No./8 Prepare for festival fever
Empire writers pick highlights from this year’s London Film Festival
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in She Said;
Bill Nighy as diplomat Mr Williams in Living;
Brendan Fraser in The Whale;
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking.
SHE SAID
SOPHIE BUTCHER SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Do you remember where you were the day The New York Times’ story on Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual assault broke, and changed Hollywood forever? Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor’s investigation gets the big-screen treatment with She Said, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as the two writers alongside a stellar supporting cast. High-stakes-journalism movies are often tense, thrilling and surprisingly cinematic — but to what degree can Hollywood really examine its own failings? It’s going to be intriguing to find out.