NEWS OF THE WORLD (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump), Helena Zengel (System Crasher), Michael Covino (The Climb), Fred Hechinger (Eighth Grade), Neil Sandilands (Proteus), Thomas Francis Murphy (Free State of Jones), Mare Winningham (St. Elmo’s Fire), Elizabeth Marvel (Gifted), Chukwudi Iwuji (John Wick: Chapter 2), Ray McKinnon (Le Mans ’66), Bill Camp (The Killing of a Sacred Deer)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips), director, writer; Luke Davies (Lion), writer; Gary Goetzman (Charlie Wilson’s War), Gregory Goodman (I Heart Huckabees) and Gail Mutrux (The Danish Girl), producers; James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games), composer; Dariusz Wolski (The Martian), cinematographer; William Goldenberg (Argo), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1870, Civil War veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks) travels from town to town delivering the latest news from around the world. During his travels, he encounters a young girl named Johanna (Zengel), who six years prior was taken in by the local Kiowa tribe and raised as one of their own, and who Kidd is now charged with returning to her native family. As the two travel across the country together, eager for a place to call home, the two unlikely travellers share a close bond…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Not a movie about the discontinued newspaper, but instead News of the World sees director Paul Greengrass reunite with Tom Hanks for a Western with gorgeous landscapes, intense action, and quite a lot of heart.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 (AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX)

 

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