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TV highlights 20/09/2011
19 September 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Later … With Jools Holland | Regimental Stories | Entertaining the Troops | Two and a Half Men | Nurse Jackie | The Great British Bake-Off | True Blood
Later … With Jools Holland
10pm, BBC2
In the past few years, Later has come full circle, from a widely ridiculed festival of muso smugness to a hugely desirable marketing tool, and evidence that bands – even those one had supposed to be complete chancers – can "cut it live". It's the element of surprise, ultimately, that makes Later worth tuning in for, and tonight the new series kicks off with its traditional mix of big, small and reputedly good. Small is represented by Emeli Sandé, while Snow Patrol do their bit representing the huge, but probably dying inside. John Robinson
Regimental Stories; Entertaining The Troops
8.30pm; 9pm, BBC4
A new series telling tales of British military heroism and valour. Sean Pertwee recounts the 1874 Battle of Rorke's Drift – 122 soldiers of the »
- John Robinson, Ali Catterall, Ben Arnold, Richard Vine, Julia Raeside
Nf Simpson obituary
31 August 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Playwright who mixed a comic brew of weird suburban characters and absurd situations
The playwright Nf Simpson, who has died aged 92, was hailed by the critic Kenneth Tynan in 1958 as "the most gifted comic writer the English stage has discovered since the war". He was generally identified with the Theatre of the Absurd movement alongside Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. But Simpson was peculiarly and singularly English in his absurdism. He turned suburban characters into weird chatterboxes and language into highly imaginative chop logic, and mixed a comic brew that derived more recognisably from the worlds of Lewis Carroll, Ws Gilbert and the Goons, without the puerile edge that came along with Monty Python.
His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a »
- Michael Coveney
10 greatest flying movies
21 June 2011 4:04 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
From aerial bravery in Wwi to Tom Cruise in an F-14 Tomcat, Mark lists his top ten all-time favourite flying movies…
This is a personal list, and as such, won't please everyone. I accept that, but I wanted to look at the films that have best represented flying for me over the years.
I've also excluded helicopters in exchange for a festival of fixed wings. But as a person who loves aircraft and flying of all kinds, these are the ones that made me feel the need. The need for speed...
The Dam Busters (1955)
Gosh, what a place to start. For the most part, the film's an historically accurate retelling of the ultimate daring-do of WWII. Richard Todd plays the unflappable Guy Gibson, who lead the amazing 617 Squadron on their secret mission against the dams of the Ruhr valley.
Using the Barnes Wallis (played by Michael Redgrave) utterly inspired bouncing bomb, »
Today – Vincentennial: Theatre Of Blood, Pit And The Pendulum
21 May 2011 6:54 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Theatre Of Blood will play at the Vincentennial Vincent Price Film Festival in a 35mm print at 2:30pm on Saturday, May 21st at the Hi-Pointe Theatre. Ticket information can be found Here
In the early 1907′s Vincent Price’s career was at a high point. The Doctor Phibes films were unexpected hits. How would he capitalize on these? In 1973 he took on a role in a film with a similar plot structure. In fact, many fright film fans consider Theatre Of Blood an unofficial finale in a Phibes trilogy. Produced by United Artists rather then American International Blood differed from the Phibes film in that it was set in modern times and boasted one of the most prestigious casts that Price ever worked with. Price portrays Edward Lionheart , a stage actor thought to be dead , who returns to murder the critics that denied him a thespian award. Many of »
- Tom Stockman
Top Ten Tuesday: The Best of Vincent Price
10 May 2011 5:21 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911, iconic actor Vincent Price retained a special fondness for his place of origin, and that love is now reciprocated with Vincentennial, a celebration of his 100th birthday in his hometown. Price was not only a notable St. Louisan but one of the 20th century.s most remarkable men. To do full justice to the range of his accomplishments, Vincentennial features not only a 10-day film festival but also a pair of exhibits, a stage production, two publications, and illuminating discussions by Price experts and film historians. We decided to do a special edition of Top Ten Tuesday here at We Are Movie Geeks in honor of the many great films that Vincent Price starred in, and after we had assembled the list we realized that all ten of these films will be showing at the »
- Movie Geeks
Helene Palmer
1 February 2011 10:17 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Actor known for her role as Ida Clough in Coronation Street
The actor Helene Palmer, who has died aged 82, donned a black wig and frumpy overalls in the television soap opera Coronation Street to play Ida Clough, one of a triumvirate of stroppy machinists who tested Mike Baldwin's patience at his denim garment factory in Weatherfield in the 1970s. With Ivy Tilsley and Vera Duckworth, Ida featured from 1978 until 1988 as a militant unionist at Baldwin's Casuals – in a decade when strikes and lockouts were the order of the day in the real world.
The loudmouthed Ida challenged Ivy for the role of shop steward in 1980 but lost the election. She lost her job when, eight years later, she shopped Mike for drink-driving and he received a ban. At various times, Ida's children – the even louder Muriel (Angela Catherall) and the dopey van driver Bernard (Jeffrey Longmore) – worked at the factory. »
- Anthony Hayward
Top Five Supernatural Flicks
26 January 2011 2:08 PM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
This Friday (January 28th) sees the release of the new supernatural drama Hereafter. Oscar winner Matt Damon teams up with Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood and two time Oscar nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan to make this supernatural drama that:
…tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. Matt Damon stars as George, a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (Cécile de France), a French journalist, has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might-or must-exist in the hereafter.
To celebrate the release of Hereafter we are taking a look at the 5 of the best supernatural flicks in cinema. »
- Phil
Will Hattie Jacques be the last to get the BBC biopic treatment?
14 January 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
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 »
- Sarah Dempster
Will Hattie Jacques be the last to get the BBC biopic treatment?
14 January 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
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 »
- Sarah Dempster
Eric Sykes criticises BBC's 'Hattie'
12 January 2011 7:40 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
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) »
- By Alex Fletcher
Peter Yates 1929-2011
9 January 2011 4:02 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The versatile British director Peter Yates has died in London, at the age of 81. He began his career as a dubbing assistant, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, working his way up to assistant director on films such as Tony Richardson's A Taste of Honey and J Lee Thompson's Guns of Navarone. The early 60s saw him gravitate to television, directing some episodes of The Saint and Danger Man, but his feature directorial debut was Summer Holiday, the colourfully jolly pop musical that packed Cliff Richard off to the seaside on a red London bus. The Eric Sykes vehicle One Way Pendulum, and Robbery (about the Great Train Robbery of 1963) followed, before Hollywood, Steve McQueen and Bullitt secured his place in cinema history.That iconic car chase on the streets of San Francisco came out of Yates' early experiences driving racing cars and managing Sterling Moss. The »
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