FOUR LIONS Movie Clip

Check out a clip from FOUR LIONS which stars Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar, and is directed by Chris Morris
Four Lions Synopsis: Renowned British comedian Chris Morris finds the humor (and ultimately the humanity) in this extremist world.
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that—while terrorism is about ideology—it can also be about idiots.
Based on three years of research and meetings with everyone from imams to ex-mujahedeen—not to mention a wealth of surveillance material from major trials, Four Lions plunges beyond seeing these young men as unfathomably alien or [...]

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CENTURION Photos with Michael Fassbender

Check out a couple of photos from CENTURION with Michael Fassbender.
Centurion also stars Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Noel Clarke, David Morrissey, Riz Ahmed, and is directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday).
Centurion Synopsis: Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

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SHIFTY Movie Trailer

Check out the trailer for SHIFTY starring Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng, and directed by Eran Creevy.
I recently saw Riz Ahmed in the BBC miniseries Britz, and he was really great, so I absolutely want to see Shifty. Plus the trailer looks really good.
Shifty will be released to theaters in the UK on April 24, 2009. Watch the trailer below.

Shifty Synopsis: The international trailer for Shifty. Riz Ahmed (Britz, Dead Set) takes the title role of Shifty, a thriller charting an action packed 24 hours in the life of a young crack cocaine dealer on the outskirts of London. The sudden return home of his best friend sets in motion a chain of events that see Shifty’s life quickly spiral out of control. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run [...]

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