Brothers Osborne throw a quarantine-safe party that’s part Tron and part Día de Muertos in the colorful new video for “All Night.” The song appears on the CMA- and ACM-winning duo’s upcoming third studio album Skeletons, out October 9th.
Directors Wes Edwards and Ryan Silver, who filmed Brothers Osborne’s Point Break-indebted “It Ain’t My Fault” video, collaborated with the duo on the new clip and came up with something that’s very 2020. The opening scenes will look intimately familiar to many people — day...
Directors Wes Edwards and Ryan Silver, who filmed Brothers Osborne’s Point Break-indebted “It Ain’t My Fault” video, collaborated with the duo on the new clip and came up with something that’s very 2020. The opening scenes will look intimately familiar to many people — day...
- 9/30/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
“I heard you been creepin’ round/’Bout the time that sun goes down,” sings Tj Osborne in Brothers Osborne’s thumping new song “Skeletons.” The country duo’s third studio album, also titled Skeletons, will be released October 9th.
Opening with trippy, hypnotic keyboard pulses and throbbing bass, “Skeletons” surges just shy of the 30-second mark as John Osborne’s stinging guitar sets up an ominous tone. Tj lobs accusations at someone whom he suspects of being unfaithful, saying he’s got “bones to pick” with the skeletons in their closet.
Opening with trippy, hypnotic keyboard pulses and throbbing bass, “Skeletons” surges just shy of the 30-second mark as John Osborne’s stinging guitar sets up an ominous tone. Tj lobs accusations at someone whom he suspects of being unfaithful, saying he’s got “bones to pick” with the skeletons in their closet.
- 8/21/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Mubi's retrospective Out of this World: The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes is showing July – September, 2020.Above: The Portuguese WomanIt's staggering how complete the cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes is already in her first film, a feature no less: O Som da Terra a Tremer (1990) is an explosion of feeling and thought and invention carried by the profoundest of knowledge about cinema and the arts. Thus, it is most lamentable that it took another two decades plus for her to be recognized by international film culture at its most general level, with A Woman’s Revenge (2012), a work refined and lean, almost minimalist, très Portuguese à la Oliveira, thus similar to other films, other auteurs from Europe's western-most nation—and therefore welcome with open arms at all the places usually deemed right.While one can easily say that in the end it all worked out, one has to immediately...
- 8/3/2020
- MUBI
Brothers Osborne cook up a funky groove with an evergreen message in their new song “Hatin’ Somebody,” which will appear on their upcoming album Skeletons. The Cma-winning duo’s third studio project, Skeletons will be released October 9th.
Built around sizzling, woozy electric and acoustic slide guitar that recall Sticky Fingers-era Rolling Stones, the swampy “Hatin’ Somebody” was penned by siblings John and Tj Osborne with Casey Beathard. It’s also a statement about bigotry and the struggle to coexist that references a personal transformation the duo’s grandfather underwent.
Built around sizzling, woozy electric and acoustic slide guitar that recall Sticky Fingers-era Rolling Stones, the swampy “Hatin’ Somebody” was penned by siblings John and Tj Osborne with Casey Beathard. It’s also a statement about bigotry and the struggle to coexist that references a personal transformation the duo’s grandfather underwent.
- 7/31/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Tuppence Middleton, star of Fisherman’s Friends, Downton Abbey and Sense8, discusses some of her most memorable scenes.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Current War (2017)
Cinema Paradiso (1991)
Downton Abbey (2019)
Fisherman’s Friends (2019)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
My Life as a Courgette a.k.a. My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
13 Tzameti (2005)
13 (2010)
In Absentia (2000)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Skeletons (2010)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Alien (1979)
Festen a.k.a. The Celebration (1998)
Abigail’s Party (1977)
Der Samurai (2014)
Under The Skin (2013)
Strasbourg 1518 (2020)
The Fall (2019)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Throne of Blood (1957)
High and Low (1963)
Godzilla (1954)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Possession (1981)
G.I. Blues (1960)
King Creole (1958)
Léolo (1992)
Other Notable Items
War and Peace miniseries (2016)
Giuseppe Tornatore
The Crown TV series (2016- )
Masterpiece Theatre TV series (1971- )
Upstairs Downstairs TV series (1971-1975)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Current War (2017)
Cinema Paradiso (1991)
Downton Abbey (2019)
Fisherman’s Friends (2019)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
My Life as a Courgette a.k.a. My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
13 Tzameti (2005)
13 (2010)
In Absentia (2000)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Skeletons (2010)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Alien (1979)
Festen a.k.a. The Celebration (1998)
Abigail’s Party (1977)
Der Samurai (2014)
Under The Skin (2013)
Strasbourg 1518 (2020)
The Fall (2019)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Throne of Blood (1957)
High and Low (1963)
Godzilla (1954)
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Possession (1981)
G.I. Blues (1960)
King Creole (1958)
Léolo (1992)
Other Notable Items
War and Peace miniseries (2016)
Giuseppe Tornatore
The Crown TV series (2016- )
Masterpiece Theatre TV series (1971- )
Upstairs Downstairs TV series (1971-1975)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus...
- 7/28/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Brothers Osborne have announced plans for their third studio album, Skeletons. The follow-up to 2018’s Port Saint Joe, the Cma-winning duo’s new LP will be released October 9th.
Working once again with producer Jay Joyce — who oversaw their first two albums — Tj and John Osborne wrote or co-wrote all 12 tracks on Skeletons. Collaborators on the group of songs include Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk (co-producers of Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour), Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby, Casey Beathard, and Hayes Carll. The album’s current radio single is “All Night,” which was released in May.
Working once again with producer Jay Joyce — who oversaw their first two albums — Tj and John Osborne wrote or co-wrote all 12 tracks on Skeletons. Collaborators on the group of songs include Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk (co-producers of Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour), Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby, Casey Beathard, and Hayes Carll. The album’s current radio single is “All Night,” which was released in May.
- 7/22/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – The Chicago film scene will be vibrating again on Friday, September 7th, 2018, when the new locally-made film “Skeletons in the Closet” makes its World Premiere at the Davis Theater in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. The horror movie is being presented by Cow Lamp Films, the Midwest’s first and only indie film/TV distributor, in association with Windy City Horrorama. “Skeletons…” screens at 9pm, get more details and ticket info by clicking here.
World Premiere at the Davis Theater on September 7th, 2018
Photo credit: Cow Lamp Films
Directed by Tony Wash and B.A. Lewandoski, “Skeletons in the Closet” also is a late-night, horror anthology TV series in the film’s story, featuring The Widow and her dead husband, Charlie. Each episode finds them providing hilarious commentary on a variety of B-movie horror films – some of which are terrifying! Their number one fan, a precocious 11-year-old named Jamie, never misses an episode.
