Siân Brooke is back on U.K. screens this week as Grace Ellis in the BBC’s Belfast, Northern Ireland-based police drama Blue Lights season 2.
Blue Lights, about three probationary police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland struggling with the general pressures of the job and crime and tensions in Belfast, has become a hit show for the BBC, which has already ordered seasons 3 and 4. One of the new officers is Brooke’s Grace, a single mother in her 40s who left her job as a social worker to join the police but must soon wonder if she’s made the right decision.
Season 2 debuted on BBC One on Monday night London time, airing weekly, with all episodes now already available on streaming service BBC iPlayer. The show is also available internationally on streamer BritBox International. The season 2 trailer (see below) highlights tensions and new challenges for the police officers.
Blue Lights, about three probationary police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland struggling with the general pressures of the job and crime and tensions in Belfast, has become a hit show for the BBC, which has already ordered seasons 3 and 4. One of the new officers is Brooke’s Grace, a single mother in her 40s who left her job as a social worker to join the police but must soon wonder if she’s made the right decision.
Season 2 debuted on BBC One on Monday night London time, airing weekly, with all episodes now already available on streaming service BBC iPlayer. The show is also available internationally on streamer BritBox International. The season 2 trailer (see below) highlights tensions and new challenges for the police officers.
- 4/16/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell’s twisted thriller Saltburn, Rosamund Pike is the deft comedic counterbalance.
Her character, Elspeth Catton, a wealthy former model and mother to Jacob Elordi’s character Felix, breaks up the drama with head-turning quips often delivered while lounging around the family’s estate. One such example: “I was a lesbian for a while, you know, but it was all a bit too wet for me in the end. Men are so lovely and dry.”
Pike’s disarming humor comes amid a storyline that sees Felix inviting his less fortunate Oxford classmate, Oliver Quick (played by Barry Keoghan), to their home for the summer, setting off a cascading series of unfortunate events that befall the family. Pike’s character is a witness to the unraveling, though Elspeth would rather pretend there’s nothing amiss.
When she received the script, Pike says, she was drawn in by...
Her character, Elspeth Catton, a wealthy former model and mother to Jacob Elordi’s character Felix, breaks up the drama with head-turning quips often delivered while lounging around the family’s estate. One such example: “I was a lesbian for a while, you know, but it was all a bit too wet for me in the end. Men are so lovely and dry.”
Pike’s disarming humor comes amid a storyline that sees Felix inviting his less fortunate Oxford classmate, Oliver Quick (played by Barry Keoghan), to their home for the summer, setting off a cascading series of unfortunate events that befall the family. Pike’s character is a witness to the unraveling, though Elspeth would rather pretend there’s nothing amiss.
When she received the script, Pike says, she was drawn in by...
- 12/27/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Spain’s Isabel Coixet and Chile’s Bernardita Ojeda, director of “Petit,” feature among the first recipients of funding from Ibermedia Next, a pioneering attempting to fund development on pioneering new IPs which yoke large artistic ambition and cutting edge tech.
García Bernal and Luna’s Mexico-based label La Corriente del Golfo co-produces one of the 14 winning submissions, “El Origen De La Experiencia,” which offers a VR immersive experience of Mexican mysticism and trance culture. Both will also voice characters.
Coixet is set to direct “Sophia (Sofía),” with Milena Smit, star of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.”
Bernardita Ojeda, director on milestone Chilean toon series such as “Petit,” the International Emmy-nominated and Quirino Awards winner, produces two titles.
Also in the mix is Portugal’s David Doutel, whose shimmering, mottled social realist mood piece “Garrano,” proved a standout at Annecy and Sundance, and UniKo,...
García Bernal and Luna’s Mexico-based label La Corriente del Golfo co-produces one of the 14 winning submissions, “El Origen De La Experiencia,” which offers a VR immersive experience of Mexican mysticism and trance culture. Both will also voice characters.
Coixet is set to direct “Sophia (Sofía),” with Milena Smit, star of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.”
Bernardita Ojeda, director on milestone Chilean toon series such as “Petit,” the International Emmy-nominated and Quirino Awards winner, produces two titles.
Also in the mix is Portugal’s David Doutel, whose shimmering, mottled social realist mood piece “Garrano,” proved a standout at Annecy and Sundance, and UniKo,...
- 11/29/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Part Julia Child, part Marie Curie, with the movie-star glow of a Kim Novak, brilliant chemist Elizabeth Zott (the luminous Brie Larson) is ahead of her 1950s times. In Lessons in Chemistry, adapted for Apple TV+ from Bonnie Garmus’ bestseller, she channels her analytic genius into the kitchen when toxic sexism within a California college’s lab subjects her to humiliation from her patronizing colleagues. “You are just not smart enough,” says her smarmy boss (Derek Cecil). She’ll show him, and everyone else. When circumstances thrust her before a TV camera, where she demonstrates her culinary prowess as host of the bare-bones Supper at Six, her clinical approach — “Cooking is not fun. It is vital work” — is an unexpected hit, with everyone except the boorish station manager (Rainn Wilson as one of several too-obvious villains). Housewives are immediately enthralled, taking notes, seriously and literally, whenever Zott speaks. Her producer...
- 10/12/2023
- TV Insider
"Barbie" is, without a doubt, one of the weirdest movies to ever make it into the billion-dollar club. Greta Gerwig's candy-colored blockbuster features a horse-based patriarchy, the ghost of Barbie creator Ruth Handler, and an extremely well-executed Snyder cut joke. It's a fantastical, offbeat movie thinly disguised as a mainstream comedy, but it's clear from the very beginning — that "2001: A Space Odyssey" homage opening! — that "Barbie" marches to the beat of its own drum.
According to director Greta Gerwig, though, the movie was initially set to announce itself in a totally different way — by letting Helen Mirren drop an F-bomb in its opening moments. Gerwig spoke about the cut joke on the ReelBlend podcast, and revealed that it was actually meant to tie into a bit about famed physicist Marie Curie that was cut completely from the movie.
"Suffice to say, there was a sort of extended joke...
According to director Greta Gerwig, though, the movie was initially set to announce itself in a totally different way — by letting Helen Mirren drop an F-bomb in its opening moments. Gerwig spoke about the cut joke on the ReelBlend podcast, and revealed that it was actually meant to tie into a bit about famed physicist Marie Curie that was cut completely from the movie.
"Suffice to say, there was a sort of extended joke...
- 8/18/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Albert Einstein and his wife ElsaPhoto: Topical Press Agency (Getty Images)
One of the most famous tongues in history is getting a second look. Albert Einstein, the man responsible for the theory of relativity (which determined that a Princeton eight is a Los Alamos 11) somehow leaves Christopher Nolan’s pitch-black...
One of the most famous tongues in history is getting a second look. Albert Einstein, the man responsible for the theory of relativity (which determined that a Princeton eight is a Los Alamos 11) somehow leaves Christopher Nolan’s pitch-black...
- 7/28/2023
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Decades before Christopher Nolan set his sights on a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a science-obsessed BBC executive ventured to America in 1979 to make a $1.5 million TV show about the father of the atom bomb.
Peter Goodchild began his career at the BBC in radio drama, but eventually migrated to the storied “Horizon” science unit to put his chemistry degree to some use. The division began experimenting with factual dramas in the 1970s, and after delivering a hit series on French-Polish physicist Marie Curie, Goodchild set his sights on the New York-born Oppenheimer.
“I’d seen a play on J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Hampstead Theatre Club way back in 1966,” the 83-year-old tells Variety from his home in Exeter, southwest England, where his Zoom background reveals a room teeming with books on heaving shelves.
“It was an amazing story, and I’d always wanted to do it,” Goodchild continues. “Someone...
Peter Goodchild began his career at the BBC in radio drama, but eventually migrated to the storied “Horizon” science unit to put his chemistry degree to some use. The division began experimenting with factual dramas in the 1970s, and after delivering a hit series on French-Polish physicist Marie Curie, Goodchild set his sights on the New York-born Oppenheimer.
“I’d seen a play on J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Hampstead Theatre Club way back in 1966,” the 83-year-old tells Variety from his home in Exeter, southwest England, where his Zoom background reveals a room teeming with books on heaving shelves.
“It was an amazing story, and I’d always wanted to do it,” Goodchild continues. “Someone...
- 7/22/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
"Clone High" was a clever, silly animated show about genetic clones of famous historical figures — like Abe Lincoln, George Washington, and Marie Curie — getting sent to high school for an experiment. It served as a parody of high school dramas of the early 2000s like "Dawson's Creek" and "The O.C." And yet, the show quickly built an entertaining high school story of its own that was just as compelling, with the high concept shenanigans also letting the interpersonal romances breathe and shine.
