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Picking up the morning after the two-hour premiere ended, Time After Time Season 1 Episode 3 gives us a beautifully mundane snapshot of a morning in the life of our newly modernized Jack the Ripper.

Showering, picking out clothes and accessories, figuring out the microwave, watching the news, and killing the apartment's other occupant when he returns home from a business trip before returning to the kitchen to eat his breakfast burrito.

I did wonder after the premiere how Stevenson was going to continue his lifestyle once the $15,000 he got for his pawned pocket-watch ran out.

Apparently, picking victims for their real estate and wardrobe is part of his cunning scheme.

When I met you, I must admit I was first drawn to your beauty... and then it was your kindness that emerged as your most luminous feature. But now I see that you are the sum of many parts, with your mind leading the way.

Series premieres are incredibly tricky balancing acts between good world-building and engaging action.

On Time After Time Season 1 Episode 1 and Time After Time Season 1 Episode 2, we are thrown immediately into the world of Victorian England with its dark and dangerous alleyways alongside genteel

This is perfectly illustrated by the opening scene, depicting one of Jack the Ripper's brutal murders, followed by drinks at the home of H.G. Wells where the killer strolls in, totally accepted as just one of the guys.

The show's central characters – H.G. Wells as portrayed by Freddie Stroma and Josh Bowman's Dr. John Stevenson aka "Jack the Ripper" – are perfectly displayed in contrast to each other when H.G. reveals his time machine.

While the rest of his guests tease him about having too much time on his hands, Stevenson immediately jumps into the seat and wants to take it for a spin.

What was...

Oscar frontrunner “La La Land” continued its awards momentum, taking best contemporary hairstyling Sunday night at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards.

However, in terms of the Oscar race, makeup and hairstyling nominees “Suicide Squad” and “Star Trek Beyond” were both big winners, grabbing period/character make-up and special make-up effects, respectively.

Other movie winners were “Nocturnal Animals” for contemporary make-up and “Hail, Caesar!” for period hair styling.

TV winners included “Westworld,” ” Game of Thrones,” The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” “American Horror Story: Roanoke,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” and “Dancing With the Stars.”

Make-up artist Leonard Engelman (“Ghostbusters”) and hair stylist Barbara Lorenz (“La La Land”) were feted for their lifetime achievements, while “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy received the Distinguished Artisan Award.

Winners for Feature Length Motion Picture (Feature Films):

Best Contemporary...

In the fall of his freshman year at Tennessee’s Maryville College, William Riley Gaul, a wide receiver on the school’s football team, had trouble moving on when girlfriend Emma Walker, a high school cheerleader, broke up with him.

His refusal to accept the truth turned into a fatal obsession, authorities allege.

In the early morning hours of Nov. 21, the 18-year-old allegedly went to Walker’s house in Knoxville, Tennessee, and fatally shot the 16-year-old through the wall of her one-story home while she slept in her bedroom, according to court records obtained by People.

He was arrested on Nov.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” earned high marks from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, garnering three nominations for their annual awards honoring achievements in film, television, commercials, and theater. It’s not on the Oscar shortlist of seven , however.

Read More: ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’: A VFX Creature Guide

Eligible for Hair and Makeup Oscars are Guild nominees “Deadpool,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “Hail, Caesar!,” “Star Trek Beyond” and “Suicide Squad.” Not Oscar shortlisted, however, are Guild nominees “La La Land,” “Loving,” and “Nocturnal Animals,” which garnered two nominations apiece. Also ineligible for the Oscar are nominees “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and “Doctor Strange.”

On the television side, “Saturday Night Live” led with four nominations, followed by “Westworld,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Penny Dreadful” with three each. “Transparent,” “Stranger Things,” and “Empire” each received two.

The Guild will...

In her pilot debut, singer-actress Jordin Sparks has joined Kevin Williamson's time-traveling ABC pilot Time After Time in a recurring role. Using the 1979 novel by Karl Alexander and movie as a starting point, Time After Time will chronicle the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells (Freddie Stroma). Upon arriving in modern New York, he is captivated by museum curator Jane Walker (Genesis Rodriguez). Sparks will play New York stylist Jesse Givens who is also Jane Walker’s…...

