arrival next month, we're excited to include the timely feature as part of Collider's Exclusive Preview event for summer movies and share an exclusive sneak peek, images, and our conversations with the team behind the film to introduce readers to Politkovskaya as played by Maxine Peake and her daring work...

Jacob Elordi and director Justin Kurzel spoke about making their new series, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” at a preview screening in Melbourne, Australia.

Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize–winning novel, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” draws on his father’s experience as a prisoner of war in Burma during World War II. Director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant adapted the novel into an emotionally charged five-part series for Amazon Prime Video in Australia. (Read IndieWire’s review here as we await distribution in North America.)

Spanning three decades, the story follows army surgeon Dorrigo Evans through a lovestruck youth, brutal captivity in a Japanese Pow camp, and the long shadow of memory in old age. Evans is played by Elordi in the 1940s and by Ciarán Hinds in the 1980s, as the older man reckons with the defining experiences of his youth.

The new live-action TV miniseries, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, based on the novel by Richard Flanagan, is directed by Justin Kurzel, starring Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young, Ciarán Hinds, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell and Thomas Weatherall, streaming April 28, 2025 on Prime Video:

‘…an Australian doctor is haunted by memories of a love affair with his uncle's wife and of his subsequent experiences…

“…as a Far East prisoner of war….

“…during the construction of the ‘Burma Railway’.

“Decades later, he finds his growing celebrity at odds with his feelings of failure and guilt…”

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“Red Sparrow” (2018) is an intense spy thriller from director Francis Lawrence starring big names like Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, Joel Edgerton as Nate Nash, Matthias Schoenaerts as Vanya, Charlotte Rampling as Matron, and Mary-Louise Parker as Stephanie Boucher, Ciarán Hinds as Zakharov, Jeremy Irons as General Korchnoi, and more. The story follows Dominika, an ex-ballet dancer who, because of circumstances, has to join the Russian intelligence service to spy on an American CIA Agent.

Red Sparrow (2018) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis: Why Does Dominika Agree to Help Ivan?

If it hadn’t been for that tragic accident, Dominika could’ve been a brilliant ballerina, performing across the world and earning endless praise, but now, she’s financially struggling, with no career and a mother to care for. As it turns out, though, the accident that ended Dominika’s dancing dreams wasn’t really an accident. Her ballet partner had been...

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Black Bag is a spy thriller drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by David Koepp. The 2025 film follows British intelligence officer George Woodhouse, who is given the task of finding the identity of a double agent, but the only problem is that his wife is amongst the suspects. Black Bag stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, and Pierce Brosnan. So, if you loved the thrilling drama, intense mystery, and compelling characters in Black Bag, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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MobLand is a British crime drama series created by Ronan Bennett. The Paramount+ series is set in London, and it follows Harry Da Souza, a fixer working for the Harrigan crime family, as they get into a gang war with a rival crime family, the Stevensons, because of a missing young boy. MobLand stars Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Jasmine Jobson, Mandeep Dhillon, Daniel Betts, and Helen Mirren. So, if you loved the thrilling crime drama, occasional dark humor, and compelling characters in MobLand, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de la miniserie The Narrow Road to the Deep North, titulada en español El camino estrecho, una adaptación de la novela homónima de Richard Flanagan dirigida por Justin Kurzel a partir de un guion firmado por su colaborador habitual, Shaun Grant (La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly).

El camino estrecho narra la vida de Evans (Elordi), un oficial médico que se convierte en prisionero de guerra japonés y se ve perseguido por su apasionada, aunque imposible, relación amorosa con Amy Mulvaney (Young), la mujer de su tío, durante el resto de su vida.

La serie de cinco episodios está protagonizada por Jacob Elordi y Odessa Young. Completan el reparto Ciarán Hinds (Plan en familia), Olivia DeJonge (Elvis), Heather Mitchell (Ricky Stanicky), Shô Kasamatsu (Tokyo Vice), Thomas Weatherall (Los rompecorazones) y...

"If you choose to be a journalist in Russia, you have to accept the risk..." Decal Releasing has unveiled the trailer for a film titled Words of War, a retelling of the story of world-renowned journalist & human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya. The movie will play in US theaters starting on May 2nd in a few months. It sounds like a documentary, but it's actually another riveting feature film tribute to journalism & their right to report the truth no matter what. Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya rose from working as a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields & exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats. The movie stars Maxine Peake as Anna, with Ciarán Hinds, Jason Isaacs, Ian Hart, Ellie Bamber,...

