Author: Neil Vagg

Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.

Picturehouse and the nonprofit Sundance Institute has announced the opening and closing night films, Kneecap and Dìdi (弟弟), two hotly anticipated feature directorial debuts, for the 11th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London 2024, taking place from 6 to 9 June at Picturehouse Central. Writer and director Rich Peppiatt’s raucous and infectious Irish-language film, Kneecap, which scooped the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: NEXT in January in Utah, will open Sundance Film Festival: London 2024 with its UK Premiere on 6 June.  Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is…

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Studiocanal has announced the UK home video release of outrageous British comedy Wicked Little Letters. The film will come to digital home premiere on April 8 2024 before releasing on disc in May. A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with…

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