ACTION SATURDAY: NEW POSTERS AND TRAILERS FOR 'KING OF THIEVES' WITH MICHAEL CAINE, JIM BROADBENT, MICHAELGAMBON, RAY WINSTONE, 'LAST MAN' WITH HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, HARVEY KEITEL

  'THE KING OF THIEVES' TRAILER

 MICHAEL CAINE,JIM BROADBENT LEAD THE CAST OF THESPIANS

Action Saturday today, people, beginning with a new poster and trailer for THE KING OF THIEVES in which acting legends Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay play a

Kings of Thieves starts robbing cinemas this September

crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewellery district. In the true story of the unbelievable Hatton Garden heist they are also joined by Charlie Cox and Francesca Annis!

  'THE LAST MAN' TRAILER

STARRING HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

The movie is out next week in Argentina

AND HARVEY KEITEL

There are also two new posters and a trailer for science fiction action drama THE LAST MAN, previously also known under a very weird title Numb at the Edge of the End,  which should hit cinemas sometime this year starring an unusual pair Hayden Christensen and Harvey Keitel!

Hayden Christensen plays the lead role

IN THE LAST MAN

Hayden Christensen plays an army veteran with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) who perceives that the end of the world is coming. After establishing a relationship with a dubious Messiah, played by Harvey Keitel, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens. The film is out in Argentina next week, since it is a coproduction between Argentina and Canada.

ACTING LEGENDS TUESDAY: RUSSELL TOVEY, LAURIE DAVIDSON JOIN HELEN MIRREN, IAN MCKELLEN IN 'GOOD LIAR'! PENELOPE WILTON JOINS SALLY HAWKINS, DAVID THEWLIS IN 'ETERNAL BEAUTY'! 'KING OF THIEVES' TRAILER WITH MICHAEL CAINE, JIM BROADBENT, MICHAEL GAMBON, TOM COURTENAY!

  'THE GOOD LIAR'

LAURIE DAVIDSON, RUSSELL TOVEY JOIN HELEN MIRREN AND  IAN MCKELLEN IN THE CAST

Russell Tovey has just joined the cast!

What a sensational cast indeed! I've already told you before that British acting legends Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen will star together in Bill Condon's movie THE GOOD LIAR and now they're joined in it by two of our most beloved hunks and sweetest creatures Russell Tovey and Will's Laurie Davidson in the cast which also has another acting legend Downton Abbey's Jim Carter!

THE STORY OF THE GOOD LIAR 

You know Laurie Davidson from Will epic TV series

sees Ian McKellen playing career con artist Roy
Courtnay who can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish (played by Helen Mirren) online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.This will, if I am not mistaken, be the fourth time Beauty and the Beast's Bill Condon directs Ian McKellen on the big screens!

  'ETERNAL BEAUTY'

 PENELOPE WILTON JOINS SALLY HAWKINS AND DAVID THEWLIS

Penelope Wilton has joined the cast

Meanwhile, a slate of amazing British actors has been added to another possibly lovely movie ETERNAL BEAUTY which will be toplined by Sally Hawkins! She has just been joined in the cast by Penelope Wilton, David Thewlis and Billie Piper. The film will see Oscar nominee Hawkins playing a woman who, after being left at the altar, had a breakdown and has spiralled into a chaotic episode of schizophrenia lasting 20 years in which love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide. Things change when she begins a darkly comic romance with Mike (Thewlis), a failed musician and fellow lost soul.

  'THE KING OF THIEVES' TRAILER

 MICHAEL CAINE,JIM BROADBENT LEAD THE CAST OF THESPIANS

King of Thieves arrives into cinemas this September

To top the day of amazing thespians, check out the first trailer for THE KING OF THIEVES crime comedy drama in which acting legends Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay play a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewellery district. In the true story of the unbelievable true story of the Hatton Garden heist they are also joined by Charlie Cox, Francesca Annis!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BBC'S PERIOD SET 'LITTLE WOMEN' MINI SERIES AIRING THIS CHRISTMAS WITH EMILY WATSON, MICHAEL GAMBON, JULIAN MORRIS, ANGELA LANSBURY! TRAILER AND PHOTOS!

