Billed the ‘Trollywood’ of the North for its close ties to talent, the leading Scandinavian regional film fund Film i Väst in Sweden’s Trollhättan has boarded the Noomi Rapace starrer “Mother, to be helmed by Macedonia’s Teona Stugar Mitevska.
The biopic, in which Rapace will play the legendary religious figure Mother Teresa, will mark the English-language debut of esteemed auteur Mitevska, credited for the 2019 Berlin entry “God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya”.
“I am Macedonian, and I grew up in Skopje- Mother Teresa’s birth place,” Mitevska told Variety. “I didn’t grow up religious, as it was Yugoslavia at the time and we were all atheist or existentialists, but I grew up in a vast family of strong dominant women, almost a matriarchy.”
The director says she got the idea for the pic while working on the docu series “Teresa and I” for Macedonian television, more than a decade ago.
The biopic, in which Rapace will play the legendary religious figure Mother Teresa, will mark the English-language debut of esteemed auteur Mitevska, credited for the 2019 Berlin entry “God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya”.
“I am Macedonian, and I grew up in Skopje- Mother Teresa’s birth place,” Mitevska told Variety. “I didn’t grow up religious, as it was Yugoslavia at the time and we were all atheist or existentialists, but I grew up in a vast family of strong dominant women, almost a matriarchy.”
The director says she got the idea for the pic while working on the docu series “Teresa and I” for Macedonian television, more than a decade ago.
- 5/18/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Religious horror is one of the most effective horror subgenres. No matter what religion a movie is exploring, the very idea of faith being turned into a nightmare you can’t escape from is inherently ready for some thought-provoking ideas, imagery, and scares. “Immaculate,” the new nun horror movie starring and produced by Sydney Sweeney, fails to stand out among other religious horror movies, relying instead on cheap and uninspired jump scares, and marred by pacing issues and a superficial exploration of what makes Catholicism scary. It never provides a cohesive narrative to support the genuinely interesting and bonkers ending to this Italian convent nightmare.
It’s not like the idea of horrors inside a convent isn’t already a prime setting for scares. An isolated place where only women reside, but controlled by men, belonging to an institution with a millennia-long history of abuse, is ripe for horror. This...
It’s not like the idea of horrors inside a convent isn’t already a prime setting for scares. An isolated place where only women reside, but controlled by men, belonging to an institution with a millennia-long history of abuse, is ripe for horror. This...
- 3/13/2024
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Indiewire
Of the many terribly interesting things touched on in Danny Boyle’s smart and skillful adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s 1993 debut novel, Trainspotting, it’s most tempting to contemplate facets that are only mildly developed. There is, for instance, the pointed, oddly chilling, and deeply funny monologue that Renton (Ewan McGregor), the closest thing that the audience is given to a hero here, delivers in opposition to his straight-arrow friend’s buoyant Scottish nationalism. As Renton barks at Tommy (Kevin McKidd), personal despondency is connected directly to lack of a unique cultural identity, which Renton is quick to see as a reflection of Scotland’s muddled ties to the United Kingdom.
The whole spiel doesn’t quite account for the astounding amount of heroin that Renton and his cronies pump into their corroded veins, attained through various burglaries and scams, but coupled with the dour, decrepit environs of Glasgow and...
The whole spiel doesn’t quite account for the astounding amount of heroin that Renton and his cronies pump into their corroded veins, attained through various burglaries and scams, but coupled with the dour, decrepit environs of Glasgow and...
- 1/22/2024
- by Chris Cabin
- Slant Magazine
The episode of The Test of Time covering Silent Night, Deadly Night was Written by Andrew Hatfield, Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
Wading through the many aspects of a movie to decide if it stands the Test of Time is one of the fun parts of this journey. Often times, we’ve looked at classics that are genuinely seen as good in most aspects and decide if it was good just for its era or if it was able to transcend its place in time and still be a good time today. Last year we looked at Christmas Evil, a movie that still is underseen, but is a true holiday classic. While Black Christmas is probably on the Mount Rushmore of both Slashers And Christmas Horror and doesn’t require a re-evaluation, what about Silent Night,...
Wading through the many aspects of a movie to decide if it stands the Test of Time is one of the fun parts of this journey. Often times, we’ve looked at classics that are genuinely seen as good in most aspects and decide if it was good just for its era or if it was able to transcend its place in time and still be a good time today. Last year we looked at Christmas Evil, a movie that still is underseen, but is a true holiday classic. While Black Christmas is probably on the Mount Rushmore of both Slashers And Christmas Horror and doesn’t require a re-evaluation, what about Silent Night,...
- 12/13/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The famous Nigerian legend about “Madam Koi Koi” has now been presented as a two-part Netflix series titled The Origin: Madam Koi Koi. Netflix has just released its first episode, introducing us to the characters and the storyline of the series. The Origin: Madam Koi Koi revolves around a young girl named Amanda, who finds it difficult to fit into her new boarding school. Since she has arrived at the school, she keeps having eerie nightmares about an evil entity lurking in the woods on the outskirts of the town. Amanda’s mother enrolled her in this school to provide her with a better education and safety, but most of the male students at the school turn out to be perverts with a criminal mentality. Will Amanda be safe in this environment, or will she raise her voice against these crimes? Let us find that out.
