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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentShahab Hosseini, a Cannes best actor winner in 2016 for his layered, complex performance in Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” is attached to star in “The Far Mountains,” from Mitra Tabrizian.A nuanced coming-of-age tale with an allegorical undertow, “The Far Mountains” marks Tabrizian’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut feature “Gholam,” also starring Hosseini and selected by The Guardian/Observer’s Mark Kermode as Film of the Week on its release.  “Gholam” was theatrically released in the U.K. and major VOD platforms internationally. “Gholam” producer Zadoc Nava at London-based Stray Dog Films will be introducing “The Far Mountains” at Locarno’s Match Me! where it looks like one of its highlights.

Netflix.The movie was originally released in 2018 and was panned by reviewers, with top critic Mark Kermode calling it "indescribably bad" and This Is Film saying it was "pointless, ridiculous, insulting material that shouldn't even be viewed as a hate-watch".Cinema-goers were also unimpressed, and at the time several tweeted that they couldn't watch all the way to the end and walked out.READ MORE: Where Elf cast is now – double divorce, quitting Hollywood and tragic car crash"It was so bad," said one person."Half the theatre walked out during it. And I love Will Ferrell but this one was one of the worst movies I've ever seen."Another called it "utter mind-blowing rubbish"."This movie was an unfunny disaster from start to finish," said someone else."Their chemistry couldn't save it.

BBC star Simon Mayo has slammed the corporation as "soul-destroying".Alongside film critic Mark Kermode, the 63-year-old presenter hosted Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review across a number of BBC radio channels for more than 20 years.The pair have since decamped to Sony to present a twice-weekly podcast called Kermode & Mayo's Take.Speaking recently, Simon revealed the move was designed to "make [the show] better".Alleging that any project he and Mark suggested would have "no chance" of being greenlit by the BBC today as they are two middle-aged men, he also accused the broadcaster of "making people jump through hoops" to get projects greenlit.Simon told Radio Times: "When Sony come along and say, 'we will invest in this programme in a way that it hasn't been invested in so far' you think, 'that's interesting'."For instance, we did a very successful short-film competition called Well Done U.

#notquitethegoldwatch.’While fans were sad that the iconic show had come to an end after so long, they didn’t have long to wait to find out what the duo were going to be doing from here on out.Last day of term (40 years after it started).So.Once more, with feeling⦠pic.twitter.com/Lig9cSUhqKAnd my BBC pass was cancelled before I left the building. So the security doors wouldnât work.

BBC Breakfast star Naga Munchetty has been left distraught after one of her favourite BBC shows decided to come to an end. Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode have presented their Radio 5 Live Film Review show for two decades - but recently decided to "step back". Naga, 47, took to social media to share her upset at the news that the long-running show will be coming to an end this April.

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has been left distraught by her colleagues’ decisions to ‘step away’ from their BBC programme after an incredible 21 years.The 47-year-old host took to Twitter to share her outrage that a long-running and much-loved programme will come to an end in April.Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode have presented their Radio 5 Live Film Review show for an incredible two decades - on the same radio station Naga hosts her own show.The pair announced in view of their 174,000 social media followers: "Simon Mayo has announced that Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review is coming to an end on @bbc5live.

BBC 5 Live listeners have been left gutted after Simon Mayo announced that his long running Film Review show, hosted with Mark Kermode, will end next month.

No Time to Die. Originally slated to open in early 2020, Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 became the first high-profile release to announce a major Covid-related postponement.

Michael Caine said Friday on a BBC podcast that his newest film, Best Sellers, may be his last part, citing the pandemic, a lingering back issue and the lack of projects for “a leading man that’s 88.” But that’s not quite true, he clarified in a statement today.

Kate Winslet has revealed she recently filmed a sex scene with actor Guy Pearce - who she fantasised about when she was 11 and he was in soap Neighbours.The Oscar-winning actress, 45, had an intimate scene with Pearce, 53, for the new HBO series Mare of Easttown.She says as a child she had a massive crush on him when he played hunk Mike in the Australian soap Neighbours.Kate revealed her girlhood crush to film critic Mark Kermode on the podcast Kermode On Film.She said: “Guy and I have, there’s a couple of intimate scenes shall we say between the two of us.“Well, what do you do with two actors who have intimate scenes together and it’s Covid? Well, you quarantine them together and you put them in a house together.“I got to do the recycling

The Smiths has led to confusion for fans of the band.Shoplifters of the World is focused on a bunch of friends who are huge fans of the Manchester group – though when the band break up in 1987, one of the characters holds up a radio station and demands they play Smiths songs.The film’s trailer went viral over the weekend in the wake of the film’s US release, with many of the group’s fans reacting in horror.“Someone appears to have thought taking the plot of the Alan Partridge film and setting it the music of The Smiths is a good idea,” one joked, while another asked: “What the everliving fuck is this[?]”.Meanwhile, film critic Mark Kermode said: “Well, I’ll say this: Shoplifters of the World is EXACTLY the movie that Morrissey

Famously, critic Mark Kermode branded Bloom ‘Orlando Bland’., he said: “Nobody steps out of the door or onto a set — whoever you are, whether you're an actor, director or producer — nobody is trying to do bad work. I know when I put my head down at night, I've done my best with everything that I've ever done.“I've always given it my all, and I think in a way, if anything, there was a lot of safe play in my career.

BBC Radio 5 Live film critic, Mark Kermode, often argues that Jaws isn’t a film about a shark .