World Premiere at the Davis Theater on September 7th, 2018
Photo credit: Cow Lamp Films
Directed by Tony Wash and B.A. Lewandoski, “Skeletons in the Closet” also is a late-night, horror anthology TV series in the film’s story, featuring The Widow and her dead husband, Charlie. Each episode finds them providing hilarious commentary on a variety of B-movie horror films – some of which are terrifying! Their number one fan, a precocious 11-year-old named Jamie, never misses an episode.
- 9/7/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Star Trek: Discovery” Episode 3, “Context Is for Kings.”]
“Star Trek” has a long history of citing what we modern viewers would consider classic literature. The references serve multiple purposes: to offer insight into the character quoting the material, to make the futuristic character more relatable, and to reassure us that millennia into the future, some part of our culture has endured in recognizable form. For mutineer Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), her classic novel of choice is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Read More:’Star Trek: Discovery’: Saru’s Anatomy, Gorn Skeletons, and More Alien Insights From ‘After Trek’
On the USS Glenn, Burnham provides a diversion to draw the unidentified creature away from the boarding party. As she’s crawling frantically through the Jefferies Tubes, she starts to recite a paraphrased excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
“The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down,...
“Star Trek” has a long history of citing what we modern viewers would consider classic literature. The references serve multiple purposes: to offer insight into the character quoting the material, to make the futuristic character more relatable, and to reassure us that millennia into the future, some part of our culture has endured in recognizable form. For mutineer Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), her classic novel of choice is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Read More:’Star Trek: Discovery’: Saru’s Anatomy, Gorn Skeletons, and More Alien Insights From ‘After Trek’
On the USS Glenn, Burnham provides a diversion to draw the unidentified creature away from the boarding party. As she’s crawling frantically through the Jefferies Tubes, she starts to recite a paraphrased excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
“The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down,...
- 10/2/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
When Jason Isaacs was first asked to play a captain in the newest “Star Trek” series, his answer was a flat-out no. After all, “I loved ‘Star Trek’ growing up,” he told IndieWire. “Why would I even begin to try and pitch a tent at the foothills of Mount Shatner?”
But his agents encouraged Isaacs to read the scripts for the first three episodes of the series, now streaming on CBS All Access, and that changed his mind: “It was nothing like any of the weekly morality plays I’d watched growing up. What was written, at least, was the beginning of a long, rich, very different journey.”
There was still something of a leap of faith involved, because, as Isaacs was informed, “‘Oh, you’re not in [Episode 1] and 2… and by the way, ignore 3. We’re going to rewrite it completely.’ I went, ‘Okay. So, I’m sorry, why am I reading any of this?...
But his agents encouraged Isaacs to read the scripts for the first three episodes of the series, now streaming on CBS All Access, and that changed his mind: “It was nothing like any of the weekly morality plays I’d watched growing up. What was written, at least, was the beginning of a long, rich, very different journey.”
There was still something of a leap of faith involved, because, as Isaacs was informed, “‘Oh, you’re not in [Episode 1] and 2… and by the way, ignore 3. We’re going to rewrite it completely.’ I went, ‘Okay. So, I’m sorry, why am I reading any of this?...
- 10/2/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
One of the best indicators as to what kind of TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” might be in comparison to its predecessors comes down to the first time we see the titular ship. Other shows will introduce their central spaceship while it lingers at a docking station; meanwhile, we meet the Discovery as it rescues a small prison shuttle. It’s a scene which features the ship in action, a pattern that defines the rest of Episode 3, “Context Is for Kings.”
After last week’s explosive two-part premiere, fans were basically left wondering, “Where the hell do we go next?” and the third episode provides the answers they seek. Introducing us not just to the Discovery, but to Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and her additional crew members, not to mention a whole new environment for the series.
There is something beautifully, magnificently weird about the fact that the fundamental plotline...
After last week’s explosive two-part premiere, fans were basically left wondering, “Where the hell do we go next?” and the third episode provides the answers they seek. Introducing us not just to the Discovery, but to Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and her additional crew members, not to mention a whole new environment for the series.
There is something beautifully, magnificently weird about the fact that the fundamental plotline...
- 10/2/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Mark Harrison Aug 5, 2016
Hello! From Armageddon to Harry Potter, we salute the screen work of Mr Jason Isaacs...
This feature contains spoilers for Event Horizon and the Harry Potter films. This spoiler warning contains spoilers for the list.
Hello to Jason Isaacs! Through roles in an impressive array of movies, from indies to massive blockbusters on both sides of the pond, he's become one of our favourite character actors. We've found that no matter how the film turns out, you can guarantee that if he's in it, his performance is going to be one of the highlights.
Off-screen, Isaacs has a whole other profile of popularity. Out of several prominent celebrity fans of Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's film review show on BBC Radio 5 Live, he's the patron saint of their “church of Wittertainment”, and “hello to Jason Isaacs” is the show's first, most popular catchphrase.
Some might argue...
Hello! From Armageddon to Harry Potter, we salute the screen work of Mr Jason Isaacs...
This feature contains spoilers for Event Horizon and the Harry Potter films. This spoiler warning contains spoilers for the list.
Hello to Jason Isaacs! Through roles in an impressive array of movies, from indies to massive blockbusters on both sides of the pond, he's become one of our favourite character actors. We've found that no matter how the film turns out, you can guarantee that if he's in it, his performance is going to be one of the highlights.
Off-screen, Isaacs has a whole other profile of popularity. Out of several prominent celebrity fans of Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's film review show on BBC Radio 5 Live, he's the patron saint of their “church of Wittertainment”, and “hello to Jason Isaacs” is the show's first, most popular catchphrase.
Some might argue...
- 8/3/2016
- Den of Geek
WikiLeaks drama kicks off a huge slate of major world premieres, including August: Osage County, Twelve Years a Slave, Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom and new films for Brits such as Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Richard Ayoade, as well as the late James Gandolfini
• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures
• The full Toronto film festival line-up
The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.
Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.
• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures
• The full Toronto film festival line-up
The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.
Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.
- 7/24/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Feature Sarah Dobbs 12 Jul 2013 - 05:39
With his latest film, Trap For Cinderella, out in UK cinemas now, director Iain Softley talks about film locations, Hackers and more...
Iain Softley is a filmmaker who’s hard to categorise. His career is pretty fascinating, because it’s almost impossible to predict what kind of film he’ll make next. His first film was a drama about the early career of the Beatles, which he followed with an unconventional action movie about computer hackers. Then he made a period drama. Then a weird sci-fi movie set in a mental hospital. Then a spooky horror film, and followed it up with a fantasy movie for kids. How many directors can you name who’ve made a series of films that diverse?
His new film, Trap For Cinderella, is yet another different kind of movie, and maybe one of the most difficult to categorise...
With his latest film, Trap For Cinderella, out in UK cinemas now, director Iain Softley talks about film locations, Hackers and more...
