Exclusive: Sky Studios and Dbk Studios are partnering on a five-part short film series that will spotlight the UK’s emerging black and diverse talent, with filmmakers including an assistant on Rapman’s Blue Story and the lead actress from E4’s Russel T Davies show Banana.
The producers said Unearthed Narratives will share a common theme of hard-hitting yet relatable stories, set across different generations and on a wide range of subjects: care work, sickle cell anaemia, social media culture, ‘middle-class hobbies’ in the black community, racism in 1950’s England, and the culture within London housing estates.
The filmmakers, who were mentored through production, are: Edem Wornoo, a well-established music video director who has worked on Dave’s Black and most recently Clash (ft. Stormzy); Charlene Wango who worked assisting Rapman while he directed his debut feature Blue Story with Paramount Pictures and BBC Films; Teniola Zara King who...
The producers said Unearthed Narratives will share a common theme of hard-hitting yet relatable stories, set across different generations and on a wide range of subjects: care work, sickle cell anaemia, social media culture, ‘middle-class hobbies’ in the black community, racism in 1950’s England, and the culture within London housing estates.
The filmmakers, who were mentored through production, are: Edem Wornoo, a well-established music video director who has worked on Dave’s Black and most recently Clash (ft. Stormzy); Charlene Wango who worked assisting Rapman while he directed his debut feature Blue Story with Paramount Pictures and BBC Films; Teniola Zara King who...
- 10/13/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Young love flourishes at a house party in Eighties London in the new trailer for Lovers Rock, the second film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, premiering November 27th on Amazon Prime Video.
The clip doesn’t offer much in the way of specific plot points but features a quick montage of party preparations, unexpected connections and confrontations, a little bit of religious guilt, and plenty of music. Per a press release, Lovers Rock, is “an ode to the romantic reggae genre called ‘Lovers Rock’ and to the black...
The clip doesn’t offer much in the way of specific plot points but features a quick montage of party preparations, unexpected connections and confrontations, a little bit of religious guilt, and plenty of music. Per a press release, Lovers Rock, is “an ode to the romantic reggae genre called ‘Lovers Rock’ and to the black...
- 11/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe’
Made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1973 song ‘Small Axe’, that’s the traditional proverb behind the title for a five-film series by Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen.
Two of McQueen’s Small Axe films were selected for this year’s Cannes Film Festival and in October, one opened the 64th London Film Festival. Now, all five are coming straight to BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, and Amazon Prime Video around the world. The home release has nothing to do with the pandemic; it was always the plan for these feature-length films with a cast including Star Wars’ John Boyega and Black Panther’s Letitia Wright, to air for a mainstream audience on prime time UK television.
11 years in the making, the five films were funded by BBC Studios and made to celebrate key figures in...
Made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1973 song ‘Small Axe’, that’s the traditional proverb behind the title for a five-film series by Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen.
Two of McQueen’s Small Axe films were selected for this year’s Cannes Film Festival and in October, one opened the 64th London Film Festival. Now, all five are coming straight to BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, and Amazon Prime Video around the world. The home release has nothing to do with the pandemic; it was always the plan for these feature-length films with a cast including Star Wars’ John Boyega and Black Panther’s Letitia Wright, to air for a mainstream audience on prime time UK television.
11 years in the making, the five films were funded by BBC Studios and made to celebrate key figures in...
- 11/10/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut “The Human Voice” and British artist Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” have been added to the British Film Institute London Film Festival.
Almodovar’s short, loosely based on Jean Cocteau’s play, presents a woman on the edge portrayed by Tilda Swinton, who is waiting for her lover to call. It will play in the festival’s shorts program, and screen at BFI Southbank on Oct. 17, accompanied by a pre-recorded introduction and Q&a with Almodóvar and Swinton.
Meanwhile, the festival has added “Lovers Rock”to its ‘Love’ strand. It will screen Oct. 18. The film, alongside “Mangrove,” which opens the festival, is one of five films from “Small Axe” — a five-film anthology created by McQueen for BBC One and Amazon Prime Video.
Co-written by Courttia Newland and McQueen, “Lovers Rock” tells the fictional story of young love and music at a house party...
Almodovar’s short, loosely based on Jean Cocteau’s play, presents a woman on the edge portrayed by Tilda Swinton, who is waiting for her lover to call. It will play in the festival’s shorts program, and screen at BFI Southbank on Oct. 17, accompanied by a pre-recorded introduction and Q&a with Almodóvar and Swinton.
Meanwhile, the festival has added “Lovers Rock”to its ‘Love’ strand. It will screen Oct. 18. The film, alongside “Mangrove,” which opens the festival, is one of five films from “Small Axe” — a five-film anthology created by McQueen for BBC One and Amazon Prime Video.
Co-written by Courttia Newland and McQueen, “Lovers Rock” tells the fictional story of young love and music at a house party...
- 9/24/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express has announced that BFI Fellow Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ has been added to this year’s line-up.
Screening on Sunday 18th October across two screenings at BFI Southbank as part of the Lff’s Love strand, the film is an ode to the romantic reggae genre called “Lovers Rock” and to the young people who found freedom and love in its sound.
The film tells a fictional story of young love and music at a house party in 1980. Amarah-Jae St Aubyn makes her screen debut opposite the BAFTAs 2020 Rising Star Award recipient Micheal Ward (Blue Story). Shaniqua Okwok (Boys), Kedar Williams-Stirling (Sex Education), Ellis George (Dr Who), Alexander James-Blake (Top Boy) and Kadeem Ramsay (Blue Story) also star, as well as Francis Lovehall and Daniel Francis-Swaby who make their screen debuts.
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Screening on Sunday 18th October across two screenings at BFI Southbank as part of the Lff’s Love strand, the film is an ode to the romantic reggae genre called “Lovers Rock” and to the young people who found freedom and love in its sound.
The film tells a fictional story of young love and music at a house party in 1980. Amarah-Jae St Aubyn makes her screen debut opposite the BAFTAs 2020 Rising Star Award recipient Micheal Ward (Blue Story). Shaniqua Okwok (Boys), Kedar Williams-Stirling (Sex Education), Ellis George (Dr Who), Alexander James-Blake (Top Boy) and Kadeem Ramsay (Blue Story) also star, as well as Francis Lovehall and Daniel Francis-Swaby who make their screen debuts.
Also in news – Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù joins Olivia Colman,...
- 9/23/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Second of McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ series to play the event.
The BFI London Film Festival has added Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock to the programme which will run from October 7-18).
It forms part of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series; the festival opens with Mangrove, another film in the series.
Two screenings of Lover’s Rock will play at the BFI Southbank in London as part of the Love strand on the festival’s closing day, Sunday October 18.
The film tells the fictional story of young love and music at a house party in 1980. It stars newcomer Amarah-Jae...
The BFI London Film Festival has added Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock to the programme which will run from October 7-18).
It forms part of McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series; the festival opens with Mangrove, another film in the series.
Two screenings of Lover’s Rock will play at the BFI Southbank in London as part of the Love strand on the festival’s closing day, Sunday October 18.
The film tells the fictional story of young love and music at a house party in 1980. It stars newcomer Amarah-Jae...
- 9/23/2020
- ScreenDaily
With Lovers Rock, the first part of Steve McQueen’s forthcoming anthology Small Axe, having premiered at the 58th New York Film Festival, many have wondered how to classify this project. Well, the director gave a definitive answer. “These are five features,” McQueen said in his recent NYFF press conference.”In a perfect world, I would love people to see these films in the cinema, absolutely, but we are living in these times [with] TVs and how people can use this equipment in high quality ways. But there is nothing for me that can beat going to the cinema and viewing with a community of people.”
Now, Amazon Studios has solidified his intention by announcing the release plans for the Small Axe features, and rather than all arriving at once as has become the norm in this new age of streaming, they will rollout weekly beginning this November.
Deadline reports that on November 20, Mangrove,...
Now, Amazon Studios has solidified his intention by announcing the release plans for the Small Axe features, and rather than all arriving at once as has become the norm in this new age of streaming, they will rollout weekly beginning this November.
Deadline reports that on November 20, Mangrove,...
- 9/20/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Earlier in the week, the 2020 incarnation of the New York Film Festival got underway officially, with one part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Lovers Rock, serving as the Opening Night Selection. Having seen it, the movie serves as both a strong start for NYFF this year, as well as a smaller and far less awards friendly selection. That’s not a bad thing, just noteworthy. The film is showcasing something far different than Oscar potential, and in a year like this one, that’s probably for the best. Still, it’s an interesting choice for the 58th New York Film Festival. For those unaware, here’s a bit about the film from the official festival description: “Lovers Rock tells a fictional story of young love and music at a blues party in the early 1980s. Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn makes her screen debut opposite the BAFTAs 2020 Rising Star award...
- 9/19/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
In the most transporting scene of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” we’re at a London house party that has just hit its smoky seductive dirty-dancing groove. It’s 1980, and most of the revelers have West Indian roots. The men, in their natty duds and rasta hats, stand against the wall smoking joints, looking for women to tug by the arm onto the dance floor. Then a hypnotic sound comes on: It’s “Silly Games,” Janet Kay’s delectably lulling reggae-pop anthem, a hit in the U.K. in 1979. With its melting chords and disco flutes and Kay’s voice soaring into an ecstatic high register, the song hits the party like opium.
The dancers nuzzle up to each other, enraptured by the sheer sway of it, moving from slow dancing to slow grooving to slow foreplay. Is that a drop of sweat rolling down the wall? The scene becomes...
The dancers nuzzle up to each other, enraptured by the sheer sway of it, moving from slow dancing to slow grooving to slow foreplay. Is that a drop of sweat rolling down the wall? The scene becomes...
- 9/17/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock will open 58th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center announced today that Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock (part of his Small Axe anthology), co-written by Courttia Newland, will be the Opening Night selection of the 58th New York Film Festival. Lovers Rock stars Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Micheal Ward, Shaniqua Okwok, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Ellis George, Alexander James-Blake, and Kadeem Ramsay with Francis Lovehall and Daniel Francis-Swaby. The film is a fictional account that takes place in London's West Indian community in the early 1980s.
Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock
"In the coming weeks we'll unveil the films our programmers have selected for the 2020 New York Film Festival," said Eugene Hernandez, Director of the New York Film Festival. "For months we've worked to both sustain and refresh NYFF as "a champion of film as art since 1963” and we're honoured that...
Film at Lincoln Center announced today that Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock (part of his Small Axe anthology), co-written by Courttia Newland, will be the Opening Night selection of the 58th New York Film Festival. Lovers Rock stars Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Micheal Ward, Shaniqua Okwok, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Ellis George, Alexander James-Blake, and Kadeem Ramsay with Francis Lovehall and Daniel Francis-Swaby. The film is a fictional account that takes place in London's West Indian community in the early 1980s.
Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock
"In the coming weeks we'll unveil the films our programmers have selected for the 2020 New York Film Festival," said Eugene Hernandez, Director of the New York Film Festival. "For months we've worked to both sustain and refresh NYFF as "a champion of film as art since 1963” and we're honoured that...
- 8/3/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Moments ago, the New York Film Festival announced their Opening Night Selection, and it’s not a title you’d expect. Going in a different direction than at least I anticipated, they’ve tapped Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock as the Opener. Part of a five movie collection of McQueen’s called the Small Axe anthology, this is the highest profile of the lot, with the four other films being Mangrove, Alex Wheatle, Education, as well as Red, White and Blue. Consider this a surprise, as well a potential shakeup in the upcoming awards race. Considering how interesting it sounds, count me in, and it’s kind of fun that NYFF didn’t opt for an obvious choice. Read on for more about the flick… Here is some of the press release: Film at Lincoln Center announced today that Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock will be the Opening Night film...
- 8/3/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Following his crime thriller Widows, Steve McQueen is returning this year with a project of great ambition and scope. Small Axe, an anthology series from BBC and Amazon Prime Video, is made up of five new feature films, each one directed and co-written by the 12 Years a Slave helmer. While it was revealed that two of the films were originally set to premiere as part of the Cannes Film Festival 2020 lineup, it’s now been announced where they will make their world premieres, along with another film in the anthology.
Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival has unveiled that one of the films in the anthology, Lovers Rock (pictured below), will be the Opening Night film of the 58th edition, while two others––Mangrove and Red, White and Blue (pictured above)––will premiere in the festival’s Main Slate. Set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s,...
Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival has unveiled that one of the films in the anthology, Lovers Rock (pictured below), will be the Opening Night film of the 58th edition, while two others––Mangrove and Red, White and Blue (pictured above)––will premiere in the festival’s Main Slate. Set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Film at Lincoln Center has set the Steve McQueen-directed Lovers Rock as the opening-night film of the 58th New York Film Festival. The film will be making its world premiere, and the festival is going heavily into the work of McQueen, who became the first Black filmmaker to win the Best Picture Oscar for 12 Years a Slave.
Lovers Rock is part of his Small Axe anthology, which comprises five original films by the director. Two other films from the anthology, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue, will also have their world premieres as part of the NYFF’s Main Slate, the rest of which will be disclosed in the coming weeks.
This becomes the second straight year in which NYFF chose at its opening nighter a film that will be most widely viewed on a streaming service. Last year, that was the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman, though...
Lovers Rock is part of his Small Axe anthology, which comprises five original films by the director. Two other films from the anthology, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue, will also have their world premieres as part of the NYFF’s Main Slate, the rest of which will be disclosed in the coming weeks.
This becomes the second straight year in which NYFF chose at its opening nighter a film that will be most widely viewed on a streaming service. Last year, that was the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman, though...
- 8/3/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” will be the opening night film for the 2020 New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center announced Monday.
The 58th edition of NYFF kicks off on September 25 with the latest from the “12 Years a Slave” director. And “Lovers Rock,” which will make its world premiere, is one of five films as part of an anthology from McQueen called “Small Axe.” All five movies, including “Mangrove,” “Lovers Rock,” “Alex Wheatle,” “Education” and “Red, White and Blue,” are set to premiere on BBC One later this year and on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.
Two other films as part of McQueen’s anthology, “Mangrove” and “Red, White and Blue,” will also have their world premieres as part of the festival. The full main slate for the New York Film Festival will be announced in the coming weeks.
Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Lineup to...
The 58th edition of NYFF kicks off on September 25 with the latest from the “12 Years a Slave” director. And “Lovers Rock,” which will make its world premiere, is one of five films as part of an anthology from McQueen called “Small Axe.” All five movies, including “Mangrove,” “Lovers Rock,” “Alex Wheatle,” “Education” and “Red, White and Blue,” are set to premiere on BBC One later this year and on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.
Two other films as part of McQueen’s anthology, “Mangrove” and “Red, White and Blue,” will also have their world premieres as part of the festival. The full main slate for the New York Film Festival will be announced in the coming weeks.
Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Lineup to...
- 8/3/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of “12 Years a Slave” and “Shame,” is best known for his searing big-screen work. So it is fitting that the New York Film Festival would turn to the British auteur to kick off its 58th edition with his new work “Lovers Rock. McQueen joins a long list of cinema legends such as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and David Fincher, all of whom have had the opening night film at the annual gathering of movie-lovers.
But this is a year unlike any other in the history of film festivals, with the coronavirus scuttling best-laid plans and forcing organizers to change things up on the fly. Thus it makes sense that the film that McQueen is highlighting isn’t a “movie” in the strictest definition. Rather, it is part of the filmmaker’s Small Ax anthology series, a chapter in a collection of original films that...
But this is a year unlike any other in the history of film festivals, with the coronavirus scuttling best-laid plans and forcing organizers to change things up on the fly. Thus it makes sense that the film that McQueen is highlighting isn’t a “movie” in the strictest definition. Rather, it is part of the filmmaker’s Small Ax anthology series, a chapter in a collection of original films that...
- 8/3/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The New York Film Festival has announced its opening night film as well as plans for its physical events. The 58th edition of the festival will open with Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” with the festival also playing home to two other features that comprise McQueen’s ambitious new “Small Axe” series in its main slate. As indicated by festival brass earlier this summer, this year’s NYFF is going to operate differently than it has in previous incarnations. The event will combine a brand-new virtual presence with carefully designed outdoor screenings, including two drive-ins.
McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology is set to premiere on BBC One later this year and air on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. Per the series’ official synopsis, it is “set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the films each tell a different story involving London’s West Indian community, whose...
McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology is set to premiere on BBC One later this year and air on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. Per the series’ official synopsis, it is “set from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the films each tell a different story involving London’s West Indian community, whose...
- 8/3/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Steve McQueen has been working on his anthology television series “Small Axe” for quite some time (a first look at the ambitious project dropped in September 2019), but new information about the project has emerged in the wake of two installments being included in the Cannes 2020 official selection. The BBC confirms McQueen has conceived each episode of “Small Axe” as its own feature film. The two entries that were selected for Cannes are “Lovers Rock” (a runtime of 1 hour and 8 minutes) and “Mangrove (a runtime of 2 hours and four minutes). The remaining three films are titled “Alex Wheatle,” “Education,” and “Red, White and Blue.”
According to the BBC’s official synopsis, the five films of “Small Axe” tell “personal stories about London’s West Indian community from the late-1960’s to mid-1980’s. The title is derived from an African proverb, which has resonance throughout the Caribbean, ‘if you are the big tree,...
According to the BBC’s official synopsis, the five films of “Small Axe” tell “personal stories about London’s West Indian community from the late-1960’s to mid-1980’s. The title is derived from an African proverb, which has resonance throughout the Caribbean, ‘if you are the big tree,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Wrap has partnered with Canvs, the emotion measurement AI company, for a weekly look at some of the characters and personalities that have TV viewers the most worked up on social media. The data below covers Oct. 31 through Nov. 6 and is drawn from the most emotionally reacted-to television programs, including broadcast, cable, streaming and PPV.
Fox Sports’ broadcast of the NBA game between the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves sparked 86,706 Emotional Reactions (ERs), with Minnesota’s Derrick Rose driving much of the emotional conversation. The point guard racked up a career-high 50 points and made a gaming-winning block putting the final score at 128-125 over Utah. Rose wasn’t shy about his emotions, either — he was wiping away tears in a post-game interview, something that endeared him to fans that much more.
What a cool moment that reinforces how much sports can make you feel, Derrick Rose fighting back...
Fox Sports’ broadcast of the NBA game between the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves sparked 86,706 Emotional Reactions (ERs), with Minnesota’s Derrick Rose driving much of the emotional conversation. The point guard racked up a career-high 50 points and made a gaming-winning block putting the final score at 128-125 over Utah. Rose wasn’t shy about his emotions, either — he was wiping away tears in a post-game interview, something that endeared him to fans that much more.
What a cool moment that reinforces how much sports can make you feel, Derrick Rose fighting back...
- 11/8/2018
- by Fabric Media
- The Wrap
Josh Maxton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Time Eddy, the convention run by fans for the fans, is returning in 2016 after a successful event at the Best Western North Wichita this October. Over 1,100 fans packed in to meet a host of stars from the shows’ past and present including Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Peter Purves, and Ellis George. The venue will remain...
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Time Eddy, the convention run by fans for the fans, is returning in 2016 after a successful event at the Best Western North Wichita this October. Over 1,100 fans packed in to meet a host of stars from the shows’ past and present including Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Peter Purves, and Ellis George. The venue will remain...
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- 12/20/2015
- by Josh Maxton
- Kasterborous.com
America’s newest Doctor Who convention will return in 2016 by popular demand. Over 1,100 fans packed into the Best Western North Wichita this October to meet a host of stars from the shows’ past and present including Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Peter Purves, and Ellis George. The venue will remain the same for next year’s convention but the vendor’s area will be expanded, the events line-up enhanced, and beer and wine will be available for the over 21 crowd.
Other exciting additions include a Doctor Who musical extravaganza, a sci-fi mystery dinner, and more participatory events involving guests and attendees. You can save $25 on three day passes and vendor tables by entering the discount code K9 on the registration page. This huge discount is only available until Thanksgiving 2015. We are assembling an amazing array of guests and events so don’t delay, buy your Time Eddy II tickets today.
Between...
Other exciting additions include a Doctor Who musical extravaganza, a sci-fi mystery dinner, and more participatory events involving guests and attendees. You can save $25 on three day passes and vendor tables by entering the discount code K9 on the registration page. This huge discount is only available until Thanksgiving 2015. We are assembling an amazing array of guests and events so don’t delay, buy your Time Eddy II tickets today.
Between...
- 11/11/2015
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Taking place in Wichita, Kansas from 2nd – 4th October 2015, the Time Eddy event has a great collection of stars attached to it! Sixth Doctor and Peri pairing Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant are the headliners, with classic series companions Peter Purves, Katy Manning and Deborah Watling joining them. From modern Doctor Who, Ellis George (The Caretaker, Kill...
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Taking place in Wichita, Kansas from 2nd – 4th October 2015, the Time Eddy event has a great collection of stars attached to it! Sixth Doctor and Peri pairing Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant are the headliners, with classic series companions Peter Purves, Katy Manning and Deborah Watling joining them. From modern Doctor Who, Ellis George (The Caretaker, Kill...
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- 8/24/2015
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
As much as I like the suggestion that the next Doctor Who companion should be an older woman, namely Emma Thompson, there’s something that I’ve always liked about small children on the series. And as this week’s wonder-filled fairytale of an episode, “In the Forest of the Night,” shows us, the younger may be the better for 56-year-old Peter Capaldi‘s Twelfth Doctor. It’s not just the increase in age difference but also the greater contrast in personality. Matt Smith’s version of the Doctor was rather kid-like himself, so when he first hung out with Amy Pond when she was only seven, eating fish sticks and custard, the two seemed like equals. Next to the more cantankerous Capaldi, though, little Maebh (Abigail Eames) is a bright antithesis to the Doctor. This season has already given us the show’s youngest companion ever (I think — if we consider that original sidekick Susan Foreman...
- 10/26/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It’s the classic time travel question – would you kill a dangerous killer in their crib, before they’ve actually done anything? Well, what is you weren’t sure the baby was going to do anything? What if you were asked to…
Kill The Moon
By Peter Harness
Directed by Paul Whilmshurst
Clara speaks to the entire Earth – they run the risk of the Earth being destroyed if they don’t kill an innocent being. “The man who normally helps” is nowhere to be found, and a decision must be made. Flashing backwards, we learn that Coal Hill student Courtney Woods has not reacted well to her brief run on the Tardis. The Doctor told her she “wasn’t special”, a comment she’s taken to heart. Clara asks him to apologize; he instead offers her a chance to be the first woman on the Moon.
Alas, all is not well there.
Kill The Moon
By Peter Harness
Directed by Paul Whilmshurst
Clara speaks to the entire Earth – they run the risk of the Earth being destroyed if they don’t kill an innocent being. “The man who normally helps” is nowhere to be found, and a decision must be made. Flashing backwards, we learn that Coal Hill student Courtney Woods has not reacted well to her brief run on the Tardis. The Doctor told her she “wasn’t special”, a comment she’s taken to heart. Clara asks him to apologize; he instead offers her a chance to be the first woman on the Moon.
Alas, all is not well there.
- 10/5/2014
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
Let's get straight to it. The idea that Doctor Who is weighing in with its thoughts on abortion and a woman's right to choose is surprising, to say the least. The episode uses the realisation that there's something going on with the moon to tell a story about how it's really an egg that's about to hatch.The Doctor then leaves Clara, 15-year-old Courtney Woods (Ellis George) and the last surviving astronaut from a mission to save the moon (Hermione Norris) to decide whether the enormous creature growing inside the moon should live or die. It's rather unsubtle and a little heavy-handed - this is the abortion debate but on an oversized scale.Of course, the fact that the moon disintegrating would put the world in danger...
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- 10/5/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Doctor Who, Season 8, Episode 7, “Kill the Moon”
Written by Peter Harness
Directed by Paul Wilmshurst
Airs Saturdays at 9pm Et on BBC America
This week, on Doctor Who: The Doctor and Clara discuss respect and choice. Also, space spiders.
In “The Caretaker”, the Doctor expressed a level of ownership over Clara, demanding an explanation for her relationship with Danny. In “Kill the Moon”, any ounce of paternalism is removed, as a fun and scary adventure on the moon gives way to an exploration of choice, responsibility, and respect.
The episode starts out fairly typically, with the Doctor heading off on an adventure with Clara and Courtney (who he’s accidentally traumatized). There’s a lot to like right off the bat, with the episode switching nimbly from comedy (nice to know there’s an official Tardis anti-hanky-panky rule, though that might be a post-River addition) to suspense. Writer Peter Harness...
Written by Peter Harness
Directed by Paul Wilmshurst
Airs Saturdays at 9pm Et on BBC America
This week, on Doctor Who: The Doctor and Clara discuss respect and choice. Also, space spiders.
In “The Caretaker”, the Doctor expressed a level of ownership over Clara, demanding an explanation for her relationship with Danny. In “Kill the Moon”, any ounce of paternalism is removed, as a fun and scary adventure on the moon gives way to an exploration of choice, responsibility, and respect.
The episode starts out fairly typically, with the Doctor heading off on an adventure with Clara and Courtney (who he’s accidentally traumatized). There’s a lot to like right off the bat, with the episode switching nimbly from comedy (nice to know there’s an official Tardis anti-hanky-panky rule, though that might be a post-River addition) to suspense. Writer Peter Harness...
- 10/5/2014
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Oh Doctor Who, using big words and gibberish to make us believe we have been entertained and what we are seeing is not silly at all. With an episode titled Kill the Moon, I did wonder where the imagination had gone from naming episodes, but that won’t stop me from watching it. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this week’s episode though is the fact that it is mostly about questions and decisions, but where they worth answering?
When Clara (Jenna Coleman) angrily tells The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) to apologise to Courtney (Ellis George) the girl we saw in last week’s episode form a friendship with him for telling her she’s not special, he does one better by taking her on a trip to the moon. Soon caught in an investigation into strange happenings and spiders, they find themselves caught in a moral decision that could...
When Clara (Jenna Coleman) angrily tells The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) to apologise to Courtney (Ellis George) the girl we saw in last week’s episode form a friendship with him for telling her she’s not special, he does one better by taking her on a trip to the moon. Soon caught in an investigation into strange happenings and spiders, they find themselves caught in a moral decision that could...
- 10/4/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Spoilers: Doctor Who hits top form with Kill The Moon. And Jenna Coleman has never been better...
This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
8.7 Kill The Moon
"If you think we should kill the creature, turn your lights off"
Now that's been a long time coming.
For weeks now, Peter Capaldi's Doctor hasn't been very nice to Clara. That would be some understatement. We've had the uncomfortable digs about her appearance most prominently, but there's been a dismissive undercurrent too in the curtness of the Doctor towards Clara. On the one hand, this has established Capaldi's Doctor as a little more alien than he was in Matt Smith's era (offering varying gradations of coldness, depending on the story). But then it's also created a divide between the Doctor and Clara, one that was talked about extensively in Deep Breath, but ultimately far from resolved.
This week?...
This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
8.7 Kill The Moon
"If you think we should kill the creature, turn your lights off"
Now that's been a long time coming.
For weeks now, Peter Capaldi's Doctor hasn't been very nice to Clara. That would be some understatement. We've had the uncomfortable digs about her appearance most prominently, but there's been a dismissive undercurrent too in the curtness of the Doctor towards Clara. On the one hand, this has established Capaldi's Doctor as a little more alien than he was in Matt Smith's era (offering varying gradations of coldness, depending on the story). But then it's also created a divide between the Doctor and Clara, one that was talked about extensively in Deep Breath, but ultimately far from resolved.
This week?...
- 10/4/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Here is a preview clip and some stills from the next episode of Doctor Who, titled “Kill the Moon.” You guys? I’m not super excited by it. The clip reveals that the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) have brought along Courtney Woods (Ellis George), the not-very-charming student we met in the last episode. It looks like the show is building to a recreation of super classic Who — an older Doctor traveling with two (married?) Coal Hill teachers and a teenaged Coal Hill student. That was the line-up of the First Doctor’s companions. It sounds cool in theory, but do we actually want a teenager stomping around the Tardis? I love teen shows (read my bio below), but I would like them to stay well away from that blue box. Unfortunately, I am not in charge of these things. “Kill the Moon” also features giant moon spiders,...
- 9/30/2014
- by Mily Dunbar
- GeekTyrant
New pictures from Doctor Who's next episode 'Kill the Moon' have debuted online.
The BBC sci-fi's latest episode has been written by Peter Harness (Wallander) and directed by Paul Wilmshurst (Da Vinci's Demons).
The official synopsis for 'Kill the Moon' reads: "In the near future, the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) find themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon.
"Crash-landing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. When Clara turns to the Doctor for help, she gets the shock of her life."
Hermione Norris (Spooks, The Crimson Field) makes a guest appearance in the episode, playing the character Lundvik.
Ellis George also reprises her role of outspoken schoolgirl Courtney Woods, introduced to viewers in last week's 'The Caretaker'.
'Kill the Moon' was partly shot on location in Lanzarote,...
The BBC sci-fi's latest episode has been written by Peter Harness (Wallander) and directed by Paul Wilmshurst (Da Vinci's Demons).
The official synopsis for 'Kill the Moon' reads: "In the near future, the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) find themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon.
"Crash-landing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of corpses, vicious spider-like creatures poised to attack, and a terrible dilemma. When Clara turns to the Doctor for help, she gets the shock of her life."
Hermione Norris (Spooks, The Crimson Field) makes a guest appearance in the episode, playing the character Lundvik.
Ellis George also reprises her role of outspoken schoolgirl Courtney Woods, introduced to viewers in last week's 'The Caretaker'.
'Kill the Moon' was partly shot on location in Lanzarote,...
- 9/30/2014
- Digital Spy
Peter Capaldi is on top comedy form again, as he goes undercover as The Caretaker. Here's our spoiler-filled review...
This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
8.6 The Caretaker
"There has been a spillage"
For five weeks, the new series of Doctor Who has flung Clara and the Doctor from Earth, to inside a Dalek, to Sherwood Forest, to a room with a strange blanket in it, through to last week's planetary bank heist. It's been a real mix of stories and adventures, all the time gradually threaded with the growing romance between Clara and Danny Pink, and the mysteries of Missy.
The Caretaker, another really good episode of the show (arguably one of the best of an impressive run), puts the brakes on just a little. And thus, while it returns to those two underlying threads, it also stops long enough so that people can actually have a chat.
This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.
8.6 The Caretaker
"There has been a spillage"
For five weeks, the new series of Doctor Who has flung Clara and the Doctor from Earth, to inside a Dalek, to Sherwood Forest, to a room with a strange blanket in it, through to last week's planetary bank heist. It's been a real mix of stories and adventures, all the time gradually threaded with the growing romance between Clara and Danny Pink, and the mysteries of Missy.
The Caretaker, another really good episode of the show (arguably one of the best of an impressive run), puts the brakes on just a little. And thus, while it returns to those two underlying threads, it also stops long enough so that people can actually have a chat.
- 9/27/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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