Billy Wilder directed Sunset Blvd. with Gloria Swanson and William Holden. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett movies Below is a list of movies on which Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder worked together as screenwriters, including efforts for which they did not receive screen credit. The Wilder-Brackett screenwriting partnership lasted from 1938 to 1949. During that time, they shared two Academy Awards for their work on The Lost Weekend (1945) and, with D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd. (1950). More detailed information further below. Post-split years Billy Wilder would later join forces with screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond in movies such as the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), the Best Picture Oscar winner The Apartment (1960), and One Two Three (1961), notable as James Cagney's last film (until a brief comeback in Milos Forman's Ragtime two decades later). Although some of these movies were quite well received, Wilder's later efforts – which also included The Seven Year Itch...
- 9/16/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
TV newcomer Kascion Franklin has landed the lead role of Danny in Danny And The Human Zoo, Lenny Henry's fictionalised account of his life as a talented teenager in 1970s Dudley.
Kascion (represented by Red Talent Management) from Birmingham, trained at the University of Northampton and Identity School of Acting.
He will star alongside Lenny Henry who will play his dad Samson and Cecilia Noble as his mum Myrtle. Arthur Darvill plays Danny’s Manager Jonesy, Richard Wilson plays promoter James Broughto, Mark Benton plays seasoned entertainer Syd Bolton, and Cherrelle Skeete plays Danny's sister Dee Dee,
BAFTA Rising Star Destiny Ekaragha (Gone Too Far) directs the drama which is being made by Red Production Company for BBC One.
Lenry Henry said: "I can't believe that we're finally shooting my screenplay Danny And The Human Zoo! This is a fantasy memoir of the first two years of my career - my beginnings,...
Kascion (represented by Red Talent Management) from Birmingham, trained at the University of Northampton and Identity School of Acting.
He will star alongside Lenny Henry who will play his dad Samson and Cecilia Noble as his mum Myrtle. Arthur Darvill plays Danny’s Manager Jonesy, Richard Wilson plays promoter James Broughto, Mark Benton plays seasoned entertainer Syd Bolton, and Cherrelle Skeete plays Danny's sister Dee Dee,
BAFTA Rising Star Destiny Ekaragha (Gone Too Far) directs the drama which is being made by Red Production Company for BBC One.
Lenry Henry said: "I can't believe that we're finally shooting my screenplay Danny And The Human Zoo! This is a fantasy memoir of the first two years of my career - my beginnings,...
- 5/1/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
By Howard Hughes
(The following review is of the UK release of the film on Region 2 format.)
In Roy Ward Baker’s 1960s comedy-drama Two Left Feet, Michael Crawford plays Alan Crabbe, a clumsy and unlucky-in-love 19-year-old who begins dating ‘Eileen, the Teacup Queen’, a waitress at his local cafe. She lives in Camden Town and there are rumours that she’s married, but that doesn’t seem to alter her behavior. Alan and Eileen travel into London’s ‘Floride Club’, where the Storyville Jazzmen play trad for the groovers and shakers. Eileen turns out to be a ‘right little madam’, who is really just stringing Alan along. She’s the kind of girl who only dates to get into places and then starts chatting to randoms once inside. She takes up with ruffian Ronnie, while Alan meets a nice girl, Beth Crowley. But Eileen holds a strange hold over...
(The following review is of the UK release of the film on Region 2 format.)
In Roy Ward Baker’s 1960s comedy-drama Two Left Feet, Michael Crawford plays Alan Crabbe, a clumsy and unlucky-in-love 19-year-old who begins dating ‘Eileen, the Teacup Queen’, a waitress at his local cafe. She lives in Camden Town and there are rumours that she’s married, but that doesn’t seem to alter her behavior. Alan and Eileen travel into London’s ‘Floride Club’, where the Storyville Jazzmen play trad for the groovers and shakers. Eileen turns out to be a ‘right little madam’, who is really just stringing Alan along. She’s the kind of girl who only dates to get into places and then starts chatting to randoms once inside. She takes up with ruffian Ronnie, while Alan meets a nice girl, Beth Crowley. But Eileen holds a strange hold over...
- 10/5/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Casting is underway for the lead role in Danny and the Human Zoo.
Red Production Company and the BBC are looking to cast the lead role in Danny and the Human Zoo, a new semi-autobiographical drama written by Lenny Henry.
Danny Fearon - Lead Role
Black male teenager of Jamaican parentage, late teens, with an authentic West Midlands accent.
