PREVIEW: Silk Road (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Nick Robinson (Love, Simon), Jason Clarke (The Devil All The Time), Alexandra Shipp (All the Bright Places), Darrell Britt-Gibson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Jimmi Simpson (Unhinged), Paul Walter Hauser (Richard Jewell), Katie Aselton (Bombshell), Lexi Rabe (Avengers: Endgame), Daniel David Stewart (Kids vs Monsters)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Tiller Russell (The Last Rites of Ransom Pride), director, writer; Stephen Gans (film debut), David Hyman (Wine Country), Duncan Montgomery (Freeheld), Alex Orlovsky (Half Nelson) and Jack Selby (The Sacred), producers; Mondo Boys (She Dies Tomorrow), composer; Peter Flinckenberg (One Foot Under), cinematographer; Greg O’Bryant (The Report), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A young man named Ross Ulbricht (Robinson) creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells narcotics, which soon attracts the attention of DEA agent Rick Bowden (Clarke) who sets out to bring him to justice…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The unbelievable story of Rick Bowden and his dark net empire forms the basis for this intense factual drama, starring rising actor Nick Robinson in the main role.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 22ND MARCH 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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