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28 March 2013 7:15 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Latest adaptation of a bestselling Meyer novel has received atrocious ratings on the review-aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes "Dopey, derivative and dull, The Host is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation," says New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis. And Dargis' opinion is one of the kinder ones that U.S. critics have written about Andrew Niccol's mix of romance, adventure, and science-fiction, starring Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, and Jake Abel, and co-produced by the author of the novel on which the film is based (Niccol himself is credited for the adapation): Stephenie Meyer, best known as the brain behind the Twilight Saga literary and cinematic franchises. (Pictured above: Ronan, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee back in early 2008, and co-star Abel) Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Twilight Saga? In the story, an alien force usurps the »
- Andre Soares
21 March 2013 8:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
First Light is an organisation that importantly encourages young filmmakers under the age of 25, and helps to develop their talents.
Their annual awards ceremony returned to London this week, when the winners of the 2013 First Light Awards were announced. The young filmmakers were given the opportunity to walk the red carpet in style at the Leicester Square Odeon, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Olivia Williams, Rafe Spall, Jason Maza, and Joely Richardson.
All of the above were on hand to present awards at the ceremony; a perfect example of how our current industry should be (and, clearly, are) helping to nurture the talents for the generations to come.
Because, let’s face it, if you’re presented with an award from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg for Best Comedy, or the Best Drama from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Joely Richardson, then you know you’re doing something right. »
- Kenji Lloyd
8 March 2013 11:31 AM, PST | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
Rob can’t help that he was ‘born beautiful,’ says his sexy blonde ‘Twilight’ co-star, who recently gushed about the actor and all of his sexiness in a new interview. Find out which star has a crush on Rob!
Robert Pattinson is used to women fawning all over him, but this time, one of his Twilight co-stars may be the one with a crush on the 26-year-old actor.
MyAnna Buring, who stars in Twilight with Rob, spoke to Marie Claire magazine and had nothing but wonderful words to say when describing Rob.
MyAnna Admires Rob’s Looks
“Robert Pattinson was born beautiful, he was just one of the lucky ones,” MyAnna says.
Despite Rob’s sex appeal, the actress also compliments his onscreen presence.
“Robert is a really great actor a lot of people forget that,” she says. “To play dark and brooding and in lust and in love with someone is not that easy. »
- ericraymitchellhl
27 February 2013 1:21 PM, PST | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
Any time private issues seem to come up involving Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, their co-stars (within and outside of the Twilight Saga) are always the first to stick up for them and/or avoid talking about it altogether. Why? Well, MyAnna Buring has an interesting theory. Buring, who portrayed Tanya Denali in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 talked to Yahoo! Omg UK about the matter and said, "What I love about them is that they tend not to comment on anyone else's private lives and that’s why people who work with them don’t comment on theirs." View slideshow: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart True enough, right? Buring also said that the massive fame of Pattinson and Stewart h . »
- thetwilightexaminer
25 February 2013 2:33 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The final episode of Ripper Street’s first series seemed like it would be a tense mismatch of Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) seeking his freedom, following being set up by his former arch-nemesis Frank Goodnight (Edoardo Ballerini) to make it seem that Jackson was Jack the Ripper all along, and Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) finally having an episode focused upon the loss of his daughter, possibly even reaching a conclusion over her disappearance.
The episode opens with H Division divided. Many mourning the death of young Hobbs (Jonathan Barnwell), Jackson imprisoned, the usually symbiotic duo of Reid and Drake (Jerome Flynn) broken. Reid seeks solace in the bed of Miss Goren (Lucy Cohu) whilst his righthand-man Drake seeks solace in the bottom of many pints and Jackson is left in his cell alone apart from his thoughts and occasional visits from Reid. Everything is in tatters, for the stability »
- Stu Whittaker
18 February 2013 3:25 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Last night we saw the penultimate episode of Ripper Street unfold, and what a tragic day it was for Whitechapel’s H Division. An ominous episode, was A Man Of My Company, that was littered with twists and secrecy focused around the mysterious past of Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) and his companion and love, Long Susan (MyAnna Buring).
