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Richard “Dick” Evans, who was a staple of 1960s and ’70s television, died on October 2 of cancer, his family announced today. He was 86.

In his 40-year career, Evans played opposite Mia Farrow as a series regular on Peyton Place, acted opposite George C. Scott in Islands in the Stream and starred in Jack L. Warner’s final movie, Dirty Little Billy.

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And he was ubiquitous on dozens of classic shows such as Star Trek, Gunsmoke, S.W.A.T., Bonanza, The Mod Squad, Quincy Me, The A-Team, Hart to Hart, Gunsmoke and Lou Grant.

Acting in films, theatre and television led Evans to writing, producing and directing a number of films including The Mystery of Howard Hangar, Harry Monument, Shadow of Rain and Shuffle & Cut (A Question for Godard).

His theatrical directing credits include Wings of the Termite, Sliding Dog, Cats in the L.

Just wait until you get a load of The Sinner Season 4 when it airs on USA Network tonight.

As Harry Ambrose, Bill Pullman leads another extraordinary cast setting up the latest mystery, and the very talented Frances Fisher plays a significant role.

Frances plays Meg Muldoon, the matriarch of a prominent family in the fishing business on the island where Harry and Sonya (Jessica Hecht) are taking a restorative vacation to flush away the horrors they suffered from Jamie Burns.

Unfortunately, it's not going to be that easy, and Meg will go head-to-head with Harry, and that means Frances knows all the good stuff about the upcoming season.

But don't worry. While Frances was kind enough to chat with us on the phone, she didn't reveal anything that would spoil your enjoyment of the season.

Frances was calling from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she's filming a movie titled Rust with Alec Baldwin.

“The Sandman” series at Netflix has set its main cast. Tom Sturridge is officially set to star as Dream, with the show also adding Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry, and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

The series is based on “The Sandman” comic book series created for DC by Neil Gaiman. It follows the people and places affected by Morpheus (Sturridge), the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.

Sturridge was most recently seen in the 2019 film “Velvet Buzzsaw” and received Tony Award nominations for his work in “Orphans” and “Sea Wall/A Life.”

Christie, best known to fans for her roles on “Game of Thrones” and in the new “Star Wars” film trilogy, will star as Lucifer, ruler of Hell. Acheampong, who recently appeared in “The Witches” on HBO Max, will play Lucienne, chief librarian and trusted guardian of Dream’s realm.

Paramount has acquired the drama-comedy “Mighty Oak” for a theatrical release on June 5 at North American movie theaters and drive-ins.

The studio plans to expand the film as more venues are deemed safe. Currently, 348 of the 5,400 North American theaters are open, including 169 drive-ins, according to Comscore. Most movie theaters across the country have been closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“Mighty Oak” stars Janel Parrish as a music manager whose life is shattered when her brother and lead vocalist, played by Levi Dylan, is killed in a tragic accident. Ten years later, she meets a 10-year-old music prodigy named Oak, portrayed by Tommy Ragen, who seems to possess the same qualities as her late brother, and this inspires her to pull her life back together.

The cast includes Raven-Symoné, Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega, Nana Ghana, Rodney Hicks, Gianna Harris and Ben Milliken. Sean McNamara, whose credits include “Soul Surfer” and “Raise Your Voice,...

Coldplay soundtrack a couple’s romance in the music video for “Cry Cry Cry,” a track from their latest album Everyday Life.

The clip was co-directed by actress Dakota Johnson (who is also frontman Chris Martin’s partner) and Cory Bailey, with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall. Filmed at London’s Rivoli Ballroom, “Cry Cry Cry” follows a couple through the beginning stages of their relationship to their twilight years, dancing all along the way.

Coldplay released Everyday Life, their first double album, this past November, and have shared the singles “Orphans,...

Read More: Venice Champ 'Court' Acquired by Zeitgeist Films Venice Critics' Week, an independent section of the Venice Film Festival, has announced its lineup of debut features that will be in competition alongside official selections for the festival's Lion of the Future award, worth $100,000. The 30th edition of Venice Critcs' Week will also open with a tribute to Scottish director and actor Peter Mullan ("My Name is Joe," "Trainspotting"), who will have his 1998 directorial debut "Orphans" screened. The seven works in competition have been selected by Italian film critic Francesco Di Pace. All synopses have been provided by the Venice Critics' Week website. "Banat" Director: Adriano Valerio From Puglia to Romania through a reverse migration process, agronomist Ivo drags with him the destiny of Clara. "Montanha" Director: João Salaviza David, a 14 year old boy who is living a crucial moment of his existence,...

