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Exclusive: Prime Video UK and Ireland is returning to the British true crime space for its latest original.

Indie Woodcut Media is currently in production on feature documentary The Murder of Sandra Rivett, which distributor Abacus Media Rights (Amr) will be presented to buyers at the upcoming MIPTV market after taking worldwide sales.

The 90-minute film goes back to 1974, when an aristocratic household was at war in London with Lord and Lady Lucan at loggerheads over the custody of their children. When a newly employed nanny, Sandra Rivett, managed to bring some calm the home and find a kindred spirit in her employer, Veronica (Countess of Lucan), she had no idea she would soon be the victim of a crime that has fascinated generations for 50 years.

The doc will explore the misogyny engrained in the social history of the time and tell the story from the perspective of two women...

Andy Serkis has big expectations for 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes'.The 58-year-old star played ape leader Caesar in the three previous movies, but will not appear in the latest flick in the rebooted franchise after the character's death in the 2017 film 'War for the Planet of the Apes', and has high praise for Wes Ball's film.Speaking to CinemaBlend, Andy said: "I think Wes Ball is going to do an amazing job with this film. I think it's, from what I've heard and what I've seen, there's some amazing conceptual artwork."And where they've chosen to land the story and take off with the next iteration, I think it's gonna blow people's minds."'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' is slated for release in May 2024 and will star Owen Teague in the lead role of Cornelius, the son of Caesar.Meanwhile, Andy recently revealed that...

Ian Brady, one of the most notorious murderers in British and world history, has died. He was 79.

Brady, who was called the “Moors murderer,” died on Monday at Merseyside’s Ashworth Hospital, a high-security hospital where he had been held since 1985.

“We can confirm a 79-year-old patient in long-term care at Ashworth High Secure Hospital has died after becoming physically unwell,” a Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust spokesman confirmed to multiple U.K. news outlets.

From 1963 to 1965, Brady and his then-girlfriend Myra Hindley killed a string of children and buried them on the Yorkshire moors after sexually torturing their victims.

Charles Manson. Ian Huntley. Ian Brady. Three names which send shockwaves careering through your body just by their mere mention due to their association with evil, sadism, and ultimately murder.

Yet all three have at least another two things in common – they are all male, and they are all still alive today.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, evil tendencies are usually associated with men. But, this should not always be case – for there are a whole host of scary and evil women around the world today who should certainly find themselves on the shortlist for deadliest humans alive right now.

Myra Hindley – who committed the Moors murders with Brady during the 1960s – is perhaps the most infamous example of an evil woman, but she has been dead for more than 12 years now. It is the ones who are still very much alive and kicking today that you really want to be worried about.

When we hear the phrase serial killer we may automatically think of men – but some of the most deadly murderers in history are female. We may like to play simple games based on crime, death and intrigue such as the themed slots you would find at SuperCasino, but the reality is often horrific – and sometimes comes with an Xx chromosome. Here’s a top ten list of evil women in history.

1) Myra Hindley

The 'Moors Murderers', Hindley and her boyfriend Ian Brady, killed five young people in the 1960s in Manchester, England, sexually assaulting four of them. Several bodies were left on bleak, desolate moorland; the corpse of Keith Bennett has never been found. The judge described Hindley and Brady, who used axes, blades and even pieces of string to murder their victims, as “two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity.”

2) Miranda Barbour

Officially, the ‘Craigslist Killer’ and her husband...

Venice - NBC's "The Office" rang frequent laughs from Dwight Schrute's beet farm, with glimpses of backwards Cousin Mose and his feral antics proving particularly fertile ground for comedy ("And as of this morning, we are completely wireless here at Schrute Farms, but as soon as I find out where Mose hid all the wires, we'll get all that power back on.") This kind of vaguely unsettling boys-on-the-farm vibe is played straight in "The Goob", a character piece that has atmosphere to spare, and whose minimal plot is helped along by the happily original setting; this might be the first film shot in Norfolk to premiere at Venice. Self-described as "a psychological Western" and set largely on farmland of sorts in the flat formerly marshy Fens in the East of England (think the reclaimed bits of the Everglades without the redeeming features of exotic wildlife or sunshine), The Goob is...

Review Ryan Lambie Feb 19, 2013

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror takes a nightmarish turn in its second episode. Here's Ryan's spoiler-filled review of White Bear...

Warning: the following contains spoilers.

"I think, with a lot of dramas, people come back to them hoping to see the same characters, and be assured by the same characters every week. You know what you're getting most of the time when you tune into a drama. What we always hoped with Black Mirror is that you don't know what you're getting..."

