Kathryn Morris UK

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – August 2016

August is getting a double Thoms up in KM UK’s latest look at the continuing careers of the wider Cold Case cast.

Thom Barry (Will Jeffries in CC) is very much the sleeping giant of this regular feature. We don’t get to talk about him much as we’d like to in these monthly round-ups. So, when we do we try to give him top billing. Thom has been cast in a short film called Casting in the role of ‘Casting Director’. At 20 minutes it is quite long for a short. A medium? The description of the plot is short though: “A young, innocent girl is lured into a dark world.” With that title and Thom’s character name I think we can assume it is related to the business called show. You may not want to hide behind the couch for this one as it might be part of the set. Notably amongst the cast is the Irish pop star Samantha Mumba (The Time Machine). She’s done a bit of acting before but with her character down as ‘Samantha Mumba’ her Thespian skills may not be required. The release date is also short: 2017.

July’s update was lacking a key bit of news regarding our other featured star of the month: Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on CC). Tracie’s web series Send Me, which is about people going back in time to witness slavery first hand, has been nominated for an Emmy award. The organisation has started to recognise works released like this. The nod is for Tracie herself in the ‘Outstanding Actress In Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series’ category. Congratulations to her and the rest of the team involved.

Previously we’ve mentioned The Watcher (nee Raven’s Watch), a thriller starring Tracie, and it receiving a festival release in October. As well as that it will be broadcast by the Lifetime network in the US in the same month, and Netflix in November. The cast includes Erin Cahill (the 1919 Francis Stone in Cold Case episode ‘Torn’), Obba Babatundé (Dr. Octavius Leroy in CC‘s ‘Shuffle, Ball Change’), John Billingsley (George Marks in CC‘s ‘The Woods’ and ‘Mind Hunters’), and Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

I’m sure this segment has been called ‘brain dead’, especially with all the mentions of the TV show BrainDead in recent months. Danny Pino in a lead role was the initial excuse for that but the Sunday before last (21st August) saw Tracie in a guest starring role as a private investigator digging up dirt for a senator. BrainDead is not expected to get a second season so make the most of the final three still to come.

Let’s end with a quick short. In August 2015’s CCCC-up I mentioned a short film starring Tracie called Injection. Well, the film was screened at the Oregon Short Film Festival yesterday (30th Aug). It may have been the première, it is not clear. What is clear is that the film is up for three awards, though Tracie is not up for Best Actress or Support Actress. The movie is about a woman receiving a mysterious package and her quest to discover what the contents is. Julie McNiven (Mad Men) stars with Jim Beaver (Supernatural), and David Blue (SGU Stargate Universe), amongst others.

The Coin @ Northeast Film Festival

The Northeast Film Festival in New Jersey USA has released their schedule for the 2016 running of the event.

So we can now confirm what the writer/director Fabien Martorell had already mentioned: his short film The Coin will be screened on Sunday, the 11th of September

The Teaneck Cinemas in Teaneck township of Bergen County will be hosting a group of eleven short films (two described as being as little as 1 minute long) from 2pm.

The Christopher Lloyd (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Kathryn starring film is listed as being the last of the set in a slot that could be as much as 2 hours long in to. Tickets are available via the official event website HERE from $12.

As is often the case at these festivals there is a closing gala with a collection of awards covering such areas as acting, directing and screenplay for features and shorts. Sadly The Coin‘s only nod is for Christopher in the ‘Best Actor In A Short’ category. He competes with fellow nominees Lance Henrikson (his slightly less zany alter ego?) and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost). The ‘Best Actress In A Short’ is missing Kathryn but does include luminaries Melissa Leo (The Fighter) and Lost‘s Sonya Walger. Henry and Sonya are both up for a short called Visible.

Happy 3rd Birthday Boys

Happy Birthday to Jameson & Rocco

Three years, two boys, one day. Best wishes from everyone at KM UK.

There’s been a small spate of Cold Case-related birthdays recently.

We managed to let Jeremy Ratchford’s get passed us without remark at the beginning of the month. Apologies. And, just a couple of days ago it was the turn of Tracie Thoms to have an anniversary. KM UK added its own congrats to the Twitter throng.

N.E. More Festivals For The Coin?

Reports of The Coin being spent have been greatly exaggerated.

There haven’t been such reports but I’ve got to open the post with something

Back in 2012, just over four years ago in fact, we first heard of this short film by writer/director Fabien Martorell and starring Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and Kathryn.

Despite the length of time that’s passed the film continues to make occasional appearances at film festivals since it premièred at one in June of 2013. It won a directorial award last time out in April. There can’t be many films that have stayed on the circuit for so long.

On Wednesday (10th August) Fabien, via the short’s Facebook page, let it be known that The Coin would be getting another outing. This time is at the Northeast Film Festival in New Jersey. The event starts on Friday the 9th of September and runs until the Sunday. The Teaneck Cinemas in the Teaneck township of Bergen County in the north east corner of New Jersey will be the venues of the festival.

An actual schedule has not yet been released but Fabien suggests it will be on the Sunday of the weekend. We’ll let you know when we have more details.

The Northeast Film Festival website is HERE.

Bone Tomahawk A Steel On Disc In UK

The Bone Tomahawk story is not quite over in the UK.

On Monday-week (15th August 2016) a special edition of the movie Blu-ray is being released exclusively by the online retailer Zavvi.

The ‘special’ is the case the disc comes in. Rather than the standard plastic box that Blu-ray’s normally come in (as Bone Tomahawk itself does, albeit with a black horizontal stripe across the top) this is a special metal box. It is being called a ‘steelbook’ and has different art on it too compared with the previously available versions. Check it out in the image above. Very skull-y.

A larger version of the front cover image joins the one above in the KM UK Gallery.

At £18 it is around the same price as the initial Blu-ray release so if you are going to buy a copy why not go with this one.

You can find the details on the Zavvi website HERE.

As I am sure you are aware by now Bone Tomahawk harks back to the classic western, a genre largely ignored of late, but adds in the more on-trend twist of a sort of zombie-like creature and throws in a big dose of a horror. It’s a horror western. Kurt Russell (Death Proof) stars as the sheriff who takes it upon himself to rescue some kidnapped townsf0lk from the murderous savages. Matthew Fox (Lost), Patrick Wilson (Insidious), and Richard Jenkins (Let Me In) join the ill-fate adventure. Kathryn has a small role as the wife of Sheriff Hunt. Lili Simmons (Banshee) is one of those taken.