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Pascale Kann, Anna Friel, Connor Swindells, Clara Rugaard, Katherine Parkinson, and Golda Rosheuvel have been added to the cast of the BBC’s 6-part drama series ‘The Dream Land.’

The coming-of-age drama is based on Rosa Rankin-Gee’s enthralling novel Dreamland and is brought to life for TV by BAFTA award-winning writer Kayleigh Llewellyn, delivering a gripping and intense journey driven by love, hope, and an unyielding will to survive.

Set in a near-future Margate, against a backdrop of soaring inequality, The Dream Lands tells the story of Chance and her family, a young woman who discovers life and love, while being forced to fight for her family and friends’ survival in a world that’s crumbling around her.

It’s 2039 and temperatures are soaring, seas are rising, and the political climate is equally as menacing. Chance is living a life of crime just to get by, when her community...

Dearest gentle reader, everyone's favorite flamboyant 19th century Queen, Golda Rosheuvel's Charlotte, has found her next project, with the star of Bridgerton set to join the cast of the BBC's The Dream Lands, an adaptation of Rosa Rankin-Gee’s climate change novel, Dreamland. A coming-of-age drama set to be split into six parts, The Dream Lands will see Rosheuvel join an already-attractive cast that includes Rivals' Katherine Parkinson as Antonia, Barbie and Sex Education star Connor Swindells as Kole, Marcella herself Anna Friel as Jas, Black Mirror's Clara Rugaard as Franky, as well as the likes of Jacob Greenway, Tareq Al-Jeddal, Scarlett Rayner, Ruby Bridle, and Raphael Sowole.

Stars: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend, Gilly Gilchrist, Frederick Schmidt, Edna Caskey, Darren Hart, Raphael Sowole, Duncan Airlie James, Anthony Welsh, David Ajala, Jerome Bailey | Written by Jonathan Asser | Directed by David Mackenzie

There are movies that make you think. There are movies that make you question. There are movies that engage you to such a degree you are left emotionally exhausted when all is said and done. Then there are movies like Starred Up that make you do all three and so much more. Director David Mackenzie and screen writer Jonathan Asser have come together to create authentic take on the harsh conditions of prison life in Britain. Raw, brutal, and surprisingly heartfelt it examines the person behind the prison number. Never does it ever attempt to forgive its characters malicious actions—rather it brings us into the hellacious depths of their unruly world.

The term ‘Starred Up...

Starred Up Tribeca Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B Director: David Mackenzie Screenplay: Jonathan Asser Cast: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, David Ajala, Peter Ferdinando, Gershwyn Eustache Jr., Ashley Chin, Raphael Sowole, Gilly Gilchrist, Tommy McDonnell, Frederick Schmidt, Sam Spruell, Rupert Friend Screened at: Critics’ screener, NYC, 8/30/14 Opens: August 27, 2014 Because no film in recent memory has had the problem of communicating dialogue so notably (in fact this incomprehensibility feels like a director’s artistic choice to focus the audience on the physicality), you have to go into this film knowing that you will miss at least half of the words. So don’t [ Read More ]

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