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DVD Review: Complete Set For ‘Eleventh Hour’ Available Online
4 November 2009 12:40 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – There simply wasn’t space on television for both “Fringe” and “Eleventh Hour”. As soon as I saw them, I knew one or both of the fall 2008 shows would have to go. With the strong lead performances by the great Rufus Sewell and beautiful Marley Shelton, I thought “Eleventh Hour” had the edge, especially after it did pretty well in its first season.
As many of us know, “Fringe” is currently struggling for ratings on Fox and CBS’ “Eleventh Hour” has been reduced to a cheap, online-only, feature-free complete series set. The show was far from perfect but it deserved better than this fate.
DVD Rating: 2.0/5.0
The problem with “Eleventh Hour” is clear just after disc one of the series set - it wasn’t original enough to distinguish itself from not just “Fringe” but countless other shows. The program often feels like “CSI: The X-Files,” being clearly inspired »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The 11th Hour: The Complete Series - DVD Review
26 October 2009 8:16 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Sometimes very interesting shows just don.t make it in the competitive television market. Such is the case with The 11th Hour, a program that showed much promise, but was cancelled after 18 episodes. Fans and other interested viewers now have the chance to own and view the series from start to finish. This series is based on a British miniseries of the same title, created by Stephen Gallagher and the American series is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Rufus Sewell stars as Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant scientist who is employed by the FBI to investigate the criminal misuse of scientific discoveries and to diffuse any crises that develop from them. The series begins with a shocking case »
- June L.
Eleventh Hour – The Complete Series DVD – Win Yours Here
23 October 2009 8:34 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
Based on a BBC show written by Stephen Gallagher and starring Patrick Stewart, the American version of Eleventh Hour unfortunately only ran one season. When I reviewed the DVD release of the original I said that the new one didn't quite measure up, and I have to stick by that, but that doesn't mean that the new one isn't still miles better than a lot of other television, or that it didn't deserve to continue on. Starring Rufus Sewell, on the short list of most underrated actors, as one of the world's leading scientists who works for the government tracking down criminals who abuse science in ways few other people would understand, Eleventh Hour is an order of magnitude beyond your typical crime show. There's investigating using science, and then there's investigating using science, and this show is simply off in another world. »
- Marc Eastman
Vinyan: Lost Souls review
8 October 2009 10:44 AM, PDT | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
Director: Fabrice Du Welz. Review: Adam Wing. Every parent's worst nightmare is explored in the new thriller Vinyan, after losing their only child in a devastating tsunami; Paul (Rufus Sewell, Dark City) and Janet Belhmer (Emmanuelle Beart, Mission Impossible) barely have the strength to go on. Paul is somewhat lacking in faith when his wife claims to have seen their son in a documentary about the orphans living in the Burmese jungle; he shows his support by agreeing to join her on a search for the boy. They really should have stayed at home though because what they uncover is both devastating and destructive to them both, drug traffickers threaten their lives and a clan of rabid children suggest a fate far worse than anything death could conjure up. An unimaginable descent into pure madness from the writer and director of The Ordeal (Fabrice Du Welz) which kind of goes »
DVD Weekly Roundup – Mon 5th October 2009
2 October 2009 10:34 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Red Cliff
John Woo hasn’t exactly lit up the screen with his Hollywood films has he? Face/Off is enjoyable I guess but the less said about Windtalkers, Paycheck and even Mission Impossible 2 the better really. It’s a shame because the man is capable of directing action sequences better than anybody else on the planet.
Red Cliff sees John Woo look to Chinese history for inspiration. It’s a sweeping, magnificent epic that looked amazing on the big screen.
The Han dynasty is coming to an end in third century China so as a last ditch attempt for survival the Emperor raises an army that stretches close to a million to attack the two neighbouring kingdoms.
Red Cliff boasts beautiful cinematography and action set pieces. It’s great to see a Director back at the top of his game.
Looks incredible on Blu-Ray.
Leave your brain at the door for this one. »
- Alex Wagner
Review: Vinyan - Wash Out
1 October 2009 4:23 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Director: Fabrice Du Welz Starring: Emmanuelle Béart - Jeanne Bellmer; Rufus Sewell - Paul Bellmer One would think it almost impossible that a film which follows the journey of grieving parents into a remote Burmese jungle to find their lost son - washed away 6 months previously by the 2004 tsunami - could fail to elicit any emotion from its viewer, and so it is something of a disastrous achievement that Vinyan manages to do exactly that. The lurching and hallucinogenic journey itself is launched when troubled mother Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) becomes convinced that she sees her missing son in the background of some grainy documentary footage at a charity evening in Phuket which she and her husband Paul (Rufus Sewell) are attending. Immediately enraptured by the idea that her son is alive in nearby Burma, she convinces her initially skeptical spouse to set out on a predictably hazardous rescue journey. Enlisting »
- Joel Gregory
The Factory Theatre Opens The Takeover Festival At York Theatre Royal September 22-26
22 September 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The Factory Theatre opensthe highly innovative Takeover Festival at York Theatre Royalwith two of their most exciting productions to date - Hamlet and The Seagull. The Factory's Hamlet was a huge success in London during 2007 and 2008.
