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In the Heart of the Sea includes an incredible cast led by Chris Hemsworth. Based on In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, the movie follows a crew whose ship sinks after encountering a giant whale. In the Heart of the Sea received mixed reviews when it premiered in 2015 and has a 42% Rotten Tomatoes score. Despite the divisive response the movie got, the performance of the actors is one of its saving graces.

Directed by Ron Howard, In the Heart of the Sea is a film adaptation of the story that inspired Moby Dick. In the Heart of the Sea stars Chris Hemsworth, along with other renowned actors such as Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson.

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In the upcoming episode of “The Cleaner,” titled “The Lighthouse,” viewers can expect an intriguing mix of mystery and humor. This episode, airing on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 9:30 Pm on BBC One, takes Wicky to a remote lighthouse, a setting that promises to be both eerie and captivating. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems at this isolated location.

Wicky’s journey is filled with unexpected challenges. From battling seagulls and jellyfish to encountering sea monsters, the episode is set to be an adventure like no other. The lighthouse, with its haunting atmosphere, adds to the suspense, making it a character in its own right. The quirky folk music that accompanies Wicky’s escapades adds a unique charm, blending humor with the tension of the unknown.

As Wicky navigates these bizarre obstacles, the episode raises the question of whether he will survive this strange encounter.

Showtime and Channel 4’s new comedy from the production company behind Fleabag, has announced its cast. Entitled comes from writer Matt Morgan (Mister Winner) and is directed by Tim Kirkby (The Pentaverate). Morgan and Kirkby also serve as executive producers alongside Fleabag trio Harry Williams, Jack Williams, and Sarah Hammond. Production recently started in Manchester, England, according to Deadline. The series is led by Stranger Things star Brett Gelman, who plays Gabe, a conniving American widower who posthumously must get to know The Beaucrofts, his British wife’s eccentric estranged family, in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside. As Gabe searches for closure and truth, his newly inherited fortune reveals each family member’s secrets and ambitions. In addition to Gelman, the cast also includes Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones), Brendan Patricks (Downton Abbey), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London), Mark Quartley (Lucky Man), Jonathan Livingstone (Peacock), Charlotte...

Showtime and Channel 4 comedy Entitled from the production company behind Fleabag has unveiled full cast and rolled cameras in Manchester.

Joining Fleabag and Stranger Things star Brett Gelman in Two Brothers Pictures’ eight-parter are Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones), Brendan Patricks (Downton Abbey), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London), Mark Quartley (Lucky Man), Jonathan Livingstone (Peacock), Charlotte Louise Arrowsmith (This is Going to Hurt) and Kelly Wenham (Merlin).

Entitled stars Gelman as Gabe, a conniving American widower who posthumously must get to know The Beaucrofts, his British wife’s eccentric estranged family, in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside. As Gabe’s search for closure and truth reveal a newly inherited fortune, each family member’s ambition comes to a head.

Matt Morgan (Mister Winner) created Entitled, which entered production in Manchester this week. Director is Tim Kirkby (The Pentaverate) and exec producers are Morgan, Kirkby, Gelman and Fleabag trio Harry Williams,...

‘The Crown’ star Helena Bonham Carter has joined the cast for the BBC’s new comedy series from Greg Davies ‘The Cleaner’.

Carter is joined by Davies, David Mitchell, Stephanie Cole (Still Open All Hours), Donald Sumpter (Game Of Thrones), Shobu Kapoor (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Ruth Madeley (Years And Years), Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie musical), Zita Sattar (Casualty), Georgie Glen, Bill Skinner (Ted Lasso), and Esmonde Cole (Still So Awkward) on the cast.

Written by and starring Davies, the 6 30 minute episode series will follow Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead, a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of work: as a crime scene cleaner responsible for the removal of any signs of death. Armed with chemicals, scrubbing brushes and cleaning rags, Wicky removes the gruesome mess at the scene of the crime. When carrying out his duties, he stumbles across the strangest of people: from the victim’s relatives,...

