Patrick Kennedy (Boardwalk Empire) and Tamzin Merchant (The Tudors) will lead the cast of new ITV drama Murder on the Home Front. Written by Davy Kane, the crime thriller will follow an early forensic murder investigation, set against the backdrop of the Blitz. James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley) and Emerald Fennell (Any Human Heart) will also star in the series, loosely based on the memoires of Molly Lefebure, secretary to the Home Office Pathologist and pioneer of modern forensics Keith Simpson during World War II. Kennedy will play Dr Lennox Collins, a cutting-edge pathologist, while Fleet is cast as his superior Professor Henry Stephens, and Merchant will play Collins's (more)...
- 10/23/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
"As we approach the 40th anniversary of the storied summer of 1969," our friends at SnagFilms remind us, why not celebrate the life of one of rock's biggest icons? Admittedly, Inside John Lennon, an unauthorized, 52-minute feature written and narrated by Henry Stephens, could have been titled Worship John Lennon. It's respectful and reverent almost to the point of religious devotion. Lennon's sister, Julia Baird, gets center stage; she's eager to set the record straight about their banjo-playing mother, trash the Beatles' first single Love Me Do ("It was a load of rubbish, wasn't it?"), explain away John's leaving behind his first wife Cynthia and son Julian as necessary in order to keep his career on track, and vilify Yoko Ono like the Devil.
Other, apparently new interviews for this 2003 doc were conducted with original members of the Quarrymen (as John's late 50s skiffle band was called before it morphed into...
Other, apparently new interviews for this 2003 doc were conducted with original members of the Quarrymen (as John's late 50s skiffle band was called before it morphed into...
- 5/7/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
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