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A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Friday BBC2

ai_10The BBC are currently running a sci-fi season on BBC Two.  This is chiefly being done with a series of programmes exploring the history of the genre with the benefit of interviews with some of those involved in genre classics like Star Trek and Blade Runner.  Along side those shows some films are being broadcast.

Last Saturday night the first episode of the 4 part documentary was followed by Minority Report, as… errr… reported… last week.  This Friday BBC2 at 11:35pm is showing A.I. Artificial Intelligence.  Details can be found on the BBC’s website here.

I’m beginning to think the scheduler is trying to sneak in a short Kathryn Morris season! :-)

Now all we need is Paycheck to be shown again and we’ll have the full set of KM blockbuster sci-fi films.  Paycheck was last shown in August so I’m thinking it is unlikely.

Paycheck, like Minority Report, is based on a Philip K Dick short story giving them great sci-fi pedigree as he also wrote the stories what became Blade Runner and Total Recall.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence is the story of a small robot boy (Haley Joel Osment, Pay It Forward) created to help a grieving mother  (Frances O’Connor, Mr Selfridge) deal with the loss of her son.  English actress Frances recently guest starred in an episode of the US fantasy drama Once Upon A Time and can currently be seen in the BBC drama The Missing, along side James Nesbitt (Babylon).

Kathryn makes and all too brief appearance as a performer at a sort of destruction derby circus where robots are destroyed for the amusement of a baying crowd.  She looks startling (and great) in her red hair and Stars and Stripes outfit.  That get up may be why the film is being shown, what with it being Thanksgiving tomorrow.  Happy holiday to our American friends.

Screencaps and a video clip from A.I. can be found in the Gallery.

26th November 2014 | Category: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Film, Media Alert | Leave a comment

W.E.I.R.D. World TV Movie Clips

weird_world_223Last week KM UK brought you something special that few of you will have ever seen before.  You might even have thought you never would.

Alongside our review of the 1995 TV movie W.E.I.R.D. World, which stars Kathryn as Lucy, the personal assistant to Ed O’Neill’s (Modern Family) Dr Monochian, we had a set of screencaps.  I hope you enjoyed seeing Kathryn in one of her earliest roles.  If you haven’t read that piece yet, go back and do so immediately.  We’ll wait here for you :-)

As promised at the end of that article we now bring you a small set of video clips from the film.  They are now exclusively available in the KM UK Gallery.  Sadly the picture and sound quality is not great, it’s the best I can do from the source.

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24th November 2014 | Category: Exclusive, Film, Gallery Update, Video, W.E.I.R.D. World | Leave a comment

KM UK Mention On Weird West Radio

misc_001In my on-going quest to find out more about the film Bone Tomahawk, which should see Kathryn in a small role as the wife of a wild west Sheriff played by Kurt Russell (Stargate), I’ve been seeking out good sources of intel.  As I always do so as to bring you the best and most accurate data.

Looking for information about Bone Tomahawk can bring up a lot of confusing stuff because the film has been in pre-production for over two years, with various casting announcements in the intervening period, and significant changes in the personnel.  The news as KM UK reported at the time, because it included Kathryn, was how things were as the film finally went into production in October.  The addition of Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring), Matthew Fox (Lost), Lili Simmons (Banshee), David Arquette (Scream), and Kathryn, amongst others, made headlines.  Later I created a post rounding up most of what we know.

A couple of weeks ago I found a new podcast by Weird West Radio discussing the recent casting news for Bone Tomahawk.  Clearly they are big fans of the western genre.  Understandably the guys on the podcast, Johnny and Clint, were excited about the news of a new western and mentioned the inclusion of the actors such as Timothy Olyphant (Justified) and Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead).  Those were earlier casting announcements and they are no longer connected with the film.

Always happy to help out I sent a Tweet to Weird West Radio:

@weirdwestradio Re Bone Tomahawk. IMDb list accurate. Others you mentioned (Olyphant, Sarsgaard, Carpenter) no longer attached to the film. – Link

Today (23 Nov) saw the release of a new WWR podcast and Johnny updated their listeners about Bone Tomahawk and very kindly read out my Tweet.  Sort of :-)

I’ve created this post to clarify a couple of things said in the podcast as Twitter is too restrictive.  The above covers most of it but I should add the following:  I’m a he (understanable confusion from my Twitter details), based in the UK, and an “uber-fan” of the actress Kathryn Morris who has a small role in the film.

Thank you for the mention on WWR.  I hope you get to talk to the producers of the film for a future podcast so we can all find out more about the project.

It’s been a weird week :-)

23rd November 2014 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Mention, Site | Leave a comment

KM UK’s 1000th Post!

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Cross out “Cold Case” and add an “0” on the end of the number on the cake.

This is the 1000th post on KM UK.

It has “only” taken five and half years but we’ve made it to the end of our first thousand!

Thank you for being there and getting involved.

Come back tomorrow for 1001.  It’s a special one.

23rd November 2014 | Category: Site | Leave a comment

Minority Report – Saturday on BBC2

still_001This is quite a quick turn around for the BBC.  Normally it is at least a year (or as many as three) between showings of the movie Minority Report.

This coming Saturday (22nd November) BBC2 from 23:30 (that’s half eleven in old money) will be graced with a few brief appearances of Kathryn in the Tom Cruise-led sci-fi action film.

Auntie Beeb must have taken a liking to the film as they’re actually accelerating the frequency of broadcasts as it was only back in May of this year that it was last on our screens.  I’m not aware of other films around that it could be tied to in any way.  Often networks broadcast older titles related to new cinema releases.  They must get special rates from the distributor to help with promotion of the latest franchise sequel for instance.  The Hunger Games was recently repeated in the UK on national TV, just ahead of Mockingjay Part 1 hitting the big screens today (Thursday, 20th Nov).

Back in May it was BBC Scotland that had to wait another 25 hours for their chance at watching Minority Report.  I can only assume that due to the recent independence referendum result they’ve now been included in the main showing.  It is BBC Wales that has to suffer a 24.5 hours delay this time.

For those interested (and why wouldn’t you be?) KM UK already has a comprehensive set of HD screencaps and the promo image above in the Gallery.

Full details can be found on the BBC website here.

20th November 2014 | Category: Film, Media Alert, Minority Report | Leave a comment
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