Month: April 2012

Wednesday’s “Richard Coyle: suave KGB spy, David Tennant: suave British spy, and Emma Thompson: Gareth Peirce again?” news

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Film

  • Emma Thompson to return as Gareth Peirce for The Secret Evidence?
  • Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell and maybe Dominic Cooper to star in Dead Man Down

Trailers

  • Trailer for Sparkle with Whitney Houston
  • Trailer for Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love
  • Trailer for Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 14, 2012)

3 April 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Shilohforever and Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

A well deserved 10 points to both Hebbie and Shilohforever for this little bit of relaxtion to start April with. I wonder what he’s thinking.

  1. Hebbie, Shilohforever: 10

Sitting Board of Winners 2012
January
Hebbie, Sister Chastity

February
Sister Chastity

March
Sister Chastity

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the Sitting Tennant gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!

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Australian and New Zealand TV

Child actors: nice to see Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes getting work in The Almighty Johnsons

3 April 2012 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Do you ever have those “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” moments when watching an actor in a movie, where eventually you realise that you’ve seen them when they were a child?

Evan Rachel-Wood in Practical Magic.

Evan Rachel Wood in Practical Magic

Who’s now been in True Blood, amongst other things.

Evan Rachel-Wood

Or Lukas Haas, that nice little Amish boy in Witness.

Lukas Haas in Witness

He was the crap gang member in Inception.

Lukas Haas in Inception

Then there’s Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel, who have been in everything and were in fact in everything when they were kids, too.

Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel

Then there’s Kirsten Dunst in Interview with a Vampire:

Kirsten Dunst in Interview with a Vampire

Who was in all three Spider-man movies and in Melancholia:

Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia

And of course Claire Danes was Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and is now doing very nicely for herself in Homeland:

Claire Danes in Romeo and Juliet

Claire Danes in Homeland

Anyway, I’ve been having one of those moments while watching New Zealand show The Almighty Johnsons and finally, I’ve worked out where I’ve seen Keisha Castle-Hughes (aka Gaia) before:

Keisha Castle-Hughes as Gaia in The Almighty Johnsons

She was, of course, the youngest person ever to receive a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars for Whale Rider all of 10 years ago now:

Keisha Castle-Hughes

My how time flies, doesn’t it? (Of course, Cliff Curtis from Whale Rider has been finding work in the US with Trauma and now Missing.)

Here’s the trailer for it and after the jump, you can watch the whole movie – aren’t I good to you?

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Aardman’s Pirates! renamed for the international market

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Aardman has a film out in the UK right now called The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!. It’s based on a book called The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! and features the likes of Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman and Russell Tovey. Here’s the trailer for it:

Except in the rest of the world, that’s not what it’s called. it’s called Pirates! Band of Misfits and here’s a trailer for it that takes the piss out of The Hunger Games.

What does the renaming tell you about the UK, the US or the rest of the world? Answers on a postcard…

Awake: the mental mystery deepens

3 April 2012 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

One of the things I’ve been liking about NBC’s Awake, in which Jason Isaacs lives in two realities – one in which his wife is dead, the other, which he enters when he goes to sleep (and vice versa), in which his son is dead – is that it hasn’t been going for a sci-fi or supernatural explanation so far. In fact, it’s been coming at this from the point of view that this probably is a mental problem, the only issue being that we don’t know which reality is correct and which is the dream – and more to the point, do we really want to?

Looks like it’s going to be pushing that line of investigation even further on Thursday…