Glenn Kendrick Ackermann will kick off worldwide sales in Cannes through his V International Media on the supernatural drama Can You Hear Me starring Peter Facinelli from The Twilight Saga.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Glenn Kendrick Ackermann will kick off worldwide sales in Cannes through his V International Media on the supernatural drama Can You Hear Me starring Peter Facinelli from The Twilight Saga.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
At 90 years old, actor Michael Caine has experienced quite a lot in his life. The father and grandfather has plenty to say about those experiences in a new interview with the Daily Mail in which he discusses, among other topics, the #MeToo movement and the growing use of intimacy coordinators on set. After expressing surprise at the job title for those who coordinate intimate scenes between actors, Caine explained, “In my day you just did the love scene and got on with it without anyone interfering. It’s all changed.”
Caine was joined in the interview by fellow actor John Standing, who agreed that things are different these days — but emphasized that they are each trying to learn as much as they can. The two have a total of seven grandchildren who all play a big role in that education, but noted that doesn’t mean it’s fun.
When...
Caine was joined in the interview by fellow actor John Standing, who agreed that things are different these days — but emphasized that they are each trying to learn as much as they can. The two have a total of seven grandchildren who all play a big role in that education, but noted that doesn’t mean it’s fun.
When...
- 9/23/2023
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
It was a very welcome return for the red carpet to London this evening, with the World Premiere of The Great Escaper taking place at the BFI Southbank. The film stars Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, John Standing, Will Fletcher, Laura Marcus, Danielle Vitalis and Victor Oshi. It was directed by Oliver Parker from a script by William Ivory.
The Great Escaper will be released in cinemas nationwide from October the 6th, 2023. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Great Escaper Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of octogenarian Bernard Jordan’s escape from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy,...
The Great Escaper will be released in cinemas nationwide from October the 6th, 2023. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Great Escaper Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of octogenarian Bernard Jordan’s escape from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"If you want to honor your friend, Bernie... You've spent 70 years loving me. We have never wasted one second of our time together." Pathe has revealed a trailer for a British dramedy titled The Great Escaper, based on a true story from a few years ago. The feel-good film will open in UK cinemas this fall, but there's still no US release date set yet. In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan staged a "great escape" from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, France, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary. The legendary Michael Caine stars as Bernie, which is pretty much perfect casting. Bernie's adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene – The Great Escaper celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation.
- 7/25/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Pathé has launched the brand-new trailer for ‘The Great Escaper’ which is set to open in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 6 October 2023.
Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of octogenarian Bernard Jordan’s escape from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary.
It was a story that captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was an inspirational but sanitised retelling of one man’s need to come to terms with the lasting trauma of war.
Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of octogenarian Bernard Jordan’s escape from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary.
It was a story that captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was an inspirational but sanitised retelling of one man’s need to come to terms with the lasting trauma of war.
- 7/25/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director John Sturges’ final feature is a handsome production that fumbles and stumbles in unexpected ways. Michael Caine and especially Donald Sutherland lead an impossible commando mission to kidnap Winston Churchill right from English soil. Tom Mankiewicz’s dialogue is witty but the tone is all over the place. We don’t know whether it’s the script, the direction or the editing that muffs so many potential bravura moments. On the other hand, every scene with Sutherland and Jenny Agutter is gold. [Imprint] gives us both a theatrical cut and a more satisfying extended cut.
The Eagle Has Landed
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 193
1976 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 135 + 151 min. / Street Date December 28, 2023 / Available from / au 69.95
Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, John Standing, Judy Geeson, Treat Williams, Larry Hagman, Joachim Hansen, David Gilliam, Siegfried Rauch, Wolf Kahler, Roy Marsden, Ferdy Mayne.
The Eagle Has Landed
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 193
1976 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 135 + 151 min. / Street Date December 28, 2023 / Available from / au 69.95
Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh, Sven-Bertil Taube, John Standing, Judy Geeson, Treat Williams, Larry Hagman, Joachim Hansen, David Gilliam, Siegfried Rauch, Wolf Kahler, Roy Marsden, Ferdy Mayne.
- 1/7/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: Twilight, Nurse Jackie and Supergirl actor Peter Facinelli has been set to lead World War One movie drama Can You Hear Me?, which is due to shoot in the UK next month.
Downtown Abbey’s Matthew Barber and John Standing (V For Vendetta) have been cast in supporting roles.
In the mystery-romance Facinelli will play Samuel, an American officer who is shot while fighting on the front line in 1918 France. The soldier “makes a bargain with the ‘Almighty’ to return to his bride in England, until the last bell tolls”.
Simon Hunter directs from a script by Charlotte Radford who is producing and also starring. Executive producer is Roger King.
Director Simon Hunter commented: “It’s a unique and beautiful script. A sensual and romantic ghost story set in the dark days of World War One. The story deals with loss and how to let go of the ones you have loved.
Downtown Abbey’s Matthew Barber and John Standing (V For Vendetta) have been cast in supporting roles.
In the mystery-romance Facinelli will play Samuel, an American officer who is shot while fighting on the front line in 1918 France. The soldier “makes a bargain with the ‘Almighty’ to return to his bride in England, until the last bell tolls”.
Simon Hunter directs from a script by Charlotte Radford who is producing and also starring. Executive producer is Roger King.
Director Simon Hunter commented: “It’s a unique and beautiful script. A sensual and romantic ghost story set in the dark days of World War One. The story deals with loss and how to let go of the ones you have loved.