Helena Bonham Carter Joins BBC Comedy ‘The Cleaner’

Helena Bonham Carter and Peep Show star David Mitchell are among those cast in BBC comedy The Cleaner. Written and headlined by Inbetweeners and Taskmaster star Greg Davies, the series is a remake of a German comedy. It centers on Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead who mops up crime scenes after the police have concluded their detective work. Other cast includes Stephanie Cole (Still Open All Hours), Donald Sumpter (Game Of Thrones), Shobu Kapoor (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Ruth Madeley (Years And Years), Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie musical), Zita Sattar (Casualty), Georgie Glen (The Crown), Bill Skinner (Ted Lasso), and Esmonde Cole (Still So Awkward). The Cleaner is made by Studio Hamburg UK with BBC Studios selling internationally. Filming has commenced and it will premiere later this year.

Hayu Continues European Growth

NBCUniversal International’s reality streamer Hayu has launched in another 11 countries.

Rassilon. The name might not mean much to the general public, but seasoned Doctor Who fans will shudder at it as he’s one of the Doctor’s most dangerous foes. Rassilon is the founder of the Time Lord society that the Doctor hails from and is credited with many innovations, most notably Tardis technology. Unfortunately, though, he’s also a power-mad dictator, which has put him in opposition to the Doctor and their companions on multiple occasions.

Memorably played by a scenery-chewing Timothy Dalton in the 2009-2010 story “The End of Time,” we last saw him in 2015’s Twelfth Doctor story “Hell Bent” (where he was played by Donald Sumpter). Since then, he’s been absent from our screens, though there are some big clues that the character will make a reappearance in the show soon.

Rassilon is already confirmed to return in upcoming Big Finish audio drama “Time War 4,” due in early 2021. There,...

Maester Luwin made his debut in the pilot episode of Game of Thrones and survived two seasons. He is perhaps best remembered for teaching and aiding a young Bran when both his father, mother and elder brother left his as the highest-ranking Stark at Winterfell and the War of the Five Kings began. Maester Luwin was portrayed by Donald Sumpter and, it's quite possible he looked somewhat familiar to many Thrones viewers.

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Acting regularly since 1966 he's made his mark on television and in film. Like fellow Game of Thrones star, Iain Glen, he appeared in the film version of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as Claudius, Hamlet's King and Uncle. Here are a few other roles he is best known for, including their IMDb ratings.

Gem Wheeler Feb 12, 2018

Endeavour Morse has an unsettling glimpse into his future in this horror film-themed series 5 episode. Spoilers ahead...

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When Ronald Beavis (Iain Stuart Robertson) is found dead by his landlady, the circumstances don’t initially suggest foul play. The deceased’s heart and liver were in poor shape, as DeBryn finds out when he performs the autopsy; either of those could have been the end of the retired policeman, but something doesn’t seem quite right. Morse discovers a ticket stub for the Roxy Cinema in the dead man’s belongings, and heads there to investigate. He learns that Beavis was a movie buff, and had been enjoying a horror film season currently running at the picture house. The detective himself is no fan of a good scare,...

Title: The Man Who Invented Christmas Director: Bharat Nalluri Cast: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes, Morfydd Clark, Justin Edwards, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson, Anna Murphy, Eddie Jackson, Neil Slevin, Paul Kealyn, Aleah Lennon, Ger Ryan, Ely Solan. Charles Dickens is synonymous with Yuletide, as attested by his ‘A […]

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Dan Stevens (left) stars as Charles Dickens and Christopher Plummer (right) stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in director Bharat Nalluri’s The Man Who Invented Christmas, a Bleecker Street release. Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street ©

Dan Stevens gives a frenetic performance as Charles Dickens racing to finish writing “A Christmas Carol” in time to publish before the holiday, in The Man Who Invented Christmas. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day), this film has all the Christmas color and Victorian period costumes and sets you could want in a Christmas film. The film is mostly a clever way to retell the famous tale, as characters spring from the author’s imagination while he struggles with his own family issues and races to meet a pre-Christmas release deadline, but it also touches on how his short novel transformed a once-minor holiday into the tradition we know today.

"How do you make a world come alive?" Thunderbird Releasing has launched the UK trailer for the new holiday drama titled The Man Who Invented Christmas, telling the story of Charles Dickens and the creation of the character Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Dan Stevens stars as Dickens, and Christopher Plummer plays Scrooge, in this tale that mixes reality and imagination to tell us the story of how Dickens created this characters that would "forever change the holiday season into the celebration we know today." Also starring Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson, and Justin Edwards. We already featured the first Us trailer last month, and while this looks intriguing, I'm not too sure it's going to become the next holiday classic. Watch below. Here's the brand new UK trailer for Bharat Nalluri's The Man Who Invented Christmas, on YouTube: You can...