  'LITTLE WOMEN'

NEW BBC'S MINI SERIES

A treat for you today from BBC - first trailer for their small screen adaptation of LITTLE WOMEN which will air in three episodes 26th, 27th and 28th December during Christmas holidays!

The spy's verdict after seeing the series: watchable, but mostly uninspired with lack of any original spark and mostly weak performances from the young female cast. The unique and cheerful music is what saves it from being a fully mediocre affair.

THE STORY OF LITTLE WOMEN
based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel, is set in 1862 against the backdrop of a country divided, and follows the four March sisters: Meg (Willa Fitzgerald),

The series will hit the small screens on PBS in USA sometime next May

Jo (Maya Hawke), Beth (Annes Elwy), and Amy (Kathryn Newton) on their journey from childhood to adulthood while their father (Dylan Baker)

The new mini series will air in three evenings over Christmas holidays

is away at war. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee (Emily Watson), the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender

Julian Morris plays Laurie's tutor in the new version of Little Women

roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss and marriage. Accompanied by the charming boy next door Laurie Laurence (Jonah Hauer-King), their

The series comes from Call the Midwife creator

cantankerous wealthy Aunt March (Angela Lansbury) and benevolent neighbour Mr. Laurence (Michael Gambon), LITTLE WOMEN is a coming-

Ethan's daughter Maya Hawke is Jo in the series

of-age story that is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868. Alongside Laurie is his young tutor John Brooke, played by Julian Morris!

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON STEPHEN FREARS 19TH CENTURY DRAMA 'VICTORIA AND ABDUL' WITH JUDI DENCH AND ALI FAZAL

'VICTORIA AND ABDUL'

JUDI DENCH RULES BRITAIN AGAIN

The movie bows in cinemas this September

Yesterday we had Leopold II of Belgium, and today here's another shamelessly ruthless tyrant that hoarded undeserved wealth by exploiting and enslaving the brutally oppressed people in the humiliated colonies. British queen Victoria in VICTORIA AND ABDUL, a new period set drama coming from director Stephen Frears (Queen, Philomena, Dangerous Liaisons) with Dame Judi Dench playing the queen for the second time, twenty years after she played the greedy monarch in Mrs. Brown. The movie should arrive in theatres around Europe, Australia and America mid September.

A MOST UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP
The movie tells the extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s long rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s

Judi Dench is actually much older than Victoria was when she died

Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another

Dench also played queen Elizabeth on the big screens

that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes!

HUNDREDS OF COSTUMES

The movie was shot in Scotland and England

Bollywood actor, whom you've seen in Furious 7, Ali Fazal takes the second lead role alongside Dame Judi, as the Indian clerk Abdul. Eddie Izzard joins the cast as Bertie, Prince of Wales who disapproved of the relationship and tried to drive Karim out of the Royal Household. Also joining the cast are Tim Pigott Smith as Sir Henry Ponsonby (it was his last role), Michael Gambon as Lord Salisbury, Olivia Williams as Baroness Churchill and others. Oscar nominee, costume designer Consolata Boyle had prepared more than 600 colourful costumes for Abdul, out of which only the best ones were chosen for the actual shooting to depict

Frears and Dench already worked together on Philomena

the fashion of the 19th century, while Victoria's wardrobe was even more numerous in items and richness. It took many months for the costumes to be prepared. When Abdul, after studying the etiquette for many months, arrived to English court, because the snobbish monarch

The movie was based on Shrabani Basu's book

was curious about her subjects in India as one might be about some exotic pets, he was actually made to kiss her feet, but later on he became her official clerk and trusted confidante. 