Iain Softley is a filmmaker who’s hard to categorise. His career is pretty fascinating, because it’s almost impossible to predict what kind of film he’ll make next. His first film was a drama about the early career of the Beatles, which he followed with an unconventional action movie about computer hackers. Then he made a period drama. Then a weird sci-fi movie set in a mental hospital. Then a spooky horror film, and followed it up with a fantasy movie for kids. How many directors can you name who’ve made a series of films that diverse?
His new film, Trap For Cinderella, is yet another different kind of movie, and maybe one of the most difficult to categorise...
- 7/11/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
"Shaken not stirred;" "I expect you to die;" "Keeping the British end up"... James Bond has been part of the movie furniture for so long it hardly seems there could have been a time when 007 wasn't around. But it was in 1962 that the first Bond movie hit cinemas – exactly 50 years ago – and to celebrate we put on our thinking caps and considered what was our favourite Bond film.
Incredibly, we didn't all agree. Peter Bradshaw got all amorous for
From Russia With Love, Philip French said yes to Dr No, Tom Lamont aimed his peepers at Goldeneye, and Xan Brooks treasured Diamonds Are Forever.
There's more where that came from next week, as other Guardian critics have their say. You can have yours here, on the open thread.
In the news
Jim Carrey on board...
The big story
"Shaken not stirred;" "I expect you to die;" "Keeping the British end up"... James Bond has been part of the movie furniture for so long it hardly seems there could have been a time when 007 wasn't around. But it was in 1962 that the first Bond movie hit cinemas – exactly 50 years ago – and to celebrate we put on our thinking caps and considered what was our favourite Bond film.
Incredibly, we didn't all agree. Peter Bradshaw got all amorous for
From Russia With Love, Philip French said yes to Dr No, Tom Lamont aimed his peepers at Goldeneye, and Xan Brooks treasured Diamonds Are Forever.
There's more where that came from next week, as other Guardian critics have their say. You can have yours here, on the open thread.
In the news
Jim Carrey on board...
- 9/27/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
A violent reality check emerged this week: the moving image still has power to shock and disturb on a global scale. The crude anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims – allegedly a 13-minute trailer for a longer piece, which seems not to exist – showed that film, for better or worse, does retain the power to influence world events.
The first most people became aware of the film was on (ironically
enough) the 11th anniversary of 9/11 when protestors in Egypt beseiged the Us embassy; already the story was a news event, rather than a film one. Events soon spiralled, with the death of the Us ambassador in Libya and the identification of the film-maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
As our critic Peter Bradshaw pointed out, the instant dissemination afforded by the digital age has only amplified the effect of...
The big story
A violent reality check emerged this week: the moving image still has power to shock and disturb on a global scale. The crude anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims – allegedly a 13-minute trailer for a longer piece, which seems not to exist – showed that film, for better or worse, does retain the power to influence world events.
The first most people became aware of the film was on (ironically
enough) the 11th anniversary of 9/11 when protestors in Egypt beseiged the Us embassy; already the story was a news event, rather than a film one. Events soon spiralled, with the death of the Us ambassador in Libya and the identification of the film-maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
As our critic Peter Bradshaw pointed out, the instant dissemination afforded by the digital age has only amplified the effect of...
- 9/20/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Skeletons, the brilliant British comedy from Nick Whitfield, is available to watch here on demand from 14 September
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Welcome to Skeletons, the latest in the Guardian's series of films to watch on demand. "Intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny," our film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote, back in 2010, in his review of this award-winning indie comedy. Written and directed by Nick Whitfield, and starring standup comics Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley alongside Jason Isaacs, Skeletons is a bona fide British original, and looks even more miraculous and brilliant now than even when it first surfaced.
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Arriving seemingly from nowhere to bag a major award at the Edinburgh film festival, Skeletons is the story of a pair of psychic detectives: their job is to exhume the metaphoric skeletons from their clients'...
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Welcome to Skeletons, the latest in the Guardian's series of films to watch on demand. "Intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny," our film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote, back in 2010, in his review of this award-winning indie comedy. Written and directed by Nick Whitfield, and starring standup comics Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley alongside Jason Isaacs, Skeletons is a bona fide British original, and looks even more miraculous and brilliant now than even when it first surfaced.
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Arriving seemingly from nowhere to bag a major award at the Edinburgh film festival, Skeletons is the story of a pair of psychic detectives: their job is to exhume the metaphoric skeletons from their clients'...
- 9/14/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
As the Venice film festival staggered to a close – awarding its Golden Lion, rather controversially, to the Korean film Pieta rather than the runaway favourite, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master – Toronto 2012 reared its head. We're forced to admit the Canadian festival gets better every year, attracting the pick of the international film circuit, and definitely putting its Old Europe rival in the shade.
Catherine Shoard and Henry Barnes are out there for us, and they've sent back a giant pile of copy and video. New films reviewed include (deep breath): the Jake Gyllenhall cop drama End of Watch; Emma Watson's breakout performance in The Perks of Being a Wallflower; the Salman Rushdie scripted adaptation of Midnight's Children; sex-addict yarn Thanks for Sharing with Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow; the loopy adapation of...
The big story
As the Venice film festival staggered to a close – awarding its Golden Lion, rather controversially, to the Korean film Pieta rather than the runaway favourite, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master – Toronto 2012 reared its head. We're forced to admit the Canadian festival gets better every year, attracting the pick of the international film circuit, and definitely putting its Old Europe rival in the shade.
Catherine Shoard and Henry Barnes are out there for us, and they've sent back a giant pile of copy and video. New films reviewed include (deep breath): the Jake Gyllenhall cop drama End of Watch; Emma Watson's breakout performance in The Perks of Being a Wallflower; the Salman Rushdie scripted adaptation of Midnight's Children; sex-addict yarn Thanks for Sharing with Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow; the loopy adapation of...
- 9/13/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Simon Pegg's new comedy is about a petrified writer haunted by a hedgehog. Will you dare watch the trailer?
Steel yourself and press play on the trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything, a new comedy about a petrified writer starring Simon Pegg.
Written and directed by ex-Kula Shaker errr ... shaker Crispian Mills, AFFoE sees Pegg – who released the trailer exclusive on his Twitter feed – play Jack, a dorky children's author whose decision to move into gothic horror sparks a bout of crippling anxiety. There's not much that Jack isn't scared of – fire, the dark and a visit to the launderette get him shrieking in the trailer's two minutes alone – but the root of his problems appear to be a cuddly hedgehog, which has leapt from the pages of his children's story into terrifying life. The hog is animated by Chris Hopewell, Mills's co-director, and first appeared in...
Steel yourself and press play on the trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything, a new comedy about a petrified writer starring Simon Pegg.