We are now getting our first look at the official trailer and poster for a holiday drama about Charles Dickens titled The Man Who Invented Christmas. The movie follows Dickens and the creation of his iconic character Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Dan Stevens stars as Dickens, and Christopher Plummer plays Scrooge. As you know, The Christmas Carol has become a major part of Christmas culture.

The film is directed by Bharat Nalluri (The 100) and is written by Susan Coyne. The cast includes Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson, and Justin Edwards. 

Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for The Man Who Invented Christmas, which is set to be released on November 22nd.

"I'm the author here!" Bleecker Street Media recently released the first official trailer for a holiday drama titled The Man Who Invented Christmas, about the story of Charles Dickens and the creation of the character Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Dan Stevens stars as Dickens, and Christopher Plummer plays Scrooge, in this tale that mixes reality and imagination to tell us the story of how Dickens created this characters that would "forever change the holiday season into the celebration we know today." The full cast includes Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson, and Justin Edwards. This reminds me of the other film Goodbye Christopher Robin, about an author and his creation, but this one seems much more dark and fantastical. Have a look. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Bharat Nalluri's The Man Who Invented Christmas, on YouTube: The Man Who Invented Christmas...

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Timothy Dalton’s Rassilon was meant to appear in last year’s series finale, but the actor wasn’t available...

The Doctor finally returned to Gallifrey in Doctor Who season 9’s two-part finale, Heaven Sent/Hell Bent. Rassilon appeared in the second part, for the first time since 2010’s David Tennant-dispatching special The End Of Time Part 2. But the grumbly senior Time Lord didn’t look like Timothy Dalton anymore. He looked a lot more like Game Of Thrones star Donald Sumpter.

Many fans have wondered whether Mr Dalton ever came to close to appearing in the episode, and the exact reasons why he didn’t return to reprise his role. Now we have answers to both of those questions.

Rachel Talalay – who directed both segments of the finale – said this to the Radio Free Skaro podcast: “At first we did check to see if Timothy Dalton...

By Dawn Dabell

If you were going to write a script following the further adventures of two Shakespearean characters, it's a safe bet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern wouldn't be the first names to spring to mind. For those who don't know, they are two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. They become the focus of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, adapted for the big screen in 1990. The title is taken directly from a line spoken in Hamlet.

It is a fairly shapeless, existential film. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gary Oldman and Tim Roth) travel around the wilderness, partaking in nonsensical debates about fate, chance, life and death. They seem unsure of where they are going or why, and often muddle up their own names as if they are not entirely certain of their identity.

They stumble across a travelling acting troupe fronted by the Lead Player (Richard Dreyfuss). He...

David Power is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

“Featuring Donald Sumpter, as Rassil-gone.” Is Series 9 over already? Huh, feels like just yesterday we were discussing who the Hybrid could be, why Ashildr was such a hyped up character, and how Gallifrey got out of it’s universe. Glad we got all that sorted, eh? Anyway, given how Hell Bent is the Series 9 finale, I...

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Ofcom has found ITV's cancelled Jekyll and Hyde TV series in breach of broadcast standards. The series stars: Tom Bateman, Donald Sumpter, Stephanie Hyam, and Tom Rhys Harries.

Jekyll and Hyde was cancelled by ITV, during the first week of January. Creator Charlie Higson first broke the cancellation news on Twitter. The Jekyll and Hyde sets have already been shipped to Calais, to be used in the building of refugee shelters.

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There is a silver lining to yesterday's news that ITV has cancelled freshman drama, Jekyll and Hyde. The show's creator, Charlie Higson, announced on Twitter that the sets have been shipped to Calais, to be used in building refugee shelters.

Higson's Twitter is the new go-to breaking news provider, where the Jekyll and Hyde TV series is concerned. He broke the cancellation there, himself, yesterday. The cast of this cancelled show includes: Tom Bateman, Donald Sumpter, Stephanie Hyam and Tom Rhys Harries.

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ITV has cancelled its Jekyll and Hyde TV show, after just one season of ten episodes, leaving fans with no in-story closure. Today, creator Charlie Higson made the cancellation public on Twitter. Thus far, ITV has not commented publicly, on the status of Jekyll and Hyde.