BBC CASTS BILL NIGHY, MATTHEW GOODE, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, ED WESTWICK IN AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE', ANGELA LANSBURY, EMILY WATSON, MICHAEL GAMBON FOR 'LITTLE WOMEN' MINI SERIES

'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' 

 BBC SETS STELLAR CAST FOR NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES

'Poldark' star Eleanor Tomlinson

While we're waiting to watch Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express movie with Judi Dench, BBC One will again grace us with some Agatha Christie this Christmas! After the huge success of And Then There Were None in 2015 and the absolute flop of the ghastly horrid and painfully unwatchable Witness for the Prosecution last year, they are now doing ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE which was published back in 1958, and the cast has been announced as well! It will include Bill Nighy and Catherine Keener in the lead roles, joined by Matthew

Matthew Good is no stranger to period set drama

Goode, Eleanor Tomlinson, Anthony Boyle, Ed Westwick, Luke Treadaway, and Alice Eve.

Christmas 1954. Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point.Her adopted son Jack Argyll, a young delinquent, is arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence. Eighteen months later, Dr Arthur Calgary, a scientist, walks onto the velvety lawns of Sunny Point claiming to have just returned from an expedition to the Arctic. Even more extraordinary is his claim to hold the alibi that can prove Jack’s innocence. But Jack died in prison before

Ed Westwick and  Alice Eve

the case could come to trial, and the Argyll family is reluctant to dig up the secrets of the past. Rachel’s widower Leo is about to remarry his secretary Gwenda and none of Rachel’s other adopted children Mary, Mickey, Tina or Hester, nor long standing housekeeper Kirsten, is

Anthony Boyle and Luke Treadaway

willing to reopen that most horrendous chapter of their lives. However, the shattering implications of Calgary’s story are too big to avoid; if he is telling the truth then the wrong person was arrested for Rachel’s murder. And if Jack was not the killer, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point.

'LITTLE WOMEN' BBC SERIES

ANGELA LANSBURY AND EMILY WATSON TO LEAD THE CAST

BBC's been busy today, also revealing the cast for another of their upcoming three part mini series, a new small screen adaptation of

Emily Watson will be the matriarch

Louisa May Alcott’s LITTLE WOMEN which will also air on PBS! Angela Lansbury has been cast as Aunt March, Emily Watson as Marmee, the matriarch of March family, and Michael Gambon as benevolent neighbour Mr Laurence. The March sisters will be played by Maya Hawke as willful and adventurous Jo; Willa Fitzgerald as eldest daughter Meg; Annes Elwy as Beth; and Kathryn Newton as youngest sister Amy. Jonah Hauer King will play Laurie Laurence, the charming boy next door.

Willa Fitzgerald, Annes Elwy and Jonah Hauer King

LITTLE WOMEN are set against the backdrop of the Civil War, and the story follows the four sisters on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother Marmee, while their father is away at war, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss and marriage.

GORGEOUS TRAILER FOR PERIOD SET 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' MOVIE WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, MANISH DAYAL, MICHAEL GAMBON, GILLIAN ANDERSON

'VICEROY'S HOUSE' TRAILER

STARRING HUGH BONNEVILLE AND MANISH DAYAL

We've been waiting for this one a very long time indeed: gorgeous first trailer and poster have been released for period set drama VICEROY'S HOUSE out in UK this March (marking the 70 years since India has gained its independence from bloody and ruthless British enslavement) with Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten and Gillian Anderson as Lady Mountbatten (with the most horridly fake British accent) and Lily Travers, Michael Gambon, Simon Callow and our most beloved Manish Dayal (100 Foot Journey) rounding up the cast!

THE END OF THE DARK RULE
Story is set in Viceroy’s House in Delhi, the home of British invaders and exploiters of India. After 300 years, that dark rule is coming to an end and for six months in 1947 Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. The story unfolds within this great house where the Mountbattens lived upstairs and downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite converged on the house to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted.