Actors In Film

Lindsay Duncan, Hilton McRae, Billie Piper and Ben Whishaw

In case you don’t know Ben Whishaw has a twin brother in real life. They are not identical.

From IMDB – Strippers Badger and the androgynous Fox, who poses as a boy, have kidnapped Ezra,a punter who injured one of their colleagues and have him prisoner in a hotel room. However their boss Mrs Dalloway rings to tell them that they have erroneously abducted Ezra’s identical twin Jacob, who has the mind of a four year old. Badger wants to dump him and run though Fox feels sorry for him and, whilst they are arguing, their prisoner takes action of his own.

Love Hate Short Film

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 | shelley foy

Someone was nice enough to send me the Love Hate video starring Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell. This is the first time I’ve seen this 2009 film.

Ben and Hayley worked together on the film, Brideshead Revisited. Hayley’s most recent projects are Cinderella and Marvel’s Agent Shield and Agent Carter. Also, you will see her in the New Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron movie.

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From IMDB – Tom is a lovely and super positive charity worker, whose life seems under complete control. Until the day a mysterious woman enters his way and completely changes his life. Intrusive and twisted, she’s about to present a side of Tom he never knew he had inside of himself, new perspectives that comes with strange consequences on the way.

Brideshead Revisited

Felicity Jones, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell

Beat Short Film

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 | shelley foy

Ben Whishaw’s unnamed hero wakes up. His face is swollen, tender, his expression blank. Is he remembering where he split his lip? Already there is something unnerving about his gaze, and he’s only looking into space.

Out the door and hitting the street to music, headphones clamped in (or are they?), our man has the beat. But the abandon with which this bopper flails his limbs while he navigates the Hackney pavements, is too much, too reckless. Is he lonely? Malicious? Mentally ill?

Director Aneil Karia keeps it ambiguous, cinematographer Stuart Bentley gives us an East London high street of neon and grime, while Whishaw excels with an electric performance, portraying a misfit constantly pinging between captivating and repellent, who could be either drugged-up or under-medicated, or maybe he just doesn’t give a damn.

Beat has shown at festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival Cork film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and Encounters where it picked up the European New Talent Award. For cinemas or film societies looking for a compelling short film to screen before a feature, Beat would work well.

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