An excellent mimic with the ability and willingness to learn impersonations of 70s cultural icons such as Tommy Cooper, Mohammed Ali, Elvis Presley, Harold Wilson, John Lennon, Dave Allen etc.
A comedian who is constantly entertaining his school mates, with a boyish charm and an innocence to the ways of the world.
If you're interested, please email a photo of yourself along with a CV/covering letter to the casting director, Lisa Makin, at dannycasting@outlook.com no later than Tuesday 24th June 2014.
Danny And The Human Zoo is a 1x...
Red Production Company and the BBC are looking to cast the lead role in Danny and the Human Zoo, a new semi-autobiographical drama written by Lenny Henry.
Danny Fearon - Lead Role
Black male teenager of Jamaican parentage, late teens, with an authentic West Midlands accent.
An excellent mimic with the ability and willingness to learn impersonations of 70s cultural icons such as Tommy Cooper, Mohammed Ali, Elvis Presley, Harold Wilson, John Lennon, Dave Allen etc.
A comedian who is constantly entertaining his school mates, with a boyish charm and an innocence to the ways of the world.
If you're interested, please email a photo of yourself along with a CV/covering letter to the casting director, Lisa Makin, at dannycasting@outlook.com no later than Tuesday 24th June 2014.
Danny And The Human Zoo is a 1x...
- 6/18/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Marvel's Agents of Shield: Channel 4, 8pm
As Skye recovers from her injuries, episode 15 sees Agent Coulson and his team of agents encounter Lorelei, a deadly seductress who has escaped from Asgard and enslaved a biker gang to be her private army in a quest for power. Another Asgardian also arrives on Earth, Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander, reprising her role from Thor and Thor: The Dark World), who has come to thwart Lorelei's evil schemes. Lorelei seduces Ward and escapes with him, as they prepare for a battle of godly proportions.
Flintoff's Road to Nowhere: Sky1, 9pm
This is the second part of the former cricketer's travelogue, as he - with his friend and cycling writer Rob Penn - pedal along Brazil's 1,200km Trans-Amazonian highway. The duo discover more about the imminent threat to wildlife from deforestation as they arrange to meet one of the few legal local logging companies.
As Skye recovers from her injuries, episode 15 sees Agent Coulson and his team of agents encounter Lorelei, a deadly seductress who has escaped from Asgard and enslaved a biker gang to be her private army in a quest for power. Another Asgardian also arrives on Earth, Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander, reprising her role from Thor and Thor: The Dark World), who has come to thwart Lorelei's evil schemes. Lorelei seduces Ward and escapes with him, as they prepare for a battle of godly proportions.
Flintoff's Road to Nowhere: Sky1, 9pm
This is the second part of the former cricketer's travelogue, as he - with his friend and cycling writer Rob Penn - pedal along Brazil's 1,200km Trans-Amazonian highway. The duo discover more about the imminent threat to wildlife from deforestation as they arrange to meet one of the few legal local logging companies.
- 4/11/2014
- Digital Spy
Les Dennis isn't exactly in our day-to-day thoughts, truth be told, but the news yesterday (January 23) that the light entertainment legend would be joining Coronation Street still managed to put a massive smile on our face. Les on the cobbles! Amazing!
To celebrate Les's biggest gig in quite some time, we look back at the celebrity good egg's life and career in order, and come up with eight reasons why we absolutely love him...
He's a talent show king!
Way back before Britain's Got Talent, The X Factor et al, there was New Faces, a notoriously tough competition where a panel of judges - including a youthful Noel Edmonds - marked variety acts on their "star quality", usually without chucking water over each other or trying to get into the papers with a particularly daring dress, as all that palaver is a modern talent show invention.
After doing the rounds...
To celebrate Les's biggest gig in quite some time, we look back at the celebrity good egg's life and career in order, and come up with eight reasons why we absolutely love him...
He's a talent show king!
Way back before Britain's Got Talent, The X Factor et al, there was New Faces, a notoriously tough competition where a panel of judges - including a youthful Noel Edmonds - marked variety acts on their "star quality", usually without chucking water over each other or trying to get into the papers with a particularly daring dress, as all that palaver is a modern talent show invention.
After doing the rounds...
- 1/24/2014
- Digital Spy
Increasing buckets of Idris Elba love, knowledge that it's probably the last series, not to mention a Golden Globe win for the lead actor, have raised expectations so high of this third series of 'Luther', it was going to be impressive if they could match them, let alone exceed.
