EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winning Uprising producer Rogan Productions and Electric Shadow Company are forging Original Sin, a documentary miniseries exploring calculated South African murderer Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren and his trial.
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Agnes O’Casey), who goes undercover to help fight the alarming tide of hatred sweeping through England — its flames stoked by neo-Nazi leader Colin Jordan, a real-life historical figure played here by Rory Kinnear who features prominently in Jo Bloom’s 2014 novel “Ridley Road,” from which the series is adapted. When “Ridley Road” opens Vivien, 23, is living north of London in industrial Manchester with her parents (her father, David, owns a tailor shop) and her cousin, Roza (Julia Krynke), who survived the Holocaust in Europe.
Vivien is none-too-happily engaged to nebbishy Jeremy — their fathers arranged the marriage — and secretly pines for her true love, Jack Morris (Tom Varey), who shows up at her father’s store and rekindles their romance but tells Vivien he’s no good for her. That’s all she needs to hear; she tracks Jack’s whereabouts to her estranged Uncle Soly’s (Eddie Marsan) clothing store in London (on Ridley Road), hops on a train and, before the day is done, is working at a hair salon, renting a room from nice Mrs.
Jones (but is she?) and using the name Vivien Evans to disguise her Jewish identity amidst the tenor of the times.Turns out that Soly is, by night, fighting neo-Nazi gangs and it’s through him that Vivien discovers a startling secret about Jack, who she sees at a National Socialist rally in Trafalgar Square alongside Colin Jordan chanting “Perish Judah!”: he’s working undercover to fight the good fight (“I do bad things to bad people,” he tells her) and, under the alias “Peter Fox,” is deeply entrenched with Jordan and his goons. Vivien joins the fight, dyes her hair blond, calls herself Jane Carpenter and infiltrates Jordan’s lair.Series writer Sarah Solemani does a nice job establishing the
.EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winning Uprising producer Rogan Productions and Electric Shadow Company are forging Original Sin, a documentary miniseries exploring calculated South African murderer Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren and his trial.
Somewhere in the southwest of England is a sprawling stone estate nestled along hedge-lined lanes that you can rent, complete with wood fireplaces, low oak beams, an apple tree in the yard and a room for a baby grand piano. But the listing on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com might not mention one small complication: It comes with a naked dude in the yard.This is where Alex Garland’s sophisticated horror film “Men” is set. All the action takes place in and around this estate, a countryside both sublimely beautiful and yet also grimy and filthy.
In a further expansion of their kids and family programming slate, HBO Max and Cartoon Network are teaming on new live-action coming-of-age comedy series, Home Sweet Rome, from Emmy-nominated Hannah Montana and That’s So Raven creator Michael Poryes, for premiere in 2023.
Shirley Ju On Tuesday, May 10th, the 70th annual BMI Pop Awards took over the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.Hosted by BMI president and CEO Mike O’Neill and vice president, worldwide creative Barbara Cade, Carole Bayer Sager and Mike Stoller were honored as BMI Icons for their contributions as songwriters — their many credits include such classics as “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and “Hound Dog,” respectively. Both are members of Songwriters Hall of Fame and have enjoyed profitable careers in their craft for decades, as was noted in their BMI presentations.
Dennis Waterman's daughter Hannah has shared a heart-wrenching tribute in honour of her late father, who sadly died over the weekend. The former EastEnders actress, 46, who played Ian Beale's wife Laura Beale on the BBC One soap, posted a previously unseen snap of them together when she was a little girl. The black and white image featured Dennis, who died at the age of 74, wearing a 1970s style cream polo neck jumper and his hair in a mid-length bob.
Christopher Vourlias An award-winning writer, blogger and editor whose work centers on the post-apartheid condition from the perspective of Black, middle-class South Africans and women, Milisuthando Bongela is making her directorial debut with a coming-of-age story that she’s pitching this week at the Hot Docs Forum.“Milisuthando” is a meditation on power, intimacy, difference, and the weight of loving and fearing your enemy in a time of decolonization. Directed by Bongela, the film is produced by Marion Isaacs for The Good Black Project (South Africa), in co-production with Sonia Barrera and Viviana Gómez Echeverry of Viso Producciones (Colombia), with Jessica Devaney and Anya Rous of Multitude Films attached to executive produce.
Cheryl Ladd endured a #MeToo moment early on in her career. The former "Charlie’s Angels" star said the incident, which involved a male Hollywood executive, took place after she moved from South Dakota to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. "I was about 19, and I did get chased around one desk," the actress recalled to Page Six Tuesday.
Elizabeth Banks' movie 'Cocaine Bear' will be released in 2023. The 48-year-old star's upcoming thriller - inspired by the true story of a drug runner's plane crash in 1985 which led to a black bear eating a bag full of cocaine - is set to hit the big screen with a cast featuring the likes of Keri Russell and Margo Martindale. Universal has confirmed the film - also starring Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Universal Pictures will release the new film “Cocaine Bear” on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 in theaters wide, the studio announced on Monday.Wild as it may seem, the film is inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it.
Elizabeth Banks’ next directorial Cocaine Bear will be hitting theaters on Feb. 24, 2023.
Donald Trump in the United States. Suddenly, nativist lurches in democracies weren't so niche.“I just had to be relentless in pushing it. And I’m glad I did, because, actually, it reveals a lot about the country when it came out,” said the English actor, writer and activist.“Ridley Road,” a four-part series that makes its U.S.