Kathryn Morris UK

The Coin @ GCIFF On Wednesday

The previous update on The Coin‘s appearance at the Gold Coast International Film Festival was a little vague on details. But only because the GCIFF was.

screenshot_001 In the past week the organisers have made more information available about the individual screenings. I’d like to think it was due to KM UK’s prompting. It probably wasn’t, but I’ll be taking credit any way

So, as the headline above says The Coin will be shown on Wednesday (5th Nov) as part of the ‘Great Shorts 1’ programme at the Port Washington Public Library.

‘Great Shorts 1’ was our favoured choice because it is free (though tickets need to be reserved to guarantee a seat) and includes refreshments. Tea and biscuits all round then. Kathryn and biscuits? Does it get any better than that?

The show starts at 12 noon and the 10 film presentation lasts approximately 90 minutes.

See the GCIFF website here for full details of this and other events.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – October 2014

john_finn_001_430x180 Is it really a month since the previous CCCC-up? Well, yes and no. A quick extra update in early October means it is only 3 weeks. This, however, is the real deal. Welcome to the proper October 2014 round-up of news about the cast members of Cold Case that aren’t Kathryn.

We’ll start off with the basis for that special additional entry: John Finn (Lt. Stillman in CC). The Irish drama An Bronntanas (aka The Gift) débuted on the TG4 network last week. Hopefully those of you that wanted to see it got to do so. It was a good week for John fans as he made a surprise guest appearance on the hit new US drama series Madam Secretary the previous Sunday. The show stars Teà Leoni (Bad Boys) as Elizabeth McCord, the US Secretary of State of the USA. Hilary Clinton held the position a few years ago. It is in many ways the second most powerful job after President. We’re used to seeing John as the strong silent type that you know will ultimately do the right thing, even if it means taking one for team. He is often cast in a roles that involve wearing the uniform of a senior member of the armed forces such as a General on shows like NCIS. For Madam Secretary though, he was different. As US peace envoy Allen Bollings, John got to play a more ambiguous character. He still had that air of a military man and you would think as a negotiator of peace deals there would be little scope for a bad side to emerge. But it did. Allen did not do as instructed by Secretary McCord and was not exactly brokering peace. Allen had is own agenda. John does quietly angry very well. Hostilities nearly broke out with the middle east as a result.

I don’t watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (aka SVU), the long running drama series that Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) joined after Cold Case ended, so I can only go by what I’ve read. It seems that in the early stages of the current 16th season Danny’s Det. Nick Amaro has been getting amorous with Det. Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish). Scotty finally bagged the blonde cop that many thought he should have done many years ago 😉 Speaking of Amaro, he’s going to be branching out from New York-set SVU with a guest appearance in the new-ish show by SVU creator Dick Wolf. The title Chicago P.D. probably tells you most of what you need to know about the programme that recently started its second season in the US. Danny/Nick is down for episode 7 which is due to air on November 12th. Scotty was the only CC character to cross-over into another show with a less than satisfying guest role in CSI: New York.

As usual we could write a book, or at least a lengthy post, just about Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) and her work since our last CCCC-up. The play Lost Lake, which is due to première on the 11th of November at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, has been in previews for the past few days. Lost Lake stars John Hawkes (The Sessions) and Tracie. She’s a mother who has taken her children away on a much needed holiday. He’s the owner of the the cabin by the lake they stay in. In addition to all that Tracie is due to star, as the lead no less, in a new web series currently under development called Send Me. It’s a drama about a university lecturer (Tracie) that has the power to send people back in time to see the slave trade in action. As is often the case these days funding is being sort for the project from the general public. You can find more details and a link to their Indiegogo page on the website. Coming up in December (January in the UK) is the release of a new movie adaptation of the musical Annie. In the past few days details of the soundtrack have been revealed. Tracie is not specifically listed as a singer but there’s little doubt she’ll be making her presence felt aurally in the larger ensemble pieces. Whilst most of the songs are sung by cast members Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Bobby Cannavale, and Rose Byrne; Australian pop/jazz singer Sia and Beck also feature. The soundtrack is due to be available a couple of weeks before the film.