As the Venice Film Festival slate starts to unspool, its 30th annual Critics' Week lineup celebrating new directors has now been revealed. It's a nostalgic program this year, with a screening of Scottish director Peter Mullan's 1998 "Orphans" opening the sidebar, running September 2 through 12. The drama won a surfeit of prizes when it premiered on the Lido, and four years later Mullan won the Golden Lion for his chilling "The Magdalene Sisters" (2002). Read More: Venice Taps Two Auteurs to Head Juries Critics' Week will close with "Bagnoli Jungle" by Antonio Capuano, who won a Venice prize in 1991 for "Vito and the Others." The selection of mostly European titles screening in and out of competition is below. Eight of these are world premieres, and they're eligible for Venice's Golden Lion of the Future first feature prize. In Competition Ana yurdu (Motherland) by Senem Tuzen - Turkey, Greece 2015 / 98’ Banat (Il viaggio) ...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 27 Feb 2014 - 05:54

Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...

By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.

Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 12 Dec 2013 - 05:49

The year of Baggins, Potter and Spider-Man also had a wealth of lesser-known movies. Here’s our pick of 2002's underappreciated films...

At the top of the box office tree, 2002 was dominated by fantasy and special effects. Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers made almost a billion dollars all by itself, with Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets taking second place and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man not too far behind.

In many ways, 2002 set the tempo for the Hollywood blockbuster landscape, which has changed relatively little in the decade since. A quick look at 2013‘s top 10, for example, reveals a markedly similar mix of superhero movies, with Iron Man 3 still ruling the roost at the time of writing, followed by effects-heavy action flicks and family-friendly animated features.

As usual in these lists, we're looking...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 14 Nov 2013 - 06:19

The overlooked greats of the year 1998 come under the spotlight in our list of its 25 underappreciated movies...

Dominated as it was by the financial success of two giant killer asteroid movies, gross-out comedy hit There's Something About Mary and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, 1998 proved to be an extraordinary year for cinema.

Okay, so history doesn't look back too fondly on Roland Emmerich's mishandled Godzilla remake, and Lethal Weapon 4 was hardly the best buddy-cop flick ever made, despite its handsome profit. But search outside the top-10 grossing films of that year, and you'll find all kinds of spectacular modern classics: Peter Weir's wonderful The Truman Show, John Frankenheimer's rock-solid thriller Ronin, and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

Then there was The Big Lebowski, the Coen brothers' sublime comedy that has since become a deserved and oft-quoted cult favourite.

This feelgood musical featuring the Proclaimers' work is likable but feels too staged – except for some stirring star performances

Andy Warhol's famous prediction about everyone getting to be world-famous for 15 minutes may soon be replaced by something else. Soon every band in the world will have its own feelgood jukebox musical. Everyone who has ever released a record, or performed live, will by EU directive get their greatest-hits catalogue crowbarred into a high-energy musical on the lines of Mamma Mia! – including Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Wurzels and Slipknot. Every band's songs will be crammed into a laughter-and-tears story about family parties, love and young women with lovably rumpled dads they didn't know they had.

Such a one is Sunshine on Leith, a good-natured, likable but sometimes contrived and eerily artificial movie-musical – like something cultivated in a lab or generated from a computer...

Odd List Simon Brew 20 Sep 2013 - 07:14

They don't make funny movies any more, right? Wrong. If you're looking for a laugh, then here are some you may have missed...

For this list, blame The Hangover Part III. It was whilst walking out of that film that I got into a chat with someone, who was bemoaning the lack of genuinely funny movie comedies. Certainly, big budget Hollywood comedies have no end of problems right now - with the occasional exception - but I couldn't help thinking of the many neglected gems that had gone through my DVD player over the past decade or so.

As such, I started to put this list together. It's inevitably subjective, as one person's comedy is another person's snore fest. But I've tried to dig out a mix of comedies from the past three decades that have either flown under the radar completely, or...

In case you’re out of the loop (and if you’re a fan of the Outlander series, I’m rather certain that you aren’t), Starz is bringing you an Outlander TV series in 2014, and you now have a couple more names to add to your list.

Graham McTavish will be playing Dougal MacKenzie, and Gary Lewis is Colum MacKenzie.

