British actor Sam Riley, who shot to fame playing Ian Curtis in 2007's "Control", said he could relate to the feelings of wasted potential that plague his character in "Islands", a vacation noir that ...

German director Jan-Ole Gerster's mesmerizing, mostly English-language "Islands" opens with a scene that for many would mark "rock bottom" - reason to check oneself into rehab - as Sam Riley's Tom ...

It’s carried by compelling performances from Riley and Stacy Martin ... time with Anne and Anton comes as no surprise. Still, the movie ends on a note of melancholy self-reckoning that lingers.

Berlin: Sam Riley gets ensnared by Stacy Martin in a fantastic ... but the minute a marginally unlikable character does so in a movie it immediately codifies them as a blithering asshole.

BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - British actor Sam Riley, who shot to fame playing Ian Curtis in 2007's "Control", said he could relate to the feelings of wasted potential that plague his character in ...

The thought that Sam Riley's Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray ... appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear. German director Jan-Ole Gerster's ...

mostly English-language “Islands” opens with a scene that for many would mark “rock bottom” — reason to check oneself into rehab — as Sam Riley’s Tom awakens in a field of sand dunes.