The Narrow Road to the Deep Northtrailer reveals Jacob Elordi as a reluctant hero in a sweeping World War II series with a 100% Rt score. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan, Prime Video's upcoming miniseries stars Jacob Elordi as an Australian doctor and prisoner of war who later becomes a revered surgeon and a reluctant war hero. The show also stars Odessa Young, Ciarán Hinds, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Simon Baker, and Masa Yamaguchi.

Now, Prime Video has released the first official trailer for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The trailer follows the life of Dorrigo Evans, played by Jacob Elordi in his youth, and Ciarán Hinds in his later years. The sweeping story explores his passionate romance with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his harrowing experience as a prisoner of war, and his eventual rise as a respected surgeon and reluctant war hero.

"We all left part of ourselves in that jungle..." Prime Video Australia has unveiled the first official trailer for a streaming series titled The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the latest creation from the Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel. He directed The Order which opened last year, he also made the doc Ellis Park, and has this new mini-series streaming this April on Prime Video. "Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not." The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful 5-part series charting the life of Dorrigo Evans, through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney, his time held captive in a Pow camp by the Japanese, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon & reluctant war hero. "The tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love,...

“The Narrow Road to the Deep North” is a new Australia-produced live-action 5-part TV miniseries, directed by Justin Kurzel, set during World War II, based on Richard Flanagan’s novel, starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall and Simon Baker streaming April 18, 2025 on Amazon Prime Video:

“…follow ‘Dorrigo Evans’, through his passionate love affair with ‘Amy Mulvaney’, his time held captive in a ‘Pow’ camp, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero…”

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Jacob Elordi has a harrowing experience as a prisoner-of-war in the new trailer for Prime Video’s new series. The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a new five-episode Australian drama TV series that premieres on April 18 on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The show was filmed in New South Wales, Australia and is an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winner. Elordi leads the series as Dorrigo Evans, and Ciarán Hinds portrays the same character as an older man looking back on his experiences.

According to Deadline, “The series, which was the highest-profile TV show at the Berlinale and has sold around the world, charts the life of Evans through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his time held captive in a Pow camp and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero. […] The show acts as...

The first trailer for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel, has been released ahead of its April 18 launch on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The five-part miniseries follows the life of Dorrigo Evans, played by Jacob Elordi as a young man and Ciarán Hinds in his later years, as he endures a harrowing wartime experience while haunted by a past love affair.

The series explores Evans’ experiences, from his romance with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young) to his time as a prisoner of war forced to build the Burma railway during World War II, and his later years as a respected surgeon and reluctant war hero. Shot in New South Wales, the production captures the brutality of war and the lingering impact of memory.

Directed by Justin Kurzel and adapted by Shaun Grant, the series stars Olivia DeJonge,...

Jacob Elordi has come a long way since The Kissing Booth. Over the last three years, the Aussie actor has pushed himself time and again with starring roles in the likes of Saltburn, Priscilla, and Oh, Canada, working with such filmmakers as Emerald Fennell, Sofia Coppola, and Paul Schrader while honing his craft. And his latest role, as lovestruck Pow Dorrigo Evans in The Order director Justin Kurzel's five-part WWII miniseries The Narrow Road To The Deep North, looks to be the rising star's most challenging assignment yet. Check out the trailer for the show, adapted from Richard Flanagan's eponymous Booker Prize winning novel, below;

You could probably count on one hand the number of films and TV shows that offer a meaningful insight into Australia's contribution to the war effort during World War Two — and most of us would probably struggle to name more than two (Gallipoli...

Prime Video has unveiled the trailer for Justin Kurzel’s limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s eponymous, Man Booker Prize-winning novel and starring Jacob Elordi in a lead role as Dorrigo Evans.

The decade-spanning series filmed in New South Wales, Australia, and charts the life of Evans, a medical officer who becomes a Japanese prisoner of war and is haunted by his passionate, yet impossible love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his uncle’s wife, for the rest of his life. Penned by Shaun Grant, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” then portrays him as a returned war hero who becomes a revered surgeon.

The buzzed about limited Australian series held its world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where Kurzel and Elordi were in town to promote the show. It garnered one of the warmest ovation of the festival.

“Memory is the only true justice” is the verdict of the sweeping new trailer for The Narrow to the Deep North, the Jacob Elordi-starring TV series that drops April 18 on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The epic adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winner has unveiled first trail showing Elordi as Dorrigo Evans (he is played by Ciarán Hinds as an older man).