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- 10/31/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
The "Warrior Nun" live-action TV series, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, that was canceled after two seasons on Netflix, has been renewed for Season Three streaming on another platform:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 6/29/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“Consecration” is something you hardly see anymore: a Catholic horror movie that isn’t about exorcism. Yet after decades of “Exorcist” knockoffs, moviegoers have been conditioned to anticipate the clichés of demonic possession. We expect them to be delivered, and in a certain way they always are. For moviemakers have been conditioned that way too.
Set in a remote seaside convent in the Scottish highlands, “Consecration” presents the audience with a sinister Mother Superior (Janet Suzman) who talks about God as if he were the devil. She leads a batch of young nuns who smile with too much cultish devotion (one wears an eyepatch because she dug her own eye out after she thought she saw Satan). We keep waiting for the other demonic shoe to drop — to see a nun possessed, or a group of them gathered in a secret ceremony to conjure the Beelzebub of their dreams. All...
Set in a remote seaside convent in the Scottish highlands, “Consecration” presents the audience with a sinister Mother Superior (Janet Suzman) who talks about God as if he were the devil. She leads a batch of young nuns who smile with too much cultish devotion (one wears an eyepatch because she dug her own eye out after she thought she saw Satan). We keep waiting for the other demonic shoe to drop — to see a nun possessed, or a group of them gathered in a secret ceremony to conjure the Beelzebub of their dreams. All...
- 2/11/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Whoopi Goldberg has shared an update on the status of Sister Act 3, as well as her desire to have Maggie Smith return in a central role.
The actor and comedian appeared on Friday’s (6 January) edition of Loose Women in a special interview with panellist Judi Love.
Goldberg spoke about a variety of topics, including the release of her new film Till, based on the true story of the racist killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the US in 1955.
She also discussed the long-discussed third film in the Sister Act series, and whether any new developments had taken place.
In Goldberg’s view, an essential part of whether the movie gets made depends on whether co-star Maggie Smith is willing to take part.
She explained: “You know, one of the things that I want to make sure I do while I'm here is… I want to let Maggie Smith...
The actor and comedian appeared on Friday’s (6 January) edition of Loose Women in a special interview with panellist Judi Love.
Goldberg spoke about a variety of topics, including the release of her new film Till, based on the true story of the racist killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the US in 1955.
She also discussed the long-discussed third film in the Sister Act series, and whether any new developments had taken place.
In Goldberg’s view, an essential part of whether the movie gets made depends on whether co-star Maggie Smith is willing to take part.
She explained: “You know, one of the things that I want to make sure I do while I'm here is… I want to let Maggie Smith...
- 1/6/2023
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - Film
The "Warrior Nun" live-action TV series, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, has been canceled after two seasons on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 12/18/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Netflix is parting ways with Warrior Nun.
Deadline reported Tuesday afternoon that the cult favorite has been canceled after two seasons.
The second season of the series launched on November 10, but there was a lack of promotion for the series, likely contributing to the lower-than-expected performance.
Netflix had several opportunities to promote the show, including at its Tudum Global Fan Event, but the streaming service elected to let the show slip under the radar.
As a result, Warrior Nun Season 2 spent just three weeks in the streamer's weekly Top 10 for English-language series, with #5 being the peak.
The series also showed up on the Nielsen Streaming Chart for the week of November 7, with 595 million minutes viewed, coming in ahead of The Handmaid's Tale, Andor, and The Watcher for that week.
Warrior Nun starred Alba Baptista as Ava Silva, Toya Turner as Sister Mary/Shotgun Mary, Thekla Reuten as Jillian Salvius, Lorena Andrea as Sister Lilith,...
Deadline reported Tuesday afternoon that the cult favorite has been canceled after two seasons.
The second season of the series launched on November 10, but there was a lack of promotion for the series, likely contributing to the lower-than-expected performance.
Netflix had several opportunities to promote the show, including at its Tudum Global Fan Event, but the streaming service elected to let the show slip under the radar.
As a result, Warrior Nun Season 2 spent just three weeks in the streamer's weekly Top 10 for English-language series, with #5 being the peak.
The series also showed up on the Nielsen Streaming Chart for the week of November 7, with 595 million minutes viewed, coming in ahead of The Handmaid's Tale, Andor, and The Watcher for that week.
Warrior Nun starred Alba Baptista as Ava Silva, Toya Turner as Sister Mary/Shotgun Mary, Thekla Reuten as Jillian Salvius, Lorena Andrea as Sister Lilith,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Take a look at more Season Two footage from the live action fantasy drama TV series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, now streaming on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 11/11/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
If you listen closely, every year around October 1st you’ll start to hear things go bump in the night… but don’t worry, instead of g-g-g-ghoooosts it’s mostly just the sound of props department interns who have been made to stay late and dig out boxes of bat bunting, dry ice machines and facepaint ready for another round of Halloween TV specials.
Halloween episodes are now a spooky season staple on both sides of the pond, but while the US has been producing Halloween hits like It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and The Flintstones’ ‘A Haunted House is Not A Home’ since the early 1960s, the American tradition didn’t properly catch on in the UK until the 1970s.
Dig through the archives, and – while a couple of spooky stories were read out on Jackanory in the late 1960s, including Doctor Who’s own Jon Pertwee’s memorable reading of Ghoulies,...
Halloween episodes are now a spooky season staple on both sides of the pond, but while the US has been producing Halloween hits like It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and The Flintstones’ ‘A Haunted House is Not A Home’ since the early 1960s, the American tradition didn’t properly catch on in the UK until the 1970s.
