PREVIEW: Naked Singularity (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

John Boyega (Detroit), Olivia Cooke (Pixie), Bill Skarsgård (It), Ed Skrein (Deadpool), Linda Lavin (The Back-Up Plan), Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Kyle Mooney (Brigsby Bear), Robert Bogue (The Good Guy), Robert Christopher Riley (The Perfect Match), Liza Colón-Zayas (Righteous Kill)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Chase Palmer (film debut), director, writer; David Matthews (film debut), writer; P. Jennifer Dana (The Assistant), Tony Ganz (Gung Ho), Ross Jacobson (Big Sur), Ryan Stowell (Jungleland) and Kevin J. Walsh (Manchester by the Sea), producers; Brendan Angelides (The Master Cleanse), composer; Andrij Parekh (Blue Valentine), cinematographer; Katie Mcquerrey (The Host and the Cloud), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Casi (Boyega) is an up-and-coming New York public defender who is growing weary of the numerous injustices within the system he has sworn to protect. In an attempt to beat the broken system at its own game, he teams up with an unpredictable former client (Cooke) for a dangerous high-stakes drug heist…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This darkly comic crime thriller sees John Boyega stepping out of the Star Wars shadow and into some grisly, much more intense territory that strongly utilises his magnetic screen presence.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

SUNDAY 2ND JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW

 

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