The show was unceremoniously canceled by MTV due to both low ratings and protests about the portrayal of Gandhi in the series. Since then, creators Bill Lawrence, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller have all gone on to do rather impressive things. Lawrence co-created "Ted Lasso," and Lord and Miller helped revolutionize American animation with "Into the Spider-Verse."
But now, the clones are finally thawed, and "Clone High" is back,...
The show was unceremoniously canceled by MTV due to both low ratings and protests about the portrayal of Gandhi in the series. Since then, creators Bill Lawrence, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller have all gone on to do rather impressive things. Lawrence co-created "Ted Lasso," and Lord and Miller helped revolutionize American animation with "Into the Spider-Verse."
But now, the clones are finally thawed, and "Clone High" is back,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
On 4 March 1943, Greer Garson stepped behind a lectern at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Garson, 38, was accepting the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work inMrs Miniver, a romantic war drama directed by William Wyle. She was only the 15th actor in the history of Hollywood to take home the trophy. That was an achievement in itself, but Garson made history in another, more unexpected way that night.
Her acceptance speech remains, to this day, the longest in the history of the Academy Awards. While today’s winners are asked to keep to 45 seconds, Garson spoke for a comparatively generous seven minutes.
The speech, sadly, wasn’t preserved in full. Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which organises the Oscars each year, says it has newsreel footage of “only portions” of Garson’s address – for a total of three minutes and 56 seconds.
Her acceptance speech remains, to this day, the longest in the history of the Academy Awards. While today’s winners are asked to keep to 45 seconds, Garson spoke for a comparatively generous seven minutes.
The speech, sadly, wasn’t preserved in full. Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which organises the Oscars each year, says it has newsreel footage of “only portions” of Garson’s address – for a total of three minutes and 56 seconds.
- 2/14/2023
- by Clémence Michallon
- The Independent - Film
On 4 March 1943, Greer Garson stepped behind a lectern at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Garson, 38, was accepting the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work inMrs Miniver, a romantic war drama directed by William Wyle. She was only the 15th actor in the history of Hollywood to take home the trophy. That was an achievement in itself, but Garson made history in another, more unexpected way that night.
Her acceptance speech remains, to this day, the longest in the history of the Academy Awards. While today’s winners are asked to keep to 45 seconds, Garson spoke for a comparatively generous seven minutes.
The speech, sadly, wasn’t preserved in full. Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which organises the Oscars each year, says it has newsreel footage of “only portions” of Garson’s address – for a total of three minutes and 56 seconds.
Her acceptance speech remains, to this day, the longest in the history of the Academy Awards. While today’s winners are asked to keep to 45 seconds, Garson spoke for a comparatively generous seven minutes.
The speech, sadly, wasn’t preserved in full. Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which organises the Oscars each year, says it has newsreel footage of “only portions” of Garson’s address – for a total of three minutes and 56 seconds.
- 2/14/2023
- by Clémence Michallon
- The Independent - Film
The scars of war last long after the guns stop firing, and Serbian filmmaker Dušan Milić shows just how long in his new film “Darkling,” Serbia’s entry into the Best International Film Oscar race. It was showcased this month as part of TheWrap’s Screening Series.
Set in Kosovo in 1999, “Darkling” follows a family living in the region after the conclusion of the bloody war between Yugoslavia and Albanian rebels. NATO-led forces known as the Kfor now occupy the region and keep the peace, but only during the day.
At night, a young girl named Milica barricades the doors and windows of her house with her mother and grandfather, fearful of the dangers that they believe lurk outside their home even as the Kfor soldiers dismiss it as their imagination. Whether or not it is real is unclear, but the trauma of the war has left deep emotional...
Set in Kosovo in 1999, “Darkling” follows a family living in the region after the conclusion of the bloody war between Yugoslavia and Albanian rebels. NATO-led forces known as the Kfor now occupy the region and keep the peace, but only during the day.
At night, a young girl named Milica barricades the doors and windows of her house with her mother and grandfather, fearful of the dangers that they believe lurk outside their home even as the Kfor soldiers dismiss it as their imagination. Whether or not it is real is unclear, but the trauma of the war has left deep emotional...
- 12/6/2022
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Studiocanal has announced it is in development on a biopic feature film devoted to the life of iconic U.S.-born, French artist Josephine Baker.
Maïmouna Doucouré, who is best known for the French-language coming-of-age tale Cuties, is attached to write and direct.
Studiocanal is producing with Doucouré’s longtime producers at Bien Ou Bien Productions in co-production with Cpb Films.
The project is in development with the support of Josephine Baker’s sons Jean-Claude Bouillon Baker, Brian Bouillon Baker and the Rainbow tribe, the affectionate name the artist gave to the 12 children from a variety of different backgrounds that she adopted after World War Two.
They said in a joint statement: “Josephine Baker. The universal artist, woman and mother. We are honoured to partner with Studiocanal and collaborate with Maïmouna on this feature film about the incredible and humanist achievements of our mother. Yes she could. And she did.
Maïmouna Doucouré, who is best known for the French-language coming-of-age tale Cuties, is attached to write and direct.
Studiocanal is producing with Doucouré’s longtime producers at Bien Ou Bien Productions in co-production with Cpb Films.
The project is in development with the support of Josephine Baker’s sons Jean-Claude Bouillon Baker, Brian Bouillon Baker and the Rainbow tribe, the affectionate name the artist gave to the 12 children from a variety of different backgrounds that she adopted after World War Two.
They said in a joint statement: “Josephine Baker. The universal artist, woman and mother. We are honoured to partner with Studiocanal and collaborate with Maïmouna on this feature film about the incredible and humanist achievements of our mother. Yes she could. And she did.
- 11/3/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Surprisingly, Nuclear is not one of Oliver Stone’s “devil’s advocate” documentaries, the spate of films he started making in the early 2000s that seemed to troll liberals everywhere by spending time with notorious human-rights abusers such as Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin. In the real world right now, nuclear power is about as toxic as those three men put together, but this intelligent and surprising film is an investigation into how that PR damage came about, which makes it arguably more of a piece with his famous conspiracy thriller JFK than any of those. At nearly two hours, it’s a hard watch, being dominated by Stone’s dense, monotonous voice-over and featuring scientists with next to no screen presence (this explains a lot about Adam McKay’s decision to shoot Don’t Look Up with A-listers). Nevertheless, it puts forward a lot of unexpected proposals about nuclear energy,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) is to lead Paramount+’s Burning Girls alongside Bridgerton star Ruby Stokes, Deadline can reveal.
The show from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, which is adapted from a C.J. Tudor novel, has entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history.
Morton will play Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. Stokes is her daughter Flo, a teenager who marches to the beat of her own drum. Both arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.
The thriller was one of Paramount+’s first UK commissions and the streamer has since ordered The Doll Factory, also from Buccaneer, an adaptation of Elizabeth Macneal’s Sunday Times bestselling novel.
The Burning Girls...
The show from Marcella producer Buccaneer Media, which is adapted from a C.J. Tudor novel, has entered production and follows a village haunted by a dark and turbulent history.
Morton will play Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent haunted by a tragedy from her previous church and who bears the onus of her husband’s death. Stokes is her daughter Flo, a teenager who marches to the beat of her own drum. Both arrive in Chapel Croft in the hope of a fresh start, however, they soon find the village rife with conspiracies and secrets.
The thriller was one of Paramount+’s first UK commissions and the streamer has since ordered The Doll Factory, also from Buccaneer, an adaptation of Elizabeth Macneal’s Sunday Times bestselling novel.
The Burning Girls...
- 9/5/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
There hasn't been much buzz about Marthe Keller's induction into France's Legion of Honor. Or the induction of actresses Dominique Blanc and Anny Duperey. The selection of fellow 2012 Chevalier inductee Salma Hayek, however, has been a whole different matter. In early 2003, the Mexican-born Hayek, 45, was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance as Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's Frida. Her other film credits include Desperado, From Dusk Til Dawn, After the Sunset, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and the animated hit Puss in Boots. She is now reportedly working on a biopic of Mexican superstar Maria Félix. But are Puss in Boots and an Oscar nod enough qualification for Legion of Honor "membership"? Hayek's inclusion in this year's Legion of Honor roster (as a Chevalier, or Knight) has been criticized by some who have accused French president Nicolas Sarkozy of using the ceremony...
- 1/4/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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