But exceed they did, through two seemingly diverse plot-lines - a copycat killer on the loose, an internet troll murdered in his own room - an unretired cop determined to bring that maverick Luther down, and even the brewing of a romance.
Luther's got a lot going on in this third series
Of these, it was actually the romance that felt a bit contrived, with the old car-crash meet-cute we've seen time and time again. On the other hand, I guess they had to meet somehow, Luther isn't exactly the dance-floor-hogging type of Romeo, and the chats about his name were sweet,...
But exceed they did, through two seemingly diverse plot-lines - a copycat killer on the loose, an internet troll murdered in his own room - an unretired cop determined to bring that maverick Luther down, and even the brewing of a romance.
Luther's got a lot going on in this third series
Of these, it was actually the romance that felt a bit contrived, with the old car-crash meet-cute we've seen time and time again. On the other hand, I guess they had to meet somehow, Luther isn't exactly the dance-floor-hogging type of Romeo, and the chats about his name were sweet,...
- 7/3/2013
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
'If I hadn't been able to make people laugh, I'd have ended up hitting someone with a brick'
When did you first discover you could make people laugh?
When I was 13. I got into lots of fights at school: I'd get racially abused, then lash out. One day, this kid said something and instead of putting my fists up, I said something back: people laughed, and he walked away. It saved my life – if I'd carried on the way I was going, I'd have ended up hitting someone with a brick.
What was your big breakthrough?
Winning a TV talent competition called New Faces. That was when I started to think of showbusiness as a job. The audition was at a dodgy nightclub in Birmingham; it smelled of chips and old beer, but there were people putting on glittery costumes, practising fire-breathing and doing Frank Spencer impressions in the toilet.
When did you first discover you could make people laugh?
When I was 13. I got into lots of fights at school: I'd get racially abused, then lash out. One day, this kid said something and instead of putting my fists up, I said something back: people laughed, and he walked away. It saved my life – if I'd carried on the way I was going, I'd have ended up hitting someone with a brick.
What was your big breakthrough?
Winning a TV talent competition called New Faces. That was when I started to think of showbusiness as a job. The audition was at a dodgy nightclub in Birmingham; it smelled of chips and old beer, but there were people putting on glittery costumes, practising fire-breathing and doing Frank Spencer impressions in the toilet.
- 6/4/2013
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
Philip Madoc in A Mind to Kill. Acorn Media DVD
Kieran Kinsella
The late Philip Madoc was a fantastically talented actor who specialized in playing dark and brooding characters. A familiar face on British TV, Madoc appeared in everything from Doctor Who to Dad’s Army but he saved his best performances for the crime drama A Mind to Kill. Two versions of the series were made with one being in English and the other in Madoc’s native Welsh tongue.
Madoc’s character was Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain – an old-school detective who unhappily faces up to the fact that the world is a darker and scarier place than it was when he first walked his beat. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Hannah, (Ffion Wilkins) eventually decides to follow in his footsteps and become a police officer. The duo have a difficult relationship away from the office and...
Kieran Kinsella
The late Philip Madoc was a fantastically talented actor who specialized in playing dark and brooding characters. A familiar face on British TV, Madoc appeared in everything from Doctor Who to Dad’s Army but he saved his best performances for the crime drama A Mind to Kill. Two versions of the series were made with one being in English and the other in Madoc’s native Welsh tongue.
Madoc’s character was Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain – an old-school detective who unhappily faces up to the fact that the world is a darker and scarier place than it was when he first walked his beat. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Hannah, (Ffion Wilkins) eventually decides to follow in his footsteps and become a police officer. The duo have a difficult relationship away from the office and...
- 3/17/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
News Louisa Mellor Dec 18, 2012
The Eleventh Doctor has revealed the premise of a forthcoming episode of Doctor Who's seventh series...
Contains story details for a series 7b episode.
Those of you with proper jobs may not have caught Matt Smith's brief appearance on today's ITV1 show This Morning, so we've done you the courtesy of taking a look.
Speaking to Philip Schofield and Ruth Langsford, Smith was on the show to promote the Doctor Who Christmas Special (read our spoiler-free review here), but while there he also let drop some details about one of the forthcoming series 7b episodes, written by Steven Moffat.
According to Smith, one of the new Moffat-penned stories has the following premise: "What if there was a monster in the Wi-Fi?", said Smith, "It's the genius of Steven Moffat again. What exists in the Wi-Fi? We all need it..."
Could Moffat have been influenced...
The Eleventh Doctor has revealed the premise of a forthcoming episode of Doctor Who's seventh series...
Contains story details for a series 7b episode.
Those of you with proper jobs may not have caught Matt Smith's brief appearance on today's ITV1 show This Morning, so we've done you the courtesy of taking a look.
Speaking to Philip Schofield and Ruth Langsford, Smith was on the show to promote the Doctor Who Christmas Special (read our spoiler-free review here), but while there he also let drop some details about one of the forthcoming series 7b episodes, written by Steven Moffat.
According to Smith, one of the new Moffat-penned stories has the following premise: "What if there was a monster in the Wi-Fi?", said Smith, "It's the genius of Steven Moffat again. What exists in the Wi-Fi? We all need it..."
Could Moffat have been influenced...
- 12/18/2012
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
As part of our Labyrinth 25th birthday celebration, Louisa takes a look over the finest David Bowie impressions of all time…
Most people have got a Sean Connery or Michael Caine. Some still insist on parading a Frank Spencer or Tommy Cooper. But only one impression really does it for us.
It starts with a constriction in the back of the throat. You're looking for a sort of breathy, tremulous, Estuary purr. There's something of a slur involved, but don't overdo it. If you get to Keith Richards, you've gone too far. The same goes for the vibrato. You'll need just enough quiver to make it recognisable, but not so much you end up yodelling like Jimmy Saville.
Remember the low-level buzz behind each word. It might help to imagine you've permanently left a Remington rotary shaver on in the background. What you're really after is the sound of a...
Most people have got a Sean Connery or Michael Caine. Some still insist on parading a Frank Spencer or Tommy Cooper. But only one impression really does it for us.
It starts with a constriction in the back of the throat. You're looking for a sort of breathy, tremulous, Estuary purr. There's something of a slur involved, but don't overdo it. If you get to Keith Richards, you've gone too far. The same goes for the vibrato. You'll need just enough quiver to make it recognisable, but not so much you end up yodelling like Jimmy Saville.
Remember the low-level buzz behind each word. It might help to imagine you've permanently left a Remington rotary shaver on in the background. What you're really after is the sound of a...
- 6/26/2011
- Den of Geek
© BBC Cbbc sitcom series Sadie J has been commissioned for a second series.
Georgia Lock will return in the lead role of the feisty 13 year old making her way in a male-dominated world.
There are some new characters coming in to the show and casting director Kerrie Mailey is currently looking for suggestions for the following:
Taylor, male, aged 14
(Especially looking for ethnic suggestions for this role)
Meet Taylor Bell - a drop dead gorgeous surfer dude. Taylor’s got the looks of
Justin Bieber and the clumsiness of a young Frank Spencer.
Ashlii, female, aged 14
(Again especially looking for ethnic suggestions)
Essex born Ashlii is part fairy princess, part pit-bull. When Ashlii grows up she’s going to be Amy Childs (from The Only Way is Essex). Stylish, switched on, gorgeous and a supreme social networker (her smart phone is Never off).
Please email kerriemailey81@googlemail.com only if...
Georgia Lock will return in the lead role of the feisty 13 year old making her way in a male-dominated world.
There are some new characters coming in to the show and casting director Kerrie Mailey is currently looking for suggestions for the following:
Taylor, male, aged 14
(Especially looking for ethnic suggestions for this role)
Meet Taylor Bell - a drop dead gorgeous surfer dude. Taylor’s got the looks of
Justin Bieber and the clumsiness of a young Frank Spencer.
Ashlii, female, aged 14
(Again especially looking for ethnic suggestions)
Essex born Ashlii is part fairy princess, part pit-bull. When Ashlii grows up she’s going to be Amy Childs (from The Only Way is Essex). Stylish, switched on, gorgeous and a supreme social networker (her smart phone is Never off).
Please email kerriemailey81@googlemail.com only if...
- 4/21/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Imagine if you were the lucky one to succeed in pulling the sword from the stone. You'd be revered as a hero or heroine, your name would be toasted in pubs up and down the country, you'd be a living legend.
Well, unless you pulled the sword from the stone, then toppled backwards because the sword was so heavy, then fall down the stairs behind you, hurt yourself while doing so, and then end up in a big, smelly pile of cow dung in front of a chortling crowd of millions.
That's what Battlefield feels like. It's one of those frustrating tales in which the good bits are regularly balanced out by the story's own limitations. On paper, it's got all the promise of a Who classic. Ancient knights and an evil sorceress do battle with The Doctor and also...