The production, which first played to 15 audience members, soon became a hit through Facebook and word ofmouth alone. Playing in any space the company could lay their hands on - alleyways andtheatres, courtrooms and music festivals, office blocks and bars, the production ended up at Shakespeare's Globe with a sell out midnight matinee to 1500 peoplea year to the day after it was first performed in public.During this time the Factory had a number of guest cameos from some of their high profile supporters including, Kathryn Hunter, Ewan McGregor, Rufus Sewell,Will Keen, AngusWright, James McAvoy and Josh Hartnett.
Indeed the production has caused such a stir that a transfer to New York is »
Fabrice Du Welz’s Vinyan arrives on UK DVD
9 September 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
After his surreal and a time at grotesque French thriller Calvaire, director Fabrice Du Welz returns with his second feature - this time a full blown horror tale – titled Vinyan. Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell Vinyan follows the story of a couples harrowing journey to discover the fate of their son, lost in a tsunami disaster. You can check out a lush, dark and very atmospheric trailer at the link. Vinyan goes on sale, October 5th. Synopsis: When someone dies a horrible death, their spirit becomes confused and angry. They become "Vinyan". A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles of Burma. While her husband is worried that she's losing her mind, »
Fabrice Du Welz’s Vinyan arrives on UK DVD
9 September 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »
After his surreal and a time at grotesque French thriller Calvaire, director Fabrice Du Welz returns with his second feature - this time a full blown horror tale – titled Vinyan. Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell Vinyan follows the story of a couples harrowing journey to discover the fate of their son, lost in a tsunami disaster. You can check out a lush, dark and very atmospheric trailer at the link. Vinyan goes on sale, October 5th. Synopsis: When someone dies a horrible death, their spirit becomes confused and angry. They become "Vinyan". A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles of Burma. While her husband is worried that she's losing her mind, »
The Factory Theatre Opens The Takeover Festival At York Theatre Royal September 22-26
13 August 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The Factory Theatre opensthe highly innovative Takeover Festival at York Theatre Royalwith two of their most exciting productions to date - Hamlet and The Seagull. The Factory's Hamlet was a huge success in London during 2007 and 2008.
The production, which first played to 15 audience members, soon became a hit through Facebook and word ofmouth alone. Playing in any space the company could lay their hands on - alleyways andtheatres, courtrooms and music festivals, office blocks and bars, the production ended up at Shakespeare's Globe with a sell out midnight matinee to 1500 peoplea year to the day after it was first performed in public.During this time the Factory had a number of guest cameos from some of their high profile supporters including, Kathryn Hunter, Ewan McGregor, Rufus Sewell,Will Keen, AngusWright, James McAvoy and Josh Hartnett.
Indeed the production has caused such a stir that a transfer to New York is »
Fabrice du Welz Going to War
6 August 2009 12:35 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Back in 2004 a little Belgian movie with the strange title of Calvaire hit the festival circuit before going straight to DVD here in the States. Now, I don't know about you, but that film was So disturbing to me on so many levels: the Penguin Dance, the village with no women, the innkeeper Bartel and his obvious confusion when itinerant entertainer Marc Stevens shows up on his doorstep a few days before Christmas. And the pig. This film needs to be added to your must-see list!
Then, last year director Fabrice du Welz freaked everyone out with his first English-language film, which featured Westerners out of their element (and eventually their minds), a little creep-fest called Vinyan starring Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Béart.
Now I have just read this little news item on Bloody-Disgusting that du Welz is in pre-production on his third film, and being a huge fan of the Belgian director, »
- thebellefromhell
[Movie Review] Downloading Nancy
3 July 2009 4:59 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Downloading Nancy is not, just so you know, a movie about the Internet. The online world itself plays little part in the story, save for it being the tool that connects Nancy (Maria Bello) to an intimate stranger named Louis (Jason Patrick), behind the back of her distanced husband Albert (Rufus Sewell). If anything, writers Lee Ross and Pamela Cuming, as well as director Johan Renck—all first-timers—use the term more for its allegorical quality. Nancy's marriage is so devoid of happiness that she's gotten used to cutting, masturbating and chatting online to find moments of short bliss. From that last one she meets Louis, a man she asks to kill her.
It's not as depressing as it sounds, but it is discomforting. Maybe more to some than others, which limits its audience (and apparently the critical appreciation too, as some reviews coming out of its Sundance premiere earlier »
- Arya Ponto
'Phantom' Mini-Series Gets Greenlight
8 June 2009 12:32 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Canada's Movie Central and The Movie Network today announced that they have given the greenlight to a four-hour mini-series adaptation of the long-running superhero 'The Phantom'. The series will be a co-production with Sci Fi Channel (soon to be renamed Syfy). It will debut on Movie Central and The Movie Network in spring 2010.
The Phantom was created by Lee Falk and first appeared in 1936 as a newspaper strip. Since then a character with that name has appeared in comic books by numerous publishers throughout the world. The Phantom has also starred in animated and live-action screen adaptations. The latter include a 1940s movie serial, a 1996 theatrical film and a 1961 TV pilot. Another feature film adaptation, The Phantom: Legacy, is also in the works. Speaking to Moviehole, screenwriter Tim Boyle said that the movie is still at the scripting stage and he believes it will go into pre-production »
3 Sign on to Become Pillars of the Earth
8 June 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
A new mini-series has just landed a trio of new cast members. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland have joined the cast of Pillars of the Earth.
The mini-series was adapted from the Ken Follett novel by John Pielmeier with Sergio Mimica-Gezzan to direct the eight-hour mini-series. The story is set in 12th Century England and deals with two intertwining love stories set against a backdrop of war and religious conflicts.
Sewell, McShane and Sutherland join the cast that already includes Matthew Macfayden, Sarah Parish, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne and Gordon Pinsent. The mini-series starts shooting on June 22 in Hungary and Austria, with a premiere set for the later half of 2010.
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Four Clips from "Downloading Nancy"
7 June 2009 2:27 PM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »
Here's four clips from Strand Releasing's "Downloading Nancy", directed by Johan Renck and featuring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell and Amy Brenneman, When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in... »
Four Clips from Downloading Nancy
5 June 2009 5:11 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
What better way to start off a weekend than by downloading and sampling a bit on Nancy's psycho-thriller goodness! That's right, folks! Lock up the kids, bolt the doors, and dim the lights! It's time to see what kind of hazards can come from a not-so-innocent cyber affair!
Official Synopsis
When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only »
- Uncle Creepy
'Downloading Nancy': Please Kill Me, By Kurt Loder
5 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Maria Bello and Jason Patric in a world of pain.
Maria Bello in "Downloading Nancy"
Photo: Strand Releasing
Nancy (Maria Bello) wants to die. Louis (Jason Patric), an S&M creep she met on the Internet, wants to be of service. Albert (Rufus Sewell), Nancy's worm husband, can't figure out what to make of this movie. No, wait — that's us.
"Downloading Nancy," a film about self-mutilation, sexual sadism and dismal fluorescent lighting, features a world-class performance by Bello and an intriguingly spare one by Patric. But the story is so irritatingly jumbled that even the squalid enticements of voyeurism — the wretched Bdsm games involving mousetraps, cigarette burns and jagged glass — are insufficient compensation for the movie's narrative confusion.
Nancy has been married to Albert, a heavily-repressed neat freak, for 15 years, and she's miserable. Because of the violent sexual abuse she suffered as a child, the closest she can come to »
Downloading Nancy
4 June 2009 9:29 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
Maria Bello stars as one of those, "Hi, I like to cut myself" women in "Downloading Nancy," an icky S&M thriller.
The plot could be fully told in about five scenes, but the film keeps slowing things down with long, irrelevant flashbacks about the woman's psychotherapy sessions, in which she talks about her habit of slicing herself up and her death wish. There are also endlessly repeated takes on the lameness of her husband (Rufus Sewell) and his obsession with golf.
Gradually we get around to the crux of the story, »
- By KYLE SMITH
Movie Review: Downloading Nancy
4 June 2009 9:16 PM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Jun 05, 2009 Downloading Nancy is an amazing example of talented actors doing their best to make something genuine of a complex concept but being betrayed by writers and a director who seem afraid to really let the film connect. Maria Bello, Jason Patric, and Rufus Sewell are absolutely fearless in what they deliver as experts in their craft. It's just the way in which that delivery is used that fails to register. Downloading Nancy is a film about raw, emotional issues that is handled like a clinical exam. It's almost worth seeing just because the disparity ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
Building a Card House: Johan Renck on “Downloading Nancy”
4 June 2009 7:20 AM, PDT | indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news »
Editors Note: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Johan Renck’s feature film directorial debut, “Downloading Nancy,” follows the titular character (played by Maria Bello), as she leaves her husband Albert (Rufus Sewell) in search of her online soulmate, Louis (Jason Patric). The film debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and is being released in theaters this weekend through Strand Releasing. … »
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