Genesis Rodriguez (Tusk, Big Hero 6) has been cast the female lead opposite Freddie Stroma and Josh Bowman in Kevin Williamson's ABC pilot Time After Time. Using the 1979 novel by Karl Alexander and movie as a starting point, Time After Time will chronicle the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells (Stroma). Rodriguez will play Jane Walker, the museum curator who captivates H.G. Wells (Stroma) upon his arrival in modern day New York. Williamson wrote Time After Time and is…...

Shooting began this week on Academy Award winner Stefan Ruzowitzky’s action-thriller, Patient Zero.

The feature stars Matt Smith (“Doctor Who,” Terminator Genisys), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”), John Bradley (“Game of Thrones”), Agyness Deyn (Clash of the Titans) and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games).

Production is based in the UK at Shepperton Studios and will shoot in and around London until April 18, 2015.

In Patient Zero, an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies has turned the majority of humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers known as ‘The Infected.’ One victim, Morgan (Matt Smith), who is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected, leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.

Patient Zero is directed by Austrian Writer/Director, Stefan Ruzowitzky, best known for the 2008 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film The Counterfeiters, and is from a screenplay written by Mike Le.

Review Billy Grifter 31 Mar 2014 - 13:30

The Helix season 1 finale is a narrative lasagne layered with confusion and idiocy, says Billy...

This review contains spoilers.

1.13 Dans L'Ombre

It has been 48 hours since I watched Dans L'ombre, and I intentionally gave myself a cooling off time, before writing this. I can’t hold back any longer, this was a huge rebuff to anyone who was crazy enough to stick with this painfully irrational show.

What was obvious as I was watching it, and confirmed afterwards, was that Helix has a second season, and the writers knew this when they penned an abysmal ending to this one. Having created some narrative and tension about how things would end in the Arctic base, it was all blown up (literally and a narratively) like it’s been obvious it would be from the pilot onwards.

How this came about was stupid in the extreme,...

From Nymphomaniac to Fat White Family, a selection of must-see shows for this week and beyond

Opening This Week

■ I Wish I Was Lonely

Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe have designs on your phone – will you hand it over to them? A playful, witty and moving show about our over-reliance on always being contactable in a world where many are increasingly cut off from real human interaction.

Battersea Arts Centre, London SW11 (020-7223 2223), from tonight until 15 March.

■ Nymphomaniac

Lars Von Trier unveils his crazy, brilliant, hardcore odyssey of lust, defiance and penetrative sex – at epic length.

In cinemas now

■ Ballet Black: Mixed Programme

This small, clever company bring together the marvellously mixed trio of Martin Lawrance, Arthur Pita and Christopher Marney to choreograph their new season's programme.

Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020-7304 4000), from tomorrow until 4 March.

Last chance to see:

■ Fat White...

A new sliver of eye candy has come out of the currently bustling New York Comic Con in the fashion of a much better teaser poster for the latest film in a trilogy of comedies from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright that started with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, entitled The World's End.

Look for the film in U.S. theatres on October 25th, 2013!

From the Press Release

Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have commenced filming on The World’s End, the third installment of Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The new movie is filming in the U.K. As with the first two movies in the trilogy, Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute The World’s End internationally, and Focus Features will distribute it in North America.

As with the two earlier pictures, Mr.

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Check out the new poster for The World.S End, the third installment of Edgar Wright.s trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).  The new movie is filming in the U.K. As with the first two movies in the trilogy, Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute The World.s End internationally and Focus Features will distribute it in North America on Friday, October 25th, 2013.

As with the two earlier pictures, Mr. Wright co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg, who will once again star alongside Nick Frost.  These two actors are brilliant together!  Joining the team are actors Martin Freeman (Shaun of the Dead, The Hobbit), Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), and Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher).

In The World.S End, 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of...

Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have started shooting The World’s End, the third installment in Edgar Wright‘s trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).

