"If you want to honor your friend, Bernie... You've spent 70 years loving me. We have never wasted one second of our time together." Pathe has revealed a trailer for a British dramedy titled The Great Escaper, based on a true story from a few years ago. The feel-good film will open in UK cinemas this fall, but there's still no US release date set yet. In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan staged a "great escape" from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, France, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary. The legendary Michael Caine stars as Bernie, which is pretty much perfect casting. Bernie's adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene – The Great Escaper celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation.
- 7/25/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jon Snow may know nothing, but to us, he's everything. Thirty-two-year-old English actor Kit Harington has portrayed the incredibly sexy Lord Commander of the Watch on Game of Thrones for almost a decade now, and it's difficult to imagine him doing anything other than guarding the Wall and battling White Walkers. But as the premiere of GoT's season eight approaches, we must acknowledge that Jon Snow's watch will soon end. So what exactly is next for Harington?
As heartbroken as we are about losing the Lord Commander, Harington himself is ready to ditch his furs and sword to take on new roles. "I'd like to step away and enjoy the obscurity, cut my hair, make myself less recognizable as the character, and go and do some other things with a completely new look and tone," Harington told Entertainment Weekly. He added, "I can't go into my next role looking the same.
As heartbroken as we are about losing the Lord Commander, Harington himself is ready to ditch his furs and sword to take on new roles. "I'd like to step away and enjoy the obscurity, cut my hair, make myself less recognizable as the character, and go and do some other things with a completely new look and tone," Harington told Entertainment Weekly. He added, "I can't go into my next role looking the same.
- 2/25/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Is there a hit from the past decade more widely imitated than “Homeland”? Perhaps that’s because the spy serial’s action-packed appeal seems easily replicable, even without a character as indelible as Carrie Mathison. Building relatable characters is hard, but ratcheting up tension is easy. Right?
Epix’s new series “Deep State” creates tense situations that don’t quite hit home — because, artfully directed and grimace-inducingly violent as those situations may be, they’re happening to people from whom we feel a strange remove. On “Deep State,” Mark Strong’s Max Easton is called back into the field as an MI6 agent to course-correct a failing mission in the Middle East. In so doing, he’s called away from his bucolic family life in France — including a wife who knows less than she might and who takes it upon herself to learn what her husband’s been up to.
Epix’s new series “Deep State” creates tense situations that don’t quite hit home — because, artfully directed and grimace-inducingly violent as those situations may be, they’re happening to people from whom we feel a strange remove. On “Deep State,” Mark Strong’s Max Easton is called back into the field as an MI6 agent to course-correct a failing mission in the Middle East. In so doing, he’s called away from his bucolic family life in France — including a wife who knows less than she might and who takes it upon herself to learn what her husband’s been up to.
- 6/13/2018
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Recently, CBS served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Elementary" episode 4 of season 4. The episode is entitled, "All My Exes Live in Essex," and it turns out that we're going to see some pretty interesting stuff take place as the murder of a fertility lab tech, prompts Holmes and Watson to investigate, and more. In the new, 4th episode press release: Holmes And Watson Investigate The Murder Of A Fertility Lab Technician Who They Discover Had A Secret Life, On "Elementary," Thursday, Nov. 26. Press release number 2: When Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of a fertility lab technician, they are going to discover the woman had a secret personal life that leads them to multiple suspects. Also, the tables will get turned on Watson when she's investigated by an NYPD detective. Guest stars feature: Gabriel Olds (Mark Lawton), Robert Manning, Jr. (Dr. Branford Fisher), Jenn Colella...
- 11/19/2015
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
A sequel to 1994's equally uninspired "The Swan Princess", Legacy Releasing's "The Swan Princess: Escape From Castle Mountain," is bland family fare.
Helmed by former Disney director Richard Rich ("The Fox and the Hound"), the further adventures of Prince Derek and Princess Odette are a royal bore, offering up flat, cheaply produced animation and similarly dull characterizations.