Written and directed by ex-Kula Shaker errr ... shaker Crispian Mills, AFFoE sees Pegg – who released the trailer exclusive on his Twitter feed – play Jack, a dorky children's author whose decision to move into gothic horror sparks a bout of crippling anxiety. There's not much that Jack isn't scared of – fire, the dark and a visit to the launderette get him shrieking in the trailer's two minutes alone – but the root of his problems appear to be a cuddly hedgehog, which has leapt from the pages of his children's story into terrifying life. The hog is animated by Chris Hopewell, Mills's co-director, and first appeared in...
- 4/10/2012
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
A first time British feature that is a deeply eccentric, haunting marvel
If Syd Barrett had ever written and directed a movie, it might well have looked like this: an indie tragicomedy from the dark heart of rural suburbia, by newcomers Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe. Black Pond is funny, dreamily lyrical, armour-plated with eccentric self-confidence and also intensely English. It also, I have to say, has one of the most disturbing dream sequences I have seen for a while. Looking around for recent comparisons, I find myself reaching for Nick Whitfield's Skeletons, or Ben Wheatley's Kill List, possibly Joanna Hogg's Unrelated, or even John Morton's TV mockumentary series People Like Us.
This last reference is, of course, due to the powerful, even sensational presence of Chris Langham, making his first professional appearance since his recent disgrace. He creates a portrait of bourgeois midlife crisis that...
If Syd Barrett had ever written and directed a movie, it might well have looked like this: an indie tragicomedy from the dark heart of rural suburbia, by newcomers Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe. Black Pond is funny, dreamily lyrical, armour-plated with eccentric self-confidence and also intensely English. It also, I have to say, has one of the most disturbing dream sequences I have seen for a while. Looking around for recent comparisons, I find myself reaching for Nick Whitfield's Skeletons, or Ben Wheatley's Kill List, possibly Joanna Hogg's Unrelated, or even John Morton's TV mockumentary series People Like Us.
This last reference is, of course, due to the powerful, even sensational presence of Chris Langham, making his first professional appearance since his recent disgrace. He creates a portrait of bourgeois midlife crisis that...
- 11/11/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Cate Shortland (Somersault) has begun shooting new feature film Lore in Germany.
A co-production with Germany and with UK participation that stars Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl and Ursina Lardi (The White Ribbon), it is produced by Liz Watts (Animal Kingdom, The Home Song Stories) British producer Paul Welsh (Skeletons) and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel (A Mysterious World, Jaffa).
Based on Rachel Seiffert’s Booker-nominee novel The Dark Room, Shortland adapted if for the screen with British writer Robin Mukherjee.
Lore is set in the spring of 1945 as the German front collapses and the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 16-year-old Lore is left in charge of her four young siblings. Embarking on a journey across the devastated country, the children struggle to survive. And Lore has to learn to trust a person whom she had always been told was the enemy.
A co-production with Germany and with UK participation that stars Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl and Ursina Lardi (The White Ribbon), it is produced by Liz Watts (Animal Kingdom, The Home Song Stories) British producer Paul Welsh (Skeletons) and German producers Karsten Stoter and Benny Drechsel (A Mysterious World, Jaffa).
Based on Rachel Seiffert’s Booker-nominee novel The Dark Room, Shortland adapted if for the screen with British writer Robin Mukherjee.
Lore is set in the spring of 1945 as the German front collapses and the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 16-year-old Lore is left in charge of her four young siblings. Embarking on a journey across the devastated country, the children struggle to survive. And Lore has to learn to trust a person whom she had always been told was the enemy.
- 7/26/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Filming is shortly to wrap on six weeks of filming on Trap for Cinderella, a contemporary pyschological thriller, directed by Iain Softley (Inkheart). The film has been adapted from the novel by thriller writer Sébastien Japrisot, and has been filming on location in London and the south of France.
Two young rising British actors Tuppence Middleton and Alexandra Roach (soon to be seen as the young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady) headline the cast as two childhood friends, Micky and Do, reunited after 10 years.
When a beach house on the French Riviera is gutted by fire, the two young women are trapped inside. One is rich and the other poor. Only one of them survives, injured beyond recognition and in a state of total amnesia. Who is she, the heiress or her penniless friend? A killer, or an intended victim?
24 year old Tuppence Middleton (represented by Conway Van Gelder) is originally from Bristol,...
Two young rising British actors Tuppence Middleton and Alexandra Roach (soon to be seen as the young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady) headline the cast as two childhood friends, Micky and Do, reunited after 10 years.
When a beach house on the French Riviera is gutted by fire, the two young women are trapped inside. One is rich and the other poor. Only one of them survives, injured beyond recognition and in a state of total amnesia. Who is she, the heiress or her penniless friend? A killer, or an intended victim?
24 year old Tuppence Middleton (represented by Conway Van Gelder) is originally from Bristol,...
- 6/16/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Greta Gerwig on her Fawlty Towers obsession, and a Will Self short story is set for the big screen
Greta's towering ambition
Actress Greta Gerwig as an offbeat charm. Once the queen of the "mumblecore" indie scene, she has now moved into the mainstream with appearances in the Natalie Portman/Ashton Kutcher rom-com No Strings Attached and, now, taking over the Liza Minnelli role as Arthur's love interest in the Russell Brand remake of Arthur.
Although neither of these films could claim comic greatness, Gerwig attributes her taste for comedy to growing up with the complete set of Fawlty Towers on VHS. "I didn't watch much American TV," she told me. "My dad had these Fawlty Towers tapes and I watched them over and over. When all my friends were quoting off American comedies, I couldn't really join in. I'd just say things like, 'He put Basil in the...
Greta's towering ambition
Actress Greta Gerwig as an offbeat charm. Once the queen of the "mumblecore" indie scene, she has now moved into the mainstream with appearances in the Natalie Portman/Ashton Kutcher rom-com No Strings Attached and, now, taking over the Liza Minnelli role as Arthur's love interest in the Russell Brand remake of Arthur.
Although neither of these films could claim comic greatness, Gerwig attributes her taste for comedy to growing up with the complete set of Fawlty Towers on VHS. "I didn't watch much American TV," she told me. "My dad had these Fawlty Towers tapes and I watched them over and over. When all my friends were quoting off American comedies, I couldn't really join in. I'd just say things like, 'He put Basil in the...
- 4/23/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Back in November, was announced that British up and coming actresses Felicity Jones and Imogen Poots had signed on for Iain Softley’s indie project Trap For Cinderella.
Since then, both Jones and Poots launched big buzz around them – Jones gained critical acclaim for her role in Sundance hit Like Crazy, and previews for this summer’s Fright Night are recommending an exceptional performance from Poots. Jones has been working on David Hare‘s Page Eight, and the comedy Cheerful Weather for the Wedding in the last few months, and was a candidate for the lead role in Snow White and the Huntsman which was finally taken by Kristen Stewart.
Poots seems is ruled out because of scheduling conflicts since she lined up for roles in A Late Quartet, The Laureate and Hello Darkness. And it doesn’t seem to have paid of for Softley, as Jones and Poots are exited,...