- 1/20/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Why is it that, when a horror film achieves something special, both the critics and the public tend to elevate it above and beyond the ‘lowly’ horror genre? David Lynch’s most humane and sympathetic film still makes our heads spin, and this new 4K remaster renders Freddie Francis’s great cinematography at its best. Lynch extends and develops the visual nightmares of his experimental Eraserhead for this true-life classic. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller and Freddie Jones all give indelible, emotionally-moving performances. How many horror pictures hold up hope for social decency and personal dignity?
The Elephant Man
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1051
1980 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 123 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 29, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, Lydia Lisle,...
The Elephant Man
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1051
1980 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 123 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 29, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, Lydia Lisle,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The fine-tuned instrument that is Game of Thrones is about to play its last tune with Sunday’s series finale. Though composer Ramin Djawadi’s grand score was the soundtrack to the HBO blockbuster based on George R.R. Martin’s books, narratively this saga of the Seven Kingdoms was pure death metal.
In that bloody vein, we’ve drawn up a list of the Top 10 deaths so far (take a second to breathe that in) over the eight seasons of the series executive produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss that have each in their own way proved pivotal to getting to the end of the series. Deaths that determine in a long-tail manner who will end up on what remains of the Iron Throne.
Click on the photo above to launch a photo gallery of the demises that really mattered on Game of Thrones.
Now, as the record-breaking viewership this final cycle confirms,...
In that bloody vein, we’ve drawn up a list of the Top 10 deaths so far (take a second to breathe that in) over the eight seasons of the series executive produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss that have each in their own way proved pivotal to getting to the end of the series. Deaths that determine in a long-tail manner who will end up on what remains of the Iron Throne.
Click on the photo above to launch a photo gallery of the demises that really mattered on Game of Thrones.
Now, as the record-breaking viewership this final cycle confirms,...
- 5/17/2019
- by Dominic Patten and Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Bloch and Milton Subotsky may have helped to codify the Giallo in this murder thriller but the results are not up to even the shaky standards of Amicus. That said, horror fans are going to flock to get their hands on a big color & ‘scope release that’s gone missing for decades. It’s a significant ‘save’ by Kino Lorber.
The Psychopath
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1966 / Color / 2:35 widescreen Techniscope / 82 min. / Street Date April 10, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing, Alexander Knox, Judy Huxtable, Don Borisenko, Thorley Walters, Robert Crewdson, Harold Lang, Gina Gianelli, Greta Farrer, John Harvey.
Cinematography: John Wilcox
Film Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Art Direction: Bill Constable
Original Music: Elisabeth Lutyens
Written by Robert Bloch
Produced by Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Directed by Freddie Francis
A look at the cast and crew of The Psychopath raises one’s hopes. Good actors Patrick...
The Psychopath
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1966 / Color / 2:35 widescreen Techniscope / 82 min. / Street Date April 10, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing, Alexander Knox, Judy Huxtable, Don Borisenko, Thorley Walters, Robert Crewdson, Harold Lang, Gina Gianelli, Greta Farrer, John Harvey.
Cinematography: John Wilcox
Film Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Art Direction: Bill Constable
Original Music: Elisabeth Lutyens
Written by Robert Bloch
Produced by Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Directed by Freddie Francis
A look at the cast and crew of The Psychopath raises one’s hopes. Good actors Patrick...
- 5/8/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Creative Death sub-sub-genre took flight in the ‘70s with The Omen (1976), as that little imp Damien (and his dad) dispatched the cast in different macabre and entertaining ways. (Variety is the spice, and all that.) The ’78 sequel continued the burgeoning tradition, leading us up to The Legacy (1978) - a film that takes its own stab at variety by marrying The Old Dark House to The Dark Underlord and delivering a fun, wicked (albeit goofy) little offspring.
Released in September in the U.K. (and the following September stateside) by Columbia-emi-Warner (and Universal in the U.S.), The Legacy brought in $11 million against its $2.5 million budget, making it a commercial if not critical success. That this British/American co-production manages to combine their unique aesthetics into something coherent is and of itself some kind of horror miracle.
Maggie (Katharine Ross – The Stepford Wives) and her boyfriend Pete (Sam Elliott – Ghost Rider...
Released in September in the U.K. (and the following September stateside) by Columbia-emi-Warner (and Universal in the U.S.), The Legacy brought in $11 million against its $2.5 million budget, making it a commercial if not critical success. That this British/American co-production manages to combine their unique aesthetics into something coherent is and of itself some kind of horror miracle.
Maggie (Katharine Ross – The Stepford Wives) and her boyfriend Pete (Sam Elliott – Ghost Rider...
- 10/14/2017
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Alas, the Song of Ice and Fire draws to a close once again.
Season 7 really has been one hell of a thrill ride. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) met Jon Snow (Kit Harrington), the Night King (Vladimir Furdik) met, and brought down, a dragon, Arya (Maisie Williams) and Sansa (Sophie Turner) were finally reunited and Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) managed to put yet another bun in Cersie’s (Lena Headey) oven. It’s also boasted the best battle scenes that Game of Thrones has shown yet, with the production team finally being gifted the budget the show has been dying for since day one. Indeed, spectacle wise, it would be very easy to label Season 7 as the best of all.
However.
Things have seemed a tad – un Game of Throneish this year. Maybe it’s because the story is finally getting going, and characters are being reunited, that have been apart for a number of seasons.
Season 7 really has been one hell of a thrill ride. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) met Jon Snow (Kit Harrington), the Night King (Vladimir Furdik) met, and brought down, a dragon, Arya (Maisie Williams) and Sansa (Sophie Turner) were finally reunited and Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) managed to put yet another bun in Cersie’s (Lena Headey) oven. It’s also boasted the best battle scenes that Game of Thrones has shown yet, with the production team finally being gifted the budget the show has been dying for since day one. Indeed, spectacle wise, it would be very easy to label Season 7 as the best of all.
However.
Things have seemed a tad – un Game of Throneish this year. Maybe it’s because the story is finally getting going, and characters are being reunited, that have been apart for a number of seasons.
- 8/29/2017
- by Ben McCarthy
- The Cultural Post
The most adorable documentary that Frederick Wiseman never made, Neasa Ní Chianáin’s “In Loco Parentis” is a fly-on-the-wall chronicle of an academic year at Headfort, the only primary-age boarding school in the whole of Ireland. A verdant and enchanted estate in the heart of Kells, it seems like a place that time forgot. The giggly student body is the same age every semester, and the 21st-century pop songs the kids perform during band practice feel like dispatches from a very distant world (it’s as jarring to hear Rihanna at Headfort as it would be to hear her at Hogwarts).
Alas, even the most serene environments can’t exist in a snow globe. For John and Amanda Leyden, the married couple who have been running Headfort for 46 years, the deceptively static school environment has only made them more aware of their own mortality. They’d retire the moment it...
Alas, even the most serene environments can’t exist in a snow globe. For John and Amanda Leyden, the married couple who have been running Headfort for 46 years, the deceptively static school environment has only made them more aware of their own mortality. They’d retire the moment it...
- 1/21/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Happy Prince chronicles Wilde in the last days of his life.
Rupert Everett’s long-gestating Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince has commenced principal photography in Bavaria, Germany.
Everett directs from his own screenplay and will star alongside Colin Firth (The King’s Speech).
The cast is rounded out by Edwin Thomas (Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain), Colin Morgan (Merlin), Emily Watson (War Horse), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1), Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue), and John Standing (The Elephant Man).
The biopic tells the story of the last days of famed playwright Wilde. As he lies on his death bed, the past floods back to him, transporting him to other times and places.
The project will also shoot in France, Belgium and Italy.
Maze Pictures is producing with Entre Chien et Loup in co-production with Palomar. Beta Cinemas is handling worldwide sales.
The project...
Rupert Everett’s long-gestating Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince has commenced principal photography in Bavaria, Germany.
Everett directs from his own screenplay and will star alongside Colin Firth (The King’s Speech).
The cast is rounded out by Edwin Thomas (Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain), Colin Morgan (Merlin), Emily Watson (War Horse), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1), Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue), and John Standing (The Elephant Man).
The biopic tells the story of the last days of famed playwright Wilde. As he lies on his death bed, the past floods back to him, transporting him to other times and places.
The project will also shoot in France, Belgium and Italy.
Maze Pictures is producing with Entre Chien et Loup in co-production with Palomar. Beta Cinemas is handling worldwide sales.
The project...
- 9/22/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Kayti Burt Jul 25, 2016
We're clueing for looks in the Sherlock season 4 teaser trailer. What did we find?
We got our very first look at Sherlock season 4 courtesy of Comic Con with the release of a teaser trailer for the upcoming season, and it is full of clues just waiting to be analysed.
All in all, the trailer was surprisingly ensemble-y, with two of the most intriguing moments going to Mrs. Hudson and Molly, rather than Sherlock and John. It also seemed to emphasize action much more than previous Sherlock trailers, though this could be a marketing choice more than something indicative of the season as a whole.
But enough with the larger picture analysis. Here are 15 things we noticed in the first trailer for Sherlock season 4...
Moriarty gets top billing
The teaser begins with Jim's handsome mug, which is to say that it begins where both the season 3 finale and...
We're clueing for looks in the Sherlock season 4 teaser trailer. What did we find?
We got our very first look at Sherlock season 4 courtesy of Comic Con with the release of a teaser trailer for the upcoming season, and it is full of clues just waiting to be analysed.
All in all, the trailer was surprisingly ensemble-y, with two of the most intriguing moments going to Mrs. Hudson and Molly, rather than Sherlock and John. It also seemed to emphasize action much more than previous Sherlock trailers, though this could be a marketing choice more than something indicative of the season as a whole.
But enough with the larger picture analysis. Here are 15 things we noticed in the first trailer for Sherlock season 4...
Moriarty gets top billing
The teaser begins with Jim's handsome mug, which is to say that it begins where both the season 3 finale and...
- 7/25/2016
- Den of Geek
With the advent and huge success of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), studios were quick to hop aboard the killer train. Out were the outsized monsters of the ’50s, in were mama’s boys and socially maligned women dealing with sins of the past. Dementia 13 (’63) and No Way to Treat a Lady (’67) are just a sample of the ’60s horror films that focused on smaller scale, human dilemmas, regardless of how twisted they may be. One film that seems to have been misplaced in the schizoid shuffle is Freddie Francis’ The Psychopath (1966), a lean little thriller that acts as a gateway for one of the most revered European horror sub-genres: the giallo.
Of course, Psycho plays a major part in this association; the Italian-originated giallo wallowing in mysteries of the mind shot through with a razor-sharp emphasis on the visceral, stemming from a psychological need, a desire, to fix wrongs,...
Of course, Psycho plays a major part in this association; the Italian-originated giallo wallowing in mysteries of the mind shot through with a razor-sharp emphasis on the visceral, stemming from a psychological need, a desire, to fix wrongs,...
- 7/23/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
The Chickening
Selected for both Toronto and Sundance, Nick DenBoer and Davy Force's " The Chickening" is a short film spin on Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" that takes the horror classic and turns it into a super trippy ode to fried chicken. Boasting references galore from multiple nods to Tommy Wiseau to things like chicken-flavored condoms, it is easily the weirdest thing you'll see today and the first in a potential series of remixed classic films by the same guys. [Source: Bmd]
Marvel's Agents of Shield
The Honest Trailers gang have only occasionally turned their attention towards TV shows, and this week they decided to tackle one of the more problematic of genre series - "Marvel's Agents of Shield". From all the name-dropping, the use of C-list characters, the frequent death of black characters, and the living in the shadow of the more acclaimed and interesting Netflix series.
Pre Vis Action...
Selected for both Toronto and Sundance, Nick DenBoer and Davy Force's " The Chickening" is a short film spin on Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" that takes the horror classic and turns it into a super trippy ode to fried chicken. Boasting references galore from multiple nods to Tommy Wiseau to things like chicken-flavored condoms, it is easily the weirdest thing you'll see today and the first in a potential series of remixed classic films by the same guys. [Source: Bmd]
Marvel's Agents of Shield
The Honest Trailers gang have only occasionally turned their attention towards TV shows, and this week they decided to tackle one of the more problematic of genre series - "Marvel's Agents of Shield". From all the name-dropping, the use of C-list characters, the frequent death of black characters, and the living in the shadow of the more acclaimed and interesting Netflix series.
Pre Vis Action...
- 1/27/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Has one man’s death ever set off a chain of events like Jon Arryn’s demise in “Game of Thrones”? Well yes. All the time. After all, George R.R. Martin’s fantasy epic is loosely based on the War of the Roses. But still. If not for the death of Robert Baratheon’s Hand, Westeros would look entirely different. Most fans agree it was only a matter of time before Arryn told the King about what the Queen was up to with her brother. Had he managed the task, Robert would still be alive, the Starks would still be in Winterfell, and the kingdom would be less ripe for the taking by the Night’s King. Meanwhile Cersei and Jaimie would be decidedly dead. For being such an important catalyst, very little focus was put on Arryn himself in the HBO show. That was not always the case. Sir John Standing...
- 1/26/2016
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
Horror comics and magazines filled my shelves as a kid, titles such as Creepy, Eerie, House of Secrets and The Witching Hour weakening my eyes and troubling my sleep. I simply could not get enough of them. However, when I discovered that there were films made in the same multistory, blood soaked spirit, well, I forgot about sleep altogether. My first stop was Creepshow (1982), and delighted with that, I made my way back through earlier (and gentler) excursions of terror. Step right up ladies and gentlemen! Enter the Torture Garden (1967), a carnival exhibit where the evils of man are laid before you…for a price.
Released by Columbia Pictures November ’67 in the U.K. and July ’68 in North America, Torture Garden was the second film of Amicus Productions (Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (’65) being the first) that followed the omnibus format. Amicus, started by producers Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky,...
Released by Columbia Pictures November ’67 in the U.K. and July ’68 in North America, Torture Garden was the second film of Amicus Productions (Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (’65) being the first) that followed the omnibus format. Amicus, started by producers Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky,...
- 11/7/2015
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
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The CW has released the first official images from next week’s episode of Arrow, and they feature a whole lot of Constantine! The character will once again be played by Matt Ryan after he appeared in his own series last year on NBC. Unfortunately, that was cancelled after being poorly handled by the network, but getting to see him in Star City almost makes up for that.
The sight of John standing side by side with Green Arrow and Black Canary certainly takes some getting used to, but this is a very cool crossover which will hopefully lead to the character returning somewhere down the line. Unfortunately, it’s been said that this is going to be a one off appearance for Constantine (quite possibly because Warner Bros. has plans for him in the upcoming Justice League Dark movie), but for now, he’ll show...
The CW has released the first official images from next week’s episode of Arrow, and they feature a whole lot of Constantine! The character will once again be played by Matt Ryan after he appeared in his own series last year on NBC. Unfortunately, that was cancelled after being poorly handled by the network, but getting to see him in Star City almost makes up for that.
The sight of John standing side by side with Green Arrow and Black Canary certainly takes some getting used to, but this is a very cool crossover which will hopefully lead to the character returning somewhere down the line. Unfortunately, it’s been said that this is going to be a one off appearance for Constantine (quite possibly because Warner Bros. has plans for him in the upcoming Justice League Dark movie), but for now, he’ll show...
- 10/28/2015
- by Josh Wilding
- We Got This Covered
A revival of classic cult series The Prisoner has cast its new Number Six.
Big Finish - producers of audio drama based on Doctor Who, The Avengers and Blake's 7 - have hired Mark Elstob as the lead for their new series.
Elstob is best known for his stage work, though soap fans will remember his role as Andrew Fraser on Emmerdale from 2001-2002.
The Prisoner originally starred Patrick McGoohan as a former spy trapped in a peculiar - and sinister - village. Robbed of his identity, McGoohan's character was known only as 'Number Six'.
"I knew, of course, that the casting of Number Six was pivotal," said Nicholas Briggs - writer, director and producer on the audio revival. "Patrick McGoohan was the driving force of the original series, both on and off-screen. The new central performance would have to be every bit as powerful in its own way."
Briggs called Elstob "a brilliant,...
Big Finish - producers of audio drama based on Doctor Who, The Avengers and Blake's 7 - have hired Mark Elstob as the lead for their new series.
Elstob is best known for his stage work, though soap fans will remember his role as Andrew Fraser on Emmerdale from 2001-2002.
The Prisoner originally starred Patrick McGoohan as a former spy trapped in a peculiar - and sinister - village. Robbed of his identity, McGoohan's character was known only as 'Number Six'.
"I knew, of course, that the casting of Number Six was pivotal," said Nicholas Briggs - writer, director and producer on the audio revival. "Patrick McGoohan was the driving force of the original series, both on and off-screen. The new central performance would have to be every bit as powerful in its own way."
Briggs called Elstob "a brilliant,...
- 10/13/2015
- Digital Spy
You may not directly recall the name of director Richard Marquand, though in many ways he’s a notable director from the 1980s thanks to items like the pulpy Glenn Close courtroom drama Jagged Edge (1985), and a Ken Follett adaptation Eye of the Needle (1981). Oh, and he happened to helm Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in 1983. The British director died of a stroke at the age of forty nine, which explains the abrupt end of a flourishing filmography. He made the jump from documentary and television series to feature with the forgotten 1978 British horror film The Legacy, which starred notable American stars (and real life couple) Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott. Based on a story by Jimmy Sangster, a writer of many Hammer Studio films, the screenplay was also co-written by Patrick Tilley (his last credit) and Paul Wheeler (who would exclusively work in television afterwards). The...
- 9/29/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Matthew Macfadyen and Romola Garai are among the latest actors who have joined ITV's feature-length film Churchill's Secret.
Set during the summer months of 1953, the one-off drama stars Michael Gambon as Winston Churchill, who in his late 70s suffers from a life-threatening stroke.
The story is told from the perspective of his young nurse Millie Appleyard (Garai).
Macfadyen will play Randolph, one of Winston's children. Daisy Lewis, Rachael Stirling and Tara Fitzgerald have signed up to portray Winston's other children Mary, Sarah and Diana respectively.
Further cast additions include Bill Paterson, James Wilby, Alex Jennings, Patrick Kennedy, Christian McKay, Chris Larkin and John Standing.
Churchill's Secret is based on Jonathan Smith's recently-published book The Churchill Secret: Kbo, and is being adapted by Stewart Harcourt.
Filming will begin this month in London, Hayes and at Churchill's principal family home in Kent.
The one-off will also air in the Us on...
Set during the summer months of 1953, the one-off drama stars Michael Gambon as Winston Churchill, who in his late 70s suffers from a life-threatening stroke.
The story is told from the perspective of his young nurse Millie Appleyard (Garai).
Macfadyen will play Randolph, one of Winston's children. Daisy Lewis, Rachael Stirling and Tara Fitzgerald have signed up to portray Winston's other children Mary, Sarah and Diana respectively.
Further cast additions include Bill Paterson, James Wilby, Alex Jennings, Patrick Kennedy, Christian McKay, Chris Larkin and John Standing.
Churchill's Secret is based on Jonathan Smith's recently-published book The Churchill Secret: Kbo, and is being adapted by Stewart Harcourt.
Filming will begin this month in London, Hayes and at Churchill's principal family home in Kent.
The one-off will also air in the Us on...
- 6/22/2015
- Digital Spy
Scarlett Johansson Oscar dress Scarlett Johansson at the Oscars Looking great in a long purple dress, Scarlett Johansson displays her tight-fitting costume and bare back at the 83rd Academy Awards held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Oscar 2011 co-host and Best Actor nominee James Franco (for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours) thus introduced Johansson and fellow Oscar presenter Matthew McConaughey: "I am six degrees of Kevin Bacon away from our next two presenters. Figure it out on the Internet." Well, if you're lucky. Some have remarked that Franco was a more effective Oscar host online, where he tweeted some of the evening's to-dos, than on the stage of the Kodak Theatre. His fellow equally panned Oscarcast host was actress Anne Hathaway. Scarlett Johansson movies Scarlett Johansson has been featured in more than 40 films since her debut at age 10 in Rob Reiner's North, back in 1994. Johansson, in fact,...
- 5/8/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com
Torture Garden (1967)
Written by: Robert Bloch
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Cast: Burgess Meredith (Dr. Diablo), Jack Palance (Ronald Wyatt), Beverly Adams (Carla Hayes), Peter Cushing (Lancelot Canning), Maurice Denham (Uncle Roger), Robert Hutton (Bruce Benton), John Standing (Leo Winston), John Phillips (Eddie Storm), Bernard Kay (Dr. Heim), David Bauer (Mike Charles)
It goes without saying how much I love the Amicus and Hammer anthology films. So elegantly terrifying with a prim and proper British flair, I would love to see a film like that today. Not saying that there aren’t good anthologies made now, but I haven’t seen any that mined that perfect blend of EC comics pulp horror and some solid style as classically trained actors and actresses bring it to life. I can even look past all the neckerchiefs and high 1970’s fashion, in fact I kinda like it.
“Torture Garden...
Torture Garden (1967)
Written by: Robert Bloch
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Cast: Burgess Meredith (Dr. Diablo), Jack Palance (Ronald Wyatt), Beverly Adams (Carla Hayes), Peter Cushing (Lancelot Canning), Maurice Denham (Uncle Roger), Robert Hutton (Bruce Benton), John Standing (Leo Winston), John Phillips (Eddie Storm), Bernard Kay (Dr. Heim), David Bauer (Mike Charles)
It goes without saying how much I love the Amicus and Hammer anthology films. So elegantly terrifying with a prim and proper British flair, I would love to see a film like that today. Not saying that there aren’t good anthologies made now, but I haven’t seen any that mined that perfect blend of EC comics pulp horror and some solid style as classically trained actors and actresses bring it to life. I can even look past all the neckerchiefs and high 1970’s fashion, in fact I kinda like it.
“Torture Garden...
- 12/13/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Interview Louisa Mellor 14 Jan 2014 - 07:00
Here's what the creators and select cast members had to say after the Bafta screening of Sherlock series 3 finale, His Last Vow. Spoilers...
Warning: contains major spoilers for His Last Vow.
After the final "Miss me?" had tumbled out of His Last Vow, an episode which left the audience at Bafta grinning like Cheshire cats, select creators and cast members were welcomed to the stage for a jocular post-viewing Q&A. Co-creator and episode writer Steven Moffat was joined by producer Sue Vertue, director Nick Hurran, and actors Amanda Abbington and Lars Mikkelsen.
Here is the Q&A transcript, chaired by journalist Amy Raphael, more or less in full...
Amy Raphael: Is the public response to Sherlock everything you hoped it would be?
Steven Moffat: Well it’s amazing. It’s very rare for a series to come back and on each occasion get higher than last time,...
Here's what the creators and select cast members had to say after the Bafta screening of Sherlock series 3 finale, His Last Vow. Spoilers...
Warning: contains major spoilers for His Last Vow.
After the final "Miss me?" had tumbled out of His Last Vow, an episode which left the audience at Bafta grinning like Cheshire cats, select creators and cast members were welcomed to the stage for a jocular post-viewing Q&A. Co-creator and episode writer Steven Moffat was joined by producer Sue Vertue, director Nick Hurran, and actors Amanda Abbington and Lars Mikkelsen.
Here is the Q&A transcript, chaired by journalist Amy Raphael, more or less in full...
Amy Raphael: Is the public response to Sherlock everything you hoped it would be?
Steven Moffat: Well it’s amazing. It’s very rare for a series to come back and on each occasion get higher than last time,...
- 1/13/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
It took me a while to watch something in tribute to the late Peter O'Toole—too upsetting—and I still haven't been able to face Joan Fontaine on the screen since her recent passing, though when I do perhaps I'll go for September Affair (1950) or Something to Live For (1952), neither of which I've ever seen.
With O'Toole, I eventually plumped for Rogue Male (1977): the title seemed to fit him to a tee. This is a television adaptation of Geoffrey Household's excellent thriller, previously filmed by Fritz Lang under the title Man Hunt, back in 1941 when the events were current.
A hunter (O'Toole) called Hunter takes aim at Hitler, but is apprehended before he can pull the trigger. Tortured by the Gestapo, he miraculously escapes and now Hunter becomes the hunted, pursued all the way back to England and run to earth in a self-made burrow, trapped like a rat.
With O'Toole, I eventually plumped for Rogue Male (1977): the title seemed to fit him to a tee. This is a television adaptation of Geoffrey Household's excellent thriller, previously filmed by Fritz Lang under the title Man Hunt, back in 1941 when the events were current.
A hunter (O'Toole) called Hunter takes aim at Hitler, but is apprehended before he can pull the trigger. Tortured by the Gestapo, he miraculously escapes and now Hunter becomes the hunted, pursued all the way back to England and run to earth in a self-made burrow, trapped like a rat.
- 1/9/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Who is Alexis Castle?
The red-haired daughter on "Castle" is just hitting adulthood these days, and her grown-up self is starting to appear. More than just a smart girl who loves her daddy, it looks like Alexis has a crime-solving bent too in "Like Father, Like Daughter."
It's just that Alexis is more into the justice of it all, rather than the murders. This is a nice contrast to Rick Castle. The fact that the development only helps to bring Alexis and Castle back together after their fight is just a bonus.
Molly Quinn talks about her big fight with her TV dad.
"Sometimes, the good guys don't win."
Several weeks have passed since Alexis decided her father was persona non grata for having been mean to Pi. But the girl hasn't wasted any time on sulking. Instead, Alexis is actively pursuing a role in a justice project through her...
The red-haired daughter on "Castle" is just hitting adulthood these days, and her grown-up self is starting to appear. More than just a smart girl who loves her daddy, it looks like Alexis has a crime-solving bent too in "Like Father, Like Daughter."
It's just that Alexis is more into the justice of it all, rather than the murders. This is a nice contrast to Rick Castle. The fact that the development only helps to bring Alexis and Castle back together after their fight is just a bonus.
Molly Quinn talks about her big fight with her TV dad.
"Sometimes, the good guys don't win."
Several weeks have passed since Alexis decided her father was persona non grata for having been mean to Pi. But the girl hasn't wasted any time on sulking. Instead, Alexis is actively pursuing a role in a justice project through her...
- 11/5/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Where would a horror movie be without a classic death scene – or two? We’ve had some great ones over the years: Janet Leigh’s shower to end all showers in Psycho (1960); the ill fated nude swim in Jaws (1975); David Warner’s famous decapitation in The Omen (1976); John Hurt’s serious indigestion problem in Alien (1979); and the exploding head in Scanners (1980). And let’s not forget the gruesome ends that befell pre-stardom Kevin Bacon and Johnny Depp.
Hang on a minute! I’ve just mentioned all the classic ones! Well let’s face it, so much has been written and discussed about those famous demises, they’ve been pretty much done to death (sorry!). Therefore, the following ten are horror-related deaths that deserve some kind of classic status, a couple of which are notable for their surreal and ambiguous nature.But beware...since most of the best death scenes are...
Hang on a minute! I’ve just mentioned all the classic ones! Well let’s face it, so much has been written and discussed about those famous demises, they’ve been pretty much done to death (sorry!). Therefore, the following ten are horror-related deaths that deserve some kind of classic status, a couple of which are notable for their surreal and ambiguous nature.But beware...since most of the best death scenes are...
- 10/22/2012
- Shadowlocked
[rating 5]
(Warning: Extremely significant spoilers follow!)
Oh, those mad geniuses who write for Big Finish. Back in 2001, they released a Sixth Doctor audio story called “Project: Twilight”, which introduced the Forge and its master, Nimrod, as well as a young, often crying woman named Cassie (appropriately for the title, it also brought vampires back to the Who universe). This was a good, solid story (that I only listened to for the first time this last week), and it seemed fairly stand-alone. It wasn’t. It turned out to be a part of a huge arc that spanned the Sixth and Seventh Doctor’s (Sylvester McCoy) eras and had a direct impact on Seventh Doctor companion, Hex (Philip Olivier). The full scale of that impact finally comes home to roost in this story, which also seems to be a follow-up to the 1989 TV episode, “The Curse of Fenric”.
Yeah, this one’s...
(Warning: Extremely significant spoilers follow!)
Oh, those mad geniuses who write for Big Finish. Back in 2001, they released a Sixth Doctor audio story called “Project: Twilight”, which introduced the Forge and its master, Nimrod, as well as a young, often crying woman named Cassie (appropriately for the title, it also brought vampires back to the Who universe). This was a good, solid story (that I only listened to for the first time this last week), and it seemed fairly stand-alone. It wasn’t. It turned out to be a part of a huge arc that spanned the Sixth and Seventh Doctor’s (Sylvester McCoy) eras and had a direct impact on Seventh Doctor companion, Hex (Philip Olivier). The full scale of that impact finally comes home to roost in this story, which also seems to be a follow-up to the 1989 TV episode, “The Curse of Fenric”.
Yeah, this one’s...
- 9/20/2012
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
Despite reports that Katy Perry and John Mayer called it quits after just a few weeks of dating, new photos say otherwise.
On Saturday night, Perry and Mayer were spotted holding hands and kissing at the Fyf music festival in Los Angeles, reports Gossip Cop.
Need more proof that the couple are still together? A fan who spotted the singers at the festival posted a (blurry) photo of Perry and John standing next to each other during one of the sets, while another fan posted a photo of the pair along with a group of friends.
On Aug. 23, People reported the 27-year-old "Wide Awake" singer had ended things with Mayer, who has somewhat of a reputation as a lothario in Hollywood dating circles.
"They'll end up as friends," a source told the magazine. "They were honestly having fun. People made it out to be far more than it was."
Perry...
On Saturday night, Perry and Mayer were spotted holding hands and kissing at the Fyf music festival in Los Angeles, reports Gossip Cop.
Need more proof that the couple are still together? A fan who spotted the singers at the festival posted a (blurry) photo of Perry and John standing next to each other during one of the sets, while another fan posted a photo of the pair along with a group of friends.
On Aug. 23, People reported the 27-year-old "Wide Awake" singer had ended things with Mayer, who has somewhat of a reputation as a lothario in Hollywood dating circles.
"They'll end up as friends," a source told the magazine. "They were honestly having fun. People made it out to be far more than it was."
Perry...
- 9/4/2012
- by Stephanie Marcus
- Huffington Post
Copelia Trailer, Clip, Photo. Nic Benns‘ Copelia (2010) short film trailer, short film clip, short film photos star Ralph Brown, Vincent Regan, John Standing, Anna Walton, and Olivia Williams. Copelia‘s plot synopsis: “A doctor has invented a strange new technology that converts sounds into protective organisms, which he uses to shield his precious flowers and plants. But [...]
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- 7/6/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
ITV has announced the cast for its forthcoming adaptation of Daphne du Maurier novel The Scapegoat. The 100-minute drama, set in 1952, follows two very different men, John Standing and Johnny Spence, who swap identities. Brothers & Sisters star Matthew Rhys will play the two lead roles, while Dame Eileen Atkins will portray Johnny's mother Lady Spence. Sheridan Smith, Jodhi May, Andrew Scott, Anton Lesser and Alice Orr Ewing also feature in the cast, while award-winning French actress Sylvie Testud will make a special appearance. "We're delighted to be bringing The Scapegoat to ITV1," said the channel's director of drama commissioning Laura Mackie. "It's a terrific, suspenseful script featuring characters with sinister motivations and dark secrets. We've wanted (more)...
- 11/7/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
1941, PG, Optimum
Hitler and Goebbels were great admirers of Fritz Lang's films, most especially Metropolis. When the Nazis came to power they banned his first two sound movies, but then invited him to run the German film industry. A Jewish liberal, Lang fled into exile and seven years later directed this Hollywood version of Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, the first of his four anti-Nazi movies. It begins with Captain Alan Thorndike, a celebrated British big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) holding Hitler in the cross hairs of his gunsight from a hill above Berchtesgaden in July 1939. The audience is similarly transfixed for the next 90 minutes. Thorndike doesn't fire the shot, is captured, tortured and escapes back to a very Hollywoodian England where the hunter becomes the prey.
He's pursued by suave, monocled Nazi colonel George Sanders and sinister Gestapo agent John Carradine, and along the way he's assisted by...
Hitler and Goebbels were great admirers of Fritz Lang's films, most especially Metropolis. When the Nazis came to power they banned his first two sound movies, but then invited him to run the German film industry. A Jewish liberal, Lang fled into exile and seven years later directed this Hollywood version of Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, the first of his four anti-Nazi movies. It begins with Captain Alan Thorndike, a celebrated British big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) holding Hitler in the cross hairs of his gunsight from a hill above Berchtesgaden in July 1939. The audience is similarly transfixed for the next 90 minutes. Thorndike doesn't fire the shot, is captured, tortured and escapes back to a very Hollywoodian England where the hunter becomes the prey.
He's pursued by suave, monocled Nazi colonel George Sanders and sinister Gestapo agent John Carradine, and along the way he's assisted by...
- 2/6/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
When, on Dec. 30, David Sheward filed his critique of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' production of "The Mikado," the reviewing year ended for Back Stage. During 2010, Sheward and co–head critic Erik Haagensen reported on more than 250 theater and cabaret shows and, thanks to their responsibilities as members of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Drama Desk, saw many other offerings they didn't review. Rather than present yet another top 10 list of the "best" shows of the year, Sheward and Haagensen decided that a publication serving actors should salute actors.What follows is each man's selection of 10 memorable performances—by five women and five men—seen in 2010. Not the "best," not the "most," not ranked in any order, simply 10 performances that were so outstanding they wanted to salute them. Ten is an arbitrary limit. Without question, there were other performances that were as memorable as these.
- 12/30/2010
- backstage.com
HBO has finally released the full cast and crew list for the highly anticipated upcoming television series based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. One change to the cast to note is the replacement of Jamie Campbell-Bower with Rob Ostlere in the role of Waymar Royce. The series due to premiere in 2011 and will have ten episodes in its first season. Production resumes on July 26, 2010 in Belfast, Ireland. Check out the complete cast and crew list below.
Game of Thrones Series Summary:
Game of Thrones is a new original HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling novels. In a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime, the Westeros crown comes with a price. Betrayal, lust, intrigue and supernatural forces shake the four corners of the Kingdom, from the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the...
Game of Thrones Series Summary:
Game of Thrones is a new original HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling novels. In a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime, the Westeros crown comes with a price. Betrayal, lust, intrigue and supernatural forces shake the four corners of the Kingdom, from the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the...
- 7/19/2010
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Some actors might take umbrage if the title of their career retrospective was "Over the Top." Not John Lithgow. The notoriously affable actor says of his sometimes oversized acting, "Well, it's kind of my trademark. There's no getting around it."
Lithgow will be speaking at the Los Angeles Film Festival in an event titled "Over the Top: An Evening With John Lithgow" on June 22, at 8 p.m. at the Regal 12 Cinema in downtown L.A. The conversation, moderated by festival artistic director David Ansen, will be accompanied by two of Lithgow's biggest and most memorable performances: madcap Dr. Emilio Lizardo in the 1984 sci-fi romp "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" and the terrified plane passenger in the segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" from the 1983 anthology film "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
While he may be best known for the big performances -- like the alien masquerading as a human in the NBC...
Lithgow will be speaking at the Los Angeles Film Festival in an event titled "Over the Top: An Evening With John Lithgow" on June 22, at 8 p.m. at the Regal 12 Cinema in downtown L.A. The conversation, moderated by festival artistic director David Ansen, will be accompanied by two of Lithgow's biggest and most memorable performances: madcap Dr. Emilio Lizardo in the 1984 sci-fi romp "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" and the terrified plane passenger in the segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" from the 1983 anthology film "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
While he may be best known for the big performances -- like the alien masquerading as a human in the NBC...
- 6/22/2010
- by By Jenelle Riley, Back Stage
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Guests at Bellamy’s. From left, Eliza Lumley, Suzy Menkes, Charlotte Tilbury, Hal Cazalet, Jacquetta Wheeler, Lara Cazalet, and Nicky Haslam. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “There were angels dining at the Ritz and a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square,” or thereabouts—Bruton Place to be exact, and there were not one, but three, nightingales. Dinner guests at Bellamy’s were teleported back to the 1940s on Monday night as three young stars—Eliza Lumley, Hal Cazalet, and his sister, Lara Cazalet—kicked off the first night of their weeklong cabaret residency at Gavin Rankin’s stylish London restaurant. Following in the footsteps of last year’s brave—Nicky Haslam and Sir John Standing—the threesome sang “The Mayfair Songbook,” a collection of classics by Maschwitz and Sherwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin, and, perhaps most surprisingly, celebrated English author P. G. Wodehouse, the step-great-grandfather of the Cazalet siblings.
- 3/24/2010
- Vanity Fair
Patrick Swayze: 1952-2009
By
Alex Simon
All films buffs have guilty pleasures. You know, those movies that high-minded cineastes love to turn their noses up at, especially critics for The New York Times, people with MFAs in some sort of film-related field, or just plain snobs who refuse to acknowledge anything released on celluloid that doesn’t have English subtitles and at least one reference to death, either as a character or a metaphor (and oftentimes both). Patrick Swayze was the undisputed King of the Guilty Pleasure. From his screen debut in Skatetown, USA in 1979, to his final appearance on television’s "The Beast" as a take-no-prisoners cop, Swayze was an unapologetic good ol’ boy who happened to be a classically-trained dancer, student of martial arts and Eastern philosophy, and possessor of an Iq that was nothing to sneeze at. In fact, he closely resembled Dalton, his character in...
By
Alex Simon
All films buffs have guilty pleasures. You know, those movies that high-minded cineastes love to turn their noses up at, especially critics for The New York Times, people with MFAs in some sort of film-related field, or just plain snobs who refuse to acknowledge anything released on celluloid that doesn’t have English subtitles and at least one reference to death, either as a character or a metaphor (and oftentimes both). Patrick Swayze was the undisputed King of the Guilty Pleasure. From his screen debut in Skatetown, USA in 1979, to his final appearance on television’s "The Beast" as a take-no-prisoners cop, Swayze was an unapologetic good ol’ boy who happened to be a classically-trained dancer, student of martial arts and Eastern philosophy, and possessor of an Iq that was nothing to sneeze at. In fact, he closely resembled Dalton, his character in...
- 9/25/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Celebrated stage and screen actor (and Knight of the Realm) Sir John Standing takes to the stage of Pizza on the Park for an extended run of his critically acclaimed show Singing Noel Coward which sold out at Bellamy's earlier this year. Standing, who has appeared onstage on Broadway and The West and in numerous Hollywood movies, including V for Vendetta and Walk Don't Run (with Cary Grant), knew Coward personally and presents a razor sharp programme of the composer and dramatist's beloved repertoire, peppered with personal anecdotes.
- 3/31/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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