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Rihanna collaborated with A$AP Rocky for a “short film” titled Born to Steal: Yours, Mine, Ours, promoting a new Fenty Skin product. The video premiered on Fenty Skin and Fenty Beauty’s YouTube channels on Wednesday morning.

In the noir-inspired ad, the multi-hyphenate stars as the femme fatale, who the narrator says likes to “hoard” clothes from the “unsuspecting male” — in this case, the rapper. He catches her in the act of smuggling his blazer but stands back. When Rihanna steps out of the house in the “stolen” wardrobe, Rocky gazes out the window while massaging his lips with the Fenty Lux Balm.

She can’t stop stealing from him: pancakes, blazers, even the bed covers! But nothing’s standing in the way of his lip balm: “Not so fast, baby. This one’s mine,” he says.

This isn’t Rocky’s first appearance in his partner’s Fenty campaign.

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the most overlooked and/or underrated movie of 2017?

E. Oliver Whitney, Screencrush.com, @cinemabite

Despite the critical praise, “A Fantastic Woman” only a one-week qualifying run last month, and I worry is it’ll easily be forgotten this awards season. Daniela Vega gives one of the most astounding performances I’ve seen this year, one that comes from somewhere fierce and internal, portraying the life and struggle of a trans woman that cinema has rarely shown an interest in exploring. But since you can’t see it until it has a proper release in Febraury, do check one of the year’s other...

Does Gina Linetti’s new man have cruel intentions?

Ryan Phillippe is set to guest-star on Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Milton, a potential love interest for Captain Holt’s recently injured assistant, TVLine has learned. Per Fox, Charles is completely opposed to the match — but if Gina can survive getting hit by a bus, surely she can put up with her step-brother’s disapproval. Phillippe will appear in the first half of the comedy’s two-part, one-hour season finale.

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Phillippe, arguably best known for his role as Sebastian Valmont...

The following contains spoilers from Tuesday’s midseason premiere of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Proceed at your own peril.

Spoiler alert: Gina Linetti is dead.

Well, she was dead. It was for two minutes, during which time she saw an ethnically ambiguous female God, then was resuscitated, having somehow survived that bus accident just two months ago.

But the heck with trying to make sense of any of that. “Gina Linetti’s back, baby,” and the Nine-Nine has nothing to worry about now… right?

Wrong!

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In the spring premiere,...

Want to know what British films are coming out this month? Then look no further than our fabulous movie calendar...

Welcome to our new, regularly updated calendar of all the British movies due for release in UK cinemas over the coming months. So if you're keen to keep up-to-date on the latest in home grown cinema - from documentaries to dramas, and comedy horror to science fiction - this is the ideal post for you. 

So here's what's coming up in the future. 

12 September 2014

Pride

Director: Matthew Warchus

Cast: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott

Details: A drama about a group of gay and lesbian activists donating to people in need during the 1984 miners' strike.

Jack To A King - The Swansea Story

Director: Marc Evans

Cast: Tbc

Details: A documentary about Swansea football fans.

19 September 2014

Night Will Fall

Director: Andre Singer

Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein

Details: A documentary...

To mark the release of Riot on DVD, we’ve got 3 copies of the movie to give away. The movie stars Nick Nevern (The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan) stars alongside Kellie Shirley, Jenna Harrison, Lorraine Stanley, Con O’Neill and Steven Berkoff. Riot is directed by Simon Phillips.

This gritty thriller sees troubled cop Damien (Nick Nevern) facing off against his old gang in the 2011 London riots. As tensions in the capital rise, a tragic incident kicks off city-wide violence that leaves no one unaffected, including his police partner, Louise (Kellie Shirley).

Before signing up for the force Damien ran with a football firm, getting involved in tear-ups up and down the country. Now he’s on the other side of the law he faces a tough decision: side with his old crew or protect London as it burns and rioters run amok?

Please note: This competition...

Despite releasing The Fall of the Essex Boys only at the start of this year, Paul Tanter is about to return with the follow-up, Essex Boys: Retribution, a fictionalised story picking up eighteen years after the famed Range Rover murders.

The film hits cinemas just in time for Christmas next month, and we’ve got the first trailer to share with you as we head into the weekend.

Leading the cast this time around are Ian Virgo (Rise of the Footsoldier), Alex Ismail (Attack the Block), Ryan Winsley (The Fall of the Essex Boys), and Kyle Summercorn (Turnout), with Lorraine Stanley (London to Brighton), Vas Blackwood (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels), and Billy Murray (The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan) completing the cast nicely.

Tanter (Jack Falls, The Fall of the Essex Boys) is once more directing from his own script, and he produces alongside frequent collaborator Simon Phillips (GBH/Riot,...

To mark the release of White Collar Hooligan 2 on DVD and Blu-ray, we’ve got 2 copies of the movie to give away.

Get ready for the ultimate tear-up as hard-man Nick Nevern (White Collar Hooligan, Riot), returns in this tense modern-day British gangster film along with Simon Phillips (Jack Falls), Peter Barrett (The Fall of The Essex Boys) the sexy Rita Ramnani (The Last Seven, Strippers Vs Werewolves) and Vas Blackwood (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Creep, Mean Machine).

Mike Jacobs (Nevern) is back and living the good life in Spain with a new identity under the witness protection scheme. However, when old enemies discover his whereabouts and kidnap his girlfriend, Mike has just four days to pay off the gangsters or he will never see her again.

His journey takes him to New York City and back to London to meet up with his old partner, Eddie, pulling...

Damien (Nick Nevern) is a London policeman, having joined the force from a difficult upbringing. In his spare time he is a borderline football hooligan and while on duty he frequently disregards proper rules to either get a friend’s charges lifted or put the boot in on a suspect who he doesn’t like. As tensions in London build towards the riots of summer 2011, Damien tries to keep his building rage under control while trying to establish a relationship with Louise (Kellie Shirley) a new police officer he has been partnered with.

*****

Director Simon Phillips has previously worked as an actor and producer but seems determined to continue to stretch himself, taking his bow behind the lens for this workmanlike and unexceptional, but otherwise commendable film about a man with one foot in each of two very different worlds.

Nick Nevern was passable as the lead in the similarly...

Sure our friends across the pond have all sorts of cool things at their disposal like the Film4 FrightFest and those wacky white-haired judge wigs, but they've been sorely missing one thing. Or should we say two things?

From the Press Release

UK distributor 4 DigitalMedia is turning up the heat in May when they release super-camp shlockbuster Elvira’s Haunted Hills via their Jonathan Sothcott Presents imprint.

The follow-up to 80s cult classic Elvira Mistress of the Dark makes its British DVD debut on May 28th, and 4Digital and Sothcott are bringing Elvira herself, genre icon Cassandra Peterson, to London to promote the film. Peterson will be appearing at the London Expo show on the 26th and 27th of May to meet fans and sign DVDs and will be participating in a publicity tour that week.

Sothcott, producer of such schlocky B-movies as Strippers vs. Werewolves and Big Fat Gypsy Gangster,...