Lush scenery and gorgeous photography highlight this bio of Princess Kaiulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess raised in England but determined to maintain her people’s independence from aggressive American businessmen.
Cast:
Q’Orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton, Shaun Evans, Jimmy Yuill, Julian Glover, Tamzin Merchant, Catherine Steadman, Kainoa Kilcher
Genre:
Biographies, Political Dramas, Pre-20th Century Period Pieces
8:00 PM |
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935) |
| A British aristocrat’s effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.Dir: Harold Young Cast: Leslie Howard , Merle Oberon , Raymond Massey .
BW-98 mins, TV-G, |
“Game of Thrones” Casts Key Season Three Characters
HBO has confirmed a number of casting additions to its hit “Game of Thrones“, chief among them being that Diana Rigg will be playing Olenna Tyrell, the fearsome figure known as the Queen of Thorns.
Rigg’s character will be revealed during the third season of the drama, set to premiere March 31, 2013 on HBO.
To anyone who familiar with the intricate faux-history of Westeros, either as it is unfurling in George R.R. Martin‘s novels or in HBO’s television adaptation, this is a tremendous casting coup — and only one among a long list of actors revealed during Friday’s “Game of Thrones” Comic-Con panel. Via a special casting video, the network also revealed that Mackenzie Crook, best known for his role in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, will be playing Orell, a wildling skinchanger and close ally of Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall and leader of the free folk.
Curiously enough, HBO has yet to reveal which actor has been cast as Mance.
Fans also learned that Thomas Brodie-Sangster will be playing the Crannogman greenseer Jojen Reed, with Ellie Kendrick as his warrior sister Meera Reed. Other casting announcements include:
- Richard Dormer as Beric Dondarrion, The Lightning Lord.
- Paul Kaye as Thoros of Myr.
- Kerry Ingram as Stannis Baratheon’s daughter Shireen.
- Clive Russell as Bryden Tully, aka “The Blackfish,” Catelyn’s uncle.
- Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei, who crosses paths with Daenerys.
In addition, the fansite WinterisComing.net reported a number of casting announcements confirmed, according to the site, via an e-mail from HBO. Among them the site named Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane, another ally of Mance Rayder’s, and Philip McGinley as Anguy, a friend of Dondarrion’s. Other actors mentioned include…
- Tara Fitzgerald as Selyse Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon’s wife .
- Anton Lesser as Qyburn, an important figure in King’s Landing.
- Tobias Menzies as Edmure Tully, Catelyn’s brother.
Posted by Melanie McFarland on 13 July 2012 4:01 PM, PDT
Once in a while a non-period drama film comes along that looks too interesting to be passed by on this site. The Life of PI seems to be one of those films. Watch this first official trailer, and you be the judge.
Coming November 21, 2012 | IMDB | Collider
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them “the truth.” After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional–but is it more true? [Amazon]
aka “Death by Cow” (LOL)
Poor Sean Bean. He must feel he gets no respect. He really is amazingly good at dying. LOL
00:07 – Don’t Say a Word
00:24 – Equilibrium
00:33 – Outlaw
00:39 – Airborne
00:43 – Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
00:51 – Essex Boys
00:57 – Ca$h
01:02 – Patriot Games
01:14 – Black Death
01:28 – Henry VIII
01:39 – Game of Thrones 01:45 – The Island
01:58? – Clarissa
02:03 – Caravaggio
02:08 – War Requiem
02:20 – The Field
02:41 – Lorna Doone
02:47 – Scarlett
02:56 – Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
03:14 – Goldeneye
03:30 – The Hitcher
First Official Images from CLOUD ATLAS Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, and Jim Broadbent
Opens October 26th | IMDB | more at Collider
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation — the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
Fantasy
Man of Steel
This time it’s Henry Cavill donning the big boots and American accent as Superman/Clark Kent in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, the first trailers.
Yep, that’s Kevin Costner’s voice. He’s playing Clark Kent’s adoptive father Jonathan.
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Here’s the same trailer again, this time with a voiceover from Russell Crowe, who takes the Marlon Brando role as Superman’s birth father Jor-El.
9:45 PM |
Berkeley Square (1933) |
| A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Dir: Frank Lloyd Cast: Leslie Howard , Heather Angel , Valerie Taylor . BW-88 mins, |