As with the two earlier pictures, Wright co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg, who will once again star alongside Nick Frost and recently announced Rosamund Pike and Paddy Considine, and now the team widens with actors Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan joining.

In The World’s End, 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt...

Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have commenced filming on The World's End, the third installment of Edgar Wright's trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The new movie is filming in the U.K. As with the first two movies in the trilogy, Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute The World's End internationally and Focus Features will distribute it in North America.

As with the two earlier pictures, Mr. Wright co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg, who will once again star alongside Nick Frost. Joining the team are actors Martin Freeman (Shaun of the Dead, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), and Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher).

The World's End also marks Mr. Wright's third movie with Working Title and Big Talk, following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; The World's End...

Oh glorious day! Edgar Wright along with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are back together to wrap up their Blood and Ice Cream trilogy, with The World's End. If you've been anxiously awaiting them to get back together for this final movie (as I have) then today's a good day as the announcement has come in that filming has officially begun.

Apparently Martin Freeman and Ediie Marsan have also joined the cast, so that's not bad news either. I couldn't be more pleased. Edgar Wright has quickly become one of my favorite working directors, and I'm keenly interested in just about anything he does. Shaun of the Dead remains one of my favorite films and nary a week goes by that Scott Pilgrim isn't in my blu-ray player at some point. Call me obsessed, I just don't care.

Anyway, here's the official press release about the start of production:

Working Title Films...

Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have commenced filming on The World’S End, the third installment of Edgar Wright.s trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The new movie is filming in the U.K. As with the first two movies in the trilogy, Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute The World.s End internationally and Focus Features will distribute it in North America.

As with the two earlier pictures, Mr. Wright co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg, who will once again star alongside Nick Frost. Joining the team are actors Martin Freeman (Shaun of the Dead, The Hobbit), Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), and Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher).

Marsan and Wright

The World’S End also marks Mr. Wright.s third movie with Working Title and Big Talk, following Shaun of the Dead and...

It’s been years since we first heard that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost had a third film planned as a follow up to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Titled The World’s End, it has been announced that production has officially started. Continue reading for the press release, which includes new casting information and the plot synopsis:

London, September 28, 2012— Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have commenced filming on The World’s End, the third installment of Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The new movie is filming in the U.K. As with the first two movies in the trilogy, Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute The World’s End internationally and Focus Features will distribute it in North America.

As with the two earlier pictures, Mr. Wright co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg,...

The latest film in a trilogy of comedies from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright that started with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, entitled The World's End, has officially begun production! Read on for details and a teaser poster featuring a famous cock.

From the Press Release

Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have commenced filming on The World’s End, the third installment of Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies, following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The new movie is filming in the U.K. As with the first two movies in the trilogy, Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute The World’s End internationally, and Focus Features will distribute it in North America.

As with the two earlier pictures, Mr. Wright co-wrote the script with Simon Pegg, who will once again star alongside Nick Frost. Joining the team are actors Martin Freeman (Shaun of the Dead,...

Make room for another Victoria's Secret supermodel mommy. Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom are expecting their first child together, the Australian model tells the Spanish edition of Vogue in its September issue. "Yes, I am pregnant. Four months along," says Kerr, 27, confirming much buzz about a possible baby after the couple announced their engagement in June, then quietly wed in July. It hasn't exactly been easy to keep the good news under wraps. "I remember on one occasion in the early days [of my pregnancy] when it was still too soon to say anything, and I had a dreadful time at one job,...

Will Penélope Cruz soon be Mrs. Javier Bardem? According to several online reports, Cruz and her boyfriend, fellow Spanish actor Javier Bardem, are engaged. Cruz's rep had no comment and Bardem's rep said, "I really don't know, but would not be able to say anything even if I did." The couple - who first met while filming Jamon, Jamon in 1992, one of Cruz's first films, before working together again in 2008's Vicky Christina Barcelona - have kept a low profile during their 2-year romance, choosing not to walk red carpets together, evading the paparazzi and remaining extremely tight-lipped about one another in the press.