Since then, both Jones and Poots launched big buzz around them – Jones gained critical acclaim for her role in Sundance hit Like Crazy, and previews for this summer’s Fright Night are recommending an exceptional performance from Poots. Jones has been working on David Hare‘s Page Eight, and the comedy Cheerful Weather for the Wedding in the last few months, and was a candidate for the lead role in Snow White and the Huntsman which was finally taken by Kristen Stewart.
Poots seems is ruled out because of scheduling conflicts since she lined up for roles in A Late Quartet, The Laureate and Hello Darkness. And it doesn’t seem to have paid of for Softley, as Jones and Poots are exited,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Full winners list is below for the Baftas 2011 arwards. The big winner of the night was 'The King's Speech' which took home both Best Film and Best British Film, as well as Best Actor for Colin Firth his second consecutive win following his performance in a 'A Single Man' last year and both Best Supporting awards.
Best Director went to David Fincher for 'The Social Network,' which also landed Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin's script and Best Editing, making it the runner-up with 'Inception' winning three prizes, for Best Sound, Best Production Design and Special Visual Effects.
Best Film:
Black Swan
Inception
The King’S Speech - Winner
The Social Network
True Grit
Outstanding British Film:
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King’S Speech - Winner
Made In Dagenham
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
The Arbor...
Best Director went to David Fincher for 'The Social Network,' which also landed Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin's script and Best Editing, making it the runner-up with 'Inception' winning three prizes, for Best Sound, Best Production Design and Special Visual Effects.
Best Film:
Black Swan
Inception
The King’S Speech - Winner
The Social Network
True Grit
Outstanding British Film:
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King’S Speech - Winner
Made In Dagenham
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
The Arbor...
- 2/14/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
As expected, Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" dominated the Orange British Film Awards winning seven BAFTAs including Best Film, Leading Actor for Colin Firth, Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush and Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter.
Natalie Portman took home the Leading Actress trophy for "Black Swan." Early awards season favorite, "The Social Network" won three BAFTAs including Best Director for David Finchers, Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin, and Best Editing for Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter.
"Inception" also took home three trophies including Best Production Design, Sound, and Visual Effects.
Christopher Lee received the ighest accolade which the Academy can bestow, the Fellowship, while the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema was given to Jk Rowling and David Heyman for the "Harry Potter" films.
Here's the complete list of the winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2011 Orange British Film Awards. Check out Awards Avenue for winners...
Natalie Portman took home the Leading Actress trophy for "Black Swan." Early awards season favorite, "The Social Network" won three BAFTAs including Best Director for David Finchers, Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin, and Best Editing for Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter.
"Inception" also took home three trophies including Best Production Design, Sound, and Visual Effects.
Christopher Lee received the ighest accolade which the Academy can bestow, the Fellowship, while the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema was given to Jk Rowling and David Heyman for the "Harry Potter" films.
Here's the complete list of the winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2011 Orange British Film Awards. Check out Awards Avenue for winners...
- 2/14/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The King’s Speech, The Social Network, and the other winners of the 2011 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) have been announced. The King’s Speech and The Social Network were the big winners at BAFTA 2011. The full listing of the 2011 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) winners is below.
Best Film
Black Swan
Inception
The King’S Speech (Winner)
The Social Network
True Grit
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King’S Speech (Winner)
Made In Dagenham
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
The Arbor Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
Four Lions Chris Morris (Director/Writer) (Winner)
Monsters Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer)
Director
127 Hours Danny Boyle
Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
Inception Christopher Nolan
The King’S Speech Tom Hooper
The Social Network David Fincher (Winner)
Original Screenplay
Black Swan Mark Heyman,...
Best Film
Black Swan
Inception
The King’S Speech (Winner)
The Social Network
True Grit
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King’S Speech (Winner)
Made In Dagenham
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
The Arbor Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
Four Lions Chris Morris (Director/Writer) (Winner)
Monsters Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer)
Director
127 Hours Danny Boyle
Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
Inception Christopher Nolan
The King’S Speech Tom Hooper
The Social Network David Fincher (Winner)
Original Screenplay
Black Swan Mark Heyman,...
- 2/14/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The BAFTA's were awarded tonight and below are the winners. The King's Speech won a total of seven awards. As I called earlier this will likely carry on through the Oscar's. A big congrats goes out to Gareth Unwin and Bedlam Productions!
See the winners below and share your thoughts. Who do you think will win big at the Oscar's this year?
Best Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Black Swan - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The Social Network - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Four Lions - Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson,...
See the winners below and share your thoughts. Who do you think will win big at the Oscar's this year?
Best Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Black Swan - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The Social Network - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Four Lions - Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson,...
- 2/14/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (or BAFTA, the British version of the Oscars) has crowned "The King's Speech" as the year's best picture. "Speech" also took home Outstanding British Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for Colin Firth and the Best Supporting acting awards for Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter and Best Original Music, for a total of seven awards, which is easily the most won by any one film.
The British Academy also honored Natalie Portman for Best Actress for "Black Swan" and David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin for their directing and writing efforts on "The Social Network." "Inception" star Tom Hardy won the BAFTA Rising Star award, Christopher Lee was honored with an Academy fellowship and the Harry Potter series received an Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema recognition.
The full list of winners:
Best Film
Black Swan - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott FranklinINCEPTION - Emma Thomas,...
The British Academy also honored Natalie Portman for Best Actress for "Black Swan" and David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin for their directing and writing efforts on "The Social Network." "Inception" star Tom Hardy won the BAFTA Rising Star award, Christopher Lee was honored with an Academy fellowship and the Harry Potter series received an Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema recognition.
The full list of winners:
Best Film
Black Swan - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott FranklinINCEPTION - Emma Thomas,...
- 2/13/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The King's Speech sweeps the board – but David Fincher takes best director …
Best Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Black Swan - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The Social Network - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Four Lions - Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year - Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Made in Dagenham - Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
Winner: Four Lions - Director/Writer - Chris Morris
The Arbor - Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan...
Best Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Black Swan - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The Social Network - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
Winner: The King's Speech - Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Four Lions - Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year - Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Made in Dagenham - Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
Winner: Four Lions - Director/Writer - Chris Morris
The Arbor - Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan...
- 2/13/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards were handed out today and to very little surprise The King's Speech led the way with seven BAFTA Awards as it was also the most nominated film among all nominees with 14 total nominations.
Among its achievements it took home Best Picture, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Original screenplay for David Seidler and Best Score for Alexandre Desplat. Where the surprises came were in the supporting wins for both Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter showing The Fighter apparently doesn't pack as much of a punch across the pond as it does here.
Also, for those of you trying to predict the Oscars and are wondering which direction to go with Best Director, David Fincher took home the award for The Social Network, one of three wins on the night for the film. Aaron Sorkin also won for Adapted Screenplay and Film Editing.
