Tom Harper has had one hell of a year. The up-and-coming director saw two films released into theaters, although the one featuring two movie stars and millions of dollars in special effects will soon be available to stream at home. But that's modern Hollywood for ya! Harper directed The Aeronauts, a high-flying adventure movie starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne, who previously shared the screen in the Stephen Hawkins biopic The Theory of Everything. Their chemistry is on display once again in this thrilling period piece about scientist James Glaisher and his fictional pilot Amelia Wren, …

NEON has released a new trailer for the upcoming music-centric drama Wild Rose, which has critics buzzing about not only the film but the lead performance of Jessie Buckley. The Irish actress had roles in War and Peace and The Woman in White, but is probably best known to audiences for her scene-stealing work in the tremendous HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Wild Rose follows a fresh-out-of-prison mother of two who pursues her dream of becoming a country music superstar, with her eyes on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. She’s anchored by her committed mother, …

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Last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, the savvy indie distributor Neon picked up a little movie called Wild Rose, about a down-on-her-luck Scottish woman who yearns to make it big as a country singer in Nashville. I attended the festival, but amid a sea of high-profile awards hopefuls from major studios, the film wasn't on my radar. Not even close. When I finally caught up with Wild Rose seven months later at CinemaCon, I had low expectations, as I'm not a big fan of country music and hadn't heard of the …

We’ve got a packed week of movies this time around. The big news is the return of Woody, Buzz and the rest of the screw. But there’s also assassins, country singers and killer dolls. Get ready for Toy Story 4, Anna, Wild Rose and Child’s Play.

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In Wild Rose, Jessie Buckley (The Woman in White) stars as a young Scottish mother fresh out of prison, who dreams of becoming a country singer. The movie, from director Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders, War & Peace) and writer Nicole Taylor (Three Girls, The Hour) is far more uplifting than that short description may make it sound (she was in prison for throwing bags of heroin over the prison walls to fund her dream, no less -- it's a comedy as well!) In the buoyant new trailer, we see Buckley's Rose struggling to achieve her aspirations while also needing …