Loosely based on the German fable that inspired "Swan Lake", "Swan Princess" is again set in an enchanted kingdom inhabited by the prince (voice of Douglas Sills) and princess (Michelle Nicastro); the cantankerous Queen Uberta (Christy Landers); Jean-Bob Donald Sage Mackay), a French frog claiming to be a cursed prince; Speed the Turtle (Doug Stone); and the imaginatively named Puffin (Steve Vinovich).
Their reasonably idyllic existence is interrupted by the evil Clavius (Jake Williamson), who, coveting a magic orb hidden deep within the castle, disguises himself as a clown and kidnaps the queen for ransom on her 50th birthday.
Given the high standards set by Rich's former company, this is below-par stuff. While the original "Swan Princess" at least boasted some colorful voice work from the likes of Jack Palance, John Cleese and Steven Wright, the sequel is strictly a no-name affair, and although the cast is earnest, their work is unremarkable.
Likewise, the picture's forgettable songs and limited, throwback Saturday morning cartoon-level animation -- the shaky kind where one character is motionless while the other talks -- comprise the sort of production values that make other pale imitations lively by comparison.
THE SWAN PRINCESS: ESCAPE FROM CASTLE MOUNTAIN
Legacy Releasing
Nest Entertainment,
Seldon O. Young, Jared F. Brown
and K. Douglas Martin present
a Rich Animation Studios production
A Richard Rich film
Director Richard Rich
Producers Richard Rich, Jared F. Brown
Executive producers Seldon O. Young,
Jared F. Brown, K. Douglas Martin
Screenwriter Brian Nissen
Story Richard Rich, Brian Nissen
Original score Lex de Azevedo
Songs Lex De Azevedo, Clive Romney
Color/stereo
Voices:
Odette Michelle Nicastro
Derek Douglas Sills
Clavius Jake Williamson
Uberta :Christy Landers
Jean-Bob Donald Sage MacKay
Speed Doug Stone
Puffin Steve Vinovich
Knuckles Joey Camen
Running time -- 75 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
Helmed by former Disney director Richard Rich ("The Fox and the Hound"), the further adventures of Prince Derek and Princess Odette are a royal bore, offering up flat, cheaply produced animation and similarly dull characterizations.
Loosely based on the German fable that inspired "Swan Lake", "Swan Princess" is again set in an enchanted kingdom inhabited by the prince (voice of Douglas Sills) and princess (Michelle Nicastro); the cantankerous Queen Uberta (Christy Landers); Jean-Bob Donald Sage Mackay), a French frog claiming to be a cursed prince; Speed the Turtle (Doug Stone); and the imaginatively named Puffin (Steve Vinovich).
Their reasonably idyllic existence is interrupted by the evil Clavius (Jake Williamson), who, coveting a magic orb hidden deep within the castle, disguises himself as a clown and kidnaps the queen for ransom on her 50th birthday.
Given the high standards set by Rich's former company, this is below-par stuff. While the original "Swan Princess" at least boasted some colorful voice work from the likes of Jack Palance, John Cleese and Steven Wright, the sequel is strictly a no-name affair, and although the cast is earnest, their work is unremarkable.
Likewise, the picture's forgettable songs and limited, throwback Saturday morning cartoon-level animation -- the shaky kind where one character is motionless while the other talks -- comprise the sort of production values that make other pale imitations lively by comparison.
THE SWAN PRINCESS: ESCAPE FROM CASTLE MOUNTAIN
Legacy Releasing
Nest Entertainment,
Seldon O. Young, Jared F. Brown
and K. Douglas Martin present
a Rich Animation Studios production
A Richard Rich film
Director Richard Rich
Producers Richard Rich, Jared F. Brown
Executive producers Seldon O. Young,
Jared F. Brown, K. Douglas Martin
Screenwriter Brian Nissen
Story Richard Rich, Brian Nissen
Original score Lex de Azevedo
Songs Lex De Azevedo, Clive Romney
Color/stereo
Voices:
Odette Michelle Nicastro
Derek Douglas Sills
Clavius Jake Williamson
Uberta :Christy Landers
Jean-Bob Donald Sage MacKay
Speed Doug Stone
Puffin Steve Vinovich
Knuckles Joey Camen
Running time -- 75 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 7/21/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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