The sixth episode, Tournament Of Shadows, questioned the identity of Homer Jackson, as Constantine claimed he was not who he says and that he was not a Pinkerton. Also the ring, inscribed with the name of Matthew Judge, that appeared in the second episode (In My Protection) pointed to Jackson being this man Judge, the man whom the Pinkerton’s have been searching for. The situation is exacerbated at the opening of ‘A Man of My Company’ when an American businessman Theodore P. Swift (Ian McElhinney, another actor pulled out of »
- Stu Whittaker
3 February 2013 2:00 PM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
Coming off its finest episode yet last week, Ripper Street was recomissioned by BBC One - things were looking good for Richard Warlow's Victorian crime drama, but could newest instalment 'Tournament of Shadows' hope to continue the show's run of success?
After Bennett Drake got his dues last week, here Ripper Street shifts its attentions back to Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew MacFadyen) and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Hale), which continues to be strained by the loss of their daughter Matilda the year before.
Our hero is haunted by ghosts of the past, and while any attempt to explore character on a procedural drama such as this is welcome, we found our interest in Reid's family drama waning a little - that is, until 'Tournament' delivers the surprising revelation that Matilda may still be alive, since her body was never found.
Reid remains convinced of her continued survival, »
29 January 2013 1:03 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
While not really a horror series, "Ripper Street" still has a lot to offer genre fans, so while we've cut back on our coverage of the show following its premiere on BBC America, some good news has come in that we just have to share!
Per Deadline, BBC One‘s Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson have confirmed a second season order of "Ripper Street," just as the first season heads into the home stretch in the UK. The BBC America co-production will start shooting eight new episodes this spring for a 2014 air date. "Ripper Street" debuted on BBC America on January 19th, three weeks after its UK bow on BBC One.
Richard Warlow created and exec produces the series. Warlow said that the second season will “move forward into the 1890s: the death rattle of a century coming to a close, the labor pains of a modern world on the rise. »
- The Woman In Black
29 January 2013 10:03 AM, PST | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
A new sneak peek at Target's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 special features exclusive has been revealed, showing a bit of how the new vampires' powers came to be on-screen. In the new video, the talents of Kate (Casey Labow) and Zafrina (Judi Shekoni) are showcased, with Labow revealing her method for portraying the power - namely, light devices place inside her palms - and Shekoni working on the green screen which creates her visual takeover mechanism. Director Bill Condon explains, "the big challenge was making sure, having established the powers that we did, that we use them. You know, so Zafrina can make you see anything she wants to, so that became in the battle she blinds you." That, of course, took place when Tanya (MyAnna Buring) needed to ca . »
- thetwilightexaminer
21 January 2013 8:21 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
On the 9th of January, the London Underground celebrated its 150th anniversary, it wasn’t long before Ripper Street’s forth episode, ‘The Good of this City’, portrayed the birth of the electric railway to coincide with its exploration of Victorian culture. The birth of the electric railway occurred in 1890 but I’m sure we can overlook the fact the narrative takes place in 1889, so far in this sensational shows run we have seen scientific procedures, telegraphs, video photograph, autopsies and policing that stands on the brink of revolutionary during the Victorian age; this is part of what entertains and intrigues us whilst viewing.
The Good of the City opens with brothel owner, and love interest of our resident American wonder-surgeon Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), Long Susan (MyAnna Buring) showing around a prospective employee telling her of the houses ability to offer her protection that she would lack in the outside world. »
- Stu Whittaker
20 January 2013 11:20 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Review Jamie-Lee Nardone Jan 20, 2013
The Eighth Doctor, aka Paul McGann, tips up on Ripper Street this week. Here's Jamie-Lee's review...
This review contains spoilers.
1.4 The Good Of This City
Our bloody and brutal Ripper Street has made its way across the pond to BBC America, where it's been the subject of much hype and media attention. Matthew Macfadyen, who plays the lead role of Detective Inspector Reid, has been cited in the papers defending the gore and smut, while Jerome Flynn who plays his right-hand man, Detective Sergeant Drake, has come out with some prime material guaranteed to give the readers of middle-England a touch of the vapours: what was he up to for those lost eight years of his career between Badger and Tommy Cooper and before Game of Thrones and Ripper Street? Well, he was in a sort of religious cult, run by the son of the actor »
- louisamellor
19 January 2013 9:21 PM, PST | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
Network: BBC America
Episodes: Ongoing (hour)
Seasons: Ongoing
TV show dates: January 19, 2013 -- present
Series status: Has not been cancelled
Performers include: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Amanda Hale, Jonathan Barnwell, David Wilmot, and David Dawson.
TV show description:
This dramatic TV show begins in April 1889 in London -- six months after the last Jack the Ripper killing. H Division is responsible for policing one and a quarter square miles of East London, a district with a population of 67,000 poor and dispossessed and also filled with factories, rookeries, chop shops, brothels and pubs.
The men of H Division had hunted Jack the Ripper and failed to find him. When more women are murdered on the streets of Whitechapel, the police begin to wonder if the killer has »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
18 January 2013 9:32 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
This week Ripper Street’s H Division contended with a Victorian plague of poisoning believed to be the return of “King Cholera”, possibly inspired by the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak after a public well had been contaminated by a leak from an old cesspit that was only three feet from the well. The episode opens with a man dying, vomiting and convulsing in a fit of hysteria. It is pronounced to be cholera by the preacher who had been describing the water from the well as a “signifier of unity” of different people from different backgrounds and class; in this instance you begin to believe it is indeed, a union through death. Indeed, with the squalor conditions of Ripper Street’s Victorian London you would attribute cholera to the deaths and making the usual bustling streets become vacant. Having fought off a sexually depraved killer (I Need Light) and the »
- Stu Whittaker
17 January 2013 9:52 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We're just a few days away from the premiere of "Ripper Street," and BBC America has released a look inside H Division's new "Dead Room." In the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders, will this 19th Century forensics studio help our heroes keep order in the blood-stained London Streets?
"Ripper Street" stars Matthew MacFadyen (Anna Karenina, Mi-5, Pride and Prejudice), Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones"), Adam Rothenberg ("Alcatraz"), Myanna Buring (The Twilight Saga, White Heat), and David Dawson ("Luther," "Secret Diary of a Call Girl").
Synopsis:
History's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, tore through London. Now, the detectives who were on the case have to pick up the pieces. In the aftermath of the murders, can anyone keep order in the blood-stained London Streets?
Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen) now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest district in London's East End. »
- The Woman In Black
16 January 2013 9:30 AM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Here is the first three minutes of BBC America's new show Ripper Street. Take a stroll around Whitechapel, the home of Jack The Ripper. The eight-part crime series debuts on January 19. Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, and Adam Rothenberg star in this story, which is set in 1899 London in the aftermath of the Jack The Ripper murders.
Official Description:
It's East London, 1889 and you're invited on a tour of the haunts of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious serial killer in history... Welcome to Ripper Street, where Jack's crimes will not be forgotten.
In the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders, can anyone keep order in the blood-stained London Streets?
Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew MacFadyen, Anna Karenina, Mi-5, Pride and Prejudice) now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest district in London's East End. Charged with keeping order »
- Jim Napier
15 January 2013 12:00 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
BBC America’s Ripper Street is well-trod territory. Set in Whitechapel in 1889 during Jack the Ripper’s bloody spree, the story centers on the notorious H Division, which is charged with keeping order in the East London streets. Each episode involves a stand -alone murder and it is up to the police to figure out if the bloodletting is Jack’s handiwork.
Ripper Street stars Matthew Macfadyen (Mi-5, Pride and Prejudice), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), Adam Rothenberg (Alcatraz), Myanna Buring (The Twilight Saga, White Heat) and David Dawson (Luther, Secret Diary of a Call Girl).
Fans of “grittier” Jack the Ripper stories, like From Hell, may be interested to know Ripper appears to be a bit bloodier than your average period piece and it’s drawn complaints from UK viewers due to its gore-filled depictions of sex and murder. Watch the first three minutes of the first episode, I Need Light. »
- Sara Castillo
14 January 2013 11:44 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
This coming Saturday, January 19th, "Ripper Street" premieres on BBC America, and we have a look at the opening three minutes of the show right here. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Whitechapel!
It's East London, 1889, and you're invited on a tour of the haunts of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious serial killer in history... Welcome to "Ripper Street," where Jack's crimes will not be forgotten.
"Ripper Street" stars Matthew MacFadyen (Anna Karenina, Mi-5, Pride and Prejudice), Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones"), Adam Rothenberg ("Alcatraz"), Myanna Buring (The Twilight Saga, White Heat), and David Dawson ("Luther," "Secret Diary of a Call Girl").
Synopsis:
History's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, tore through London. Now, the detectives who were on the case have to pick up the pieces. In the aftermath of the murders, can anyone keep order in the blood-stained London Streets?
Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, »
- The Woman In Black
12 January 2013 11:52 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
BBC America has rolled out another "getting to know you" video for "Ripper Street" - spend some time with Adam Rothenberg, who portrays Captain Homer Jackson on the show. He's a "jack-of-all-trades on the darker side of the spectrum," a "catch-all of old iconic American imagery."
Jackson is also an American, a one-time Pinkerton detective, and a U.S. army surgeon. He's an expert in the world of early forensics but also a free spirit, untrustworthy and brilliant by equal measure. But his thirst for women, booze, and gambling leaves him hated by some and distrusted by others in the police fraternity. And he has his secrets, too.
The series kicks off on Saturday, January 19th.
"Ripper Street" stars Matthew MacFadyen (Anna Karenina, Mi-5, Pride and Prejudice), Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones"), Adam Rothenberg ("Alcatraz"), Myanna Buring (The Twilight Saga, White Heat) and David Dawson ("Luther," "Secret Diary of a Call Girl »
- The Woman In Black
11 January 2013 9:41 AM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
London -- Matthew Macfadyen, the star of BBC's Ripper Street, Myanna Buring and Noah Taylor have signed to star in Ben Hopkins' Epic, a U.K.-Germany-Russia-Georgia co-production. Co-written by Hopkins along with BAFTA winner Pawel Pawlikowski, the movie is billed as "gentle black comedy." Story: BBC America Lines Up Winter Premiere Dates for New Originals It details the story of a washed-up Oscar winning British film director, named Emil Forester (Macfadyen), who gets invited to make a national epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic called Karastan. Scheduled to shoot in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi at
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- Stuart Kemp
11 January 2013 9:23 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
"Kick Ass" star Aaron Johnson has been offered the lead role in Gareth Edwards' "Godzilla" reboot at Legendary Pictures.
Johnson reportedly wants to wait to read Frank Darabont's upcoming rewrite before he makes a decision. [Source: Vulture]
21 Jump Street 2
Dave Franco says his character could return for at least a cameo in the proposed sequel to "21 Jump Street".
I've heard little things... They claim I'll be around. Who knows how much they can use me because I'm in jail at this point but I'm hoping they can find a creative way to have me be a pivotal part of the story." [Source: Collider]
Matthew Macfadyen, MyAnna Buring and Noah Taylor will star in Ben Hopkins' black comedy "Epic" which begins shooting mid-January in the Republic of Georgia.
The story follows a down-on-his-luck and mentally unstable indie filmmaker (Macfadyen) who is invited by the President of the Autonomous Republic of »
- Garth Franklin
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