It’s alt-fiction, time travel, bodice-ripping, Scottish warfare… ok, actually, I barely know what it is. But, I know Diana Gabaldon’s series is massively popular, and we have another cable network hoping to spin a series into the next thing everyone has to talk about. The cast seems to be shaping up nicely.

Starz in association with Sony Pictures Television has announced today that Graham McTavish (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, “24”) will play Dougal MacKenzie and Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot, Gangs of New York) will play Colum MacKenzie...

The Talking City and Wolf’s Clothing

A little over two years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a convention in Glasgow entitled Scottish Students on Screen, an event based around giving young film scholars a better familiarity with the workings of the British Film Industry and general movie making as well as a presentation of their own work. The highlight of this excursion, a series of talks and exhibits inter-cut liberally with group visits to a Wetherspoons chain drinking hole across the street, was the champagne event: an interview and Q&A with Peter Mullan.

To those unfamiliar with Mullan, he is a highly renowned actor and director best known to UK and international film goers as the face of various memorable movie psychos and extreme, flawed anti-heroes. A native of said city, Mullan is regarded as one of the finest acting exports Scotland has ever produced, and...

★★★★☆ An unconventional, surreal comedy set in the suburbs of Glasgow, Orphans (1998) is Peter Mullan's first film behind the camera. Best known for his role as a recovering alcoholic in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe (1998) and currently seen in Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur (2011), Mullan's acting career has seen him working alongside some of the best British directors of recent times and their teachings have clearly helped him hone his talents to produce Orphans, his profoundly moving directorial debut.

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Reviewer: James van Maanen

Rating (out of five): ***

Peter Mullan is a wonderful actor (The Red Riding Trilogy, Boy A, Children of Men) and a good writer/director (Orphans, The Magdalene Sisters and now, Neds -- which stands for Non-Educated Delinquents.

Although his latest film -- which deals, and very well, with the smarter, younger son of a dysfunctional family who gets slowly sucked into "gang" life -- was part of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival line-up, it did not get much, if any, of a theatrical release. It is, however, certainly worth seeing, which makes its recent DVD debut appreciated, despite a major flaw in the film.

Entertainment One UK have given us this new exclusive clip from their movie, Neds, which is released on both DVD and Blu-ray this Monday, 23rd May. In the scene, we get to see John McGill walking through a park. Wee T then tries to mug him before realising who his brother is is backtracking rather swiftly!

Neds is written and directed by Peter Mullan and stars Marianna Palka, Steven Robertson, David McKay, Douglas Russell, Linda Cuthbert, Martin Bell. If you missed it, check out our interview with Peter Mullan & Conor McCarron for Neds that we conducted for the theatrical release.

Synopsis: Peter Mullan’s third feature as a writer and director, after Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters, returns him to the 1970s Glasgow of his youth, although the Trainspotting and My Name is Joe actor stresses that Neds (which stands for ‘Non-Educated Delinquents’) is ‘personal but not autobiographical’.

We meet confident,...

Neds is a gritty period film set on the streets of 1970s Glasgow. Young John McGill is a good student, keeping his head down and trying not to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, a petty street criminal. However, with his home life deteriorating around him, the pull of gang membership and street cred becomes too hard to resist. Over the period of a few years (and with two young actors spanning the role's adolescence), John becomes one of the title characters: a Non Educated Delinquent. The realism of the film is impressive, and to learn more about its real-life inspiration, we sat down with actor/director Peter Mullan (actor: My Name is Joe, Trainspotting, Harry Potter, Boy A; director: The Magdalene Sisters, Orphans) during Neds' recent run at the Tribeca Film Festival. We also wanted to hear about his transformation into John's terrifyingly alcoholic father, and...

Says 'Neds' Is 40% Autobiographical & Talks About His Issues With Arthouse Cinema From bit parts in "Braveheart" and "Shallow Grave" to winning Best Actor at Cannes for Ken Loach's "My Name Is Joe," not to mention working with Steven Spielberg on the upcoming "War Horse" and securing the role of Death Eater Yaxley for the final two "Harry Potter" films, Scottish actor Peter Mullan has come a long way in a short time. Though he's well-known for his work as an actor, he's had a passion for filmmaking ever since he was 19. His first feature, "Orphans," made rounds…...

