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Not So Real Housewife Of The Jersey Shorts

hang_onto_your_shorts_film_festival_logo_640x640This is KM UK’s 100th item about Fabien Martorell’s short film The Coin aka You Can’t Keep A Good Short Down.

Nearly four years on from our first post about the film (in July 2012) it is returning to the short film festival circuit for an outing in 2016.

The Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival is due to have its third running in a month’s time on Sunday the 24th of April.

Based in Asbury Park, New Jersey (south of New York and east of Philadelphia), the festival was started to bring a bit of the creative arts back to the area that was devastated by hurricane Sandy in 2011.

Running from around 10am to a little after 6pm the event is split into 4 or 5 screenings across three venues.  Each screening has multiple films in 90-120 minutes.  There is some attempt at grouping films into themes but the The Coin being in the ‘Last Set’, due to it being the final group of the day at The Showroom Cinema on Cookman Avenue, gives you some idea of the way things are.  There is no repetition of films so even if you did travel to different theatres between screenings you could not see everything.

As you should know by now Kathryn stars in the 9 minute long The Coin as a stressed mother who takes her son to a shop where he meets a kindly homeless man played by Christopher Lloyd.

The Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival website has all the details here.

Thanks to Fabien for letting us know about this one.

25th March 2016 | Category: Film, News, The Coin | Leave a comment

Hold On To Your Easter Eggs They Might Melt

poster_001Let’s face it: nobody likes melted chocolate Easter eggs.

The natural disaster Inferno is being shown again the the Horror Channel here in the UK on Wednesday (23rd of March).  The station is on channel 70 on the Freeview system and in tripple digits on the Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media platforms.  Check your EPG for details.

You can catch a broadcast at 4pm, a nice early for the students then :-) , or if you miss that there is a repeat the following morning at 10am.

The channel has existed for nearly 12 years now but has only just passed its first anniversary on Freeview.  Coincidently, or maybe not, it started on the Friday the 13th of March 2015.  Dun, dun, dun!

Inferno involves a fireball heading towards the Earth that is causing temperatures to rise and problems for its inhabitants.  Kathryn’s role will also cause temperatures to rise (I’ll leave the ‘balls’ joke to you).  James Remar (Dexter) and Stephanie Niznik (Everwood) are the leads.  Jonathan LaPaglia (ADA Bell in later episodes of Cold Case) is Kathryn’s partner in crime/grime.

As citizen reviewer Jack from Minnesota says on IMDb:

Kathryn Morris steals the show as the sleazy tow truck driver, the only likable character and the only one who rises above being a compilation of clichés. Everyone else is a cardboard cutout in comparison to her character.

What would Lilly Rush make of her?

22nd March 2016 | Category: Film, Inferno, Media Alert | Leave a comment

Bone Tomahawk UK DVD/Blu-ray Release?

blu-ray_box_003 dvd_box_002It was released in UK cinemas last Friday and was the recipient of a lot of praise from the critics.

But what of a home release of horror western Bone Tomahawk for those in the United Kingdom?

Well, it’s mixed news.

The division of Amazon based in England now has pages for Bone Tomahawk on both Blu-ray and DVD.  These are very recent additions.  The prices shown at time of writing are £16 (~US$22) and £11.50 (~US$16) respectively.  You can pre-order now.

That’s the good.

The bad is that the released dates for both disc formats are shown as being (again, at time of ‘going to press’) at the very end of December 2016.

I very much doubt that date is correct and I’m going to assume it is a place-holder in lieu of the actual date when it is announced.

If you don’t want to wait that long then you could try acquiring it from one of Britain’s continental neighbours…  The disc region codes are the same and they are likely to include an English language track.  Just sayin’…  Check before purchase though.  Caveat emptor an’ all that.

The box art above and flat versions are in the Gallery.

23rd February 2016 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Gallery Update, News | Leave a comment

Bone Tomahawk In UK Cinemas Next Week

poster_003_2000x1500It has been a long time coming but Bone Tomahawk will finally be released in UK cinemas a week on Friday.

antivalentine_poster_722x960For reasons unknown the film was delayed from the original December 2015 date, as reported here on KM UK back in November.  My best guess is that the distributor wanted to try and ride the wave of publicity from The Hate Eight, which also stars Kurt Russell, and the western-esque film The Revenant.  Going for a Friday in late January would have been a better option then.  Unless they are hoping for a further boost from those films being talked about a lot during the upcoming awards season, as we go through the BAFTAs and Oscars in the next couple of weeks.

Above (and now in the Gallery) is a copy of the Bone Tomahawk poster for the UK release.  I’ve also included the UK trailer video.

Very much taking its cues from that art work is the one you see on the right.  It is to promote a special pre-release screening of Bone Tomahawk to be held this coming Sunday as part of an ‘Anti-Valentine’ event to be held somewhere in London.

If you’d like to attend for free then the HeyUGuys website is giving away three pairs of tickets to the show.  It is for UK residents only and you’ll have to be quick due my slowness.  Entries have to be in by midnight (23:59) on Wednesday the 10th (tomorrow at time of writing).  You can read the details on the HeyUGuys website here.

9th February 2016 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Gallery Update, News | Leave a comment

Wild West Women On The WWW

still_002A lot has been said recently, and rightly so, about equality in movies.  They should reflect the times and the audience.  Of course, a film with a historical setting also needs to accurately portray its period whilst not glorifying the less progressive aspects for a modern viewership.

In most of the commentary on Bone Tomahawk the women of the piece only normally get scant mention as their roles are quite small.  Lili Simmons (Banshee) in her key part as the kidnapped wife of one of the main protagonists has no doubt had the lion’s share of what little has been said.

So, it was nice to see in a recent review of Bone Tomahawk titled The Best Western You Haven’t Seen that British author Rob Wickings made special mention of the ladies in a comparison to other recent cinematic releases The Hateful Eight and The Revenant.

Rob notes that The Hateful Eight‘s female lead is not exactly treated well and The Revenant has only one line spoken by a woman during a brief, and hardly pleasant, appearance.  In terms of the actresses on-screen time Bone Tomahawk may not out do them but the author clearly feels they are much more rounded and realistic portrayals.  Kathryn as Lorna the wife of Kurt Russell’s Sheriff Hunt gets a mention in his article beyond the usual list of credits.  As Rob says:

They are tough, smart women.

Sean Young is the third notable female cast member, thereby outdoing both The Revenant and The Hateful Eight combined :-)

You can read Rob Wicking’s post in full HERE on his blog Excuses And Half Truths as he looks forward to the mid-February release of Bone Tomahawk here in the UK.

27th January 2016 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Kathryn, Mention | Comments are closed
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