Set in London, this 1930s period drama stars Tom Bateman as the grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll, as he tries to understand the awful legacy inherited from his grandfather. The cast also includes Donald Sumpter, Stephanie Hyam, Tom Rhys Harries, Natalie Gumede, Michael Karim, Richard E. Grant, Phil McKee, and Oliver Gilbert.

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Loose threads, speculation, and a fan's wishlist: some thoughts on where Doctor Who series 10 may take us...

This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 9.

Series 9 of Doctor Who (or Season 35, if you’re our favourite kind of pedant) may still be warm in the ground, but fans being fans we’re inevitably already wondering what’s next. We’ve got a festive trifle at Christmas, of course, with The Husbands Of River Song reuniting the Doctor with everyone’s second-favourite Whoniverse archaeologist, but what then? Here’s some of the possible directions we think Series 10 may take…

A New Companion

This one’s not so much speculation as fact; the Doctor will be joined by a new companion when the tenth series begins sometime next year.

Steven Moffat has been discussing how bringing a new companion in reboots the show to an extent, saying that he...

A few thoughts on tonight's "Doctor Who" season finale — and on this season as a whole — coming up just as soon as we have lunch followed by breakfast... As someone with virtually no "Doctor Who" experience prior to the reboot, I've always appreciated Russell T. Davies' decision to kill off the Timelords. As it is, the new version of the series has plenty of links to the old — especially since Davies couldn't stop himself from continually bringing back more and more Daleks — but I've only occasionally felt like I arrived at class without having done the reading assignment when I watch episodes dealing with the Doctor's former friends and enemies. Obviously, the series has lots of fans who can recite chapter and verse on every adventure going back to William Hartnell, but for us relative newbies, sidelining the Time Lords did a good job of boiling the show down...

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Spoilers! Here are our geeky spots and viewing notes on the Doctor Who series 9 finale, Hell Bent...

With the Doctor finally returning to Gallifrey, there can’t have been many people thinking this episode would be light on callbacks, references and other interesting things, and Hell Bent delivered in spades. So it’s time for our viewing notes - as ever, leave your own in the comments below. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to the comments across this run, and thanks in particular to The Doctor Who Transcripts Page and the Tardis Data Core - these articles are one part memory, two parts research, and those sites have proved invaluable. Now, for the last time this series...

A Brief History Of Gallifrey

Hell Bent forms the final part of a trilogy of sorts with 2013’s The Day Of The Doctor and The Time Of The Doctor,...

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The bells are tolling, the Cloister Wraiths are amassing and The President wants to know where is the Doctor! Gallifrey is on high alert in this new clip from Saturday’s finale, Hell Bent. Unpacking this brief glimpse of what’s to come, you get a feel for just where The President himself, the great Donald Sumpter...

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Set in 1930’s London at a time of Hollywood glamour, aerodynamic cars and monster movies, the drama pays homage to the Stevenson novel, and focuses on the young, attractive, troubled hero, Robert Jekyll, the grandson of the original doctor. Robert Jekyll’s quest is to discover his real identity, his true family history and the nature of his ‘curse’. Jekyll transforms into superhero Hyde in moments of extreme anger, stress and when his or the lives of others are threatened. The new fantasy show of Jekyll and Hyde stars Tom Bateman as Jekyll and Hyde, Richard E. Grant as Bullstrode, Natalie Gumede as Bella and Donald Sumpter as Garson. Jekyll & Hyde airs every Sunday at 6.30pm on ITV (UK and Ireland). Tba for the United States and the rest of the world. Jekyll & Hyde has been published by many comic book properties.

Sunday evenings are sorted for the next few months as ITV's Jekyll and Hyde are taking over.

The 10-part drama stars Da Vinci's Demons actor Tom Bateman in the lead role.

Bateman will be playing the dual role of evil Hyde and his mild-mannered alter ego Jekyll in the paranormal drama.

The series is set in 1930s London, and will focus on the grandson of the doctor featured in the famous Robert Louis Stevenson story.

Joining him will be Richard E Grant and former Coronation Street actress Natalie Gumede, along with Stephanie Hyam (Murdered By My Boyfriend), Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones), Amit Shah (Hustle) and Phil McKee (Ripper Street).

Lead writer Charlie Higson billed the show as a "superhero story" with a "sexy" Mr Hyde earlier this year, and has big plans for the series.

"ITV want this to be a big international show that they can sell around the world,...

Jekyll & Hyde is coming to ITV this autumn, and here is your first look at the show's lead Tom Bateman in action.

The Da Vinci's Demons star is playing the dual-role of Hyde and his mild-mannered alter ego Jekyll in the paranormal drama.

In the first clip from the series, Jekyll finds himself transformed into a monster whilst facing off against a group of thugs.

Richard E Grant and former Coronation Street actress Natalie Gumede join Bateman in the cast, along with Stephanie Hyam (Murdered By My Boyfriend), Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones), Amit Shah (Hustle) and Phil McKee (Ripper Street).

The series is set in 1930s London, and will focus on the grandson of the doctor featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's story.

Lead writer Charlie Higson has previously described the drama as a "superhero story" with a "sexy" Mr Hyde.

He cited classic '60s series - including The Prisoner,...

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You've heard of Breaking Bad, Orange Is The New Black & House Of Cards, what about Danger 5, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Darknet and more?…

Quite understandably, column inches can't fill up quickly enough with praise for the likes of Netflix original series House Of Cards, Orange Is The New Black, Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul and Marvel's Daredevil. What though, about some of the lesser-known series available on the UK streaming site?

Sweeping past the well-publicised riches of Doctor Who, Sherlock, Arrested Development, Community and the like, we've ventured into the slightly dustier shelf of TV shows available on Netflix UK that may be lesser-known or less widely celebrated than the big hitters out there, but are still richly deserving of your time. Some are new, some are old, some were cancelled long ago, some are ongoing, several are from outside the UK and Us.

From supernatural, sci-fi,...

Juliette Harrisson Aug 31, 2017

Which of these many Game Of Thrones deaths brought a tear to your eye? We've updated our ongoing ranking for season 7. Spoilers ahead...

Warning: contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones seasons 1-7 (not that you didn't already know that from the title).

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A lot of people die in Game of Thrones – this much is known. But there’s a world of difference between the deaths that leave us cheering on the killer and the deaths that leave us starting, open-mouthed at the TV screen, wondering what just happened. And so for this list, we’ve ranked the deaths we’ve seen in Game of Thrones so far in order of how upsetting they are. Obviously, ‘upsetting’ is a subjective category,...

Tom Bateman and Richard E Grant have been cast in ITV's Jekyll & Hyde.

The ten-part adventure drama - based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella - will also star Coronation Street's Natalie Gumede.

Bateman will take the role of Robert Jekyll, Grant will play Sir Roger Bulstrode, and Gumede will star as Bella.

The cast of the series also includes Stephanie Hyam (Murdered By My Boyfriend), Donald Sumpter (Game of Thrones), Amit Shah (Hustle), Phil McKee (Ripper Street) and Christian McKay (Rush).

Ruby Bentall (The Paradise), Enzo Cilenti (Game of Thrones), Lolita Chakrabarti (The Smoke), Michael Karim (Inspector Lewis) and Ace Bhatti (Silk) will feature in supporting roles.

The series will be set in 1930s London, and will focus on the grandson of the doctor featured in Stevenson's story.

Colin Teague will direct the series, which begins filming in Sri Lanka later this month. Production will take place in London from February until July.

Weeds star Elizabeth Perkins has joined the cast of BBC Two's upcoming drama One Child.

Game of Thrones actor Donald Sumpter will also appear in the Guy Hibbert project, which has begun shooting in London and Hong Kong.

Katie Leung will lead the cast of the drama as Mei, who is adopted by Anglo-American parents and sets out to find out more about her original home.

Perkins and Sumpter will play Mei's adoptive American mother and British father.

Mei returns to her birthplace of Guangzhou after birth mother Liu (Mardy Ma) seeks her help in saving her son Ajun (Sebastion So).

The two-part, 90-minute drama will be directed by John Alexander (The 7.39), and will air on BBC Two later this year.

Elizabeth Perkins is best known for her movie roles in Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street and for Showtime drama Weeds.

Veteran actor Sumpter recently starred...

Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:

Alleluia

Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.

Bypass

Director: Duane Hopkins

Writer: Duane Hopkins

Producer: Samm Haillay

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: George MacKay, Donald Sumpter, Felicity Gilbert

Steve McQueen, Ben Wheatley and Andrea Arnold might be leading the charge of new British filmmaker talents and are already well-established internationally with more than three features in, but filmmaker Duane Hopkins (2008′s Better Things) will surely become a household name member of the clique. Hopkins revisits a shipwrecked youth generation featuring George MacKay (who recently shined in another new filmmaking talent in Paul Wright’s For Those in Peril) and Felicity Gilbert (appears in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I as the dissed secretary). Worth mentioning: Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans also collaborated on the project.

Gist: This shows in graphic detail the life of Tim (MacKay). His habits, his hustle, his family, his responsibilities, his conflicts, his hopes, his fears, his character, his existence. Through this we understand his present,...

HBO released a 15-minute preview video for Game of Thrones' fourth season, which includes behind-the-scenes footage of the upcoming episodes as well as interviews with the cast and creators.

'Game Of Thrones' Preview

One of the main events of Season Four will be the Purple Wedding, the ceremony and celebration of the marriage between Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) and Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer). Clips from the wedding reveal a lavish set, which the actors reveal was just as impressive in person. The sheer scale of the sets, as evident with the wedding, is consistent throughout the season and impressed those working on the series at every turn.

Rising Seven Kingdoms leader, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), has a new throne room from which to rule. The problem is, however, that all the lands she’s liberated are now in mass revolt. Furthermore, her dragon babies have grown larger and more dangerous,...

The myth of Oedipus is a rather dark tale for a family drama like Atlantis to tackle, so in 'Twist of Fate', said myth is fused with Three Men and a Baby for an adventure that's part royal scandal, part rollicking adventure and part 'wee-wee and poo-poo' slapstick.

We open with Jason (Jack Donnelly), Pythagoras (Robert Emms) and Hercules (Mark Addy) finding a cute infant abandoned in the woods and, once they take the child home and assume the role of surrogate parents, we're treated to all the standard gags you'd expect.

There's no magicians or monsters here - instead, our heroes must deal with the perils of baby poo, changing nappies, settling a child to sleep and being sprayed with adorable urine. Oh, and of course, there's fart jokes aplenty!

The hapless trio recruit the maternal Medusa to help out, with Hercules using their time spent babysitting...

Review Dave Adamson 19 Oct 2013 - 21:25

Atlantis skips mystical mythology this week for a story of family and honour. Here's Dave's review...

This review contains spoilers.

1.4 Twist of Fate

Three men and a baby…

Yes, this week Jason brings about yet more social change by rescuing an abandoned baby, despite tradition suggesting that the baby should be left to die.

So Jason heroically changes nappies, valiantly shops for food and then asks Medusa, the only woman he really knows, for help, which she quite happily gives (probably because, for Jemima Rooper, it means some dialogue and the chance to show how great she is as an actor.)

Meanwhile, King Laius of Thebes turns up to drive a wedge between Ariadne and Pasiphae (at least, he would if the writers had carried forward the initial tentative steps), whilst his wife Jocasta looks ashen and mournful.

Continuing his rather seedy quest to steal the heart of Medusa,...

Genre: Horror | Thriller | Drama

Original Broadcast Network: BBC America

Discs: 1

Run time: Approximately 176 minutes (3 episodes)

Release date: October 8, 2013

Synopsis:

Based on the novel by best-selling author James Herbert, this bone-chilling thriller begins a year after the disappearance of 5-year-old Cam Caleigh. Cam’s parents, Gabe (Tom Ellis, The Fades) and Eve (Suranne Jones, Doctor Who), seek a new start for their family by moving to Crickley Hall – a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when Eve begins to hear Cam’s cries and a frenzied cane-wielding specter goes after their terrified daughters, the Caleighs realize that the house comes with a lot more than they bargained for… The story shifts between the present day and 1943, when the house was an orphanage for children who had been evacuated from London during the war and run by the frightening Augustus Cribben (Douglas Henshall, Primeval). As past and present come together, the Caleighs desperately...

Duane Hopkins has found his lead and principle photography has began on Bypass, the auteur’s much-anticipated sophomore film. George MacKay who has been growing up on-screen since P.J. Hogan Peter Pan, will topline alongside Ben Dilloway, Charlotte Spencer (Les Misérables) and veteran actor Donald Sumpter (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). The production is actually a UK-Swedish venture – Match Factory have got the sales rights so we expect to hear progress reports in Cannes next month.

