To celebrate the release of Ivor the Engine: The Complete Collection on DVD and Blu-ray from 20th November, we’re giving away a Blu-Ray Complete Collection!
The end of the 1950s found Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin feeling their way into a new and challenging world of stop-frame animation. Their first collaboration as Smallfilms brought us the utterly charming six-part story of how Ivor the Engine got the chance to fulfil his dream of singing in the choir of the Grumbly and District Choral Society.
Now, for the first time, all the series have been lovingly remastered and brought together in one definitive collection. Voiced, along with Postgate, by David Edwards, Olwen Griffiths and Anthony Jackson and accompanied by the beautifully evocative bassoon music of Vernon Elliott, we bring you Ivor the Engine. Peep-peep!
Ivor the Engine is the story of a (sometimes disobedient) small green locomotive who works...
The end of the 1950s found Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin feeling their way into a new and challenging world of stop-frame animation. Their first collaboration as Smallfilms brought us the utterly charming six-part story of how Ivor the Engine got the chance to fulfil his dream of singing in the choir of the Grumbly and District Choral Society.
Now, for the first time, all the series have been lovingly remastered and brought together in one definitive collection. Voiced, along with Postgate, by David Edwards, Olwen Griffiths and Anthony Jackson and accompanied by the beautifully evocative bassoon music of Vernon Elliott, we bring you Ivor the Engine. Peep-peep!
Ivor the Engine is the story of a (sometimes disobedient) small green locomotive who works...
- 10/30/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Chase Bloomquist, Joseph Camilleri, Ana Isabel Rosso, Chelsea Evered, Michael Jarrod, Tony Jackson, Keely Dervin | Written by Rene Perez, Leia Perez | Directed by Rene Perez
Writer, director and musician Rene Perez has carved out a career in the mainstream as a genre filmmaker whose sensibilities air on the side of “guns, gore and boobs” – his films don’t shy away from the violence, nudity and plenty of blood and guts. He found success with genre fans with the Playing With Dolls films and then hit more of the mainstream with Death Kiss – the Death Wish homage that starred Charles Bronson lookalike Robert Bronzi. However, Perez has also focused on films that have heavy Christian/right-wing leanings but still throw in plenty of violence etc. unlike the stereotypical “preachy” nature of typical Christian movies; films like the recently released The Legend of Hawes, which mixed faith-based filmmaking with Texas Chainsaw Massacre style backwoods horror.
Writer, director and musician Rene Perez has carved out a career in the mainstream as a genre filmmaker whose sensibilities air on the side of “guns, gore and boobs” – his films don’t shy away from the violence, nudity and plenty of blood and guts. He found success with genre fans with the Playing With Dolls films and then hit more of the mainstream with Death Kiss – the Death Wish homage that starred Charles Bronson lookalike Robert Bronzi. However, Perez has also focused on films that have heavy Christian/right-wing leanings but still throw in plenty of violence etc. unlike the stereotypical “preachy” nature of typical Christian movies; films like the recently released The Legend of Hawes, which mixed faith-based filmmaking with Texas Chainsaw Massacre style backwoods horror.
- 1/16/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Emily Whitcomb, Mike Markoff, Richard Tyson, Karin Brauns, Tony Jackson | Written by Rene Perez, Kent Hill | Directed by Rene Perez
Writer/director Rene Perez (Playing With Dolls) is back with horror western The Legend of Hawes, which tells the story of survivors of a ravenous marauder attack, marauders who we’re told, in the film opening tile card ravaged the land and wore the faces of their victims in battle. In their quest for revenge for the death of their father and husband, the two survivors, Harriet (Emily Whitcomb) and her sister-in-law Inger (Karin Braun), hire a pair of men to help track down the marauders – tracker Mr. Tyson (Richard Tyson) and the legendary gunman of the film’s title, Hawes (Mike Markoff). The thing is Hawes was also a victim of the marauders, killing his wife and family and leaving Hawes to turn to alcohol to numb the pain of his loss.
Writer/director Rene Perez (Playing With Dolls) is back with horror western The Legend of Hawes, which tells the story of survivors of a ravenous marauder attack, marauders who we’re told, in the film opening tile card ravaged the land and wore the faces of their victims in battle. In their quest for revenge for the death of their father and husband, the two survivors, Harriet (Emily Whitcomb) and her sister-in-law Inger (Karin Braun), hire a pair of men to help track down the marauders – tracker Mr. Tyson (Richard Tyson) and the legendary gunman of the film’s title, Hawes (Mike Markoff). The thing is Hawes was also a victim of the marauders, killing his wife and family and leaving Hawes to turn to alcohol to numb the pain of his loss.
- 11/9/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features bassist Darryl Jones.
Darryl Jones has been playing bass in the Rolling Stones since 1993, logging almost exactly as many years in the band as original bassist Bill Wyman did.
Darryl Jones has been playing bass in the Rolling Stones since 1993, logging almost exactly as many years in the band as original bassist Bill Wyman did.
- 10/12/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
By the dawn of the Seventies, the protest song was considered as much a relic of the previous decade as the word “groovy,” with notable exceptions like Edwin Starr’s “War,” Neil Young’s “Ohio,” and Bob Dylan’s “George Jackson.” As Arlo Guthrie told Rolling Stone this summer, “The music business went from figuring out how they could make some money selling protest songs to realizing, ‘Well, they don’t really sell that well, so we’ll move on to something else.’ Which they did.”
But the sight of...
But the sight of...
- 10/9/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Robbie Shakespeare — reggae artist extraordinaire, prolific bassist, and in-demand producer alongside his longtime collaborator Sly Dunbar — admits he was “humbled” upon learning he made Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time.
“Number 17, that’s good,” Shakespeare says of his ranking, “compared to all the bass players in the world.” When asked where he’d put himself on the list, the Sly and Robbie hitmaker jokes, “Number two.”
For Shakespeare, great bass playing is all about “the style.” “Most bass players, like drummers, have a style,...
“Number 17, that’s good,” Shakespeare says of his ranking, “compared to all the bass players in the world.” When asked where he’d put himself on the list, the Sly and Robbie hitmaker jokes, “Number two.”
For Shakespeare, great bass playing is all about “the style.” “Most bass players, like drummers, have a style,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In February of 2012, Legendary Pictures pulled the plug on Paradise Lost. It was to be a loose adaptation of John Milton's 17th century poem. Director Alex Proyas ("The Crow") had planned to use the most advanced 3D and motion capture technology to bring the biblical saga to life, but in the end budget concerns were too much to overcome. Legendary, tried numerous times to rework the numbers to get it below $120 million, but it was too daunting a task. At the heart of the issue, was the enormous amount of visual effects that were required for the celestial battles, that involved massive aerial warfare. It would've featured an all-star cast: Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, Benjamin Walker as the archangel Michael, Casey Affleck as Gabriel, Diego Boneta as Adam, Camilla Belle as Eve and Dijmon Hounsou as Abdiel, the Angel of Death. Storyboards by Michael Anthony Jackson Official Synopsis: Lucifer and Michael,...
- 12/20/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
Ben Stiller has replaced Russell Brand in the Hollywood remake of British children's TV series Rentaghost.
The Night at the Museum star will play the boss of a company which hires out ghosts.
The original series, which ran from the mid-1970s to 1984, featured British actors Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Anthony Jackson and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Michael Darbyshire.
The Night at the Museum star will play the boss of a company which hires out ghosts.
The original series, which ran from the mid-1970s to 1984, featured British actors Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Anthony Jackson and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Michael Darbyshire.
- 10/13/2011
- WENN
Ben Stiller will star in Rentaghost, based on the British comedy series about a temp agency for the dead, for Fox. Variety reports that Fox is in negotiations to acquire rights to the comedy, which had been in development at Warner Bros. with Russell Brand toplining. Fox has tapped the Night at the Museum team of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant to pen the script. The original BBC series, created by Bob Block, ran for 58 episodes between 1976 and 1984 and centered on the recently-deceased Fred Mumford being determined to be more productive in the afterlife than he was during his 27-year existence. Mumford established RentaGhost -- renting out ghouls, ghosts and other specters -- to the living but things do not go according to plan. Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Michael Darbyshire and Anthony Jackson starred in the TV series.
- 10/12/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
Russell Brand will star in Warner Bros.' adaptation of the BBC children's television comedy show "RentaGhost."According to Variety, Langley Park.s Kevin McCormick is producing along with BermanBraun's Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. Brand will receive an executive producing credit. The original show was created by Bob Block and ran for 58 episodes between January of 1976 and June of 1984.The premise centered on the recently-deceased loser Fred Mumford being determined to be more productive in the afterlife than he was during his 27 years with the living. He establishes the temp agency for the dead, RentaGhost, renting out ghosts to the living.Anthony Jackson, Edward Brayshaw, Michael Darbyshire and Michael Staniforth starred in the TV series. Brand stars in Warners' upcoming...
- 12/10/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
It would seem that these days, there’s nothing Russell Brand won’t consider remaking. He’s already set to hit our screens in Arthur, and now he’s taking aim at another, not-quite-so-high-profile comedy classic: Rentaghost.Yes, really. The 80s children's TV show that many of you will recall, some even fondly, about the agency for oddball spooks, ghouls, witches and other supernatural types, really is becoming a film for Warner Bros.Brand is planning to star and act as executive producer on the film remake, though exactly what role he’s taking is not yet clear. Deadline says he’ll be Fred Mumford (as played by Anthony Jackson in the show), the man behind the temp agency. Yet surely he’d be a better fit for wacky Jester Timothy Claypole?Rentaghost ran for nine series between 1976 and 1984 (you can get the first series on DVD if you’re...
- 12/9/2010
- EmpireOnline
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