It was supposed to be a wild adventure in a far-off country, but when a naive young doctor arrives in 1970's Uganda - hoping for fun, sun and to lend a helping hand - he finds himself instead on a shocking ride into the darkest realm on earth. Befriended by the charismatic new leader, Idi Amin, and appointed as his personal .. Read more
| Starring | Forest Whitaker, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, James McAvoy |
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| Director | Kevin Macdonald |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller |
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Tobey Maguire is baffled by reports he's set to play the lead role in upcoming movie The Hobbit - because he hasn't been approached to discuss the part. The Spider-Man star has become the latest Hollywood actor linked to the casting of Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings prequel. Maguire was confused when he spotted online reports about his role in the film, and has dismissed the claims as "just not true." He tells Access Hollywood, "I have not met or spoken to (director) Guillermo del Toro Read more
Scottish actor James Mcavoy found his boss Robert Redford a tough taskmaster while working on the star's latest movie - after the Hollywood veteran ordered him to speak in an American accent at all times. The Last King of Scotland star is playing U.S. lawyer Frederick Aiken in Redford's The Conspirator, about the trial of a woman said to be involved in the assassination of 19th century American president Abraham Lincoln. But McAvoy found himself at work even when the cameras stopped rolling -... Read more
If you’re going to remake something, remake something that didn’t work, and fix it. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of what the French critic and filmmaker Francois Truffaut observed. (And no, he didn’t remake any movies in his career, although he adapted numerous novels.) The filmmakers had a job on their hands when they took on this big screen treatment of Paul Abbott’s universally-praised 2003 BBC serial. For many people (at least in Britain) the TV Read more