Among its achievements it took home Best Picture, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Original screenplay for David Seidler and Best Score for Alexandre Desplat. Where the surprises came were in the supporting wins for both Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter showing The Fighter apparently doesn't pack as much of a punch across the pond as it does here.
Also, for those of you trying to predict the Oscars and are wondering which direction to go with Best Director, David Fincher took home the award for The Social Network, one of three wins on the night for the film. Aaron Sorkin also won for Adapted Screenplay and Film Editing.
- 2/13/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Inception, Black Swan, and the other nominations for the 2011 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) have been announced. The British Academy Film Awards are “presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts…[and are used for] rewarding the best work of any nationality seen on British cinema screens during the preceding year…as well as excellence in…television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.” The awards show will take place on February 13, 2011. The full listing of the 2011 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominations is below.
Best Film Nominees:
Black Swan (2010)
Inception (2010)
The King’s Speech (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
True Grit (2010)
Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year Nominees:
127 Hours (2010)
Another Year (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
The King’s Speech (2010)
Made in Dagenham (2010)
Best Actor Nominees:
Javier Bardem for Biutiful (2010)
Jeff Bridges for True Grit (2010)
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network (2010)
Colin Firth for The...
Best Film Nominees:
Black Swan (2010)
Inception (2010)
The King’s Speech (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
True Grit (2010)
Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year Nominees:
127 Hours (2010)
Another Year (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
The King’s Speech (2010)
Made in Dagenham (2010)
Best Actor Nominees:
Javier Bardem for Biutiful (2010)
Jeff Bridges for True Grit (2010)
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network (2010)
Colin Firth for The...
- 2/13/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The full list of winners at tonight's Orange British Academy Film Awards, held at London's Royal Opera House, is as follows: Best Film
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech - Winner!
The Social Network
True Grit Outstanding British Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King's Speech - Winner!
Made in Dagenham Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
The Arbor - Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
Four Lions - Chris Morris (Director/Writer) - Winner!
Monsters - Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons - Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer) Director
Danny Boyle (127 Hours)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David (more)...
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech - Winner!
The Social Network
True Grit Outstanding British Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King's Speech - Winner!
Made in Dagenham Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
The Arbor - Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
Four Lions - Chris Morris (Director/Writer) - Winner!
Monsters - Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons - Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer) Director
Danny Boyle (127 Hours)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David (more)...
- 2/13/2011
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
The full list of winners at tonight's Orange British Academy Film Awards, held at London's Royal Opera House, is as follows: Please Note: The winners will be updated as they are announced at the BAFTA ceremony from 6.30pm. The event will be broadcast later on BBC One from 9pm. Best Film
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
True Grit Outstanding British Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King's Speech - Winner!
Made in Dagenham Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
The Arbor - Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
Four Lions - Chris Morris (Director/Writer) - Winner!
Monsters - Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons - Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer) Director
Danny (more)...
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
True Grit Outstanding British Film
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King's Speech - Winner!
Made in Dagenham Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
The Arbor - Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
Four Lions - Chris Morris (Director/Writer) - Winner!
Monsters - Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons - Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer) Director
Danny (more)...
- 2/13/2011
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
The awards have begun – scroll down for all the updates.
The 64th British Academy Film Awards sponsored by Orange are getting underway in London tonight and we’ll be updating you live from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden which plays host to the awards, as well as bringing you photos of the red carpet arrivals.
I’ll be updating you on each award as it is announced, let me know what you think in the comments below or by following us on Twitter at heyuguysblog, though we won’t be revealing who won on the twitter feed (for those waiting to play along at home – the BBC are showing the ceremony around 9), so keep hitting refresh to see all the updates right here.
Latest Update Here…
21.23 -Sir Christopher Lee’s gracious and warm acceptance speech is the perfect way to end the ceremony tonight. It was an...
The 64th British Academy Film Awards sponsored by Orange are getting underway in London tonight and we’ll be updating you live from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden which plays host to the awards, as well as bringing you photos of the red carpet arrivals.
I’ll be updating you on each award as it is announced, let me know what you think in the comments below or by following us on Twitter at heyuguysblog, though we won’t be revealing who won on the twitter feed (for those waiting to play along at home – the BBC are showing the ceremony around 9), so keep hitting refresh to see all the updates right here.
Latest Update Here…
21.23 -Sir Christopher Lee’s gracious and warm acceptance speech is the perfect way to end the ceremony tonight. It was an...
- 2/13/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
On Sunday night, the only place you’ll need to be is at this website, hearing all the news live from the red carpet. I’ll be there with my trusty smart phone, giving you all the latest gossip as stars arrive for the big night. Expect to hear about any surprise arrivals, amazing dresses and anything else you can think of! It all starts from around 4pm, so keep a look out!
Follow us on Twitter (@Blogomatic3000) for all the events. Or follow @KellyAlyse for my personal account.
The Red Carpet:
Below is the list of nominees – we’ll be bringing you the results Not as they happen – why? Well as with last year, the TV broadcast is an hour behind the live event and we don’t want to spoil it for those fans watching on TV. So look out for list list to be updated as per...
Follow us on Twitter (@Blogomatic3000) for all the events. Or follow @KellyAlyse for my personal account.
The Red Carpet:
Below is the list of nominees – we’ll be bringing you the results Not as they happen – why? Well as with last year, the TV broadcast is an hour behind the live event and we don’t want to spoil it for those fans watching on TV. So look out for list list to be updated as per...
- 2/13/2011
- by Kelly
- Nerdly
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards! And as expected, the fantastic "The King's Speech" dominated the nominations with 14 nods including Best Picture!
"The King's Speech" will duke it out with "The Social Network," "Black Swan," "Inception," and "True Grit" for the Best Picture award.
We will know the winners on Feb. 13 for the Orange British Academy Film Awards.
Here's the complete list of Orange British Academy Awards (BAFTA) nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):
Best Film
Black Swan Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King.S Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Cean Chaffin
True Grit Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson,...
"The King's Speech" will duke it out with "The Social Network," "Black Swan," "Inception," and "True Grit" for the Best Picture award.
We will know the winners on Feb. 13 for the Orange British Academy Film Awards.
Here's the complete list of Orange British Academy Awards (BAFTA) nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):
Best Film
Black Swan Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King.S Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Cean Chaffin
True Grit Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
After the joke that is the Golden Globe Awards, we finally get to see some nominees for Awards that are actually respected… and for good reason as you can see from the nominees. Sure the BAFTAs lean a little towards promoting the best in British film (just as the Oscars sway American) but they still have a strong commitment to honour the best. Here are the Orange British Academy Awards nominations in full…
Best Film
Black Swan Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’S Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Cean Chaffin
True Grit Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Four Lions Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
The King’S Speech Tom Hooper,...
Best Film
Black Swan Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’S Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Cean Chaffin
True Grit Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Four Lions Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
The King’S Speech Tom Hooper,...