More next month.

Advent Horizon

advent_calendar_430x180 Consider the following:

It’s nearly November.
The evenings suddenly got darker due to the clocks going back an hour (the switch from British Summer Time to GMT).
Mince pies are being sold in the supermarkets.
Tree lights have started appearing in the front gardens of home across the UK.

All this can mean only one thing: Xmas is frighteningly close.

Personally I think there should be a ban on such things until December the 1st, but it keeps happening earlier and earlier as the years go by. Give it a couple more decades and we’ll seeing TV adverts with added sleigh bell sound effects in July. Bah Humbug!

However, needs must. In the few short years KM UK has existed we’ve managed to introduce several traditions. One those much anticipated annual events is the KM UK advent calendar. Each December a set of themed Kathryn-related images are unveiled, one per day, from behind the ‘doors’. Our inaugural 2009 calendar was based around our favourite lady’s smiles. In 2010 in was ‘The Many Faces Of… Lilly Rush’. Next up was different hair styles we’ve seen Kathryn sport. For 2012 we focused on photos of Kathryn taken on the set of films or TV shows. And last year, after the birth of her twin boys, the theme was motherhood, in real-life or her on-screen work.

This year I’d like to ask you if you can suggest a theme for KM UK’s Advent Calendar for 2014?

The idea needs to one that can be illustrated with 25 images of Kathryn that can be found in the KM UK Gallery. Leave your thoughts in the comments below or contact me using the Contact Form.

Xen Talks The Protocol At NY Comic Con

The actress and acting coach Xen Sia attended the recent New York Comic Con event to promote a new comic book called Treadwater, aka TRDWTR.

Although Treadwater exists as a traditional comic book, and there is an animated series and much cross-media material (videos, websites etc.), they are using real-life actors to portray the characters in promotional material. Xen is one of them. There is also talk of Treadwater becoming a live action TV series.

As part of her endorsement work at the NY Comic Con Xen was interviewed by Michael Artsis for the BeTerrific!! (their exclamation marks) website. During the chat she also talked about another new project: The Protocol. Regular readers will know a pilot for this possible TV series was filmed in the summer of 2013, with Kathryn making an appearance whilst she was heavily pregnant with her twin boys. The photo above was taken on the set during filming. Xen makes reference to Kathryn’s character, who we know to be called Grace, also being pregnant. I’m not sure that was quite the coincidence that Xen implies.

Just a few weeks ago I reported on The Protocol‘s increasing presence on IMDb, suggesting there is a move to make the show happen. Whether it will or not is another matter.

The Protocol is set in a not too distant future when the government mandates that all citizens take drugs, the titular ‘Protocol’, to control behaviour. None compliance sees you banished to a dystopian realm.

During her discussion Xen makes much of praising Kathryn for her work so far in the likes of Cold Case as well as her nurturing attitude towards an upcoming actress. Xen says the sort of things that we, as fans and followers of Kathryn, would completely expect her to say about Kathryn. It’s all good.

A video of the interview can be seen on YouTube here. A small copy has been added to the KM UK the Gallery. Talk about The Protocol starts at around the 4 minute mark for those wishing to skip ahead.

The Coin Invoked At Enfoque

As has become the way with these things we now have more specific information on the timing of the short film The Coin‘s appearance at a film festival.

screenshot_001 The upcoming Enfoque International Film Festival in Puerto Rico happens over three days in mid-November, the 13-15th (Thur-Sat) in fact, as reported a couple of weeks ago.

But which day will The Coin feature on?

No written list of the schedule has been published by the organisers so instead it was a case of having to interpret a set of images detailing each day’s events. A nice and clever way of doing it, removing some language issues for the international audience.

The five short film screenings have been illustrated using small images taken from each movie. A shot of Christopher Lloyd from Fabien Martorell’s short film indicates that The Coin will be in the ‘3rd Section Of Short Films’ which happens on the middle day of the festival, Friday the 14th, at 7:30pm. There being 6 images shows that there will be five other films at the same screening.

More details can be found at the festival’s website here.