"He's an old man, I'll pay for his ticket!" Parkland Pictures has released the first trailer for The Last Bus, a film from the UK made by Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon. The film is about an elderly man named Tom whose wife has just passed away, and he decides to use only local buses on a nostalgic trip to carry her ashes all the way across the UK to Land's End, where they originally met, using his free bus pass. This is a story that, obviously, got the attention of everyone he met along the way and has been turned into a film. Timothy Spall stars as Tom, along with Phyllis Logan, Grace Calder, Celyn Jones, Brian Pettifer, Colin McCredie, Iain Robertson, and Marnie Baxter. It looks quite charming and very sweet, even though it's a simple story. Here's the official UK trailer (+ two posters) for Gillies ...
- 6/23/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Film won four prizes including the Golden Hitchcock Jury Grand Prize.
James Gardner’s Jellyfish scooped the top prizes at last night’s awards ceremony for the 29th edition of the Dinard Film Festival in France.
The film took the Golden Hitchcock: Jury Grand Prize, the Hitchcock for Best Screenplay, and a special ad hoc performance Hitchcock award for young star Liv Hill, all presented by jury president Monica Bellucci. It also won the inaugural Critics Hitchcock, awarded for the first time in 2019.
Writer-director Gardner’s debut feature Jellyfish follows a young carer who discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy.
James Gardner’s Jellyfish scooped the top prizes at last night’s awards ceremony for the 29th edition of the Dinard Film Festival in France.
The film took the Golden Hitchcock: Jury Grand Prize, the Hitchcock for Best Screenplay, and a special ad hoc performance Hitchcock award for young star Liv Hill, all presented by jury president Monica Bellucci. It also won the inaugural Critics Hitchcock, awarded for the first time in 2019.
Writer-director Gardner’s debut feature Jellyfish follows a young carer who discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy.
- 9/30/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Gemma Jones, Daniel Wolfe and Peter Mullan among guests to attend upcoming 11th Glasgow Film Festival.
Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has announced the next wave of guests set to attend its upcoming 11th edition, taking place Feb 18-March 1.
Veteran actors Gemma Jones and Richard Johnson will attend in support of Tom Browne’s debut Radiator which is nominated for the inaugural Audience Award, while Catch Me Daddy director Daniel Wolfe and the film’s stars Conor McCarron and Gary Lewis will also be in Glasgow.
Peter Mullan and Morvern Christie are both set to take part in masterclasses on editing and casting as part of the Behind the Scenes programme strand at this year’s festival.
The festival’s FrightFest guests include director April Mullen and writer Tom Doiron for 88, director Hans Herbot for The Treatment, director Russell Gomm for The Woods Movie and director Matt Winn for The Hoarder.
Other guests...
Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has announced the next wave of guests set to attend its upcoming 11th edition, taking place Feb 18-March 1.
Veteran actors Gemma Jones and Richard Johnson will attend in support of Tom Browne’s debut Radiator which is nominated for the inaugural Audience Award, while Catch Me Daddy director Daniel Wolfe and the film’s stars Conor McCarron and Gary Lewis will also be in Glasgow.
Peter Mullan and Morvern Christie are both set to take part in masterclasses on editing and casting as part of the Behind the Scenes programme strand at this year’s festival.
The festival’s FrightFest guests include director April Mullen and writer Tom Doiron for 88, director Hans Herbot for The Treatment, director Russell Gomm for The Woods Movie and director Matt Winn for The Hoarder.
Other guests...
- 2/6/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Shetland: BBC One, 9pm
An old friend of Detective Jimmy Perez named Jerry Markham (Iain Robertson) returns to the island from London, where he works as an investigative journalist.
Mere hours after meeting with Perez for a drink, Markham is found dead inside his sports car, which is completely ruined. The death is put down to a tragic accident, but Perez suspects foul play and begins to investigate further.
Perez discovers that Markham was investigating plans for a new gas pipeline within the village, which has caused friction among the local residents.
Pramface: BBC Three, 9pm
Series three concludes tonight with a double bill, and Jamie is feeling suffocated by Isabel's clingy actions towards him. Laura also welcomes a new housemate.
In the second half of the double bill Laura decides to move on, and Jamie's doubts about his future with Isabel come to a head.
The Vampire Diaries...
An old friend of Detective Jimmy Perez named Jerry Markham (Iain Robertson) returns to the island from London, where he works as an investigative journalist.
Mere hours after meeting with Perez for a drink, Markham is found dead inside his sports car, which is completely ruined. The death is put down to a tragic accident, but Perez suspects foul play and begins to investigate further.
Perez discovers that Markham was investigating plans for a new gas pipeline within the village, which has caused friction among the local residents.