So all of that sounds inviting for the fans and viewers.
Well, unless you pulled the sword from the stone, then toppled backwards because the sword was so heavy, then fall down the stairs behind you, hurt yourself while doing so, and then end up in a big, smelly pile of cow dung in front of a chortling crowd of millions.
That's what Battlefield feels like. It's one of those frustrating tales in which the good bits are regularly balanced out by the story's own limitations. On paper, it's got all the promise of a Who classic. Ancient knights and an evil sorceress do battle with The Doctor and also...
So all of that sounds inviting for the fans and viewers.
- 4/8/2011
- Shadowlocked
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrew Lloyd Webber has finally found his Wizard of Oz: Stage legend Michael Crawford — who originated the role of the Phantom in Webber’s Phantom of the Opera 24 years ago and is familiar to legions of fans as the hapless Frank Spencer from ’70s British sitcom Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em — will assume take on the role as the ruler of Oz in the forthcoming London-based production, according to Variety. It’s an interesting and spot-on choice, but truly not so super surprisingly, considering that Webber often goes back to performers he’s had success with before. (The 68-year-old last...
- 9/24/2010
- by Tanner Stransky
- EW.com - PopWatch
A delve into the archive of British army propaganda sparks ambivalence about the current nostalgia for a regimented past
As a boy growing up in the 1960s and 70s I was raised to fight the second world war all over again. Airfix models. Commando comics. Air tattoos in June. Watching The Battle of Britain and The Longest Day on telly with my dad, just so I'd know what to do if I ever found myself pinned down on a Normandy beach or with an Me109E on my tail.
All of which made me easy prey to an Raf recruiting film about a buccaneer squadron training sortie from Gibraltar, set to a Vangelis soundtrack. I promptly signed up to the air cadets and spent Tuesday afternoons and a week or two in the summer hols wearing itchy shirts and a Frank Spencer-style beret, learning how to march without falling over.
As a boy growing up in the 1960s and 70s I was raised to fight the second world war all over again. Airfix models. Commando comics. Air tattoos in June. Watching The Battle of Britain and The Longest Day on telly with my dad, just so I'd know what to do if I ever found myself pinned down on a Normandy beach or with an Me109E on my tail.
All of which made me easy prey to an Raf recruiting film about a buccaneer squadron training sortie from Gibraltar, set to a Vangelis soundtrack. I promptly signed up to the air cadets and spent Tuesday afternoons and a week or two in the summer hols wearing itchy shirts and a Frank Spencer-style beret, learning how to march without falling over.
- 8/11/2010
- by Mark Simpson
- The Guardian - Film News
Bristol born comedian Paul Burling appeared on tonights Britain’s Got Talent, with his long lost son watching from the audience.
The 41 year old impersonator impressed the judges during the semi final round with his Harry Hill themed performance. After watching his act Simon Cowell exclaimed:
You’ve worked 25 years for this opportunity. The problem with TV at the moment is that it’s snobby. People want fancy French instead of fish and chips. I like fish and chips, you’re fish and chips and you should be in the final.
Tonight Paul pledged to do something different and to take a risk with his routine. He emerged onto stage as Little Britain character ‘Andy’ Pipkin, wheelchair and all and then included impersonations of stars like Billy Connolly, Chris Tarrant, Del Boy, Uncle Albert and Homer Simpson in his comedy song. We haven’t been big Paul fans to date...
The 41 year old impersonator impressed the judges during the semi final round with his Harry Hill themed performance. After watching his act Simon Cowell exclaimed:
You’ve worked 25 years for this opportunity. The problem with TV at the moment is that it’s snobby. People want fancy French instead of fish and chips. I like fish and chips, you’re fish and chips and you should be in the final.
Tonight Paul pledged to do something different and to take a risk with his routine. He emerged onto stage as Little Britain character ‘Andy’ Pipkin, wheelchair and all and then included impersonations of stars like Billy Connolly, Chris Tarrant, Del Boy, Uncle Albert and Homer Simpson in his comedy song. We haven’t been big Paul fans to date...
- 6/5/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
The brief, bubbling signature tune of Htv West is heard as the animation jerkily constructs the defunct regional television company's white logo over a royal blue background. Scratches on the film stock dance hypnotically across the screen. We have been taken back in time; 2010 is a long way away.
