There's a theory about the fiction of J G Ballard — on which this new film about life in a tower block descending into chaos from director Ben Wheatley and his writing partner Amy Jump, is based — a ...

Tom Hiddleston and Elisabeth Moss in High-Rise. It’s taken a long time to get this strange and unsettling satire by deranged novelist JG Ballard to the big screen. Notwithstanding an amusing ...

In Britain we’ve become used to seeing modernist buildings from the sixties and seventies left neglected, receiving unsympathetic makeovers, or being demolished altogether. Think of the tarting up of ...

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A new trailer for the forthcoming High Rise movie has been shared online. Actor Tom Hiddleston stars in the preview, playing the character of Dr. Robert Laing. The film is an adaptation of J.G.

Towering buildings have attracted and repulsed film-makers since the first days of the movies. Nicholas Barber looks back at Hollywood’s changing attitudes. “When we were twenty,” wrote Jean-Paul ...

Visually stunning with a great feel for the style of the 70s, 'High Rise, Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J.G. Ballard's classic novel seems muddled as though desperate to jump into the visuals of ...

What would J G Ballard have made of the new High-Rise film? Ben Wheatley’s screen adaptation of Ballard’s novel brings its dry wit to the fore. By Will Self Of the film adaptations that had been made ...

A disused leisure centre where the apocalyptic movie High Rise was shot has been earmarked for a four-storey hotel development. The old Bangor Castle Leisure Centre site could make way for an ...

The news that Jeff Bridges is to play Mies van der Rohe in a film about the Farnsworth House adds unexpected lustre to the meagre roll call of architects in movies. Lawyers, doctors, even dentists are ...

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It might be Tom Hiddleston’s 35th birthday, but the actor seems to have given his fans a treat. Tom shared the latest trailer for his new movie High-Rise, based on the J.G. Ballard book of the same ...