Pramface: BBC Three, 9pm
Series three concludes tonight with a double bill, and Jamie is feeling suffocated by Isabel's clingy actions towards him. Laura also welcomes a new housemate.
In the second half of the double bill Laura decides to move on, and Jamie's doubts about his future with Isabel come to a head.
The Vampire Diaries...
- 3/25/2014
- Digital Spy
Multi-award-winning trans-media production company beActive released ingenious cross-platform creation, Collider, on June 4. Collider centres around six people trapped in the future following the sabotage of the Cern Large Hadron Collider. The new sci-fi concept will be available in various formats, spanning comics (print and digital), live-action web-series, app/online game, graphic novel and eventually becoming a feature film, to be released in 2013. Six of eight weekly webisodes are available on beActive's YouTube channel and star BAFTA award-winning Scottish actor Iain Robertson of Rab C Nesbitt and Basic Instinct fame. The edge-of-your-seat action follows Iain's character, Peter Ansay, a quantum physicist who is ostracised by the scientific community after issuing warnings about the dangers of The Hadron Collider. Peter takes matters (more)...
- 7/23/2012
- by By Jay Seery
- Digital Spy
Collider is a new transmedia project that follows six people – one from 2012, one from 2014 and one from 2016 – who find themselves mysteriously transported to a post-apocalyptic future in a race against time to find a way to get back to the present, save mankind, and their own lives. Why is it called Collider? Well one of the three, from 2012, was a scientist on the large Hardon Collider…
Set to be a major motion picture which shoots in September, the story Collider actually starts this month with a web series, which is complemented by a series of comic books and a game/app – all of which tell different parts of the story.
Collider comes from beActive, including CEO Nuno Bernardo; Mike Garley, creator of the comic book and Iain Robertson (Rab C. Nesbitt, Band of Brothers), the BAFTA award winning Scottish actor and star of the webisodes. Below are the first two webisodes,...
Set to be a major motion picture which shoots in September, the story Collider actually starts this month with a web series, which is complemented by a series of comic books and a game/app – all of which tell different parts of the story.
Collider comes from beActive, including CEO Nuno Bernardo; Mike Garley, creator of the comic book and Iain Robertson (Rab C. Nesbitt, Band of Brothers), the BAFTA award winning Scottish actor and star of the webisodes. Below are the first two webisodes,...
- 6/9/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Acts Of Godfrey
Stars: Iain Robertson, Simon Callow, Harry Enfield, Doon Mackichan, Ian Burfield | Written and Directed by Johnny Daukes
If anything complicates life it’s people and fate. People are complicated individual and like to think they are in control of their fate. Acts of Godfrey takes a look at this and shows a different side of thing, where fate is in fact manipulated for events to happen and people are pushed into actions that others see the best of them, no matter if this is in fact the truth.
Vic Timms is an insurance man who is not good at this job, he should be pushing people into buying his product but he lacks belief in it. He has a cynical yet moralistic look on life that makes him appear in a perpetual bad move, life just does not work for him. At the start of the story...
Stars: Iain Robertson, Simon Callow, Harry Enfield, Doon Mackichan, Ian Burfield | Written and Directed by Johnny Daukes
If anything complicates life it’s people and fate. People are complicated individual and like to think they are in control of their fate. Acts of Godfrey takes a look at this and shows a different side of thing, where fate is in fact manipulated for events to happen and people are pushed into actions that others see the best of them, no matter if this is in fact the truth.
Vic Timms is an insurance man who is not good at this job, he should be pushing people into buying his product but he lacks belief in it. He has a cynical yet moralistic look on life that makes him appear in a perpetual bad move, life just does not work for him. At the start of the story...
- 5/11/2012
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
The Descendants (15)
(Alexander Payne, 2011, Us) George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Robert Forster. 115 mins
A sideways move from Sideways takes Payne on another tour of masculine crises, though this has mellowed and matured for longer. Family issues jolt Clooney out of his Hawaiian comfort zone. His wife's sudden coma puts him in charge of their two daughters, and brings their marriage into perspective, while his control of the ancestral estate adds to the burden. It's a well-rooted drama of great performances and big themes (and probably big awards).
Like Crazy (12A)
(Drake Doremus, 2011, Us) Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence. 90 mins
Young love sees no colour, but it must abide by visa regulations in this cross-Atlantic romantic saga, which tests a couple's endurance in an offbeat, indie style.
The Grey (15)
(Joe Carnahan, 2012, Us) Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo. 117 mins
Liam Neeson v wolves – seems like a good match.
