Riz Ahmed

I’m not deaf. I’m not a drummer. Yet, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal feels like a film made for me and I know it will stick with me forever. The film is a character study about drummer Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed), who loses his hearing and is faced with...

Sony’s latest attempt to steal market share away from the MCU sees reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) discover the aliens known as symbiotes. He and his psychotic alter-ego face off against the Life Foundation and its CEO Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), who seek to abuse the symbiotes, a power...

With The Force Awakens buzz dying down and the impending Blu-Ray release just around the corner it seemed that Star Wars’ firm grip over the film world was beginning to loosen… and then the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit. It has been a few...

Nightcrawler tells the tale of an overly driven man who stumbles upon the underground world of freelance crime journalism in Los Angeles. It is called such because this underground world is nocturnal, and these cameramen latch upon the police’s radio frequency in order to get to the reported crime first...

Nightcrawler is the directorial debut of Dan Gilroy and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a desperate young man who begins to make a living out of filming crimes as they occur in a pseudo-journalistic fashion. The trailer is intense to say the least. Gyllenhaal appears to be channelling the tormented...