Kathryn Morris UK

Kathryn In Bone Tomahawk Stills! – Update

It has been a while since we heard anything about the upcoming horror Western movie Bone Tomahawk.

May saw the release of the poster.

A month ago the writer/director S. Craig Zahler responded to a comment on IMDb to say the film was finished having gone through seven months of post production. He added that we should “[l]ook for announcements in the near future regarding the release and premiere.”

Remarkably little news has been forthcoming considering the film stars the likes of Kurt Russell (Stargate), Matthew Fox (Lost), Patrick Wilson (A Gifted Man), Lili Simmons (Banshee), Sean Young (Blade Runner), David Arquette (8 Legged Freaks), and Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under). And, with Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight getting a lot of coverage at the recent ComicCon event, the Western is undergoing something of a revival at the moment.

Thing have, however, taken a turn for the Kathryn-flavoured better today as a few still photos of her as Lorna Hunt (wife of Kurt’s Sheriff Hunt) have come into our possession. Based on the film’s period setting and what I’ve learnt about Kathryn’s role she looks very much as I’d expected.

Find the three images (2 are very large) in the KM UK the Gallery.

Thanks to Fate 815 for the heads-up.

Update (26th July): A fourth image (an on-set shot) has been added and the second still image has been upgraded to a much larger version.

Update (28th July): The on set photo added in the previous update has been moved to an On Set album where it belongs.

The Coin Gets Noms At The Tavern

The ‘tavern’ being the Brightside Tavern, host to The Brightside Tavern Film Festival.

The ‘noms’ are the four nominations that the short film The Coin has received at the BTFF event due to take place in mid-August in Jersey City. The categories are:

Best Short Film – Drama
Best Director – Drama
Best Cinematography
Best Concept

As well as the great news the film is up for more awards we now have more details on the screening itself, after first bringing you news of the event a couple of weeks ago.

Writer/producer/director Fabien Martorell’s 9 minute long movie starring Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and Kathryn will be shown on the 16th of August, a Sunday, as part of a group of films starting at 5:05pm. The screening is described as ‘Downstairs 4’, presumably because it is the fourth taking place in a basement area.

More details and a link to the ticket sales are on the BTFF website.

HollyShorts Batman!

Kapow!

Just when you thought… (this is sounding familiar)… it was safe… (oh no, it’s totally different)… to assume that The Coin has got no more film festivals to visit, up pops another one.

With a poster reminiscent of the one for a certain drama film that aired in the UK recently… hint, hint… the HollyShorts Film Festival is having it’s 11th running, across 10 days, in 9 (+13) days time. Don’t you just ‘ate it when that happens?

Given its name it will come as no surprise that the event takes place in Hollywood, the ‘TCL Chinese Theatres 6’ to be precise.

As seems to be the norm when we first report these things, no schedule has been released as of yet so we’ll return to this event when we can bring you more detail. Tickets are becoming available on the official HollyShorts Film Festival website covering individual days and all-access passes.

Also as per usual we have to thank The Coin‘s writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell for letting us know about another screening of his film. Fingers crossed for a prize or two.

The Alright* Chap Gets UK Rating

We do things a little differently in Britain. We drive on the correct side of the road (as do a few select countries), we use a sensible date format (to be honest most countries do that except for one notable exception) and we use our own age rating system for films.

The age rating actually means the minimum age that a person has to be to be allowed into a cinema to watch it… a part from the 12A, which is more of a recommendation and requires an accompanying adult (hence the ‘A’).

A couple of weeks ago the thriller The Perfect Guy got its rating from the US board responsible for such things. Yesterday the Brits stepped up and gave their verdict on the film.

The BBFC (the British Board Of Film Classification) passed The Perfect Guy with no cuts required and it received the (sort of) predicted 15 rating. No specifics for the decision have been released yet. The more general description is:

strong violence, sex, threat

Just prior to the November launch date the BBFC will likely give a detailed description of areas of the film worthy of note. They are very proactive at giving film going parents all the information they need to decide for themselves what their child can watch. Of course, with the UK getting quite a late release date compared to other parts of the world we’ll likely know a lot about the film by then.

* Steady on old bean, we don’t want to give the gentleman ideas above his station 😉

Horror Hits Hotspot Tuesday

As Britain suffers through another heatwave (not really, it is warm but this is Britain so we’re just grateful it’s not snowing!) the Horror Channel is going to raise more than temperatures this coming week.

The 1998 TV movie Inferno (not to be confused with lots of other films with similar titles) gets an airing on British TV on Tuesday afternoon (21st July) starting at 3:50pm on the Horror Channel.

I’m guessing the channel has shown the film before, but as I only focus on widely available stations for these Media Alerts I’ve not had reason to mention it before. The Horror Channel has been broadcasting for over 10 years but until earlier this year it has only been on the satellite and cable systems. Now it is on over-the-air Freeview, the minimum that anyone in the UK needs to watch TV.

Inferno is a drama about a variety of people dealing with the possible end of days scenario caused by a massive fireball ejected from the Sun. As it approaches Earth the temperature rises to dangerous levels.

James Remar (Dexter) and Stephanie Niznik (Everwood) are the main leads but I think there is more like a collection of story lines involving different characters.

Kathryn plays the role of Ryan Tibbet who appears to be a mechanic (all short hair and smudges of oil) and she is involved with Jonathan LaPaglia’s Eddie. Jonathan went on to guest star in the last couple of seasons of Cold Case as an Assistant District Attorney so they worked together again. From clips I’ve seen Kathryn tries to take advantage of the heat to err… take advantage of Eddie. It should be worth watching the film just for that scene 😉 I’ve never actually been able to watch the film in full so I’m not sure of the plot details. I guess many of us will know more soon

As well as the airing on Tuesday there is a repeat on Wednesday morning (11:10am) and Saturday (25th) at 4:50pm. On some systems you may also have access to a +1 channel. No excuses then

The always helpful KM UK Gallery already contains a small number of poor screencaps from Inferno. They are some of only a handful on the whole site that aren’t my own work. I’ve now added a couple of promo photos and some artwork.

I’ll no doubt be returning to Inferno in the future.