Highlander icon Christopher Lambert has opened up on the cult movie which catapulted him to stardom and his love for Scotland, where the film was shot and set.
08.03.2024 - 23:50 / deadline.com
Love never dies, but a lot of people do in Alice Lowe’s gloriously bloody valentine to the romantic comedy. Spanning so much time that it practically goes back to the beginning of it, Timestalker is an ambitious project that not only works, it coheres in a way that cements Lowe as a genuine and quite visionary comedic talent. It recalls classic Monty Python — it’s often very, very stupid and the same time very, very clever — but most of all it’s an idea of what might have been if that all-male team had ever had a woman or two in its core lineup.
Lowe set out her stall in 2016 with Prevenge, a horror comedy in which a bereaved pregnant woman is driven to avenge her late husband, incited to murder by her unborn baby. Timestalker doesn’t fall far from that tree, being another satirical comment on how male society views women as creatures ruled by hormones and emotion. But though its scope is bigger than Prevenge, Timestalker doesn’t have that much more money to play with — and, like the Pythons’ period films, it doesn’t try to persuade us that it has.
This deliberate disjunct between ambition and budget seals the deal here, and with a cast of recurring actors who play the same roles in different guises, it creates an enchanting, diffusely lit and willfully lo-fi dream world that speaks to the self-absorbed intimacy of its lead character’s headspace.
That woman would be Agnes (Lowe), who we first meet in 1688 as a Scottish weaver who has fallen for the charms of a heretic preacher (Aneurin Barnard, who also plays a host of other characters that reappear in Agnes’s life for the next few hundred years). After he’s arrested by the authorities, his execution is set to take place before an audience of ghoulish gawkers (“Did
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Stephen Saito As an actress, writer and director, Alice Lowe has never much cared if you like the characters she’s penned for herself. From the tourist who develops a taste for murder on her road trip with her boyfriend in Ben Wheatley’s “Sightseers” to a mother-to-be whose baby inspires far more violence than just kicking around in her belly in her own directorial debut, “Prevenge,” Lowe has sacrificed audience approval for the license to explore darker corners of the female experience.
Liam Gallagher and John Squire kicked off their joint UK and Ireland headline tour last night (March 13) – check out footage and see the full setlist below.The former Oasis frontman and ex-Stone Roses guitarist played an 11-song set at the legendary Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland where they showcased their collaborative debut album in full.Additionally, the pair and their backing band treated the crowd to a cover of The Rolling Stones‘ classic 1968 single ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ to round off the evening.
The Temptations and The Four Tops have concerts lined up at venues all over North America as part of their ongoing 2024 tour.That includes a handful of shows in New York and New Jersey.First up, the Motown legends will swing into Schenectady, NY’s Proctors Theatre on Thursday, April 25.After that, they’re slated to drop by Westbury, NY’s NYCB Theatre on April 28, Red Bank, NJ’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre on May 5, and Staten Island’s St. George Theatre on May 10.The co-headliners will close their Northeast run with back-to-back gigs at Collingswood, NJ’s Scottish Rite Auditorium on Saturday, May 11, and Sunday, May 12.If you want to catch the groups and their timeless hits live, tickets are available for all 24 upcoming concerts on their 2024 tour itinerary.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find was $42 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows have tickets going anywhere from $49 to $214 before fees.Still, it’s hard to put a price on a night where you’ll sing along to “My Girl,” “Baby I Need Your Loving” and so many more live with the groups that made them famous.Wondering how much tickets cost for the concert closest to you?Keep scrollin’, “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” fans.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about The Temptations and The Four Tops 2024 tour below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues, and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or
Liam Gallagher was in a jubilant mood following his new number one album as he met fans in Glasgow ahead of his Barrowland gig in the city.
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Ja Rule did in the wake of the Fyre Festival, he also felt “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray.”An actor hired to work at the recent, disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland feels his golden ticket was a scam.Paul Connell, who played the part of Wonka at “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” at the Box Hub Warehouse in Glasgow, said the viral event was an “absolute mess” and one of the “most embarrassing things” he’s ever seen, South West News Service reported.The calamity, which cost $45 a person, promised guests a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises” — but instead ended with kids in tears and furious parents.Guests arrived on Saturday, Feb. 24, to a “dirty,” near-empty warehouse — which Connell further described as a “health and safety nightmare” — with a printed AI background, a sad bouncy castle and lackluster props.There was also virtually no candy at the “Chocolate Experience,” and Connell said he was told to give kids one single jelly bean each and a quarter of a glass of lemonade upon arrival.Red-headed Connell admitted that an immediate “red flag” came when he was asked to portray Willy Wonka, rather than an Oompa Loompa — which he felt he better resembled.“The first red flag for me was when I was cast as Willy Wonka.
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