Dig through the archives, and – while a couple of spooky stories were read out on Jackanory in the late 1960s, including Doctor Who’s own Jon Pertwee’s memorable reading of Ghoulies,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Take a look at more Season Two footage from the live action fantasy drama TV series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming November 10, 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 10/13/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at Season Two of the live action fantasy drama series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming Winter 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 10/12/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at Season Two of the live action fantasy drama series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming Winter 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 9/20/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at Season Two of the live action fantasy drama series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming Winter 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 9/7/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at Season Two of the live action fantasy drama series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming in 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 7/8/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at new footage from Season Two of the live action fantasy drama series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming in 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 7/3/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at new footage from Season Two of the live action fantasy drama series “Warrior Nun”, created by Simon Barry, based on the comic book title by Ben Dunn, streaming Winter 2022 on Netflix:
"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine ::artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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"...a 19-year-old woman wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine ::artifact embedded in her back.
"She discovers she is now part of an ancient order...
"...that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth...
"...while powerful forces representing heaven and hell want to find and control her..."
Cast includes Alba Baptista as 'Ava', Tristan Ulloa as 'Father Vincent', Toya Turner as 'Shotgun Mary', Sylvia De Fanti as 'Mother Superior', Lorena Andrea as 'Sister Lilith', Thekla Reuten as 'Jillian Salvius', Kristina Tonteri-Young as 'Young Sister Beatrice', Emilio Sakraya as 'Jc', Joaquim de Almeida as 'Cardinal Duretti' and Lope Haydn Evans as 'Michael'.
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- 6/21/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Stage and screen actor best known for her roles in the Carry On films and as Cynthia Kite in the 1959 classic I’m All Right Jack
The actor Liz Fraser, who has died aged 88, specialised in comedy in a career that stretched from cough and spit parts in 1950s Ealing Studios films to a guest star suspect in the latest series of Midsomer Murders (2018). She also worked with Tony Hancock and Sid James, and starred in the classic I’m All Right Jack (1959) with Peter Sellers, but her long and varied career was almost inevitably overshadowed by her membership of the Carry On team.
The slap and tickle British film institution of innuendo and pratfall, awash with music hall one-liners, Carry On celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and remains as popular as ever, a reassuring never-never land of off-colourjokes, whose occasional sexism, racism and homophobia is somehow muted by...
The actor Liz Fraser, who has died aged 88, specialised in comedy in a career that stretched from cough and spit parts in 1950s Ealing Studios films to a guest star suspect in the latest series of Midsomer Murders (2018). She also worked with Tony Hancock and Sid James, and starred in the classic I’m All Right Jack (1959) with Peter Sellers, but her long and varied career was almost inevitably overshadowed by her membership of the Carry On team.
The slap and tickle British film institution of innuendo and pratfall, awash with music hall one-liners, Carry On celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and remains as popular as ever, a reassuring never-never land of off-colourjokes, whose occasional sexism, racism and homophobia is somehow muted by...
- 9/10/2018
- by Robert Ross
- The Guardian - Film News
First film in classic comedy reboot will feature script by writers of sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, with Hattie Jacques’s Matron played by a ‘butch gay man’
The first new Carry On movie in 25 years, Carry on Doctors, is to address the ongoing crisis in the NHS.
Producer Jonathan Sothcott told the Mirror that a sense of social realism would be vital to recreating the long-running saga for the 21st century. “The NHS is the best thing in the world. But it’s also something that we British love to grumble about – we will be addressing the crisis,” he said.
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The first new Carry On movie in 25 years, Carry on Doctors, is to address the ongoing crisis in the NHS.
Producer Jonathan Sothcott told the Mirror that a sense of social realism would be vital to recreating the long-running saga for the 21st century. “The NHS is the best thing in the world. But it’s also something that we British love to grumble about – we will be addressing the crisis,” he said.
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- 5/19/2016
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Above: Danish poster for Maid for Murder a.k.a. She’ll Have to Go (Robert Asher, UK, 1962).Next week is a red letter week for New York cinephiles because Anna Karina is coming to town. Nouvelle vague icon, muse of Jean-Luc Godard, and one of the most alluring presences in cinema, Anna Karina, now aged 75 and still gorgeous, is gracing us with her presence at three of New York’s temples of cinema: at Bam on Tuesday, May 3, where she will talk to Melissa Anderson following a screening of A Woman is a Woman; at MoMI on Wednesday, May 4, where she will have a conversation with Molly Haskell following a screening of Pierrot le fou; and at Film Forum on Friday, May 6, where she will kick off a week long run of Band of Outsiders and the accompanying series Anna & Jean-Luc. It would be easy to fill this post...
- 5/1/2016
- MUBI
‘Doctor Who’ actor Bill Kerr, also featured in Peter Weir’s ‘Gallipoli’ and ‘The Year of Living Dangerously,’ dead at 92 (photo: Bill Kerr and Patrick Troughton in ‘Doctor Who’) Australian actor Bill Kerr, best known internationally for a guest spot in the 1960s TV series Doctor Who, and for his supporting roles in the Peter Weir movies Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously, died on August 28 (or 29, according to some sources), 2014, while watching the TV show Seinfeld at his home in Perth, West Australia. Kerr, whose exact cause of death is unclear, was 92. Born William Kerr on June 10, 1922, in Capetown, South Africa, to Australian vaudevillian parents touring the country, Bill Kerr grew up in Australia, where he became a popular television, stage, and film personality. His show business career began at an early age. “My mother took about 10 weeks off to have me, and when she returned to the...
