Edinburgh Film Festival will air the film this June
New posters for two delightful new movies! We still don't have a trailer for DEAD IN A WEEK: OR YOUR MONEY BACK, but here's a delightful poster for it featuring its two lead stars Tom Wilkinson and Aneurin Barnard.
The comedy, out October, sees Barnard playing a young man who, after
his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, outsources his suicide
to an ageing assassin played by legendary Tom Wilkinson, because "If
you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"! This crazy
comedy from Tom Edmunds also stars Christopher Eccleston and Freya
Mavor.
'LADIES IN BLACK'
JULIA ORMOND & VINCENT PEREZ
The film is based on Madeleine St John novel
There is also a trailer and a poster for Australian comedy, and they do have the best of films, LADIES IN BLACK set in Sydney in the summer of 1959, against the backdrop of Australia's cultural awakening, breakdown of class structures, and liberation of women. Starring Rachael Taylor, Julia Ormond, Vincent Perez, Ryan Corr, it tells the coming of age story of suburban schoolgirl Lisa, who while waiting for her final high school exam results with dreams of going to the University of Sydney, takes a summer job at a large department store. Here she works side-by-side with a group of saleswomen who open her eyes to a world beyond her sheltered existence, and foster her metamorphosis.
Just three days before the start of the official airing, BBC One has finally released a trailer for their new period set drama HOWARDS END which starts airing this Sunday in four episodes, with Starz broadcasting the story of two couples caught in a swirling landscape of social and class divisions in turn of the century England sometime next year for the audience in USA.
THE STORY OF HOWARDS END
based on E.M. Forster's classic novel, focuses on Margaret Schlegel (Hayley Atwell), an intelligent, idealistic, bohemian young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen), a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies
Matthew MacFadyen is Henry Wilcox in the series
unexpectedly! Meanwhile, Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen
Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast
Hayley Atwell is Margaret Schlegel
(Joseph Quinn), a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with
his partner Jacky (Rosalind Eleazar). In the absence of their
Lovely Joseph Quinn is Leonard Bast
parents, who have died, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracey Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.
Julia Ormond appears only in the first two episodes as Mrs Wilcox
WHAT DID THE SPY THINK?
The first episode is visually enchanting, story intriguing, performances mostly well done, but the series turns into a ghastly monotonous snobbish gibberish fest filled with shallow existentialist dialogues as early as the second episode and then finishes as an ode to blatant golddiggers with not an ounce of sense whatsoever.
