Kathryn Morris UK

Happy 4th Of July 2015

Happy 4th of July to Kathryn, her family and all of KM UK’s friends in the US.

Just as Americans can use the date as excuse for a party, I get to use the date as an excuse to use the picture you see above again.

Friend of the site smallbarbie created the image in our early days and it’s become an iconic image for us. Along with many others it can be found in the Fan Art Gallery. If you want to contribute a work of Kathryn-related fan art then please contact me.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – June 2015

tracie_thoms_001_430x180 Squeaking in at the last minute again it’s June’s CCCC-up, the monthly post where KM UK looks at the continuing work of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn.

I try to be a gentleman and always allow ladies to go first, but with the CCCC-up that would mean Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC) would be leading the way every month so I try to let each have a turn. This time we’ll give Tracie her go at the top. In March I posted about the Fun Size Horror short films done for various websites for Halloween 2014 getting a DVD/VOD release in May. At the time I mentioned that plans were in hand for a new set of similarly scary fare for this year. Would you Adam & Eve it, a couple of weeks ago Tracie completed filming on a segment which will no doubt be released at the appropriate time in the autumn. Before completing that project Tracie was involved in the filming of a new webseries called Dinner At Lola. People from the ‘business that is show’ discuss the ‘business that is show’ over dinner (without the show).

One of our less frequent stars of the CCCC-ups is the gentle giant that is Mr Thom Barry (Will Jeffries on CC). Thom recently wrapped on a new movie called Henry Joseph Church, not to be confused with another film Thom is in called Richard Peter Johnson (which seems to be stuck in post-production hell). HJC, previously known as Cook, stars Eddie Murphy (Bowfinger) and Natascha McElhone (Californication) amongst others. Eddie is a cook. A young girl and her mother some how ‘inherit’ said cook. The director, Bruce Beresford, previously made Driving Miss Daisy, which may give us an idea of the tone. Thom is credited as ‘Frankie Twiggs’, who sounds like a 50s gangster from the east end of London. No further info at this time.

Veena Sud is a name that most of you will recognise. Occasionally I stretch the third ‘C’ in CCCC-up to include a few other key people involved with CC. Veena was a writer and producer on Cold Case across several seasons and she went on to do the same for the American version of the drama The Killing. There is no news on the actual project yet, but Veena has, in the last few days, signed a development deal with Fox 21 TV Studios to create new a drama for cable television.

THE Perfect Guy Poster – Update

After a few teaser posters were released recently we now have something that appears to be a proper movie poster for the film The Perfect Guy. You can tell because it’s got all that small text at the bottom with no punctuation so you can’t separate one name from another.

As you can see, it depicts Sanaa Lathan (Nip/Tuck), two unnamed bald gentlemen, Michael Ealy (Almost Human) and Morris Chestnut (Nurse Jackie). Presumably one of them is ‘perfect’.

Which do you favour: Mr Leftie or Mr Rightie?

Importantly for us Kathryn fans, our favourite lady gets a look in. If you can drag your eyes south you’ll see this:

There she is, sandwiched between Tess Harper (maybe from No Country For Old Men, she uncredited on TPG so far) and Rutina Wesley (True Blood).

The Perfect Guy is due for release in the US on the 9th of September, and much of the rest of the world in the following days and weeks. In the UK we’re made to wait until November.

A copy of the poster is now in the KM UK Gallery HERE.

Update (2 July 2015): I’ve found a much larger version of the poster which has replaced the original in the Gallery.

Again Time For Time For Heroes Picnic 2010

Soooo, where is KM UK’s ‘way-back machine’ going to take us today?

What do you mean “the A Time For Heroes Celebrity Picnic in 2010”? Where did you get that idea from? Oh, the title 😉 Kinda gave the game away there didn’t I?

As part of the on-going goal to make the KM UK Gallery the best it can be I have an update to our album of photos from the aforementioned event in early June 2010. Previously I covered it the day after it happened, and in a couple of updates since.

Kathryn attended the event support the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) held at Wadsworth Great Lawn in Los Angeles.

Kathryn also lent the EGPAF her support back in 2005 at the A Time For Heroes Celebrity Carnival, though no doubt charities supporting causes involving children have taken on an added importance since the birth of her own twin boys.

More details the EGPAF can be found on the organisation’s website HERE.

We have updates to two of the earlier photos (12 & 13) and 6 extra one in the Gallery.

Roommate Wanted Review

Roommate Wanted (aka 2 Br/1 Ba) was released in the USA on the 19th of May 2015 on DVD and VOD platforms. At the time of posting I am not aware of the film being released anywhere else in the world. As a UK resident I was able to acquire a copy of the US DVD via Amazon.

The plot of the movie revolves around the rapidly crumbling relationship between two young women that share the (previously) eponymous 2 bedrooms/1 bathroom house. Resentments come to the surface and fists start flying.

Janie (Alexa Vega, Spy Kids) is the studious one. She cares about political issues and the planet, and wants to attend a good college. Money is a sticking point though as the scholarship she was relying on to cover her costs is no longer available due to budget cuts.

Dee (Spencer Grammer, Greek) is the polar opposite. She is wealthy and spends her time at the gym and shopping. The source of this fortune is not made clear, presumably rich parents.

Kathryn has a small role as a woman working for someone that can help Janie with her financial issues.

The film was written by Aaron Edward and directed by Rob Margolies (She Wants Me).

I will admit upfront to being sceptical about this film and was expecting to not enjoy it. If Kathryn was not in it I would probably not be giving it a first glance, let alone a second. But watch it I did.

My initial impressions, possibly coloured by that pre-judgement, backed-up those thoughts. I felt that Alexa and Spencer were in the wrong roles and would have been better suited if they’d swapped places. Alexa’s Janie looked too well dressed, glamorous even, to be a down-at-heel student struggling to get by. The spectacles looked forced and brought to mind Penny in The Big Bang Theory and her “molecules” line. Conversely Spencer’s Dee came across as the poorer of the two. Presumably this was a sign of her not having to try so hard because she’s loaded. And why does the rich girl need to take in a housemate? Is it some sort of out-reach programme or community service? Anyway…

Faced with a lack of money Janie hatches (pun very much intended!) upon a plan to make some money. At first Dee is happy to help but then as the animosity rises between them she takes matters into her own hands.

I have a long standing notion that good things happen in films around the 20 minute mark. Check out Assassination Of A High School President, Cougars, Inc., and Minority Report for proof…

In, quite literally (used properly), steps Kathryn.

To make another reference to The Big Bang Theory, Kathryn was definitely channelling Leonard Hofstadter’s mother in her role as Olivia Morgan. Her greeting of Janie at the house door with a puzzled look when a hand was proffered and the clipped speech had Dr Beverly Hofstadter (as played by the brilliant Christine Baranski) written all over it. I can’t say it is an appealing character trait though, and it came across as a very forced piece of acting. This continued throughout her time with Janie but changed significantly when it came to Dee. Suddenly it was were like they were sorority sisters. Then the befuddled Olivia briefly returned to be quickly replaced by a carefree one again. All very odd.

I did warm to Olivia a little more as her 10 minutes of screen time came to a close but the film was only just getting going really even if I assumed my interested had passed.

The film, and the two lead characters, come alive in the last 45 minutes. It almost becomes one long fight scene but it is punctuated by pauses as the girls briefly question what they are doing and what the other is saying. They tear each apart emotionally as they try and do it physically. Then the fuse re-ignites like one of those trick candles that you can’t blow out.

By this point which girl is which doesn’t really matter. You would think that the set up is designed to put you very much on Janie’s side in all this. She seems to be the nice one after all. By the end you are changing allegiances as often as they switch weapons. Dog lovers be warned though. Early on you can see the twin plot devices of the cute little dog and the big scary snake will have to pay off at some point, and it can only go one way. There are a few other obvious pointers to future destruction.

The ending is a bit shocking (pun intended). As the final minutes approached I could not decide who I wanted to win this battle. Surely someone has to come out on top. But by this point you can’t decide which it should be.

Against my original reservations I stuck with the film and I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it, even after Kathryn left, which is not always the case. Comments I’ve seen by other reviewers echo my feelings that it is in the latter half of the film where it really picks up the baton and runs with it.

The film is R rated and with good reason. It is not extreme or explicit but it is not good clean fun with some hair pulling.

Roommate Wanted: Try it, you might like it. Let us know with a comment below.

Remember to watch KM UK’s EXCLUSIVE video of Kathryn on the set of Roommate Wanted. It was done especially for us. The HD quality screencaps dotted around this piece, and many more, can also be found in the Gallery HERE.