Peter Mullan is a great character actor and a very serious director. His previous two films, The Magdalene Sisters and Orphans, were both pretty intense dramas, but definitely worth a look. He hasn't made a film since 2002, but now returns with Neds (short for Non Educated Delinquents), which charts the life of John McGill, a boy on the cusp of manhood trying to make his way through a tough life in '70s Glasgow. Serious stuff once again, but possibly a companion piece of sorts to Shane Meadows' great This is England. Check out the trailer after the break. There are some strong moments in this trailer, and as always, it's great to see Peter Mullan on screen once more. (You can catch him later this summer in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, as well.) Neds is available now via VOD, and will be in limited...

A new player has entered on the indie film distribution — the two year old initiative Tribeca Film officially revealed yesterday an intriguing schedule of films adding to the already includes the formerly announced relationship drama Last Night.

These upcoming releases covers many genres and introduce stars such as Zach Braff, Vincent Gallo and Zoe Kravitz, as well as filmmakers such as Peter Mullan, Jerzy Skolimowski and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Searching for the films that are sure to take some attention is Deborah Chow‘s The High Cost of Living; dark romantic drama about intertwined fates centers on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child, and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will forever change their lives. What comes out is the unlikely affiliation between the two...

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Hollywoodnews.com: Expansion is the word out of New York City this morning as Tribeca Film ramps up its distribution plans and announces U.S. deals for nine new titles.

Tribeca Enterprises announced that its distribution label, Tribeca Film, will expand to commercially release 26 films over the next year, more than double the number of titles released in 2010. In addition, the label acquired U.S. rights to nine titles it plans to release across multiple platforms.

The curated selection of films includes many genres and features stars including Zach Braff, Vincent Gallo and Zoe Kravitz and filmmakers such as Peter Mullan, Jerzy Skolimowski and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Here’s information we received on the films. They will be released theatrically, on video-on-demand and via other platforms throughout 2011:

· Beware the Gonzo. From director and writer Brian Gobuloff (writer of The Basketball Diaries) comes a teen-angst comedy...

Tribeca Film Sets Expansion Of Slate In 2011, More Than Doubling Annual Output To 26 Films And Announcing U.S. Distribution Rights To Nine New Titles.

Newly Acquired Films Starring Zach Braff, Vincent Gallo and Zoe Kravitz and Featuring Filmmakers Including Jerzy Skolimowski, Vincent D’Onofrio and Peter Mullan.

Slate to Premiere On Multiple Platforms, Including National Video-on-Demand and Theatres Across the Country, Supported by Founding Partner American Express.

From the Press Release:

New York, NY February 28, 2011 – Tribeca Enterprises today announced that Tribeca Film will expand to commercially release 26 films over the next year, more than double the number of titles released in 2010. The comprehensive distribution label for independent film also announced that it acquired U.S. rights to nine new titles to be released across multiple platforms. The curated selection of films includes many genres and features stars including Zach Braff, Vincent Gallo and Zoe Kravitz and filmmakers such as Peter Mullan,...

My Idiot Brother

Opens: 2011

Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan

Director: Jesse Peretz

Summary: Ned is a well-meaning idealist just released from prison for dealing cannabis. In succession, he disrupts the lives and homes of his three sisters: a career-driven journalist about to get her big break; a bisexual hipster whose lies are disrupting her relationship; and a married mother who hasn't noticed that her marriage is falling apart.

Analysis: Scoring a good response over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, this broad light comedy with a sweet heart charmed the pants off The Weinstein Company to the tune of around $6 million for distribution rights. That covers most of its sub-$10 million budget, a number that it could potentially outgross by several factors if the good-natured tone hinted at in the reviews were correct. If anything, the few negatives tended to be because this...

Peter Mullan was a studious kid who ran with a knife gang in Glasgow. So is his shocking new film Neds based on his life?

Peter Mullan's childhood has been trudged over in interviews ever since he starred in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe in 1998, when he was already in his late 30s. He grew up in Glasgow, one of eight children in a poor family that lived under cosh of "a raping, bullying, alcoholic" father. Academically gifted, he dropped out of school at 14 to knock about with a knife-carrying gang. "I was a total tourist," he says. Although already a committed Marxist, he was aggressively lobotomising himself – while keeping up his reading on the sly. "You couldnae tell the gang you were reading Carl Jung." After a year or so, booted out of the gang, he went back to school, blitzed his highers and started at...

