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Jason Isaacs' portrayal of Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery season 1 was exceptional, showcasing his ability to play complex villains. Isaacs' performance as Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot was memorable, showcasing his talent for playing over-the-top villains. In the miniseries Archie, Isaacs captured the spirit of Hollywood legend Cary Grant with a nuanced and humanizing performance.

The villainous Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery season 1 is just one of Jason Isaacs' many great acting roles in film and television. Best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise, Isaacs excels at playing complex and compelling villains. Isaacs has cited the cruelty and bullying he witnessed in childhood as preparation for the villainous roles he would later play as an actor. Originally, Jason Isaacs studied to become a lawyer, but his experiences as a member of Bristol University's acting society inspired him to make a career change.

When supervising locations manager Andrew Buckley was looking for the right location to shoot Matthew Vaughn’s third instalment of the Kingsman franchise The King’s Man, Turin sprung to mind. They were coming to the end of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, where they were shooting in Italy’s Aosta mountains in a place called Courmayeur.

“We were trying to tie in a location so, based on the geography of where that was, I started looking what was nearby and I saw Turin and noticed it had these amazing Baroque palaces and infrastructures, not just in Turin but in the whole Piedmont area,” says Buckley. “Turin was just this hidden gem. Although people knew about it, no one seemed to really know how versatile the city was.”

For The King’s Man, a key driver of the location lay behind finding the right place for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo,...

Title: The Hoarder Rlj Entertainment Director: Matt Winn Writer: James Handel, Matt Winn Cast: Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper, Valene Kane, Emily Atack, Andrew Buckley, Richard Sumitro, John Sackville, Charlotte Salt, Philip Philmar Running Time: 86 minutes Rated: Unrated (language, violence, gore) Special Features: Featurette – Making of “The Hoarder.” Available on DVD and Digital Video April 5, 2016 Ella (Mischa Barton, The Oc) and her best friend Molly (Emily Atack, BBC’s The Inbetweeners) decide to break into Ella’s fiancee Brad’s (Ed Cooper Clarke, Downton Abbey) storage unit to look for a diary; one thing that Ella must obtain right then in the dark of night to make or break her [ Read More ]

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The Hoarder Available on DVD and Digital Video April 5, 2016

Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje) brings you the The Hoarder. Directed by Matt Winn (January 2nd), the film stars Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”), Robert Knepper (“Prison Break”), Andrew Buckley (“The Extras”), Charlotte Salt (“The Tudors”), Emily Atack (“Tracey Ullman’s Show”), John Sackville (“Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles”), and Valene Kane (“The Fall”). The Hoarder is available …

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Before the Haze: Ridley’s Nuanced Portrait Worthy of Legendary Subject

After a rather cool reception following high profile festival play at Toronto and SXSW, John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix biopic, Jimi: All is By My Side will be sure to garner a divisive response upon a theatrical release as well. Unable to acquire the rights to any of his music from the Hendrix estate, those looking for an audio celebration of the legend’s greatest hits will surely be disappointed. Likewise, Ridley, who wrote the screenplay and won an Oscar for 2013 Best Picture Winner 12 Years a Slave, does something even more daring by covering a specific period in Hendrix’s life, paring down the scope for what becomes a startlingly intimate glance at the man’s demeanor and philosophies. While liberties have arguably been taken (Kathy Etchingham has quite vocally railed against the film), gripes considering the presentation of...

Title: Jimi: All Is by My Side Director: John Ridley Starring: Andre Benjamin, Imogen Poots, Hayley Atwell and Andrew Buckley Embarking on a committed, thought-provoking journey in an effort to showcase a person’s true artistic vision can become a dedicated, all-consuming process as they work to prove their abilities and talent. That unwavering devotion to their craft is captivatingly highlighted in writer-director John Ridley’s new biographical musical drama, ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side,’ which chronicles Jimi Hendrix’s dedication to launching his musical career. After completing five years of research into the guitarist’s life before writing the script, Ridley also proved his commitment to honing his craft before releasing it [ Read More ]

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In this exclusive clip from "Jimi: All Is By My Side," Jimi Hendrix gives the Brits a taste of his talent.