So said writer and series creator Charlie Brooker in a recent BAFTA Q&A, which took place after a private screening of series two's opening episode, Be Right Back. Of all the Black Mirror episodes we've seen so far, White Bear fulfilled that remit outlined above; its horror-infused drama leaves us unsure whom we can trust or what will happen next, and its last act is truly gut-wrenching.

On a scale of 1 to 100, the former being hard and the latter being Kerry Katona after a couple of Irn Brus, hating Chris Moyles is somewhere along the minus scale. People far and wide congregate together to attack the ‘moronic wanker’ responsible for the ‘vapid, inconsequential guff‘ that his soon-to-be ex-station outputs, even if they don’t actually listen to his show. By the time you read this, he’ll be long gone from his morning show, so what better time to fire some last-minute parting shots? It’s easy. Go on. Have a go. You’ve got plenty to pick from.

You could opt for the physical appearance and his rotund figure, even if the guy has actually lost a shed load of weight and slimmed down into the best shape of his life. Failing that, try his anti-music policy, where no songs get played before 7am, a crime...

Andy Serkis says he finds no difference between 'performance capture' and acting. We should take this as a grave warning

The lavish and reckless absurdity of the new film Rise of the Planet of the Apes will do nothing to restrain the cult of Andy Serkis. But nor will it help us negotiate the difference (and the profound resemblance) between what is now called "performance-capture technology" and the thing we once called acting. After all, moving film projected for an audience was, from the outset, a new technological power that recorded and preserved the look and gestures of actors for people who could not see them on stage. The studio we now think of as Paramount was once renowned for distributing rather limited prints of "Famous Players".

What Serkis has been pioneering for a few years now is nothing I understand fully in a technological sense. But it is something...

Mem Ferda as DusanThe Crew is an action thriller, which was released in North America late in 2009, based on the novel "Outlaws" by author Kevin Sampson. The film reveals the seedy Liverpool underworld and the criminals who inhabit it. The Crew stars Stephen Graham ("London Boulevard"), Scot Williams (Dead Man Running), Mem Ferda (Legacy) and Rory McCann. Now that the film has been released and distributed, actor and villain Ferda is able to talk about his role as Dusan in this production. From Film File a German online magazine, Ferda states that becoming the antagonist in a thriller is actually very easy: "playing villains is fun. It can be a form of therapy for the innate evil that is within us all."

Empire magazine has described the film as "an intense thriller," and from Ferda he describes his character as "a guy with serious issues" (Film File). Criticized for its...

London -- Jack O'Connell, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Emily Barclay have packed their bags for Karl Golden's "Weekender," joining a burgeoning cast that already boasts Ben Batt, Stephen Wight and Tom Meeten.

Golden's movie is the story of two friends' adventures, played by O'Connell and Lloyd-Hughes, set against the backdrop of the hedonistic world of warehouse parties during the U.K.'s acid house explosion in 1990.

Penned by actor and writer Chris Coghill, the film is produced by Benchmark Films/Foundation Films' Ian Brady and Stephen Salter and Alliance Films' Robert Walak and executive produced by Xavier Marchand, David Hayman and Mark Jaffray.

DJ and producer Terry Farley is aboard as a creative consultant on the film.

The film will be distributed here by Momentum Pictures, Alliance Films in Canada and Aurum Producciones in Spain.

Supporting actors aren't just those familiar faces who can steal a film. They show a way for movies to portray real life

Do you remember the film Iris? Directed by Richard Eyre, it opened in 2001, and was about the marriage between novelist Iris Murdoch, and her husband, the literary professor John Bayley. I have not seen the picture since it opened and as I try to recall it, I see three faces – Judi Dench and Kate Winslet (they played the older Iris and the younger woman), and Jim Broadbent – who was Bayley in his mature years. I think of it as a tripartite film, yet I know there was a fourth corner and a fourth actor – the young Bayley. I hope he will forgive me, but I have to check his name – of course, it was Hugh Bonneville.

Having looked the film up, here is what surprises me: Dench was nominated for best actress,...

He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure?

Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?

Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.

With the best will in the world, is it ever possible for actors blessed with incomparable beauty to get under the skin of the homely characters they play?

I can really only go on supposition, but I do tend to assume that the life of the super-beautiful movie star contains less in the way of futility and failure as those of we shabby mortals. There is one thing the gilded screen god or goddess will never know, and that's what it's like to be ugly. In fact, scratch ugly – even the experience of being blandly average is intrinsically beyond them. Which, for even the most gifted actor, is going to be a hurdle in a biopic of someone demonstrably plain.

On this supposition is founded the misgivings I've always had about Howl, the study of poet Allen Ginsberg at the time of his obscenity trial in 1957 which will debut at next month's Sundance festival.