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Inside Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s very kinky romcom: ‘People can’t believe the BBC funded it’

IN FOCUS: Nothing else is quite like ‘Pillion’, a sub-dom romance as sexually transgressive as it is heartwarming. Adam White speaks to its two leading men and their director Harry Lighton about raunch, love scenes and prosthetic appendages

The Independent UK

Alexander Skarsgard says new film Pillion is ‘not a conventional gay love story’

The movie follows Colin, a timid man, who meets Ray, a confident biker gang leader, who leads him into a submissive relationship.

Evening Standard

Leave your expectations for Alexander Skarsgård's new movie Pillion at the door: it's steamy and sexy, but it's so much more than a rom-com

Big Screen Spotlight | Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård give fearless performances in Pillion, one of this year's biggest cinematic surprises

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‘I think my mum’s going to like it’: Alexander Skarsgård on his gay biker ‘dom-com’ Pillion

In May, Cannes went weak at the knees for Harry Lighton’s tale of BDSM and bootlicking in suburbia. Ahead of its release, the director and his stars reveal the explicit shots snipped from the final cut and discuss why Pride has become too sanitised

The Guardian - UK

Actor Alexander Skarsgard says Pillion script ‘stood out’ among others

The movie follows Colin, a timid man, who meets Ray, a confident biker gang leader, who leads him into a submissive relatationship.

Evening Standard

Pillion at LFF review: Alexander Skarsgård gets kinky in this gay BDSM biker love story

5/5 Harry Lighton makes an outrageously good directorial debut with this sexy, sweet tale of queer first love wrapped up in leathers and chains

Evening Standard

A24's Pillion Trailer Shows Alexander Skarsgård In A BDSM Relationship, And I Think His Internet Daddy Status Is About To Reach A New Level

Skarsgård fans are about to get all hot and bothered.

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Emma Thompson Gets Real About Filming The Harry Potter Movies: ‘I Don’t Mean To Be Rude…’

Professor Trelawney’s new reveal.

Cinemablend

Awkward clapping, no-sand beaches and Alexander Skarsgård’s thigh-high boots: a trip to Cannes to see my film

Harry Lighton’s film Pillion is based on the novel Box Hill so, misgivings riding alongside, it felt right for the author to motorbike to the film festival for its premiere

The Guardian - UK

From Hogwarts to handcuffs: the Harry Potter star in Cannes' most shocking, X-rated film

The star got an eight-minute standing ovation for bold new role that’s about as far from Privet Drive as you can get

Evening Standard

Murderbot: Sci-fi fans praise ‘new kind’ of series with impressive Rotten Tomatoes score

The show is based on a series of highly acclaimed sci-fi novels

The Independent UK

‘Graphic’ biker film with Alexander Skarsgård receives seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes

Pillion sees Harry Potter star Harry Melling enter a gay romance with the leader of a biker gang

The Independent UK

Pillion review – 50 shades of BDSM Wallace and Gromit in brilliant Bromley biker romance

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling play unlikely lovers in this sweet and extremely revealing first-time drama from Harry Lighton, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill

The Guardian - UK

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – Who’s who in the cast of the new Hilary Mantel adaptation?

‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Succession’ stars join the cast for the new episodes of the BBC One historical drama

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Marie Claire

Child Stars Who Grew Up to Look Totally Different

Some of our finest celebrities were once adorable kids!

The Guardian - UK

Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies

Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineup

The Guardian - UK

Shoshana review – a quiet love story entangled in deadly Middle East politics

Michael Winterbottom’s drama centres on the romance between a British police officer and a socialist Zionist writer but puts history-telling over emotion

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Christian Bale's The Pale Blue Eye becomes sleeper hit on Netflix

Unleash your inner detective as Christian Bale and Harry Melling team up in the sleeper hit The Pale Blue Eye on Netflix. Mystery and mayhem await!

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Cinemablend

My Choice For The Coen Brothers' Most Underrated Movie Is Totally Unexpected, But I Can Back It Up

The Coen Brothers have a lot of great films, but there's only one in their entire filmography that I think people are completely sleeping on.

The New Daily

What the Hogwarts kids are up to these days – and how much they’re worth

As the Harry Potter cast celebrate their 30s and mixed fortunes in life after the film franchise, the hunt is on for new cast for TV reboot

The Guardian - UK

Please Baby Please review – Andrea Riseborough leads retro reverie of vamp and camp

Riseborough and Harry Melling play a couple who get off on violence in an oddball, over-saturated thriller with a surprise cameo from Demi Moore

Salon

"This film is Poe's origin story"

Scott Cooper discusses his Netflix film placing Edgar Allan Poe in a detective story starring Christian Bale

Tribune News Service

Movie review: ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ is an appealingly dark period mystery, but Scott Cooper’s adaptation largely frustrates

Scott Cooper is a competent filmmaker. He’s rarely an extraordinary one.

Evening Standard

Harry Potter actor Harry Melling asked about JK Rowling’s anti-trans comments

The actor has shared his thoughts on the author’s controversial remarks made

The Guardian - UK

The Pale Blue Eye review – starry gothic mystery loses its way

Despite the best efforts of Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson and co, this wintry crime yarn featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe descends into farce

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