If you enjoy shots of dogs leaping to safety from flaming near-doom in disaster movies, steel your eyes. It’s no spoiler to say the mutt sizzles in this adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel from Kill List/Sightseers director Ben
"Now that so many residents were out of the way…"
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival The Bottom Line Never mind the Ballards, this multi-storey misfire is a disaster movie on...
The Hollywood Reporter 2015-09-144 / 5 stars “For all its inconveniences, Laing was satisfied with life in the high-rise…” This screen adaptation of JG Ballard’s prescient 1975 novel about disintegrating...
The Guardian 2016-03-20It's based on a cult favorite dystopian novel, directed by a daring indie director, and features one of cinema's most exciting new stars. So it's not surprising that...
The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-114 / 5 stars In the 1970s, people called high-rise buildings slums built up into the sky, and now film-maker Ben Wheatley has built the 1970s out into the future. His new...
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By Rodrigo Perez | The Playlist Sun Oct 11 13:26:59 EDT 2015 0 0 0 "High-Rise" The narrative for Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s “High-Rise” is all over the place. Reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival were decidedly mixed (including ours), but the response from the more genre-friendly Fantastic Fest were much more favorable. As the film makes its...
Indiewire 2015-10-11“Here we go, it’s ‘High-Rise,’ it’s a big building, there’s lots of sex, violence, swear words, adult content, dancing and it’s J.G. Ballard.” Director Ben Wheatley’s introduction to the highly anticipated world premiere of “High-Rise” was in no way misleading. That is very much the film that unfolded. The packed-house crowd at Toronto’s historic Elgin Theatre was hit like a...
The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-14As announced last August, J.G. Ballard's dystopian High-Rise is finally getting its chance to loom on screen, with Ben Wheatley directing and Amy Jump writing the screenplay. Film4 are the backers with Jeremy Thomas producing, and Wheatley has just announced the film's first casting: Tom Hiddleston has been installed at the top. HIGHRISE. shooting June. Starring Tom Hiddleston!...
Empire 2014-02-05High-Rise Director: Ben Wheatley Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Sienna Miller, Elizabeth Moss Four stars Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) is a lucky man. He is a successful surgeon and just moved into his dream apartment in a state-of-the-art luxury tower block. There's an unusually hedonistic atmosphere to the place, and his life soon becomes a debauched...
The National 2016-03-302 / 5 stars Ben Wheatley brings an anarchic sense of fun to JG Ballard’s story of societal collapse, turning it from a warning into a joke @HenryHBarnes High Rise stars Tom Hiddleston as Dr Robert Laing. He lives on the 27th floor of a tower block built for the affluent. The well-off live in the...
The Guardian 2015-09-14Tom Hiddleston says films like High-Rise appeal because humans are "fascinated by extremity". Hiddleston plays the part of Dr Robert Laing, who moves into a luxury high-rise tower block with full amenities where the super-rich are at the top and the merely wealthy at the bottom. He is drawn into the chaos as the residents, cut off from society by their self-containment, turn...
Belfast Telegraph 2015-10-09Wheatley may refer to:
