I greatly looked forward to the ‘sequel’ rebirth of Hammer Horror into today’s age. It is important to note that those of us who delighted in the Halcyon days of Hammer Studios with the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Sherlock Holmes, The Reptile, The Gorgon, and many others stalking around opulent yet budget-conscious sets with blood, gore, and low-cut necklines may be in for a bit of shock. Those types of films meaning the ‘Old’ Hammer Studios formula do not work for audiences of today. That is why Joe Stephenson Directed Doctor Jekyll (2023) is pivotal to the new ‘John Gore’ era of horror filmmaking, to that end it does not disappoint new and old on many fronts.
This picture is an underplayed subversive delight of duality on many levels. The level of decadency each person has on one another no matter how different they seem. Many cast themselves...
This picture is an underplayed subversive delight of duality on many levels. The level of decadency each person has on one another no matter how different they seem. Many cast themselves...
- 1/2/2024
- by Terry Sherwood
- Horror Asylum
Lech Majewski, the Polish film and theater director and writer, will be the recipient of the Directing Award at the Camerimage International Film Festival, which will take place in Torun, Poland, on Nov. 9-16.
Known for helming such films “The Mill and the Cross” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Majewski is a dual U.S. and Polish citizen. In addition to his work in film, he’s also a composer, poet and painter. His installations have been exhibited in multiple countries.
Majewski’s upcoming picture “Valley of the Gods” stars Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. It explores an idiosyncratic and mysterious vision of America and will be introduced by the director at a special Camerimage screening.
The director’s work is nothing if not eclectic. 2010’s “The Mill and the Cross” is a cinematic re-creation and reimagining of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s...
Known for helming such films “The Mill and the Cross” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Majewski is a dual U.S. and Polish citizen. In addition to his work in film, he’s also a composer, poet and painter. His installations have been exhibited in multiple countries.
Majewski’s upcoming picture “Valley of the Gods” stars Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea and John Rhys-Davies. It explores an idiosyncratic and mysterious vision of America and will be introduced by the director at a special Camerimage screening.
The director’s work is nothing if not eclectic. 2010’s “The Mill and the Cross” is a cinematic re-creation and reimagining of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s...
- 9/5/2019
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Here at Roobla we absolutely loved British biographical flick My Name is Lenny (2017). Available now on digital, DVD and Blu-ray, to celebrate, we have a copy on DVD to giveaway.
Explosive and brutal, My Name Is Lenny is based on the true story of Britain’s most notorious bareknuckle fighter: Lenny McLean (Josh Helman). A known associate of The Krays, Charles Bronson and Ronnie Biggs, Lenny was an East End icon, bouncer and enforcer at the centre of the unlicensed boxing world.
Welcome to the no-holds-barred epic portrayal of his life, from a troubled and violent childhood to his early fighting years, exploring his loving but volatile relationships and bitter rivalry with Roy Shaw (Ufc Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping) all culminating in his championship win to become: The Guv’Nor. Also starring Nick Moran, BAFTA winner Chanel Cresswell and Oscar® nominated John Hurt.
To be in with a chance of winning,...
Explosive and brutal, My Name Is Lenny is based on the true story of Britain’s most notorious bareknuckle fighter: Lenny McLean (Josh Helman). A known associate of The Krays, Charles Bronson and Ronnie Biggs, Lenny was an East End icon, bouncer and enforcer at the centre of the unlicensed boxing world.
Welcome to the no-holds-barred epic portrayal of his life, from a troubled and violent childhood to his early fighting years, exploring his loving but volatile relationships and bitter rivalry with Roy Shaw (Ufc Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping) all culminating in his championship win to become: The Guv’Nor. Also starring Nick Moran, BAFTA winner Chanel Cresswell and Oscar® nominated John Hurt.
To be in with a chance of winning,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Roobla Team
- The Cultural Post
Author: Zehra Phelan
Back in 2015, Britain witnessed a robbery that could have been straight out of the movies. It was a throwback crime to the days of the Great Train Robbery of 1963, a crime which made the likes of Buster Edwards and Ronnie Biggs household names. It was only a matter of time before this new story was adapted for the big screen and The Hatton Garden Job is just that film.
The Hatton Garden Job is directed by Tower Block and I Am Soldier writer and director Ronnie Thompson, though looking at the new trailer anyone would think this has a touch of Guy Ritchie about it. The cast is none too shabby either; the gang of aging criminals is lead by Brian Reader who is played by Larry Lamb who may be most recognisable as Gavin’s Dad in Gavin and Stacey. He also had the evil role...
Back in 2015, Britain witnessed a robbery that could have been straight out of the movies. It was a throwback crime to the days of the Great Train Robbery of 1963, a crime which made the likes of Buster Edwards and Ronnie Biggs household names. It was only a matter of time before this new story was adapted for the big screen and The Hatton Garden Job is just that film.
The Hatton Garden Job is directed by Tower Block and I Am Soldier writer and director Ronnie Thompson, though looking at the new trailer anyone would think this has a touch of Guy Ritchie about it. The cast is none too shabby either; the gang of aging criminals is lead by Brian Reader who is played by Larry Lamb who may be most recognisable as Gavin’s Dad in Gavin and Stacey. He also had the evil role...
- 1/27/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
One of the planners of the Great Train robbery - Gordon Goody - names the mysterious "Ulsterman", the criminal mastermind who helped organise the 1963 heist which netted £45m. Now living in Spain, he's not so well known as his partners-in-crime Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards but proves a born storyteller, recounting his life before the heist and putting a name to the post officer worker who tipped the gang off about trainload of cash.
- 10/3/2014
- Sky Movies
In the United Kingdom, just like any other country, we have our tales of gangsters and crooks that become legendary, not only for the crime but for the characters who took part in them. One of the biggest legends was The Great Train Robbery, which personally I first found out about through Buster starring Phil Collins, and now of course we have the BBC mini-series that was shown at the end of 2013, and is now released on DVD.
The Great Train Robbery comes in two parts, first looking at the robbery from the view-point of the criminals themselves, then the hunt which focuses on the police and their struggles to capture each member of the gang. With more of a focus on Bruce Reynolds (Luke Evans), the so-called mastermind and planner of the robbery the drama looks to take the glamour out of the tale, not focusing on the characters...
The Great Train Robbery comes in two parts, first looking at the robbery from the view-point of the criminals themselves, then the hunt which focuses on the police and their struggles to capture each member of the gang. With more of a focus on Bruce Reynolds (Luke Evans), the so-called mastermind and planner of the robbery the drama looks to take the glamour out of the tale, not focusing on the characters...
- 1/6/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Pickpockets to highwaymen, bank heists to drug smuggling, the readers' collective Robin Hood act has made a treasure chest
Under the cover of darkness they came. Precious time was snatched to deliver. One reader endured terrible pain and went to hospital, another is set to move house, but this did not stop them. And another, more delightfully, saw the delivery of a beautiful baby (I dedicate this blog to you, prolific Rr regular BeltwayBandit - congratulations!), and despite all of this, during this crazy pre-Christmas period, you still brought riches. Thank you, me hearties, for your bountiful song booty! From rampant robbery to surreptitious smuggling your treasures cascaded through the cellar door of the Readers Recommend and I spent many hours admiring, examining, analysing and enjoying. I am a man poor in time, but rich in song.
And now my turn again to stand and deliver. And indeed, among all the thieves,...
Under the cover of darkness they came. Precious time was snatched to deliver. One reader endured terrible pain and went to hospital, another is set to move house, but this did not stop them. And another, more delightfully, saw the delivery of a beautiful baby (I dedicate this blog to you, prolific Rr regular BeltwayBandit - congratulations!), and despite all of this, during this crazy pre-Christmas period, you still brought riches. Thank you, me hearties, for your bountiful song booty! From rampant robbery to surreptitious smuggling your treasures cascaded through the cellar door of the Readers Recommend and I spent many hours admiring, examining, analysing and enjoying. I am a man poor in time, but rich in song.
And now my turn again to stand and deliver. And indeed, among all the thieves,...
- 12/19/2013
- by Peter Kimpton
- The Guardian - Film News
BBC One drama The Great Train Robbery topped Wednesday's ratings, according to overnight figures.
Chris Chibnall's first of a two-parter - aired on the night of real-life robber Ronnie Biggs's death - attracted 5.23 million (23.2%) at 8pm. Later, a repeat of Mrs Brown's Boys amused 4.89m (21.5%) at 9.30pm.
On BBC Two, Wartime Farm appealed to 1.39m (6.8%) at 7pm, followed by Food and Drink with 1.39m (6.8%) at 8pm. Tudor Monastery Farm gathered 1.51m (6.6%) at 9pm.
ITV's Surprise, Surprise entertained 4.06m (18.3%) at 8pm (230k/1.0% on +1). The second part of Lucan dropped around 1.2m from last week to 2.66m (12.1%) at 9pm (312k/1.9%).
On Channel 4, Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners intrigued 1.21m (5.4%) at 8pm (149k/0.6%). 24 Hours in A&E attracted 2.15m (9.4%) at 9pm (310k/1.7%), while the latest Gogglebox was up to 2.05m (11.0%) at 10pm (238k/2.3%).
Channel 5's Excessive Compulsive Collectors fascinated 404k (1.8%) at 8pm, while Britain's Craziest Christmas Lights was seen by 1.35m...
Chris Chibnall's first of a two-parter - aired on the night of real-life robber Ronnie Biggs's death - attracted 5.23 million (23.2%) at 8pm. Later, a repeat of Mrs Brown's Boys amused 4.89m (21.5%) at 9.30pm.
On BBC Two, Wartime Farm appealed to 1.39m (6.8%) at 7pm, followed by Food and Drink with 1.39m (6.8%) at 8pm. Tudor Monastery Farm gathered 1.51m (6.6%) at 9pm.
ITV's Surprise, Surprise entertained 4.06m (18.3%) at 8pm (230k/1.0% on +1). The second part of Lucan dropped around 1.2m from last week to 2.66m (12.1%) at 9pm (312k/1.9%).
On Channel 4, Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners intrigued 1.21m (5.4%) at 8pm (149k/0.6%). 24 Hours in A&E attracted 2.15m (9.4%) at 9pm (310k/1.7%), while the latest Gogglebox was up to 2.05m (11.0%) at 10pm (238k/2.3%).
Channel 5's Excessive Compulsive Collectors fascinated 404k (1.8%) at 8pm, while Britain's Craziest Christmas Lights was seen by 1.35m...
- 12/19/2013
- Digital Spy
London, December 19: Infamous fugitive Ronnie Biggs died yesterday, aged 84.
The English thief, known for his role in the 'Great Train Robbery' of 1963, was rushed from his north London nursing home to Barnet hospital as he suffered internal bleeding, but died a few hours later, the Mirror reported.
Author Chris Pickard, who helped in writing Biggs' autobiography 'Odd Man Out - The Last Straw', said that he should be remembered as 'one of the great characters of the last 50 years'.
Biggs, who was a part of the gang that staged a heist on a night mail train almost 50 years ago and made off with a haul of $4.2 million,.
The English thief, known for his role in the 'Great Train Robbery' of 1963, was rushed from his north London nursing home to Barnet hospital as he suffered internal bleeding, but died a few hours later, the Mirror reported.
Author Chris Pickard, who helped in writing Biggs' autobiography 'Odd Man Out - The Last Straw', said that he should be remembered as 'one of the great characters of the last 50 years'.
Biggs, who was a part of the gang that staged a heist on a night mail train almost 50 years ago and made off with a haul of $4.2 million,.
- 12/19/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
London – Notorious British criminal Ronnie Biggs, who took part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery that spawned myriad TV, film and documentary projects, died in the U.K. Wednesday. He was 84. His death is awkwardly impeccable timing for the BBC, which is set to air two high-profile television dramas on Wednesday and Thursday based on the robbery -- one from the gang's point of view and one from the police's – named A Robber's Tale and A Copper's Tale, respectively. Story: L.A., London Production Firms Team on 'Great Train Robbery' Doc (Exclusive) Biggs' publicists, who run his website
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- 12/18/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Review Louisa Mellor 18 Dec 2013 - 21:30
The first of two BBC films on the Great Train Robbery is slick stuff, but does it provide enough light and shade?
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 A Robber’s Tale
The Great Train Robbery. With a name like that, it’s no wonder we enjoy retelling this story. Had the 1963 Cheddington Mail Van Raid not been rechristened with such a swashbuckling title, you can bet we wouldn’t be here now, watching the credits roll on another dramatized version of events.
Or more properly, half a dramatized version. The second film in this diptych, A Copper’s Tale, airs tomorrow night and tells the same story from the other side of the thin blue line. Writer Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch, Torchwood) has cleaved the narrative into two neat halves: cops and robbers. In many ways, it’s a swell trick, the novelty of which tilts...
The first of two BBC films on the Great Train Robbery is slick stuff, but does it provide enough light and shade?
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 A Robber’s Tale
The Great Train Robbery. With a name like that, it’s no wonder we enjoy retelling this story. Had the 1963 Cheddington Mail Van Raid not been rechristened with such a swashbuckling title, you can bet we wouldn’t be here now, watching the credits roll on another dramatized version of events.
Or more properly, half a dramatized version. The second film in this diptych, A Copper’s Tale, airs tomorrow night and tells the same story from the other side of the thin blue line. Writer Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch, Torchwood) has cleaved the narrative into two neat halves: cops and robbers. In many ways, it’s a swell trick, the novelty of which tilts...
- 12/18/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Classics professor Mary Beard also honoured at 23rd Women in Film and TV Awards event at Hilton hotel, London
Angela Rippon has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at an event recognising women in broadcasting. The 69-year-old, who also presents BBC1's Rip-Off Britain, collected her prize from the BBC director-general, Tony Hall, at the Sky Women in Film and TV (Wftv) Awards in London.
Others feted at the event included the actor Sheridan Smith, who took the best performance award for her portrayal of great train robber Ronnie Biggs's wife Charmian in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs. The academic Mary Beard, who has worked on many historical documentary series, took the best presenter award at the 23rd annual awards event, staged at the Park Lane Hilton hotel.
Rippon was the first regular female newsreader on national television in Britain, beginning her journalism career more than half a...
Angela Rippon has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at an event recognising women in broadcasting. The 69-year-old, who also presents BBC1's Rip-Off Britain, collected her prize from the BBC director-general, Tony Hall, at the Sky Women in Film and TV (Wftv) Awards in London.
Others feted at the event included the actor Sheridan Smith, who took the best performance award for her portrayal of great train robber Ronnie Biggs's wife Charmian in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs. The academic Mary Beard, who has worked on many historical documentary series, took the best presenter award at the 23rd annual awards event, staged at the Park Lane Hilton hotel.
Rippon was the first regular female newsreader on national television in Britain, beginning her journalism career more than half a...
- 12/7/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Sheridan Smith had frequent ''meltdowns'' on the set of 'Mrs Biggs' and often told bosses to ''re-cast'' her part. Despite her crippling self-doubt, the 31-year-old beauty picked up the prestigious Leading Actress BAFTA at the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards last night (12.05.13) for her titular role in the gripping ITV drama about the wife of the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, and she paid tribute to her ''supportive'' co-stars and crew. Speaking at the event at London's Royal Festival Hall, the stunning blonde - who beat off competition from Sienna Miller, Anne Reid and Rebecca Hall to win her first...
- 5/13/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Sheridan Smith made her name with a girl next door turn in Gavin and Stacey. Now her star has risen in the West End – from Legally Blonde to Hedda Gabler. Dustin Hoffman sees her future in Hollywood. Here, she tells Megan Conner about the most incredible 12 months of her life
Exactly 12 hours before I'm due to meet Sheridan Smith, the actor takes to her Twitter page. "Oh I can't stop crying. Hate myself sometimes, just can't be myself. I can only play characters. Wish I had more confidence when I'm being me," she writes. Within minutes, a stream of her some 310,000 followers are tweeting furiously.
"Omg, don't beat yourself up!" they say. "Stop stop stop that now," another instructs. One user, @Londontheatre1, has some helpful advice: Smith should draw on the strength of her characters, Ronnie Biggs's long-suffering ex-wife in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs, or Elle Woods, the...
Exactly 12 hours before I'm due to meet Sheridan Smith, the actor takes to her Twitter page. "Oh I can't stop crying. Hate myself sometimes, just can't be myself. I can only play characters. Wish I had more confidence when I'm being me," she writes. Within minutes, a stream of her some 310,000 followers are tweeting furiously.
"Omg, don't beat yourself up!" they say. "Stop stop stop that now," another instructs. One user, @Londontheatre1, has some helpful advice: Smith should draw on the strength of her characters, Ronnie Biggs's long-suffering ex-wife in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs, or Elle Woods, the...
- 12/30/2012
- by Megan Conner
- The Guardian - Film News
Seven Network Unveils New And Returning Lineup Australian Seven Network has commissioned Eyeworks to produce a local version of Celebrity Splash, a Dutch format that U.S. network ABC also has embraced, and it will co-produce The Mole-Culture Clash with FremantleMedia Australia. These were among the new shows for 2013 unveiled by Seven, the top-rated prime-time network for the past six years, on Tuesday night. Debutantes include A Place to Call Home, an Australian drama series about a woman whose privileged family is rocked by scandal, set in a rural town in the 1950s, created by Bevan Lee (who created Seven’s hit Packed to the Rafters); and Mrs. Biggs, a British drama series starring Sheridan Smith as the woman who married notorious train robber Ronnie Biggs, a co-production between ITV Studios, Seven and December Films. Among the fresh U.S. series will be Last Resort, Red Widow and Zero Hour.
- 10/26/2012
- by KINSEY LOWE
- Deadline TV
Sheridan Smith is rumoured to be dating Amy Winehouse's ex-boyfriend Reg Traviss. The actress, who is currently starring on stage in the West End and as Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs's wife in ITV's Mr & Mrs Biggs, was seen leaving Traviss's flat yesterday (29 September). Pictures in The People showed Smith and Traviss emerge from the flat, before kissing and cuddling in the street. Smith then left in her car, which appeared to have received a parking ticket. Earlier this week, the pair were pictured walking through Soho in the early hours of the morning after visiting several (more)...
- 9/30/2012
- by By Beth Curtis
- Digital Spy
Once believed long lost, a "legendary" demo of Sex Pistols' highly controversial song "Belsen Was a Gas" has now surfaced on the Internet.
Reportedly penned by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious before he joined the influential punk rock band, the song is about a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
As music magazine NME notes, the track became part of the Sex Pistols' live set from 1977. However, until recently, only live recordings and a soundtrack version featuring train robber Ronnie Biggs on vocals had existed.
The original demo version of the song features band frontman Johnny Rotten on vocals and Vicious on bass.
The demo was reportedly found when the group's back catalogue was transferred from Virgin Records to Universal Music Catalogue earlier this year, Australia's Herald Sun notes.
The song, which has sparked plenty of controversy throughout the years with its shocking lyrics and theme, is about the...
Reportedly penned by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious before he joined the influential punk rock band, the song is about a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
As music magazine NME notes, the track became part of the Sex Pistols' live set from 1977. However, until recently, only live recordings and a soundtrack version featuring train robber Ronnie Biggs on vocals had existed.
The original demo version of the song features band frontman Johnny Rotten on vocals and Vicious on bass.
The demo was reportedly found when the group's back catalogue was transferred from Virgin Records to Universal Music Catalogue earlier this year, Australia's Herald Sun notes.
The song, which has sparked plenty of controversy throughout the years with its shocking lyrics and theme, is about the...
- 9/11/2012
- by Dominique Mosbergen
- Huffington Post
Girls, HBO's raucous comedy-drama is just one upcoming highlight. Also watch out for Jon Hamm in an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's short stories and Toby Jones as Hitchcock
Mrs Biggs
ITV looks at the Great Train Robbery from the point of view of Ronnie Biggs' then wife, Charmian. The underrated Sheridan Smith plays the titular role with great style, while Danny Mays is excellent as her infamous husband. ITV, September
Hunted
It looks like Spooks, sounds like Spooks, and is even made by the same company. But BBC1's new international spy drama starring Melissa George – a co-production with HBO's Cinemax – is altogether more high-end, with MI5 ditched in favour of spying for paying clients. It is, possibly, even more ludicrous. BBC1, October
Hotel Gb
Either a brilliant idea or a hideous one: let viewers check in to a hotel run by C4 stars including Gordon Ramsay and...
Mrs Biggs
ITV looks at the Great Train Robbery from the point of view of Ronnie Biggs' then wife, Charmian. The underrated Sheridan Smith plays the titular role with great style, while Danny Mays is excellent as her infamous husband. ITV, September
Hunted
It looks like Spooks, sounds like Spooks, and is even made by the same company. But BBC1's new international spy drama starring Melissa George – a co-production with HBO's Cinemax – is altogether more high-end, with MI5 ditched in favour of spying for paying clients. It is, possibly, even more ludicrous. BBC1, October
Hotel Gb
Either a brilliant idea or a hideous one: let viewers check in to a hotel run by C4 stars including Gordon Ramsay and...
- 9/2/2012
- by Vicky Frost
- The Guardian - Film News
In a keynote address to the Australian International Movie Convention, News Limited CEO Kim Williams argued that download films, TV shows or music without paying for it is no better than looting
My subject today is copyright. It’s a topic as potentially dry as a pub with no beer. Its mere mention makes you think of lawyers. And fees. And trademarks. And fine print. So let’s put that all aside for a moment and talk about what copyright is really about. Let’s cut right to the chase. Copyright is about enabling the production of great art and great commercial work – hopefully both. It’s about nurturing the creative process. It’s about supporting business cases and employment. About getting the noblest imaginings of the human mind and human emotions into a form that the whole world can see and share.
If you want to know why you should care about copyright,...
My subject today is copyright. It’s a topic as potentially dry as a pub with no beer. Its mere mention makes you think of lawyers. And fees. And trademarks. And fine print. So let’s put that all aside for a moment and talk about what copyright is really about. Let’s cut right to the chase. Copyright is about enabling the production of great art and great commercial work – hopefully both. It’s about nurturing the creative process. It’s about supporting business cases and employment. About getting the noblest imaginings of the human mind and human emotions into a form that the whole world can see and share.
If you want to know why you should care about copyright,...
- 8/21/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Sheridan Smith has said that her new TV role made her broody. The Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps star has taken on the role of Charmian Brent, the wife to notorious train robber Ronnie Biggs (Danny Mays). The ITV1 show Mrs Biggs will air as a five-part drama, which will start from the couple's first meeting on a train in 1957 through to the date of the train robbery in 1963. It will also feature details of the couple's lives on the run in Australia, as well as Biggs flying to Rio with the police closely on their tales. When Biggs fled for Brazil, he left Brent and his (more)...
- 7/31/2012
- by By Alice Stewart
- Digital Spy
Sheridan Smith is to play the title role of Charmian Biggs in the five part ITV drama Mrs Biggs produced by ITV Studios. She will be joined by Danny Mays (Public Enemies, Ashes to Ashes, Made in Dagenham) who assumes the iconic role of Charmian’s infamous ex-husband Ronnie Biggs.
Written by award-winning writer and Executive Producer Jeff Pope, Mrs Biggs will chronicle Charmian’s life from the fateful moment that, as a teenager on a train, she first met and fell in love with the flirtatious and worldly Biggs.
Sheridan commented: "When I received the call to say that I'd got this job I burst into tears. Charmian is an incredible woman, and I'm so lucky that she'll be on hand to support me and give me advice during the shoot. I hope that I can do her story justice".
Mrs Biggs will recount the story of their struggle...
Written by award-winning writer and Executive Producer Jeff Pope, Mrs Biggs will chronicle Charmian’s life from the fateful moment that, as a teenager on a train, she first met and fell in love with the flirtatious and worldly Biggs.
Sheridan commented: "When I received the call to say that I'd got this job I burst into tears. Charmian is an incredible woman, and I'm so lucky that she'll be on hand to support me and give me advice during the shoot. I hope that I can do her story justice".
Mrs Biggs will recount the story of their struggle...
- 2/20/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Sheridan Smith will star in an ITV1 drama about Great Train Robbery criminal Ronnie Biggs and his ex-wife Charmian. Mrs Biggs is a new-five part drama from writer and producer Jeff Pope (Appropriate Adult, See No Evil: The Moors Murders), which follows the story of Charmian falling in love with the infamous Ronnie. Danny Mays (Ashes to Ashes, Public Enemies) will star as Biggs, while Adrian Scarborough (Upstairs Downstairs) and Caroline Goodall (The Good Wife) will play Charmian's parents. Mrs Biggs recounts the relationship between Charmian and Ronnie, which she maintained despite fierce opposition from her family about dating a man with a criminal record. The story follows Charmian after she secretly emigrates to Australia with her children on false passports so that she can remain (more)...
- 2/20/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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Tabloid favorite Sheridan Smith (Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps) is set to take on the title role in ITV Studios’ new five part drama Mrs Biggs. The show tells the tale of Charmian Biggs – the wife of the so-called Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Ashes to Ashes villain Daniel Mays will play Mr Biggs who sought refuge in South America after pulling off one of the most discussed crimes in UK history.
The real Mrs Biggs was unaware of her husband’s criminal activities until he escaped from Wandsworth prison. Nevertheless, she chose to go on the run with him and the Biggs’ family spent some time hiding in plain sight in Australia. When the police located him, Ronnie left his family and fled to Rio...
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Tabloid favorite Sheridan Smith (Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps) is set to take on the title role in ITV Studios’ new five part drama Mrs Biggs. The show tells the tale of Charmian Biggs – the wife of the so-called Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Ashes to Ashes villain Daniel Mays will play Mr Biggs who sought refuge in South America after pulling off one of the most discussed crimes in UK history.
The real Mrs Biggs was unaware of her husband’s criminal activities until he escaped from Wandsworth prison. Nevertheless, she chose to go on the run with him and the Biggs’ family spent some time hiding in plain sight in Australia. When the police located him, Ronnie left his family and fled to Rio...
- 2/20/2012
- by admin
ITV1 has commissioned a new drama about the life of Ronnie Biggs's wife Charmian. Mrs Biggs will focus on the life of the train robber's spouse from the moment they met on a train, Broadcast says. The show's executive producer Jeff Pope, who has reportedly been developing the project for four years, described it as "one of the greatest untold stories of the 20th century". Charmian Biggs has also been working on the five-part series (more)...
- 1/12/2012
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Decades of rainy-Sunday screenings have blinded us to the true nature of postwar British cinema – freedom, naughtiness and a very black humour indeed
It begins with a parrot and a gaucho band. We're in South America – or a tiny patch of it, conjured some 60 years ago on a sound stage in London. The customers wear fur wraps and hair cream. The Atlantic stands, suspiciously immobile, beyond the window. And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice. He is a prototypical Ronnie Biggs – and he's prepared to put his money where his mouth is.
When a conspicuously privileged middle-aged woman stops to talk, Guinness presses a roll of banknotes into her outstretched hands – a donation for the "victims of the revolution". A waiter receives a similarly thick wad of beneficence.
It begins with a parrot and a gaucho band. We're in South America – or a tiny patch of it, conjured some 60 years ago on a sound stage in London. The customers wear fur wraps and hair cream. The Atlantic stands, suspiciously immobile, beyond the window. And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice. He is a prototypical Ronnie Biggs – and he's prepared to put his money where his mouth is.
When a conspicuously privileged middle-aged woman stops to talk, Guinness presses a roll of banknotes into her outstretched hands – a donation for the "victims of the revolution". A waiter receives a similarly thick wad of beneficence.
- 7/21/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
It's Tony Delano movie season in London just now. Well, up to a point, Lord Copper.
Last week, a packed audience at the BFI had the pleasure of watching The Great Paper Chase, the BBC drama based on Delano's book about the failed attempt by Scotland Yard and Fleet Street to lure Ronnie Biggs back from Brazil in 1974.
More on that experience in a moment. First, though, dates for your diaries if you happen to be in London at the weekend. There are to be two showings of film heavily influenced by another Delano book, Joyce McKinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon.
Saturday (16 October) marks the UK premiere of a Us documentary called Tabloid, about the remarkable story of McKinney, a former American beauty queen who kidnapped a Mormon missionary in Britain in 1977 for her sexual pleasure. (Oh yes she did. See Wikipedia).
The film is part of the BFI Festival,...
Last week, a packed audience at the BFI had the pleasure of watching The Great Paper Chase, the BBC drama based on Delano's book about the failed attempt by Scotland Yard and Fleet Street to lure Ronnie Biggs back from Brazil in 1974.
More on that experience in a moment. First, though, dates for your diaries if you happen to be in London at the weekend. There are to be two showings of film heavily influenced by another Delano book, Joyce McKinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon.
Saturday (16 October) marks the UK premiere of a Us documentary called Tabloid, about the remarkable story of McKinney, a former American beauty queen who kidnapped a Mormon missionary in Britain in 1977 for her sexual pleasure. (Oh yes she did. See Wikipedia).
The film is part of the BFI Festival,...
- 10/11/2010
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
44 Inch Chest stars Deadwood's Ian McShane alongside a who's-who of British beefcake, but who would make John Patterson's dream team of UK movie hard men?
I have to admit I like the look of 44 Inch Chest, and particularly its wall-to-wall cast of British hard men: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Steven Berkoff and John Hurt.
John Hurt, you say, a British tough guy? Well, it's all about stunt-casting here; almost every major piece of casting works because somewhere in each actor's back catalogue is at least one meaty outing as a nasty piece of work brandishing a gun. For Hurt it was Stephen Frears's mid-80s Spanish revenger's road-movie The Hit.
Ian McShane is actually a two-stage piece of stunt casting. When he was cast as the ambi-sexual crime lord in Sexy Beast, the film-makers were referencing his role as Richard Burton's gangland catamite in Villain (1971), and...
I have to admit I like the look of 44 Inch Chest, and particularly its wall-to-wall cast of British hard men: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Steven Berkoff and John Hurt.
John Hurt, you say, a British tough guy? Well, it's all about stunt-casting here; almost every major piece of casting works because somewhere in each actor's back catalogue is at least one meaty outing as a nasty piece of work brandishing a gun. For Hurt it was Stephen Frears's mid-80s Spanish revenger's road-movie The Hit.
Ian McShane is actually a two-stage piece of stunt casting. When he was cast as the ambi-sexual crime lord in Sexy Beast, the film-makers were referencing his role as Richard Burton's gangland catamite in Villain (1971), and...
- 1/9/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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