- 1/18/2011
- by jcarp
- VISO Central
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush received two of the 14 BAFTA noms given "The King's Speech"
Tom Hooper’s “The King Speech” led all films with 14 nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards, including best picture, best director and acting citations for stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.
Close behind was Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” with 12 nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” with nine. Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” and the Coen brothers’ “True Grit” each came away with eight.
Each of the aforementioned pictures and David Fincher’s Golden Globe-winning “The Social Network” are in the hunt for best film honors.
The BAFTAs will be handed out on Feb. 13 at London’s Royal Opera House, two weeks before the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood.
A complete list of BAFTA nominees follows.
Best Film
“Black Swan” – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
“Inception” – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan...
Tom Hooper’s “The King Speech” led all films with 14 nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards, including best picture, best director and acting citations for stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.
Close behind was Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” with 12 nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” with nine. Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” and the Coen brothers’ “True Grit” each came away with eight.
Each of the aforementioned pictures and David Fincher’s Golden Globe-winning “The Social Network” are in the hunt for best film honors.
The BAFTAs will be handed out on Feb. 13 at London’s Royal Opera House, two weeks before the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood.
A complete list of BAFTA nominees follows.
Best Film
“Black Swan” – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
“Inception” – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan...
- 1/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Two things the British apparently love: stammering English monarchs and crazy-eyed New York ballerinas.
Tom Hooper's historical drama "The King's Speech," starring Colin Firth as speech-impeded King George VI, and Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," featuring a crazy-eyed Natalie Portman as a dancer on the verge of a "Swan Lake"-induced breakdown, topped the Orange British Academy Film Awards nominations, which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced today. "The King's Speech" led the way with 14 nominations, "Black Swan" scored 12, "Inception" snagged nine, and "True Grit" and "127 Hours" nabbed eight apiece. Golden Globes Best Picture winner and Oscar front runner "The Social Network" earned a more modest six nominations.
The Best Picture field looks a whole lot like the one that competed for Golden Globes Best Picture - Drama: "Black Swan," "Inception," "The King's Speech," "The Social Network" and "True Grit." The sole difference is that...
Tom Hooper's historical drama "The King's Speech," starring Colin Firth as speech-impeded King George VI, and Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," featuring a crazy-eyed Natalie Portman as a dancer on the verge of a "Swan Lake"-induced breakdown, topped the Orange British Academy Film Awards nominations, which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced today. "The King's Speech" led the way with 14 nominations, "Black Swan" scored 12, "Inception" snagged nine, and "True Grit" and "127 Hours" nabbed eight apiece. Golden Globes Best Picture winner and Oscar front runner "The Social Network" earned a more modest six nominations.
The Best Picture field looks a whole lot like the one that competed for Golden Globes Best Picture - Drama: "Black Swan," "Inception," "The King's Speech," "The Social Network" and "True Grit." The sole difference is that...
- 1/18/2011
- by Tom DiChiara
- MTV Movies Blog
The BAFTA nominations have come out just days after the Golden Globes proved they are a joke, but can’t take one. The prestige pic, The King’s Speech leads the pack with 14 nominations, which is hardly surprising as The British Academy of Film and Television Award’s tends to favor the home team and loves a good monarch-based drama. But there are a few surprises in the bunch as well as a lot of love for American-made films. Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan landed an impressive 12 nominations, including one for the formerly underrated performance of Barbara Hershey as a terrifyingly domineering stage mom. Other honored Us flicks include: True Grit, The Kids Are All Right, and The Social Network. The surprises?
Well, early Oscar favorite The Social Network only scored 6 nods, which is likely a shock to those who regard the BAFTA’s as a telling precursor to the Academy Awards.
Well, early Oscar favorite The Social Network only scored 6 nods, which is likely a shock to those who regard the BAFTA’s as a telling precursor to the Academy Awards.
- 1/18/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have announced their nominations for the 2011 BAFTA Awards (the British equivalent of the Oscars). There’s no real big surprises on the list. The Social Network has been dominating awards circles in North America but The King’s Speech is leading the BAFTAs with 14 nominations, including Best Picture and Outstanding British Film. Black Swan (voted best film here at Sound On Sight) has 12 nominations, True Grit 8 nominations, and Inception 9 nominations. Personally I think the most interesting category is the “Outstanding Debut By a British writer, director, or producer”, which includes the likes of Gareth Edwards (Monsters), Chris Morris (Four Lions), and Banksy (Exit Through the Gift Shop). I can’t wait to see who wins, and I’d be happy with either of these three talented filmmakers.
Hit the jump for a full list of the nominations. Winners will be announced on February 13th.
Hit the jump for a full list of the nominations. Winners will be announced on February 13th.
- 1/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The BAFTA film awards have been kind to historical drama The King’s Speech after it was ‘knighted’ with 14 nominations for the upcoming ceremony on February 13th. The film which focuses on King George VI’s struggle against a crippling stammer has been nominated in the major categories of both Best Film and Best British Film as well as mentions for its director Tom Hooper and stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. This as well as several technical awards to its capacity.
FilmShaft saw it back in October at the 54th BFI London Film Festival and rightly predicted it the film would dominate awards season. You can read our review here. It is followed by soon-to-be-released ballerina drama Black Swan with 12 nods including its director Darren Aronofsky and leading actress Natalie Portman. You can read our review here.
There are also various noms for sci-fi blockbuster Inception...
FilmShaft saw it back in October at the 54th BFI London Film Festival and rightly predicted it the film would dominate awards season. You can read our review here. It is followed by soon-to-be-released ballerina drama Black Swan with 12 nods including its director Darren Aronofsky and leading actress Natalie Portman. You can read our review here.
There are also various noms for sci-fi blockbuster Inception...
- 1/18/2011
- by Craig Kell
- FilmShaft.com
The King’S Speech led the way with 14 BAFTA nominations on Tuesday morning as the British Academy Film Awards nominations, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, were announced. The film saw nominations for Best Film, Best Director – Tom Hooper, Best Actor – Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actress – Helena Bonhma Carter, Best Supporting Actor – Geoffrey Rush, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Make Up & Hair, Original Music, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film.
The Fighter, Golden Globe winner and Best Supporting actress contender Melissa Leo as well as the film’s director, David O. Russell were not among this year’s BAFTA nominations. Oscar Best Actress contender Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’S Bone was also noticeably absent.
The BAFTAs will be handed out February 13th at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London.
Watch Dominic Cooper and Talulah Riley announce the nominations for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards Here.
The Fighter, Golden Globe winner and Best Supporting actress contender Melissa Leo as well as the film’s director, David O. Russell were not among this year’s BAFTA nominations. Oscar Best Actress contender Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’S Bone was also noticeably absent.
The BAFTAs will be handed out February 13th at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London.
Watch Dominic Cooper and Talulah Riley announce the nominations for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards Here.