(Alexander Payne, 2011, Us) George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Robert Forster. 115 mins
A sideways move from Sideways takes Payne on another tour of masculine crises, though this has mellowed and matured for longer. Family issues jolt Clooney out of his Hawaiian comfort zone. His wife's sudden coma puts him in charge of their two daughters, and brings their marriage into perspective, while his control of the ancestral estate adds to the burden. It's a well-rooted drama of great performances and big themes (and probably big awards).
Like Crazy (12A)
(Drake Doremus, 2011, Us) Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence. 90 mins
Young love sees no colour, but it must abide by visa regulations in this cross-Atlantic romantic saga, which tests a couple's endurance in an offbeat, indie style.
The Grey (15)
(Joe Carnahan, 2012, Us) Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo. 117 mins
Liam Neeson v wolves – seems like a good match.
- 1/28/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A brave but ultimately stagey British film set at a motivational seminar – and spoken almost entirely in rhyming verse
You have to admire the ingenuity of this low-budget British film written and directed by musician Johnny Daukes: it is spoken entirely in rhyming verse. Set almost all in one place – a hotel, where a too-nice salesman (Iain Robertson) has been sent on a motivational seminar – Daukes's film is certainly likable, but can't quite get round the static, stagey nature of the material. Much of the action is marooned in the seminar room and hotel restaurant as it flits between one supporting character and another, with narrator Simon Callow provides light relief of varying effectiveness. Things only properly kick off in a frantic farce-like finale; by then the laboriousness of the plotting has taken its toll.
Rating: 2/5
DramaAndrew Pulver
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
You have to admire the ingenuity of this low-budget British film written and directed by musician Johnny Daukes: it is spoken entirely in rhyming verse. Set almost all in one place – a hotel, where a too-nice salesman (Iain Robertson) has been sent on a motivational seminar – Daukes's film is certainly likable, but can't quite get round the static, stagey nature of the material. Much of the action is marooned in the seminar room and hotel restaurant as it flits between one supporting character and another, with narrator Simon Callow provides light relief of varying effectiveness. Things only properly kick off in a frantic farce-like finale; by then the laboriousness of the plotting has taken its toll.
Rating: 2/5
DramaAndrew Pulver
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
- 1/27/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Our content classification system is about to be reviewed to ensure it remains relevant in the digital age, allowing Australians to make informed content choices. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Just before Christmas, Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor announced they would ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to review the nation’s classification categories and, indeed, the entire classification system. O’Connor said it needs to be modernised to accommodate current and future technologies, and to allow people to make informed choices about their content consumption The last enquiry into classification laws took place in 1991.
Videogames that have received most of the attention, with some members of the community the introduction of an R18+ classification for violent games, as well as a review of the current MA15+ and Rc. More traditional screen content, however, is not free of controversy, with the occasional groups openly complaining about...
Just before Christmas, Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor announced they would ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to review the nation’s classification categories and, indeed, the entire classification system. O’Connor said it needs to be modernised to accommodate current and future technologies, and to allow people to make informed choices about their content consumption The last enquiry into classification laws took place in 1991.
Videogames that have received most of the attention, with some members of the community the introduction of an R18+ classification for violent games, as well as a review of the current MA15+ and Rc. More traditional screen content, however, is not free of controversy, with the occasional groups openly complaining about...
- 3/10/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
BMW is getting serious about catering to the electric vehicle market. For evidence, look no further than the car giant's new green-focused BMW i sub-brand, which will roll out a line of EVs starting in 2013.
The BMW i brand spawned from project i, a BMW think tank launched in 2007 to explore ways that the company could get involved in the growing sustainability sector. "The products and services have been conceived around a revolutionary approach: purpose designed and purpose built for sustainable, premium mobility," said Ian Robertson, member of the Board of Management of BMW Ag responsible for Sales and Marketing, in a statement. "BMW i offers visionary cars and services, inspiring design, and an entirely new concept of premium mobility--all with a focus on sustainability."
First up for BMW i: the urban-minded, four-seater BMW i3 (formerly known as the Megacity Vehicle), and the the BMW i8 sportscar, based on the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept vehicle.
The BMW i brand spawned from project i, a BMW think tank launched in 2007 to explore ways that the company could get involved in the growing sustainability sector. "The products and services have been conceived around a revolutionary approach: purpose designed and purpose built for sustainable, premium mobility," said Ian Robertson, member of the Board of Management of BMW Ag responsible for Sales and Marketing, in a statement. "BMW i offers visionary cars and services, inspiring design, and an entirely new concept of premium mobility--all with a focus on sustainability."
First up for BMW i: the urban-minded, four-seater BMW i3 (formerly known as the Megacity Vehicle), and the the BMW i8 sportscar, based on the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept vehicle.
- 2/23/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
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