"Can I make one thing perfectly clear? This tent is a fart-free zone. Clear?" Signature Ent. in the UK has unveiled their own official trailer for the adventure comedy from New Zealand titled Bookworm. This is releasing now in Nz & Australia this month, with a UK release set for direct-to-vod this November. It will likely also hit VOD in the US this fall but nothing has been confirmed yet. Eleven year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise, comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther. Elijah Wood stars as her eccentric absent dad who returns home to her in New Zealand, with Nell Fisher as Mildred, and a small indie cast including Morgana O’Reilly, Michael Smiley, & Vanessa Stacey. Plus the beautiful Nz wilderness as a character and the backdrop.
- 8/22/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Signature Entertainment has unveiled the UK trailer and artwork for the upcoming adventure comedy Bookworm, starring Elijah Wood. This heartwarming and quirky film, set against the stunning backdrop of New Zealand’s landscapes, is set to make its European premiere at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest this bank holiday weekend before its release on digital platforms on 11 November.
Directed by Ant Timpson, who previously collaborated with Wood on the darkly comedic Come to Daddy, Bookworm tells the story of 11-year-old Mildred, a bright and imaginative girl who escapes her mundane suburban life through the pages of her favourite books. Her long-time dream is to prove the existence of the mythological Canterbury Panther, a legendary beast said to roam the wilds of New Zealand. When a freak accident lands her mother in the hospital, Mildred’s estranged father, Strawn Wise (played by Wood), a washed-up magician, arrives to care for her—a daughter he’s never met.
Directed by Ant Timpson, who previously collaborated with Wood on the darkly comedic Come to Daddy, Bookworm tells the story of 11-year-old Mildred, a bright and imaginative girl who escapes her mundane suburban life through the pages of her favourite books. Her long-time dream is to prove the existence of the mythological Canterbury Panther, a legendary beast said to roam the wilds of New Zealand. When a freak accident lands her mother in the hospital, Mildred’s estranged father, Strawn Wise (played by Wood), a washed-up magician, arrives to care for her—a daughter he’s never met.
- 8/22/2024
- by Emily Bennett
- Love Horror
Should they stay or should they go? In Netflix’s new show The Ultimatum: Queer Love, five couples are at a crossroads. While one partner is ready to get married, the other isn’t so sure. So, to determine the future of their relationship, they’ll embark on an unusual experiment. The reality series throws all 10 people together for eight weeks, where they’ll swap partners and see if new romance develops. In the end, everyone will have to decide whether to stay with their current partner or accept that it’s time to move on.
Meet ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ couples ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ | Netflix
Five couples will be featured in The Ultimatum: Queer Love Season 1, which is a spinoff of 2022’s The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On. The concept is similar to the original show, but rather than focusing on male-female couples, The Ultimatum: Queer Love cast is all female or non-binary.
Meet ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ couples ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ | Netflix
Five couples will be featured in The Ultimatum: Queer Love Season 1, which is a spinoff of 2022’s The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On. The concept is similar to the original show, but rather than focusing on male-female couples, The Ultimatum: Queer Love cast is all female or non-binary.
- 5/21/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” could end up being a strong contender at this year’s Emmy Awards. It may sound, dare we say, weird, but The Roku Channel’s satirical biopic has been a consistent presence at the recent guild awards we saw handed out in the lead-up to the Oscars. Most of those guild awards were also recognizing work on television alongside features, and “Weird” not only managed to get in those categories but it also won several.
Most notably, “Weird” was able to pull out a victory at the Producer’s Guild of America Award for Best Streamed or Televised Movie. Notably, several films that were nominated in this category over the past couple of years would later get into the Best TV Movie category at the Emmys, including “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia,” “Oslo,” “Bad Education” and “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square.” The latter two took...
Most notably, “Weird” was able to pull out a victory at the Producer’s Guild of America Award for Best Streamed or Televised Movie. Notably, several films that were nominated in this category over the past couple of years would later get into the Best TV Movie category at the Emmys, including “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia,” “Oslo,” “Bad Education” and “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square.” The latter two took...
- 3/30/2023
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Harold Lloyd’s stunts in Safety Last! make it one of the most heart-in-mouth films of all time. On its 100th birthday, his granddaughter remembers his mastery, inspiration – and the real-life love at the film’s heart
It is one of the most famous images in film history: a bespectacled man dangles from the hands of a broken clock, 12 storeys above the Los Angeles traffic. The climax of Harold Lloyd’s slapstick suspense masterpiece Safety Last!, which is about to celebrate its centenary, is also a defining image of the city, much like the construction workers perched on a steel beam in the 1932 news photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is for New York. They share a sense of the giddy dangers of 20th-century urbanism, and the precarity of the working man.
Harold, the hero of Safety Last!, is just such an ordinary joe: a department store sales clerk struggling to keep his job,...
It is one of the most famous images in film history: a bespectacled man dangles from the hands of a broken clock, 12 storeys above the Los Angeles traffic. The climax of Harold Lloyd’s slapstick suspense masterpiece Safety Last!, which is about to celebrate its centenary, is also a defining image of the city, much like the construction workers perched on a steel beam in the 1932 news photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is for New York. They share a sense of the giddy dangers of 20th-century urbanism, and the precarity of the working man.
Harold, the hero of Safety Last!, is just such an ordinary joe: a department store sales clerk struggling to keep his job,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
When last we left the Mystery Teens of Tackleford, at the end of The Case of the Missing Piece , they had mostly stopped solving mysteries, and two of the core girls, Lottie and Shauna, had just fallen out. That’s what the title refers to for this final collection: not the supernatural menace that threatens Tackleford (which is quite real and sinister), but the break between two of the main characters.
This is the tenth and last Bad Machinery collection, The Case of the Severed Alliance . Creator John Allison has a short afterword where he says his original intention was to have one case for each term of the Mystery Tweens/Teens’ seven years at school, which would have been twenty-one books. He gives a few reasons why he only made half that many stories, but I think he quietly missed the most obvious one: time. Allison is a creator...
This is the tenth and last Bad Machinery collection, The Case of the Severed Alliance . Creator John Allison has a short afterword where he says his original intention was to have one case for each term of the Mystery Tweens/Teens’ seven years at school, which would have been twenty-one books. He gives a few reasons why he only made half that many stories, but I think he quietly missed the most obvious one: time. Allison is a creator...
- 7/12/2022
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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