- 8/29/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Prolific comedy actor who worked with Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Hattie Jacques
The stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered for his appearances alongside Peter Sellers, notably in the Pink Panther movies. His familiar face and voice, on television and radio, were part of the essential furniture in the sitting room of our popular culture for more than half a century. A stalwart in the national postwar comedy boom led by Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes and Benny Hill, he worked with them all in a sort of unofficial supporting repertory company that also included Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Patricia Hayes and Arthur Mullard. He was also a man of surprising and various parts: child actor, trained dancer, film-maker, occasional writer, and dedicated and critically acclaimed photographer.
Like Gypsy Rose Lee, he had a resourceful and determined...
The stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered for his appearances alongside Peter Sellers, notably in the Pink Panther movies. His familiar face and voice, on television and radio, were part of the essential furniture in the sitting room of our popular culture for more than half a century. A stalwart in the national postwar comedy boom led by Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes and Benny Hill, he worked with them all in a sort of unofficial supporting repertory company that also included Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Patricia Hayes and Arthur Mullard. He was also a man of surprising and various parts: child actor, trained dancer, film-maker, occasional writer, and dedicated and critically acclaimed photographer.
Like Gypsy Rose Lee, he had a resourceful and determined...
- 11/1/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Alec Guinness: Before Obi-Wan Kenobi, there were the eight D’Ascoyne family members (photo: Alec Guiness, Dennis Price in ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’) (See previous post: “Alec Guinness Movies: Pre-Star Wars Career.”) TCM won’t be showing The Bridge on the River Kwai on Alec Guinness day, though obviously not because the cable network programmers believe that one four-hour David Lean epic per day should be enough. After all, prior to Lawrence of Arabia TCM will be presenting the three-and-a-half-hour-long Doctor Zhivago (1965), a great-looking but never-ending romantic drama in which Guinness — quite poorly — plays a Kgb official. He’s slightly less miscast as a mere Englishman — one much too young for the then 32-year-old actor — in Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), a movie that fully belongs to boy-loving (in a chaste, fatherly manner) fugitive Finlay Currie. And finally, make sure to watch Robert Hamer’s dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets...
- 8/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter biopic is last BBC4 film as homegrown drama axed as part of £700m BBC cuts
The TV biopic starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor will be a bittersweet affair for BBC4.
Burton and Taylor, which will air on the channel on Monday will be the last of BBC4's homegrown dramas, as it absorbs its share of the £700m of cuts being made across the corporation.
The digital channel, which celebrated its 10th birthday last year, has won a string of awards and some of its biggest audiences for biopics about Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenny Everett, Fanny Craddock and Enid Blyton (coincidentally also played by Bonham Carter).
Burton and Taylor is likely to be no exception with West and Bonham Carter – in particular – impeccable portraying the 20th century's most famous celebrity couple during their ill-fated 1983 revival...
The TV biopic starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor will be a bittersweet affair for BBC4.
Burton and Taylor, which will air on the channel on Monday will be the last of BBC4's homegrown dramas, as it absorbs its share of the £700m of cuts being made across the corporation.
The digital channel, which celebrated its 10th birthday last year, has won a string of awards and some of its biggest audiences for biopics about Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenny Everett, Fanny Craddock and Enid Blyton (coincidentally also played by Bonham Carter).
Burton and Taylor is likely to be no exception with West and Bonham Carter – in particular – impeccable portraying the 20th century's most famous celebrity couple during their ill-fated 1983 revival...
- 7/21/2013
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
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BBC Four Drama bows out with a moving story of addiction, heartache, and love, starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter...
BBC Four has had to pull out from making original dramatic productions, but, as Drama Commissioning Controller Ben Stephenson puts it, they want to "go out with a bang." The channel has produced several biopics focusing on well-known British celebrities over the past few years, some, like Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! following a fairly standard life story from youth to death, others, like Hattie, focusing on a particular moment in its subject’s life (in that case, Hattie Jacques’ affair with a young driver, John Schofield) which is used as illustrative of their character and life story as a whole. Burton and Taylor, which tells the story of the last time Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, falls into the second category,...
BBC Four Drama bows out with a moving story of addiction, heartache, and love, starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter...
BBC Four has had to pull out from making original dramatic productions, but, as Drama Commissioning Controller Ben Stephenson puts it, they want to "go out with a bang." The channel has produced several biopics focusing on well-known British celebrities over the past few years, some, like Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! following a fairly standard life story from youth to death, others, like Hattie, focusing on a particular moment in its subject’s life (in that case, Hattie Jacques’ affair with a young driver, John Schofield) which is used as illustrative of their character and life story as a whole. Burton and Taylor, which tells the story of the last time Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, falls into the second category,...
- 7/17/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Pier, which appears in films including Brighton Rock and Quadrophenia, is taken off market by Noble Organisation
One of the most famous landmarks on the south coast, Brighton's Palace Pier, known to millions across the world from its many guest appearances in films, has been taken off the market by its owners.
The Noble Organisation, which has owned the pier since 1984, put it up for sale last year for an undisclosed guide price, but now says it forms part of the group's long-term plans.
A statement from the company denied that lack of offers in the throes of the recession and diabolical summer weather were to blame. "Last year's marketing exercise generated a great deal of interest in the pier and a number of substantial offers. However, a change in strategy led us to conclude that the pier will now form part of our longer-term group plans."
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One of the most famous landmarks on the south coast, Brighton's Palace Pier, known to millions across the world from its many guest appearances in films, has been taken off the market by its owners.
The Noble Organisation, which has owned the pier since 1984, put it up for sale last year for an undisclosed guide price, but now says it forms part of the group's long-term plans.
A statement from the company denied that lack of offers in the throes of the recession and diabolical summer weather were to blame. "Last year's marketing exercise generated a great deal of interest in the pier and a number of substantial offers. However, a change in strategy led us to conclude that the pier will now form part of our longer-term group plans."
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- 10/26/2012
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
Comedy writer and actor who starred in 70s sitcom Sykes and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has died after a short illness
From writing a film where the only word uttered is "rhubarb" to creating one of TV's most popular sitcom partnerships, Eric Sykes – who died on Wednesday aged 89 – will be remembered as one of Britain's finest comedy actors and writers.
Tributes came in thick and fast for a man who was seldom off radios, stages or screens in a career spanning 60 years that will spark different memories for different generations.
Some will know him best for writing and directing the silly slapstick film The Plank while others will remember his sitcom partnership with Hattie Jacques, who played his perpetually exasperated sister.
More recently, in the face of near total deafness and blindness, Sykes appeared in the fourth Harry Potter film and, in 2007, the British comedy Son of Rambow.
From writing a film where the only word uttered is "rhubarb" to creating one of TV's most popular sitcom partnerships, Eric Sykes – who died on Wednesday aged 89 – will be remembered as one of Britain's finest comedy actors and writers.
Tributes came in thick and fast for a man who was seldom off radios, stages or screens in a career spanning 60 years that will spark different memories for different generations.
Some will know him best for writing and directing the silly slapstick film The Plank while others will remember his sitcom partnership with Hattie Jacques, who played his perpetually exasperated sister.
More recently, in the face of near total deafness and blindness, Sykes appeared in the fourth Harry Potter film and, in 2007, the British comedy Son of Rambow.
- 7/4/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
TV and radio comedy legend Eric Sykes has died at the age of 89. Stars have been quick to celebrate the writer and actor who worked with comic icons such as Tommy Cooper and Tony Hancock during his seven decade-long career, praising his comic talents, genius writing skills and humble and generous nature. But for those too young to remember the likes of Sykes and The Plank, here are some classic clips of Eric in action: Sykes, Hattie Jacques on the Billy Cotton Band Show
Eric and his most famous collaborator Hattie Jacques are in fine comic form in this early recording of the Band Show. Billy Cotton joins them for a comic reworking of 'I Caught Mummy Kissing Santa Claus'. Sykes and Jacques
Sykes and Hattie Jacques in one of their earliest TV outings, an early episode of Sykes And A.... Two superb comic actors at (more)...
Eric and his most famous collaborator Hattie Jacques are in fine comic form in this early recording of the Band Show. Billy Cotton joins them for a comic reworking of 'I Caught Mummy Kissing Santa Claus'. Sykes and Jacques
Sykes and Hattie Jacques in one of their earliest TV outings, an early episode of Sykes And A.... Two superb comic actors at (more)...
- 7/4/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
TV and radio writer and acting legend Eric Sykes has died aged 89, leaving a huge hole in the comedy world. Sykes, who worked with greats such as Tommy Cooper, Hattie Jacques, Tony Hancock and Spike Milligan, entertained seven generations of audiences with his gentle but zany comedic style. Performers and fans of all ages have left tributes for Sykes with the media and on Twitter today (July 4). Keep reading for a small selection of the plaudits: Stephen Fry on Twitter: "Oh no! Eric Sykes gone? An adorable, brilliant, modest, hilarious, innovative and irreplaceable comic master. Farewell, dear, dear man." Jon Plowman, former Head of BBC Comedy: "We won't see his like again. He was a wonderful improviser. His genius was both as a scriptwriter but also someone who could do stuff off the cuff. He was classless and funny and warm." TV (more)...
- 7/4/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
It is for comedy that Eric Sykes will be remembered, and here – in clips from his own hit shows and alongside Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers – is why
I interviewed Eric Sykes, who has died aged 89, in 2001 and the first thing the subeditor who received my copy said was: "I didn't know he was still alive." The legendary comedian had just filmed a straight role alongside Nicole Kidman in The Others, which demonstrated that his range was wider than people perhaps thought. But it is for comedy that Sykes will be remembered, and here is why.
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Sykes started out after the second world war writing for Frankie Howerd and the Goons but by 1960 he had his own sitcom vehicle, Sykes and A …. His unmarried twin sister was played by Hattie Jacques, but perhaps the most memorable episode was more of a solo turn,...
I interviewed Eric Sykes, who has died aged 89, in 2001 and the first thing the subeditor who received my copy said was: "I didn't know he was still alive." The legendary comedian had just filmed a straight role alongside Nicole Kidman in The Others, which demonstrated that his range was wider than people perhaps thought. But it is for comedy that Sykes will be remembered, and here is why.
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Sykes started out after the second world war writing for Frankie Howerd and the Goons but by 1960 he had his own sitcom vehicle, Sykes and A …. His unmarried twin sister was played by Hattie Jacques, but perhaps the most memorable episode was more of a solo turn,...
- 7/4/2012
- by Bruce Dessau
- The Guardian - Film News
Eric Sykes, the legendary TV and radio comedian, has passed away aged 89. The writer and star of classic '70s BBC sitcom Sykes, a writer for The Goon Show and a collaborator with stars such as Hattie Jacques, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers and Tony Hancock, Sykes entertained and amused audiences for seven decades. [Photo Gallery - The Life & Career of Eric Sykes] Sykes was partially deaf from his 30s and in later age was registered blind, but he continued to perform despite his disabilities. He married Edith Eleanore Milbrandt (more)...
- 7/4/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
The legendary British TV actor and comedian Eric Sykes has passed away following a short battle with illness, aged 89. Sykes's entertainment career as a writer for TV and radio, actor and director spanned seven decades and included work with comedy greats such as Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Hattie Jacques. The TV star's manager Norma Farnes said this morning (July 4): "Eric Sykes, star of TV, stage and films, died peacefully this morning after a short illness. His family were with him." Sykes is best remembered for his work in the 1960s and '70s, when he regularly teamed up with Hattie Jacques in the sitcoms and sketch (more)...
- 7/4/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Eric in The OthersActor Eric Sykes has died, aged 89, according to his manager Norma Farnes.
Speaking this morning, she said: "Eric Sykes, 89, star of TV, stage and films died peacefully this morning after a short illness.
"His family were with him."
The Lancashire actor, who began his career in the Fifties, writing and performing on radio, went on to carve a niche in television and film, including the popular TV series Sykes And A... with Hattie Jacques and Sykes.
Known for both his aptitude for visual slapstick gags - typified by The Plank - and more subtle character acting, he also played a number of memorable supporting roles on the big screen, in films as wide ranging as The Others, Son Of Rambow and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. He also provided the "Teletubbies" sign off at the end of each episode of the children's favourite.
He once said:.
Speaking this morning, she said: "Eric Sykes, 89, star of TV, stage and films died peacefully this morning after a short illness.
"His family were with him."
The Lancashire actor, who began his career in the Fifties, writing and performing on radio, went on to carve a niche in television and film, including the popular TV series Sykes And A... with Hattie Jacques and Sykes.
Known for both his aptitude for visual slapstick gags - typified by The Plank - and more subtle character acting, he also played a number of memorable supporting roles on the big screen, in films as wide ranging as The Others, Son Of Rambow and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. He also provided the "Teletubbies" sign off at the end of each episode of the children's favourite.
He once said:.
- 7/3/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
British comedy legend Eric Sykes has died today (04.07.12). The actor-and-writer has passed away surrounded by his family at the age of 89 after a short illness. His manager Norma Farnes said: ''Eric Sykes, 89, star of TV, stage and films died peacefully this morning after a short illness. His family were with him.'' Eric was one of Britain's most beloved and longest working comics. His impressive body of work includes his hugely popular TV series 'Sykes And A...' with Hattie Jacques which ran from 1960 to 1965, and then from 1972 to 1979. During his career he also wrote scripts for a number...
- 7/2/2012
- Virgin Media - TV
With the much anticipated release of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in theatres today, WhatCulture! were challenged with coming up with our 10 best British ensemble casts. With Tinker’s all star British cast – including the likes of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch – it was a bloody hard challenge to come up with ten that could even come close to rivalling such a solid cast!
Read on to discover what we came up with!
10. Gosford Park (2001)
The murder mystery genre is always one that employs a vast and impressive ensemble cast and Gosford Park is a prime example of how effective a film can be when this is done proficiently. A range of talented British stars fill the screen, disclosing the everyday workings of a 1930s mansion house from the privileged inhabitants and their wealthy guests, right down to the most invisible of servants.
Read on to discover what we came up with!
10. Gosford Park (2001)
The murder mystery genre is always one that employs a vast and impressive ensemble cast and Gosford Park is a prime example of how effective a film can be when this is done proficiently. A range of talented British stars fill the screen, disclosing the everyday workings of a 1930s mansion house from the privileged inhabitants and their wealthy guests, right down to the most invisible of servants.
- 9/16/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
The story behind the making of the film and the religious storm it caused are the subject of Holy Flying Circus
As Brian Cohen, the hapless hero of Monty Python's Life of Brian, finds out, it can be tricky stepping into the shoes of someone worshipped by all. And the fear of not passing muster is on the minds of all six actors cast as Pythons for a BBC comedy drama about the release of the film in 1979.
Holy Flying Circus will tell the story of the making of Life of Brian and the righteous fury that surrounded the release of its satirical take on the gospels. It is the first attempt to dramatise the activities of the sextet who transformed the nature of comedy in this country and produced a British film now critically regarded as one of the very best.
Coming together this summer to play Michael Palin,...
As Brian Cohen, the hapless hero of Monty Python's Life of Brian, finds out, it can be tricky stepping into the shoes of someone worshipped by all. And the fear of not passing muster is on the minds of all six actors cast as Pythons for a BBC comedy drama about the release of the film in 1979.
Holy Flying Circus will tell the story of the making of Life of Brian and the righteous fury that surrounded the release of its satirical take on the gospels. It is the first attempt to dramatise the activities of the sextet who transformed the nature of comedy in this country and produced a British film now critically regarded as one of the very best.
Coming together this summer to play Michael Palin,...
- 8/15/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Decades of rainy-Sunday screenings have blinded us to the true nature of postwar British cinema – freedom, naughtiness and a very black humour indeed
It begins with a parrot and a gaucho band. We're in South America – or a tiny patch of it, conjured some 60 years ago on a sound stage in London. The customers wear fur wraps and hair cream. The Atlantic stands, suspiciously immobile, beyond the window. And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice. He is a prototypical Ronnie Biggs – and he's prepared to put his money where his mouth is.
When a conspicuously privileged middle-aged woman stops to talk, Guinness presses a roll of banknotes into her outstretched hands – a donation for the "victims of the revolution". A waiter receives a similarly thick wad of beneficence.
It begins with a parrot and a gaucho band. We're in South America – or a tiny patch of it, conjured some 60 years ago on a sound stage in London. The customers wear fur wraps and hair cream. The Atlantic stands, suspiciously immobile, beyond the window. And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice. He is a prototypical Ronnie Biggs – and he's prepared to put his money where his mouth is.
When a conspicuously privileged middle-aged woman stops to talk, Guinness presses a roll of banknotes into her outstretched hands – a donation for the "victims of the revolution". A waiter receives a similarly thick wad of beneficence.
- 7/21/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
Holy Flying Circus to focus on comedians' struggle with church, councils and critics in runup to release of controversial film
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" is one of the most oft-quoted lines in British comedy history. But the religious controversy that engulfed the Monty Python film in which the quote featured, Life of Brian, on its 1979 release was no laughing matter – and is now to be the subject of a BBC drama.
Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche, a co-writer of the political satire The Thick of It, will air this autumn on BBC4 and aims to use the Life of Brian controversy to explore the subject of free speech.
Monty Python's irreverent take on the story of Jesus Christ revolved around Brian Cohen, a reluctant fictional Messiah in first century Judea who is eventually crucified. Church leaders in the Us and the UK protested,...
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" is one of the most oft-quoted lines in British comedy history. But the religious controversy that engulfed the Monty Python film in which the quote featured, Life of Brian, on its 1979 release was no laughing matter – and is now to be the subject of a BBC drama.
Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche, a co-writer of the political satire The Thick of It, will air this autumn on BBC4 and aims to use the Life of Brian controversy to explore the subject of free speech.
Monty Python's irreverent take on the story of Jesus Christ revolved around Brian Cohen, a reluctant fictional Messiah in first century Judea who is eventually crucified. Church leaders in the Us and the UK protested,...
- 6/21/2011
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan is currently filming as glamorous Sixties star Jean Shrimpton in We’ll Take Manhattan for BBC4.
The film focuses on the iconic star’s four-year love affair with photographer David Bailey. The part is Karen's first leading role since her debut in the 2010 series of Doctor Who as the Time Lord’s companion Amy Pond.
David Bailey is played by 24-year-old Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard (represented by Ken McReddie Associates) who starred in the original London cast of musical Spring Awakening and last year filmed Ironclad and Hunky Dory. He recently wrapped on Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons and is to star in Iain Softley's Trap for Cinderella, also filming this year.
Although predominantly set in 1962 and exploring the story of how Bailey and Shrimpton first met the drama also reveals how a young, visionary photographer refused to conform. He insisted on using the...
The film focuses on the iconic star’s four-year love affair with photographer David Bailey. The part is Karen's first leading role since her debut in the 2010 series of Doctor Who as the Time Lord’s companion Amy Pond.
David Bailey is played by 24-year-old Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard (represented by Ken McReddie Associates) who starred in the original London cast of musical Spring Awakening and last year filmed Ironclad and Hunky Dory. He recently wrapped on Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons and is to star in Iain Softley's Trap for Cinderella, also filming this year.
Although predominantly set in 1962 and exploring the story of how Bailey and Shrimpton first met the drama also reveals how a young, visionary photographer refused to conform. He insisted on using the...
- 5/31/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
BBC Four's controller Richard Klein has revealed that he is "delighted" with the success of Hattie. The show, which focused on the life of Carry On star Hattie Jacques, starred Ruth Jones, Robert Bathurst and Aidan Turner. The biopic picked up 1.7m viewers and a 7.59% audience share when it aired on Wednesday night. The ratings were the highest for BBC Four to date. "A transformational performance from (more)...
- 1/21/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
A BBC Four drama on the life of Carry On actress Hattie Jacques was seen by more than 1.6 million on Wednesday evening, the latest audience data has revealed. Hattie, starring Ruth Jones, averaged 1.66m (7.1%) for BBC Four between 9pm and 10.30pm, by far the biggest multichannel audience of the night. An episode of This Is Your Life on Hattie Jacques brought in 1.15m (6.6%) on the channel from 10.30pm. Live coverage of Arsenal's Fa Cup replay victory against Leeds was watched by 5.14m (22.2%) between 7.30pm and 10.15pm, outperforming a screening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which had 4.74m (19.9%) on BBC One from 8pm. Earlier on BBC One, The One Show entertained 4.4m (20.4%) from 7pm, before Rip Off Britain pulled in 5.03m (23.7%). Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman grabbed 1.31m (10.4%) from 10.45pm. On Channel 4, Will (more)...
- 1/21/2011
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Hattie Jacques, the young lodger, and poor John Le Mesurier – what a Carry On
Mary Portas: Secret Shopper - were we left short-changed?
What do you do when you walk into your own bedroom to find your wife in the sack with the lodger? Well, obviously you pull him off (no, not like that!), beat the crap out of him and toss him out into the street, whimpering and naked. Then you storm out, find someone younger and more attractive than your wife, and jump into bed with her, in order to restore some self-esteem.
Poor John Le Mesurier, played by Robert Bathurst in Hattie (BBC4), does pretty much the opposite. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry," he stammers, when he finds his wife Hattie Jacques Carrying On with her handsome young driver. He probably knew about it already, but had been trying – like a child with his eyes squeezed tightly...