- 1/18/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced its full list of nominees for its annual awards -- think the British Oscars. "The King's Speech" leads the way with 14 nominations, followed by "Black Swan" with 12, "Inception" with nine and "True Grit" with eight nominations, which is eight more than it received from the Golden Globes.
Interestingly, Barbara Hershey got the Best Supporting Actress nom from "Black Swan" and not Mila Kunis, who was the nominee in that category for both the Critics Choice and Golden Globes. Also absent from the nomination list is Melissa Leo, who has won Best Supporting Actress from both the Critics Choice and the Golden Globe for "The Fighter." Her co-star Amy Adams is nominated.
Pete Postlethwaite got a posthumous nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in "The Town." For Best Leading Actor, Javier Bardem scored his first major award nomination for...
Interestingly, Barbara Hershey got the Best Supporting Actress nom from "Black Swan" and not Mila Kunis, who was the nominee in that category for both the Critics Choice and Golden Globes. Also absent from the nomination list is Melissa Leo, who has won Best Supporting Actress from both the Critics Choice and the Golden Globe for "The Fighter." Her co-star Amy Adams is nominated.
Pete Postlethwaite got a posthumous nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in "The Town." For Best Leading Actor, Javier Bardem scored his first major award nomination for...
- 1/18/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The King's Speech led all films with 14 BAFTA nominations, including nods for Best Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress. True Grit, which had been ignored by the Golden Globes, garnered eight nominations, including recognition for Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Actor, and Actress. Black Swan earned 12 nominations, while everyone’s pre-Oscar favorite, The Social Network, nabbed only six. The complete list is after the jump:
Best Film
Black Swan — Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception — Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’s Speech — Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network — Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti,...
Best Film
Black Swan — Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception — Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’s Speech — Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network — Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
London -- Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" is in pole position to be crowned the big winner at this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.There is nothing stuttering in the nomination race for the Colin Firth starrer about King George VI with the movie securing 14 slots on the potential kudos count sheet.Hooper secures a best director nomination and the picture a best film tilt. Speech will compete with the David Fincher-directed Facebook drama "The Social Network," balletic thriller "Black Swan," from Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Inception" and the Coen brothers' western remake "True Grit" for the best film nod.In the best director category, Danny Boyle could secure his second BAFTA director nod after Slumdog for his efforts with his adventurous biopic dramatization "127 Hours" if he fends off challenges from Hooper, Aronofsky, Nolan and Fincher.
- 1/18/2011
- backstage.com
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” received its most vocal vote of confidence this morning as the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards recognized the drama with 14 nominations including Best Film, Director and the top acting categories.
“Speech” led all contenders with 14, followed closely by Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan.” The dark ballet thriller scored 12 nominations including Best Film.
The remaining Best Film nominees are “Inception,” “The Social Network” and “True Grit.” That’s an outstanding Top 5 right there.
Here’s the complete release for the BAFTAs. The ceremony takes place on Sunday, Feb. 13, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. Jonathan Ross will host the show, which will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One.
The King’s Speech receives 14 nominations. Black Swan is nominated in 12 categories. Inception has nine nominations and 127 Hours and True Grit are each nominated eight times. The Social Network has six nominations.
Hollywoodnews.com: Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” received its most vocal vote of confidence this morning as the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards recognized the drama with 14 nominations including Best Film, Director and the top acting categories.
“Speech” led all contenders with 14, followed closely by Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan.” The dark ballet thriller scored 12 nominations including Best Film.
The remaining Best Film nominees are “Inception,” “The Social Network” and “True Grit.” That’s an outstanding Top 5 right there.
Here’s the complete release for the BAFTAs. The ceremony takes place on Sunday, Feb. 13, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. Jonathan Ross will host the show, which will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One.
The King’s Speech receives 14 nominations. Black Swan is nominated in 12 categories. Inception has nine nominations and 127 Hours and True Grit are each nominated eight times. The Social Network has six nominations.
- 1/18/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Here is the full list of nominees for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA) for 2011. The King’s Speech, which received the Golden Globe for Best Actor for Colin Firth, dominates the list, taking home 14 nominations. It looks like you can expect The King’s Speech to be what The Social Network was at the Globes at the BAFTA Awards. Black Swan also makes a strong showing with 12 nominations.
Best Film
Black Swan – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’S Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year – Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Four Lions – Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
The King’S Speech – Tom Hooper,...
Best Film
Black Swan – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’S Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Outstanding British Film
127 Hours – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year – Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Four Lions – Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
The King’S Speech – Tom Hooper,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
The 2011 BAFTA Nominations have just been announced with The King’s Speech leading the way with 14 nominations. No surprise there of course as the BAFTA’s routinely congratulate British films and this will be the one ceremony where it is bound to top The Social Network, the clear Oscar favourite after this weekend’s Golden Globes.
The rest are the usual-usual of the Awards season focus but it’s great to see the late Pete Postlewaite make the cut for Best Supporting Actor in The Town and that Hailee Steinfeld is included as Best Actress as she should be for True Grit.
The noms below;
Best supporting actress
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Miranda Richardson – Made in Dagenham
Best supporting actor
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Pete Postlethwaite – The Town
Mark Ruffalo...
The rest are the usual-usual of the Awards season focus but it’s great to see the late Pete Postlewaite make the cut for Best Supporting Actor in The Town and that Hailee Steinfeld is included as Best Actress as she should be for True Grit.
The noms below;
Best supporting actress
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Miranda Richardson – Made in Dagenham
Best supporting actor
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Pete Postlethwaite – The Town
Mark Ruffalo...
- 1/18/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
The awards season has well and truly kicked off! Following on from the Golden Globes over the weekend, the nominations for this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards have been announced.
The big albeit predictable news is that The King’s Speech leads the pack, with a whopping 14 nominations. Not far behind is Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which has 12, followed by Inception with nine nominations and 127 Hours and True Grit which have eight each. The Social Network – which won big at the Golden Globes – comes in with six nominations.
Alice in Wonderland has five nominations; The Kids Are All Right and Made in Dagenham have four nominations apiece; and The Fighter, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Toy Story 3 each receive three nominations.
The King’s Speech 14 nominations are Best Film, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Make Up & Hair, Original Music, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film.
The big albeit predictable news is that The King’s Speech leads the pack, with a whopping 14 nominations. Not far behind is Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which has 12, followed by Inception with nine nominations and 127 Hours and True Grit which have eight each. The Social Network – which won big at the Golden Globes – comes in with six nominations.
Alice in Wonderland has five nominations; The Kids Are All Right and Made in Dagenham have four nominations apiece; and The Fighter, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Toy Story 3 each receive three nominations.
The King’s Speech 14 nominations are Best Film, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Make Up & Hair, Original Music, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film.
- 1/18/2011
- by tegan.kniveton@lovefilm.com (Tegan Kniveton)
- LOVEFiLM
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