The series, which was the highest-profile TV show at the Berlinale and has sold around the world, charts the life of Evans through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his time held captive in a Pow camp and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero.

Filmed in New South Wales, Australia, the show acts as a character study of a complex man impacted by war.

Justin Kurzel (The Order) is directing, Shaun Grant is...

Jacob Elordi endures the horrors of a World War II prison camp in the new trailer for the upcoming miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Based on Richard Flanagan’s celebrated 2014 novel of the same name, Elordi stars as Dorrigo Evans, a young man from Tasmania, who joins the Australian army to fight the Axis powers in the Pacific, only to wind up captured. Forced alongside other POWs to help build to the Burma railroad, the trailer shows how Dorrigo retained some semblance of hope and strength through...

“Words of War,” the upcoming political thriller based on the life of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and a film that boasts Senn Penn among its exec producers, has been acquired for a number of international territories.

The film — starring a trio of BAFTA nominees in Maxine Peake, Ciarán Hinds and Jason Isaacs — has been bought for the U.K. and Ireland by Signature Entertainment, with plans a theatrical release. Meanwhile, it’s been picked up by Eagle Pictures for Italy, Divisa Films for Spain, Dimeo Films for Poland, and Front Row Entertainment for the Middle East. The film is being released theatrically in the U.S. by Rolling Pictures.

Directed by James Strong (“Broadchurch”) from a script by Eric Poppen (“Cyberjack”), “Words of War” is based on a true story and follows world-renowned journalist and human rights activist Politkovskaya on her brave crusade, fighting to be an independent voice...

"The Rings of Power" is operating with an ensemble cast to rule them all. Sure, a few characters, like Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Sauron (Charlie Vickers), and Elrond (Robert Aramayo) get extra attention. In reality, though, there are a lot of faces vying for some screen time — and the list of characters keeps expanding with each season.

One of my favorite new additions to season 2 is the moody Irish actor Ciarán Hinds. Hinds is already known for his role in another fantasy franchise, "Game of Thrones," where he played Mance Rayder. One area of the fantasy landscape that he hadn't entered yet, though, was Middle-earth -- that is, until he joined Prime Video's show, donned some elaborate robes, grabbed a fancy staff, and set up shop as a "Dark Wizard" in the series' storyline in the easter region of Rhûn.

Hinds' new character doesn't show up until early in season 2, where...

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This March, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the much anticipated true crime drama series Happy Face and also the streaming release of the horror comedy film Rumours. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films coming to Paramount+ in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Up In The Air (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Up in the Air is a comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sheldon Turner. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn, the 2009 film follows Ryan Bingham, a man whose job is to travel places and fire people from their jobs.

Six months after director Justin Kurzel confirmed himself as a poet of machismo with 2024’s “The Order,” and six months before star Jacob Elordi will unleash his own take on Dr. Victor’s monster on the 2025 fall festivals, the Australian duo have dropped an altogether unexpected Frankenstein in frigid Berlin. Directed by Kurzel, and led by Elordi, the upcoming miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” plays as an intriguing genre mash-up that fuses the burly head of a war-drama onto the lithe body of a primetime soap.

Or perhaps the other way around — as the filmmakers premiered just two episodes of the eventual five-part series at the Berlin Film Festival, raising more questions than answers by previewing a time-hopping narrative that refuses easy classification.

Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s prizewinning novel, the prestige drama is less ambiguous about its protagonist, mind you. We follow rakish doctor Dorrigo Evans across three distinct timelines,...

Journalists have long been the unsung heroes, risking their lives and livelihoods to expose the truth. The job has its internal and external challenges, and the severity of these challenges changes from place to place and time to time. For Anna Politkovskaya, the truth was paramount and would cost her everything when she went up against the powerful forces of the Russian machinery. Words of War is a political thriller based on and dedicated to this brave journalist who paid the ultimate price for the truth, joining more than 1800 journalists who have been killed in this century alone. Starring Maxine Peake, Jason Isaacs, and Ciarán Hinds, Words of War will be released in theaters nationwide on May 2, 2025, timed to the United Nations’ World Press Freedom Day. Below is the film's official description.

When medical officer Dorrigo (Jacob Elordi) licks blood from a wound off the inner thigh belonging to Amy (Odessa Young), who is also his uncle’s wife, it’s a bracing, viscerally erotic moment that captures the overall vibes of Justin Kurzel’s miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”

The extraordinary first two episodes of the Australian filmmaker’s adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 novel screened at the Berlin Film Festival, introducing us to Dorrigo (played by Elordi during World War II and Ciarán Hinds in 1989) and the haunted memories of his affair with Amy back in rural Adelaide before being shipped off to battle. Director Kurzel has made the male criminal psyche his signature inquiry, from last year’s “The Order” to 2021 Cannes winner “Nitram,” all based on true crime events. In “The Narrow Road,” he locks into his most sensuous, atmospheric, and brutally violent study yet,...

