Actress Elizabeth Hurley has working in the industry since the late 1980s. Initially gaining notoriety as High Grant’s girlfriend, Hurley soon found herself in the spotlight with movies like Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Bedazzled (2000). She was also seen in TV shows like Gossip Girl and The Royals.
Elizabeth Hurley in a still from Strictly Confidential
Hurley is mother to model and actor Damian Hurley, whom she had after a brief affair with American businessman Steve Bing.
Her son, 22, is now dipping his toes in the directing pool with his debut movie, Strictly Confidential, starring his mother in the lead. The movie was released earlier this month, but it was years before now, that the Hollywood virus entered Damian.
Damian Hurley Almost Had His Mother Arrested
Damian Hurley has been working as a model since 2016, when he was only 14 years old. Following in the footsteps of his mother,...
Elizabeth Hurley in a still from Strictly Confidential
Hurley is mother to model and actor Damian Hurley, whom she had after a brief affair with American businessman Steve Bing.
Her son, 22, is now dipping his toes in the directing pool with his debut movie, Strictly Confidential, starring his mother in the lead. The movie was released earlier this month, but it was years before now, that the Hollywood virus entered Damian.
Damian Hurley Almost Had His Mother Arrested
Damian Hurley has been working as a model since 2016, when he was only 14 years old. Following in the footsteps of his mother,...
- 4/26/2024
- by Swagata Das
- FandomWire
“Some secrets are meant to stay buried” says the ad line for “Strictly Confidential.” But you’d need a sizable underground bunker to contain all the effortfully shocking revelations sprung in this very silly sudser, which starts out looking like an erotic thriller-mystery, then descends into a series of flashback-laden explication monologues more apt for “Dynasty” than Agatha Christie.
Damian Hurley’s directorial feature, with famous mum Elizabeth top-billed and producing, provides several hardbodied younger performers opportunity to model clothes and approximate recognizable human emotions on the coastline of tax haven island nation Saint Kitts and Nevis. But what was likely an enjoyable working Caribbean vacation for cast and crew proves somewhat labored for viewers. Nonetheless, watched in the right spirit, with appropriate libations, it could prove quite entertaining … if not in the way presumably intended. Lionsgate is releasing to U.S. theaters, digital and on-demand platforms on April 5.
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Damian Hurley’s directorial feature, with famous mum Elizabeth top-billed and producing, provides several hardbodied younger performers opportunity to model clothes and approximate recognizable human emotions on the coastline of tax haven island nation Saint Kitts and Nevis. But what was likely an enjoyable working Caribbean vacation for cast and crew proves somewhat labored for viewers. Nonetheless, watched in the right spirit, with appropriate libations, it could prove quite entertaining … if not in the way presumably intended. Lionsgate is releasing to U.S. theaters, digital and on-demand platforms on April 5.
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- 4/4/2024
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Take a look at more footage from the new thriller “Strictly Confidential”, written and durected by Damien Hurley, starring Elizabeth Hurley, Georgia Lock, Lauren McQueen, Freddie Thorp, Genevieve Gaunt Ana Max Parker, releasing April 5, 2024 in theaters:
“…on the anniversary of the death of ‘Rebecca’, ‘Mia’ returns to the Caribbean paradise where she and her best friend shared their final days.
“As Mia and sets out to unravel the mysterious events of her passing, old passions rise, new secrets are uncovered and Mia is pulled into a seductive world of sex, betrayal and murder…”
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“…on the anniversary of the death of ‘Rebecca’, ‘Mia’ returns to the Caribbean paradise where she and her best friend shared their final days.
“As Mia and sets out to unravel the mysterious events of her passing, old passions rise, new secrets are uncovered and Mia is pulled into a seductive world of sex, betrayal and murder…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 4/4/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"If you truly believed something was off... maybe it was." Lionsgate has revealed an official trailer for an indie thriller titled Strictly Confidential, made by actor / filmmaker Damian Hurley, the son of actress / model Elizabeth Hurley who also stars in this. It is very much a rich person's fantasy thriller, made by rich people, for rich people who can easily escape to their "Caribbean paradise" whenever they want. Described as a "sensual thriller with a devilish twist." A tormented young woman is drawn into a world of seduction, duplicity and betrayal as she desperately tries to uncover the mystery surrounding her best friend's suicide. She is relentless, determined to uncover the truth... at what cost? Are some secrets meant to stay buried? The film stars Elizabeth Hurley, Georgia Lock, Lauren McQueen, Freddie Thorp, and Genevieve Gaunt. The film was shot in St. Kitts & Nevis - a Caribbean island nation -...
- 3/10/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Strictly Confidential” is a new live-action thriller written and directed by Damien Hurley, starring Elizabeth Hurley, Georgia Lock, Lauren McQueen, Freddie Thorp, Genevieve Gaunt Ana Max Parker, releasing April 5, 2024 in theaters:
“…on the anniversary of the death of ‘Rebecca’, ‘Mia’ returns to the Caribbean paradise where she and her best friend shared their final days.
“As Mia and sets out to unravel the mysterious events of her passing, old passions rise, new secrets are uncovered and Mia is pulled into a seductive world of sex, betrayal and murder…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
“…on the anniversary of the death of ‘Rebecca’, ‘Mia’ returns to the Caribbean paradise where she and her best friend shared their final days.
“As Mia and sets out to unravel the mysterious events of her passing, old passions rise, new secrets are uncovered and Mia is pulled into a seductive world of sex, betrayal and murder…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 3/7/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Exclusive: Toronto distributor to release psychological thriller in early 2018.
Indiecan Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Carolyn Saunders’ feature debut The Wasting.
The Toronto-based distributor plans a first quarter 2018 release on the unofficial Canada-uk co-production that was developed in Canada.
The Wasting takes place in a seemingly idyllic English village where a teenage girl who harbours a secret Canadian boyfriend stumbles towards sexual awakening.
At the same time she goes on hunger strike in protest over her parents’ domineering manner, the youngster begins to see a ghost and a dark family secret surfaces.
Saunders wrote the screenplay, and produced with Jeanne Strømberg and Alan Hausegger of StrømHaus Productions. The film was shortlisted for the Cfc Features filmmaker initiative at The Canadian Film Centre.
British and Canadian talent flesh out the cast, which includes Lauren McQueen, former Disney star Alexz Johnson, Gray O’Brien, Shelagh McLeod, and Sean Stevenson and Brendan Flynn.
“I have known...
Indiecan Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Carolyn Saunders’ feature debut The Wasting.
The Toronto-based distributor plans a first quarter 2018 release on the unofficial Canada-uk co-production that was developed in Canada.
The Wasting takes place in a seemingly idyllic English village where a teenage girl who harbours a secret Canadian boyfriend stumbles towards sexual awakening.
At the same time she goes on hunger strike in protest over her parents’ domineering manner, the youngster begins to see a ghost and a dark family secret surfaces.
Saunders wrote the screenplay, and produced with Jeanne Strømberg and Alan Hausegger of StrømHaus Productions. The film was shortlisted for the Cfc Features filmmaker initiative at The Canadian Film Centre.
British and Canadian talent flesh out the cast, which includes Lauren McQueen, former Disney star Alexz Johnson, Gray O’Brien, Shelagh McLeod, and Sean Stevenson and Brendan Flynn.
“I have known...
- 7/28/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This is the Pure Movies review of The Violators, directed by Helen Walsh, and starring Lauren McQueen (The Mill, Ordinary Lies) and Brogan Ellis (Waterloo Road) alongside Stephen Lord (Penny Dreadful, Shameless, Route Irish), Liam Ainsworth (Kajaki), Derek Barr (Pride) and newcomer Callum King Chadwick. The Violators is a wounding look at a young woman’s navigation through life whilst encountering dangerous men at every corner, chipping away at her hardened exterior. Bestselling author Helen Walsh (The Lemon Grove) has translated her interest in transgressive sexualities, gender and class onto film. With a female writer and director, and starring two female protagonists, The Violators is significant in a time where there is a perceived dearth of women film directors. The events of the story are shocking but the waves this film will make in terms of disturbing the male-dominated status quo of cinema will be more deeply felt.
- 7/12/2016
- by Helen Chapman
- Pure Movies
Novelist Helen Walsh’s film about a teenager rehoused after an abuse case is well-acted and forthright, if a little contrived
Novelist Helen Walsh makes an interesting debut as a writer-director with this atmospheric piece of lo-fi British social realism. It’s flawed by a slightly unconvincing and anticlimactic gun-related ending, but well acted, forthright and confident in the universe it creates. The action is moored to a triangle of dysfunction: teenage Shelly (Lauren McQueen) has been rehoused by social services after an abuse case and comes into contact with a menacing, manipulative pawnshop owner and loan shark, Mikey (Stephen Lord). He appears also to have some kind of relationship with Rachel (Brogan Ellis) and this now discarded young woman – from an upscale part of town – forms a strange, parasitic friendship with Shelly. The news that Shelly’s scary dad is coming up for parole smothers the whole movie with fear and jumpy paranoia. It’s a movie of watching and being watched. Rachel gets Shelly to do a runner from a restaurant, but it isn’t until later, when we appreciate how the waitress in that scene fits in to the larger picture, that we discern a pattern of resentment and revenge. That pattern is a little contrived, but it doesn’t stop this film ticking radioactively with unease.
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Novelist Helen Walsh makes an interesting debut as a writer-director with this atmospheric piece of lo-fi British social realism. It’s flawed by a slightly unconvincing and anticlimactic gun-related ending, but well acted, forthright and confident in the universe it creates. The action is moored to a triangle of dysfunction: teenage Shelly (Lauren McQueen) has been rehoused by social services after an abuse case and comes into contact with a menacing, manipulative pawnshop owner and loan shark, Mikey (Stephen Lord). He appears also to have some kind of relationship with Rachel (Brogan Ellis) and this now discarded young woman – from an upscale part of town – forms a strange, parasitic friendship with Shelly. The news that Shelly’s scary dad is coming up for parole smothers the whole movie with fear and jumpy paranoia. It’s a movie of watching and being watched. Rachel gets Shelly to do a runner from a restaurant, but it isn’t until later, when we appreciate how the waitress in that scene fits in to the larger picture, that we discern a pattern of resentment and revenge. That pattern is a little contrived, but it doesn’t stop this film ticking radioactively with unease.
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- 6/16/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The directorial debut of Helen Walsh, The Violators follows the lives of two teenage girls as they navigate the trials and tribulations of their (seemingly) radically different lives. Shelly (Lauren McQueen) lives with her older brother Andy (Derek Barr) and younger half-brother Jerome (Callum King Chadwick) on a rough council estate in Birkenhead. Despite having […]
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- 6/15/2016
- by Lauren Burgess
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Helen Walsh’s directorial debut will hit UK/Ireland cinemas in May 2016.
Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired UK/Ireland rights to The Violators, Helen Walsh’s gritty drama that premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival last June.
The film stars newcomer Lauren McQueen as a girl growing up on a British council estate who testifies against her abusive father.
The Violators marks the directorial debut of Walsh, known for writing novels including Brass and Go To Sleep.
Producers are David Moores and David A. Hughes of Red Union Films, which is also handling international sales. The duo were nominated for Producer of the Year for The Violators at last month’s British Independent Film Awards.
Bulldog has earmarked a UK/Ireland theatrical release for May 20.
Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired UK/Ireland rights to The Violators, Helen Walsh’s gritty drama that premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival last June.
The film stars newcomer Lauren McQueen as a girl growing up on a British council estate who testifies against her abusive father.
The Violators marks the directorial debut of Walsh, known for writing novels including Brass and Go To Sleep.
Producers are David Moores and David A. Hughes of Red Union Films, which is also handling international sales. The duo were nominated for Producer of the Year for The Violators at last month’s British Independent Film Awards.
Bulldog has earmarked a UK/Ireland theatrical release for May 20.
- 1/26/2016
- ScreenDaily
Monty Python Live: One Down, Five to Go: Gold, 7.30pm
Live broadcast of the final show in Monty Python's London residency.
Taking place at The O2 arena in North Greenwich, the comedy troupe - featuring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam - perform classic sketches on stage, with help from special guests.
The Mill: Channel 4, 8pm
The second series of the period drama picks up four years later, with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 taking hold. Migrants from the south show up at Quarry Bank Mill looking for jobs, leading to the workers fearing that everyone's wages will be driven down.
Elsewhere, apprentice Esther (Kerrie Hayes) discovers that her own sister Martha (Vicky Binns) has become a beggar in the mill yard. Also starring Katherine Rose Morley, Sacha Parkinson and Lauren McQueen.
Family Guy: BBC Three, 10pm
Animated comedy from Seth MacFarlane.
Live broadcast of the final show in Monty Python's London residency.
Taking place at The O2 arena in North Greenwich, the comedy troupe - featuring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam - perform classic sketches on stage, with help from special guests.
The Mill: Channel 4, 8pm
The second series of the period drama picks up four years later, with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 taking hold. Migrants from the south show up at Quarry Bank Mill looking for jobs, leading to the workers fearing that everyone's wages will be driven down.
Elsewhere, apprentice Esther (Kerrie Hayes) discovers that her own sister Martha (Vicky Binns) has become a beggar in the mill yard. Also starring Katherine Rose Morley, Sacha Parkinson and Lauren McQueen.
Family Guy: BBC Three, 10pm
Animated comedy from Seth MacFarlane.
- 7/20/2014
- Digital Spy
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