The screen fades. A clock chimes six. There is a knock on the door. The museum warden Mr Ellis, whose beret makes him look not too dissimilar from Frank Spencer, ignores this interruption and continues with his crossword. Urgency converts the knock to a hurried buzz as the caller tries the door bell. Muttering to himself, this cantankerous caretaker leaves his puzzle and rises to answer the door.
So begins The Georgian House, a rarely seen and much sought-after children's supernatural time-travelling drama that was screened on ITV in 1976. Written by novelist Jill Laurimore and produced by Leonard White – who found...
The screen fades. A clock chimes six. There is a knock on the door. The museum warden Mr Ellis, whose beret makes him look not too dissimilar from Frank Spencer, ignores this interruption and continues with his crossword. Urgency converts the knock to a hurried buzz as the caller tries the door bell. Muttering to himself, this cantankerous caretaker leaves his puzzle and rises to answer the door.
So begins The Georgian House, a rarely seen and much sought-after children's supernatural time-travelling drama that was screened on ITV in 1976. Written by novelist Jill Laurimore and produced by Leonard White – who found...
- 5/17/2010
- by admin@shadowlocked.com (Mark Roulston)
- Shadowlocked
Chris Morris has been bold in his choice of target, but his home-grown jihadists are little more than sitcom characters
Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.
Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...
Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.
Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...
- 5/8/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
For most of us the August Bank Holiday weekend means barbeques, beer on the village green and meeting up with the friends you’ve ignored for weeks but FilmShaft’s Ed Whitfield, having received no invitation to eat charcoaled meat went to London’s premier horror film festival instead. One week on, he’s finally ready to talk about what he saw there. Dare you read on?
I’m not a horror aficionado. Having cut my corneas on Huston, Hitchcock and Verhoven, there seemed to me something witless and crude about ninety percent of the genre’s staples. It was, from the perspective of a nervous boy who harboured night time fantasies about being eviscerated by burglars while his dear single mother was bludgeoned by their hands, and who still, in his thirties for God’s sake, bolts upright in bed at the odd creak, rustle or howl, never a genre that connoted entertainment.
I’m not a horror aficionado. Having cut my corneas on Huston, Hitchcock and Verhoven, there seemed to me something witless and crude about ninety percent of the genre’s staples. It was, from the perspective of a nervous boy who harboured night time fantasies about being eviscerated by burglars while his dear single mother was bludgeoned by their hands, and who still, in his thirties for God’s sake, bolts upright in bed at the odd creak, rustle or howl, never a genre that connoted entertainment.
- 9/5/2009
- by Ed Whitfield
- FilmShaft.com
For most of us the August Bank Holiday weekend means barbeques, beer on the village green and meeting up with the friends you’ve ignored for weeks but FilmShaft’s Ed Whitfield, having received no invitation to eat charcoaled meat went to London’s premier horror film festival instead. One week on, he’s finally ready to talk about what he saw there. Dare you read on?
I’m not a horror aficionado. Having cut my corneas on Huston, Hitchcock and Verhoven, there seemed to me something witless and crude about ninety percent of the genre’s staples. It was, from the perspective of a nervous boy who harboured night time fantasies about being eviscerated by burglars while his dear single mother was bludgeoned by their hands, and who still, in his thirties for God’s sake, bolts upright in bed at the odd creak, rustle or howl, never a genre that connoted entertainment.
I’m not a horror aficionado. Having cut my corneas on Huston, Hitchcock and Verhoven, there seemed to me something witless and crude about ninety percent of the genre’s staples. It was, from the perspective of a nervous boy who harboured night time fantasies about being eviscerated by burglars while his dear single mother was bludgeoned by their hands, and who still, in his thirties for God’s sake, bolts upright in bed at the odd creak, rustle or howl, never a genre that connoted entertainment.
- 9/5/2009
- by Ed Whitfield
- FilmShaft.com
Former Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em actress Michele Dotrice is to make another guest appearance in BBC One's daytime medical drama Doctors, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal. The 60-year-old, who played Frank Spencer's (Michael Crawford) long-suffering wife Betty in the classic BBC sitcom, will play wheelchair-bound pickpocket Jane Shields. Jane explains to a policeman that she's had her purse stolen just as The Mill's nurse Michelle Corrigan (Donnaleigh Bailey) walks by. Jane drops a carrier bag of shopping and Michelle picks it up for her, before returning to the medical centre. On her arrival, Michelle's distraught to discovers that, she, too, has had her purse pinched by who she presumes to be the same thief who stole Jane's. Having kept her cash cards separate, Michelle stops by an Atm to withdraw some money but her (more)...
- 7/27/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
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