Gist: We’ve got scrap pieces for now with a description about this being a “character-driven thriller set against the economic backdrop of contemporary Britain”, but Third Films’ producer Samm Haillay does a great job at making us salivate for the project calling the film “a morality tale of society’s feared and forsaken. These characters struggle to balance their personal morality with the reality of the world in which they inhabit. We aim to create an visceral,...

It's been a long time in gestation, but shooting on Duane Hopkins' second feature film Bypass is now underway in Newcastle.

George MacKay leads the cast as Tim, in the film which is described as “a character-driven thriller set against the economic backdrop of contemporary Britain". 20 year old George (represented by Gordon and French), recently filmed on Dexter Fletcher's 2nd feature film Sunshine on Leith, and is next to be seen in How I Live Now opposite Saoirse Ronan.

He is joined by 20 year old Charlotte Spencer, who made her feature film debut last year as Steph, Will Poulter's love interest in Dexter Fletcher's directorial debut Wild Bill. Charlotte, who was a pupil at Sylvia Young’s Theatre School, started acting as a child - she was in the original West End cast of Mary Poppins, and is also the voice of Angelina Ballerina.

Produced by Third Films,...

Game of Thrones will bring back its wonderful buffet of characters for Season 4 after the third season debuted with a stellar 4.4 million viewers on Sunday, reports Variety. The beloved series executive-produced by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield, took home six e Emmy awards last year. Haven't seen any of Game of Thrones? You are truly missing. The strong cast of the show based on George R.R. Martin's work includes Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Alfie Allen, Kit Harrington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Jack GLeeson, Aidan Gillen, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Richard Madden, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Donald Sumpter, Rory McCann, Ron Donachie and Julian Glover, among others.

Game of Thrones will bring back its wonderful buffet of characters for Season 4 after the third season debuted with a stellar 4.4 million viewers on Sunday, reports Variety. The beloved series executive-produced by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield, took home six e Emmy awards last year. Haven't seen any of Game of Thrones? You are truly missing. The strong cast of the show based on George R.R. Martin's work includes Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Alfie Allen, Kit Harrington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Jack GLeeson, Aidan Gillen, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Richard Madden, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Donald Sumpter, Rory McCann, Ron Donachie and Julian Glover, among others.

Network: HBO

Episodes: Ongoing (hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: April 17, 2011 -- present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Sean Bean, Conleth Hill, Donald Sumpter, Harry Lloyd, James Cosmo, Jason Momoa, Jennifer Ehle, Jerome Flynn, John Bradley, Mark Addy, Ron Donachie, Aidan Gillen, Alfie Allen, Carice van Houten, Emilia Clarke, Gwendoline Christie, Iain Glen, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jack Gleeson, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Liam Cunningham, Maisie Williams, Michelle Fairley, Natalie Dormer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Richard Madden, Rory McCann, Rose Leslie, Sophie Turner, Stephen Dillane, and Charles Dance.

TV show description:

This medieval fantasy TV show is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, the series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin. The first is titled A Game of Thrones.

Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, the series chronicles...

"Game of Thrones" already has one of the most expansive and impressive casts in the history of television. Essentially picking up the slack that "Harry Potter" left in terms of propping up the British acting industry, the show hasn't just made stars (with names like Richard Madden, Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke coming to serious Hollywood attention), but also given great showcases to veteran character actors -- people like Donald Sumpter, Stephen Dillane and Liam Cunningham have given show-stealing turns over the last two seasons. One wondered after season one how new additions would fit in, but the first-timers blended seamlessly into the ensemble, and the show has continued to become bigger and better. And with the "Game of Thrones" Comic-Con panel taking place yesterday, the new arrivals for season three have been announced. And while there are a few familiar faces there (notably Diana Rigg, who we discussed on Friday), most aren't.

Thirty-five years after it vanished, The Black Panther – Ian Merrick's 1977 film about serial killer Donald Neilson – emerges as a gripping and highly responsible true-crime movie

After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.

Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...

Game of Thrones

“Valar Morghulis” Air Date: 6/3/2012

Well crap. Another season of Game Of Thrones is in the history books. Has it really been 10 weeks already?