Entertainment One have just sent over this brand new and exclusive clip from their new movie, Neds (Non-Educated Delinquents) which is directed by Peter Mullan and stars Marianna Palka, Steven Robertson, David McKay, Douglas Russell, Linda Cuthbert and Martin Bell.

Synosis: Peter Mullan’s third feature as a writer and director, after Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters, returns him to the 1970s Glasgow of his youth, although the Trainspotting and My Name is Joe actor stresses that Neds (which stands for ‘Non-Educated Delinquents’) is ‘personal but not autobiographical’.

We meet confident, studious John McGill just as he’s about to start secondary school, where he fully expects to continue his so-far glittering academic career. But there are dark clouds on the horizon. His friendship with middle-class Julian shines a light on both his poor background and the dysfunction of his home, where his father is drunk, violent and ineffective, his...

Scottish actor Peter Mullan's recently been exposed to a wider audience than ever before by stealing the show in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," but the savvy have been fans of Mullan for years thanks to his outstanding performances in the likes of "Trainspotting," "My Name Is Joe," "Children Of Men," "Boy A" and the "Red Riding" trilogy. But even fans of his acting may not be aware that Mullan was responsible for a couple of very strong directorial efforts, the dark comedy "Orphans" in 1997, and the punishing, but thoroughly excellent "The Magdalene Sisters" in 2002. He's had…...

One of the movies that was shown at the London Film Festival was Neds (Non-Educated Delinquents) and today, E One Entertainment have sent us the brand new trailer and poster for the movie.

It stars Marianna Palka, Steven Robertson, David McKay, Douglas Russell, Linda Cuthbert, Martin Bell and is written and directed by Peter Mullan.

We’ve also been sent the full synopsis which you can read below. Neds is released in the UK 21st January.

A powerful and thought provoking drama set in 1970s Glasgow, written and directed by the critically acclaimed Peter Mullan and introducing extraordinary newcomer Conor McCarron (John McGill). Neds is already the winner of Best Film and Best Actor at the 2010 San Sebastian Film Awards and played in a Gala slot at the London Film Festival, where Conor McCarron was also nominated for Best British Newcomer.

Glasgow, 1973. On the brink of adolescence, young John McGill...

The Scottish virtuoso makes a welcome return after eight years but a remastered David Lean classic is stealing the spotlight

This year's London film festival saw the most keenly anticipated comeback in British cinema – perhaps only the next movie by Lynne Ramsay is as impatiently awaited. Peter Mullan is the Scottish film-maker and actor whose 1997 debut picture, Orphans, was a film of intestine-tangling emotional power. Following that, The Magdalene Sisters – about the institutionalised abuse in Ireland's notorious Magdalene laundries – was a tremendous triumph, winning the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival and confirming Mullan as a directorial heavyweight.

That was back in 2002. Since then, his admirers have been left wondering when his next film would arrive, with Mullan reportedly experienced some frustration getting backing for the films he wanted to make. In the meantime, he gave some great acting performances in works such as 2006's Children Of Men and the Red Riding TV trilogy,...

The immediate future of Brit film looks bright, with a slate of intriguing premieres before the end of 2010. But, in step with the political uncertainty, the view after that is much murkier

So, here we are then, rubbing the sleep from our eyes and blinking into our collective future – Britain, for the moment, in parliamentary limbo. At moments like this, of course, the small corner of existence that is movie culture can seem of less than prime importance – but perhaps that's exactly why it's vital for film lovers at least to take the time to ask ourselves how this is all going to shake down for our favourite art form. Gentle reader, the question is: what now?

After all, the storm clouds have been gathering for some time already, with the last residual blissed-out optimism of the early noughties long since vanished in these crisis-scented times. Rumbling away in the...

After sticking to his day job for some time (he'll next be seen in all three Red Riding films) Mullan returned to the director's chair last year for Neds, which stands for Non-Educated Delinquents. Here is a first look at some of the stills from the film - which pretty much grasps what direction the film's young protagonist might be headed. - Actor Peter Mullan pretty much became a fixter in Scottish cinema when Danny Boyle got a hold of him for roles in Shallow Grave and as a quick fix supplier named "Mother Superior" in Trainspotting, but its his bottomless cup drinker part in My Name is Joe that officially put Mullan on the map. From there he's dabbled into becoming creative behind the camera, making filmmaking a part time gig beginning with a film I've never seen called Orphans, which debuted and won at Venice in 99 and which...