Mary Portas: Secret Shopper - were we left short-changed?
What do you do when you walk into your own bedroom to find your wife in the sack with the lodger? Well, obviously you pull him off (no, not like that!), beat the crap out of him and toss him out into the street, whimpering and naked. Then you storm out, find someone younger and more attractive than your wife, and jump into bed with her, in order to restore some self-esteem.
Poor John Le Mesurier, played by Robert Bathurst in Hattie (BBC4), does pretty much the opposite. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry," he stammers, when he finds his wife Hattie Jacques Carrying On with her handsome young driver. He probably knew about it already, but had been trying – like a child with his eyes squeezed tightly...
- 1/20/2011
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
The son of Hattie Jacques has praised Ruth Jones's performance in a one-off drama about the former Carry On star. Jones, who is best known for her role in Gavin and Stacey, is appearing in BBC biopic Hattie, prompting Jacques's son Robin Le Mesurier to applaud her portrayal. Hattie deals with the marriage between the actress and Dad's Army actor John Le Mesurier, as well as Jacques's (more)...
- 1/19/2011
- by By Naomi Rainey
- Digital Spy
Nostalgic retellings of the lives of Tony Hancock, Kenneth Williams, and Eric & Ernie have been ratings winners, but fictionalised accounts can land the Beeb in hot water
Ooh, I say. How's the harness?" We're four minutes and 58 seconds into BBC4's Hattie and the biopic cliche klaxon is primed to emit its first parp of distress. Plonked amid the bustle of a busy panto rehearsal, Eric Sykes (played, somewhat disconcertingly, by Graham Fellows) winces in sympathy as co-star Hattie Jacques (Ruth "Nessa" Jones), squeezes her fairy princess-costumed frame into some manner of hoist. Mugging gamely ("Lucky I'm not planning on having any more children …") Jacques is hoisted swiftly over the empty stage, her matronly limbs swishing in time to the soundtrack's plinky-twinkly piano. Then, inevitably – vzzzzznnng! – the mechanism fizzles to a halt. As offscreen lackeys scramble with levers and pulleys, Jacques is left to dangle pinkly in mid-air, a vision...
Ooh, I say. How's the harness?" We're four minutes and 58 seconds into BBC4's Hattie and the biopic cliche klaxon is primed to emit its first parp of distress. Plonked amid the bustle of a busy panto rehearsal, Eric Sykes (played, somewhat disconcertingly, by Graham Fellows) winces in sympathy as co-star Hattie Jacques (Ruth "Nessa" Jones), squeezes her fairy princess-costumed frame into some manner of hoist. Mugging gamely ("Lucky I'm not planning on having any more children …") Jacques is hoisted swiftly over the empty stage, her matronly limbs swishing in time to the soundtrack's plinky-twinkly piano. Then, inevitably – vzzzzznnng! – the mechanism fizzles to a halt. As offscreen lackeys scramble with levers and pulleys, Jacques is left to dangle pinkly in mid-air, a vision...
- 1/15/2011
- by Sarah Dempster
- The Guardian - Film News
Miranda Hart has claimed that she has stopped reading reviews of her sitcom because they always mention her appearance. The creator and star of Miranda told Stylist that reading comments about her height and weight has damaged her self-esteem. Hart said: "I don't read reviews because they always mention my looks. As a woman it seems you can't just be a comedian. You're always classed as something else too. Whether that's 'beautiful', 'pint-sized', 'larger-than-life' or in my case 'Hattie Jacques-esque', 'the giraffe', 'the big'. "I used to read them but I had to stop after a while. One of those comments is okay, you can deal with it, but if you read 60, even the strongest person would start feeling low." She (more)...
- 1/13/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Miranda Hart has admitted that her self-esteem has been affected by reviews comparing her to Carry On legend Hattie Jacques. The comedienne, who completed the second series of her hit BBC show last month, told The Sun that she does not understand why critics feel the need to liken her to Jacques and reference her looks when discussing the programme. "For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone," she told the paper. "I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way near 25 stone. I don't read reviews anymore because they always mention my looks. "As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedienne. You're always classed as something else too, whether that's 'beautiful', 'pint-sized', 'larger than life', or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque', 'the giraffe', 'big'. (more)...
- 1/13/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
Veteran comic Eric Sykes has spoken out about Ruth Jones's new BBC Four drama Hattie. The 87-year-old TV and radio star said that it was "very sad" that the broadcaster had decided to focus on his late friend Hattie Jacques's affair with John Schofield in the programme. "It's very sad that parts of her life are being raked over, but I never saw her like that," he told The Mature Times. "Hattie was just wonderful - she'd read out the script in rehearsal and know (more)...
- 1/12/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
BBC Four has announced that it will broadcast an opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith. According to The Guardian, Anna Nicole - The Opera is a collaboration between BBC Productions, the Royal Opera House and composer Mark Anthony Turnage. Smith, who died in 2007 after an overdose, will be played by Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek. The opera is expected to air on BBC Four early next year. The channel also unveiled plans to adapt the Douglas Adams novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the Dh Lawrence books Women In Love and The Rainbow. Elsewhere, Carry On star Hattie Jacques will be portrayed by Ruth Jones in one programme, while Jessie Wallace will appear as Pat Phoenix in Coronation Street: A Star (more)...
- 8/25/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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