“Words of War,” the political thriller executive produced by Sean Penn, will be released in theaters on May 2.

Rolling Pictures and Decal announced the release date along with an official poster. Directed by James Strong, the film is also executive produced by Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-14).

“Words of War” is based on a true story and follows world-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya on her brave crusade, fighting to be an independent voice of truth for the Russian people, putting her own life in jeopardy despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence. While Politkovskaya was ultimately silenced, her legacy lives on and her story serves as a reminder of the dangers that journalists face and the importance of protecting their right to report the news, without fear of death or reprisal.

Said Penn, “’Words of War’ is a tribute to Anna Politkovskaya and journalists around the world, whose...

Richard Flanagan’s award-winning novel emerges as a screen adaptation exploring World War II’s turmoil and its profound personal consequences. The narrative tracks Dorrigo Evans through different life stages: a young man facing conflicting emotions, a prisoner enduring extreme challenges, and later a respected surgeon carrying deep psychological scars.

The series uses multiple timelines to reveal complex human experiences against a backdrop of historical conflict, presenting viewers with a textured story that breaks traditional storytelling structures.

Director Justin Kurzel crafts a visual approach that connects personal struggles with broader historical contexts. His method of transforming a complex literary work into screen narrative focuses on human emotion and historical precision. The project explores contemporary storytelling through strategic narrative techniques and careful character development.

Engaging with current social conversations, the series provides a thoughtful perspective on television that challenges existing viewpoints and sparks meaningful dialogue. Its narrative strategies and creative stylistic...

Following Nitram and The Order, Justin Kurzel goes from strength to strength with his riveting first detour into episodic television, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. While a current of unflinching violence runs through the director’s work, seldom if ever has the blunt shock of bloodletting played in such haunting counterpart to the pathos of brutalized humanity as it does in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel. There’s a lingering soulfulness here that feels new to Kurzel’s work, distilled in an intensely moving lead performance from Jacob Elordi.

Big, bold and strikingly cinematic, the limited series’ first two of five 45-minute episodes were presented as a special gala at the Berlin Film Festival ahead of its Australian premiere on Prime Video in April. Most other major markets will follow, though Sony has not yet closed a deal for U.S. rights. With Elordi’s star on the rise,...

To this day, Kanchanaburi remains a hot destination — in every sense — for Australian and British tourists who come to pay tribute to prisoners of war who died under the Japanese lash, building the Burma Railway. Kanchanaburi is where the bridge crosses the River Kwai, subject of one of the most beloved war stories in cinema. The real sufferings of those prisoners has also been well chronicled, but, even so, Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which drew on his own father’s experience, found a new kind of narrative behind that history: a story of trauma that bleeds from war into a difficult peace and, while largely unspoken, lasts a lifetime, His novel went on to win the Booker Prize, the top international prize for literature in English.

Adapted as a five-part series by Australian director Justin Kurzel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North...

Australian star Jacob Elordi shared some insights into his creative process and passion for acting during a brief stop on Saturday in Berlin, Germany for the world premiere of his upcoming period series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

“I have no real interest in making movies for the sake of entertainment or for making money,” Elordi said. “There’s a feeling that I get — that everyone gets, I think — when you watch a film and I call it cinema. When you experience cinema and you’re in a room and it does that thing to you — that kind of profound, unnameable thing that moves you and confirms you on this planet in this life — that’s what I chase, I guess, as a performer. I want to be a part of that. Usually, it stems from the filmmaker. So I’m really just a super fan who’s following his heart.

Jacob Elordi had to lose weight to play a prisoner of war in the new Justin Kurzel-directed series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” — but to him it “wasn’t complete torture.”

When Variety asked how the weight loss affected him at a Berlin Film Festival press conference, the “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” actor said it was actually “a very calming experience” to go through the process with his fellow cast members, whom he affectionally called “the lads.”

“I think there was something quite profound that happened, in that it wasn’t complete torture,” he said. “There was a peace that sort of came over all of us. And you kind of reach a level of love that goes beyond what you’re used to, because everything gets stripped away and you come down to the bare bones of, ‘Is my mate Ok? Am I Ok? How can I help?...