Following last week’s explosive battle-filled episode “Blackwater” isn’t an easy task, even for a season finale. In many ways, last week was just as important and exciting as any finale, and I would say it was a better, more exciting, and complete episode than last night’s. But “Valar Morghulis” is no slouch, and it gave us a good shove into the direction of George R. R. Martin’s A Storm Of Swords, which seasons 3 and 4 will be based upon. There’s a lot to cover here, so much in fact, that some subplots I’ve left out so as not to spoil them.

The finale picks up some time after the events of the battle, where last we saw Tyrion, possibly gravely injured,...

While the ongoing leitmotif of Fire and Ice featured heavily in the Season Two finale of Game of Thrones, the real theme of the episode may well have been "lowered expectations". Whether it was Tyrion's coming to after saving King's Landing to find that he'd been stripped of his title, Daenerys's securing the fortune of Qarth only to find that there Is no fortune of Qarth and realize that after all that she's really more of a stay-at-home dragon mom, really, or Theon's being c*ck-blocked by his own army, the denoument to last week's excellent big battle scene seemed determined to readjust expectations across the board.

Including mine.

We start with a close-up of a reflection of fire in an eye that I immediately recognize as being one of Tyrion Lannister's (Peter Dinklage). He wakes up to learn from Maester Pycell (Julian Glover) that Stannis has been beaten down,...

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

(Warning: Significant spoilers follow!)

Let’s get the bad news out of the way: this episode wasn’t as good as last week’s. But really, did any of us expect that it would be? And anyhow, even if this wasn’t as good, it was still pretty damn great, with everyone getting to do at least a little something.

We can start with poor Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) in King’s Landing. He’s in pretty bad shape after the battle last week, and is less than pleased that Tywin (Charles Dance) and Loras (Finn Jones) are getting all the credit for saving the city. For what it’s worth, and it probably is worth something to Tyrion, Varys (Conleth Hill) makes it clear that there are at least some out there who know what Tyrion did for them.

That, though, is nothing compared to what...

Game of Thrones is back, and this week the show decided to introduce a new and creative form of torture. Move over, Rat Bucket! Take a knee, Whore Beatings! And sorry, Molten Gold Dothraki Bukkake (Dothrakikkake?), you're So 2011. Because the show's favorite new cruelty is apparently Boring Us To Death.

Here we go!

That's So (Many) Raven(s)!

In Winterfell, Theon's bros dump out a few bushelsful of dead ravens - so that's where lost texts go to die? Theon (Alfie Allen) seems satisfied, until his total nag of a sister Yara Sofia (Gemma Whelan) shows up with all her fancy horsies to tell him that about how badly he screwed up his babysitting gig with the Stark boys (Fail #1: Burning the kids to death. Fail #2: Letting them watch Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23.).

They each may have a point to make, but I'm too distracted by...

M is for the murder of the Thirteen...

O is only Osha's wily ways

T is taking no crap from a Lannister...

H is hexagons upon your face

E is every lie that Arya's telling...

R is red on Sansa's fitted sheet...

Put it all together, it spells Batsh*T Crazy On A Water Cracker, people.

Let's dig in!

Theon (Alfie Allen) wakes up to find his wildling booty call gone, and his sentry dead, and the Stark kids gone: "You let a half-wit escape with a cripple?" Well, when you put it That way ... his guard, who looks a bit like Guy Branum, protests, so Theon shuts him up with a boot in the face and orders that they release the hounds!

The hounds soon catch up with Maester Luwin (Donald Sumpter), who tells Theon to let the boys go. Theon chirps, "Don't look so grim - it's just a game!

If there's anything that unites the golden age of cable drama in the last decade or so, it's the way that their characters -- often the ones you're meant to be rooting for -- are responsible for some truly terrible, terrible things. On even the best network dramas -- "The Good Wife," to name probably the top of the tree right now -- the characters are fundamentally good people, who occasionally make mistakes. On cable, it tends to be a question of watching people we like slowly lose their souls via abominable acts, from Tony Soprano and Al Swearengen to Walter White and even Jimmy McNulty.

"Game of Thrones" tracks in a slightly clearer sense of good and evil: the Starks and their allies are pretty much on the side of the angels, while the Lannisters, Tyrion excluded, are very much not. But at the same time, the show's never...