Latest news with #VForVendetta
Metro
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Dystopian thriller dubbed 'provocative and disturbing' now streaming on Netflix
A 'disturbing' thriller film with a star-studded cast is now available to stream on Netflix. With a cast made up of Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, and Rupert Graves, V for Vendetta was released in 2006 and directed by James McTeigue. Set in a dystopian totalitarian Britain, it follows a masked freedom fighter known simply as V (Weaving) who uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive regime. When he saves Evey (Portman) from the secret police, he gains a new ally in his fight against the tyrannical government. It is based on the DC graphic novel series of the same name, and anti-establishment political groups have adopted V's iconic Guy Fawkes mask over the years to promote their beliefs. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. V For Vendetta was a box office success, raking in $134.7 million (£90M) worldwide against a budget of around $50M (£36.7M). To mark its 20th anniversary, the film has arrived on Netflix for users to stream right now. It holds a 73% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics' consensus reading: 'Visually stunning and thought-provoking, V For Vendetta's political pronouncements may rile some, but its story and impressive set pieces will nevertheless entertain.' Cinefilia wrote in their review: 'Not only do I think it's a pretty prophetic cult film, but it's also fast-paced and highly entertaining narrating its dystopia about the anarchist vigilante wearing the Guy Fawkes mask to fight a totalitarian regime.' Oulook dubbed it 'a bizarre, farcical, political allegory-cum-thriller,' while USA Today said it was 'visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.' New York Post added: 'Just when we were ready to give up mainstream movies as braindead, along comes the controversial and gleefully subversive V for Vendetta, a piece of corporate-sponsored art that will have audiences rooting for a bomb-throwing anarchist.' 'Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should,' TIME Magazine said. summarised: 'V for Vendetta is the ballsiest major Hollywood motion picture I've seen this young millennium.' Speaking to IndieLondon, Star Wars icon Portman explained what it was about V for Vendetta that attracted her to the project. 'It was very interesting for me to consider the mindset of someone who goes from being non-violent to being drawn towards using violence to express her political beliefs,' she explained. More Trending 'I enjoyed the fact that it was a complicated journey that can be interpreted on many different levels – maybe she's being manipulated, maybe she's finding her true self, and just developing pragmatism over idealism. 'I appreciated the complicated view of what would make someone want to do this sort of thing.' V For Vendetta is streaming now on Netflix Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Superman's new Lois Lane hopes latest superhero reboot 'does the fans proud' MORE: Netflix star apologises after 'leaking major spoiler' 6 months before finale MORE: Netflix thriller climbs up top 10 with new season despite being labelled 'tripe'
Irish Independent
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Rick O'Shea: I wouldn't want to live in the world of Strumpet City but I keep going back there
James Plunkett's novel makes utterly real the small aspirations and awful inequalities of the years before the Easter Rising I'm taking you to dark, less comfortable places this week, and with good reason. Every year I throw an eye over my reading list to see where the gaps have been, and to see if I'd like to nudge the balance a bit. Some years this meant adding in a few thrillers, or some older books that I'd always wanted to try; in recent years it has meant seeking out more writing in translation. When I was growing up, everything I read was for escape – the Famous Five, Three Investigators, the Hardy Boys and a lot of science fiction. I graduated into graphic novels when I was a teenager. Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Alan Moore's Batman series The Dark Knight Returns scratched itches I didn't even know I had. When I was in college, the escape was to America – I tried Joseph Heller, Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe. You could say the same about the films I went to, the music I listened to, the TV I watched.
The Independent
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Eddie Marsan dedicates his OBE to his east London community who all ‘stepped up'
Sherlock Holmes, Mission Impossible and V For Vendetta actor Eddie Marsan has said he owes everything to his community and wants to share his OBE with them. Marsan, 56, who recently played Amy Winehouse's father Mitch in the film Back To Black, was made an OBE for his services to drama at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. The son of a lorry driver and a school dinner lady, the actor was raised on a council estate in Bethnal Green, east London. When he heard he was on the New Year Honours list, Marsan said he wanted to share his OBE with Bethnal Green and his family. After the ceremony he said: 'When I was younger, my parents had a difficult marriage, but the members of my community, the members of the St Lucian community in Bethnal Green and an East End bookmaker who paid for me to go to drama school, they all kind of stepped up and I owe everything to them really. 'If I look at where I am now it is because of the kindness and support of the community of Bethnal Green really.' He added the Princess Royal was 'very supportive' and had a great sense of humour. He went on to refer to multiple upcoming films, along with a TV series called King And Conqueror and another called Lockerbie. Meanwhile, Inspector Morse and Lewis actor Kevin Whately, 74, happily explained he had 'nothing to flog' while enjoying his day at the ceremony. The actor first rose to fame playing Neville in the 1980s comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet before taking a career defining role as John Thaw's right hand man in Inspector Morse. Whately was made OBE for services to drama and charity, and said he is happily retired. He said: 'I was never very ambitious and I'm really enjoying not doing very much. 'I don't miss getting up at five o'clock in the morning, I can do it occasionally but not every day which is what we used to do.' Whately added that he and Anne had spoken about retirement during the ceremony. He said: 'I met the Princess Royal before worked for one of her animal charities, but not for a long time, but we're of a similar age so we had a little bit to talk about.' Organisations he has supported include Action For Children and the performing arts charity, the Wavendon Foundation, which helps budding actors and singers through drama school and conservatoires.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eddie Marsan dedicates his OBE to his east London community who all ‘stepped up'
Sherlock Holmes, Mission Impossible and V For Vendetta actor Eddie Marsan has said he owes everything to his community and wants to share his OBE with them. Marsan, 56, who recently played Amy Winehouse's father Mitch in the film Back To Black, was made an OBE for his services to drama at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. The son of a lorry driver and a school dinner lady, the actor was raised on a council estate in Bethnal Green, east London. When he heard he was on the New Year Honours list, Marsan said he wanted to share his OBE with Bethnal Green and his family. After the ceremony he said: 'When I was younger, my parents had a difficult marriage, but the members of my community, the members of the St Lucian community in Bethnal Green and an East End bookmaker who paid for me to go to drama school, they all kind of stepped up and I owe everything to them really. 'If I look at where I am now it is because of the kindness and support of the community of Bethnal Green really.' He added the Princess Royal was 'very supportive' and had a great sense of humour. He went on to refer to multiple upcoming films, along with a TV series called King And Conqueror and another called Lockerbie. Meanwhile, Inspector Morse and Lewis actor Kevin Whately, 74, happily explained he had 'nothing to flog' while enjoying his day at the ceremony. The actor first rose to fame playing Neville in the 1980s comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet before taking a career defining role as John Thaw's right hand man in Inspector Morse. Whately was made OBE for services to drama and charity, and said he is happily retired. He said: 'I was never very ambitious and I'm really enjoying not doing very much. 'I don't miss getting up at five o'clock in the morning, I can do it occasionally but not every day which is what we used to do.' Whately added that he and Anne had spoken about retirement during the ceremony. He said: 'I met the Princess Royal before worked for one of her animal charities, but not for a long time, but we're of a similar age so we had a little bit to talk about.' Organisations he has supported include Action For Children and the performing arts charity, the Wavendon Foundation, which helps budding actors and singers through drama school and conservatoires.