André Benjamin, aka André 3000, is in full rock star mode as he rocks out in this scene that's a recreation of the night Hendrix jammed with Cream for the first time. Eric Clapton (Danny McColgan) is quite skeptical of their musical guest, but after he watches Jimi's fancy fingering, he retreats backstage and mutters, "Is he really that f**king good?" to Chas Chandler (Andrew Buckley), Jimi's manager. In real life, Clapton has shared a variation of this story with various sources over the years, including The Guardian.

See for yourself just how crazy good Benjamin's portrayal of Hendrix is!

"Jimi: All Is By My Side" opens September 26.

Stars: Siobhan Hewlett, Darrell D’Silva, Robert Goodman, Alan Moore, Andrew Buckley, Khandie Khisses | Written by Alan Moore | Directed by Mitch Jenkins, Paul Chessell

If you’re like me and you’re the type of person who likes to IMDb films before you watch them so you have a good idea what to expect, you’ll find it useful to know that Show Pieces isn’t one film. It’s actually a set of three short films that tie together, albeit a little loosely in the case of the first and second, all of which form a prelude to a planned feature called The Show. Normally what I would do is write about the first act then describe the experience, but in this case I’ll write about the first two short films which lead into the last.

First, we get Act of Faith, which is the shortest of the three.

Jimi: All Is By My Side, a Jimi Hendrix biopic written and directed by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley has made the film festival rounds and I haven't yet seen an overwhelming amount of love for the pic and those I've talked to that have seen it have basically given me a shrug of the shoulders and an "eh". Open Road has set a September 26 release date for the pic which takes a look at the early years of Jimi Hendrix's life featuring Andre Benjamin in the title role, covering a year in Hendrix's life from 1966-67 as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York's Cheetah Club to making his mark in London's music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph. Along with Benjamin the film co-stars Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley and Ruth Negga and today I have for you the first domestic trailer along with...

XLrator Media has set a September 26, 2014 theatrical release date for John Ridley's Jimi Hendrix film, now titled, "Jimi: All Is By My Side," which made its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. Andre Benjamin plays Hendrix in the drama, and is joined by Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley, in a film that covers a year in Hendrix’s life, from 1966-67, presenting an intimate portrait of the sensitive, young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend, cutting his teeth as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York’s Cheetah Club, to making his mark on London’s music...

Opening in theaters on September 26, check out the new trailer for Jimi: All Is By My Side.

OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award-winning writer-director John Ridley (“12 Years A Slave”). Covering a year in Hendrix’s life from 1966-67 as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York’s Cheetah Club to making his mark in London’s music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.

Described by writer-director John Ridley as one of the most rarely told stories in rock history, Jimi: All Is By My Side charts just over a year in a man’s life. The year he blossomed and became Jimi Hendrix. The year he spent as a young musician trying to make it on the streets and in the clubs of London,...

Here’s the first trailer for Jimi: All Is By My Side, the Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Outkast rapper and actor André Benjamin (Aka André 3000). 12 Years A Slave writer John Ridley wrote and directed the film, which chronicles the rock icon’s early years in NYC and London through his Monterey Pop triumph. Jimi premiered at Toronto and also stars Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley, and Ruth Negga. This is the biopic the Hendrix estate cracked down on filmmakers for, preventing the use of any of the late rocker’s original songs. XLrator Media releases the film September 26:...

Get ready to see André Benjamin in your local theater! “Jimi: All Is By My Side” will be distributed to theaters by XLrator Media Sept. 26. Apart from Benjamin, the cast includes Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley, Ruth Negga. The film is written and directed by John Ridley, the writer behind the Oscar-winning “12 Years A Slave.” The film focuses on Jimi Hendrix in his early career. Hendrix is in Britain, trying to make a name for himself in London. “OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award-winning writer-director John Ridley (12 Years A Slave). Covering a year in Hendrix’s life from 1966-67 [ Read More ]

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XLrator Media has released the first trailer for writer/director John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is by My Side. The film stars André Benjamin, Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley, and Ruth Negga.

OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award-winning writer-director John Ridley (12 Years A Slave). Covering a year in Hendrix’s life from 1966-67 as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York’s Cheetah Club to making his mark in London’s music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.

All Is by My Side hits theaters on September 26, 2014.

Have a look at the trailer by using the player below.

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XLrator Media has set a September 26, 2014 theatrical release date for John Ridley's Jimi Hendrix film, now titled, "Jimi: All Is By My Side," which made its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. Andre Benjamin plays Hendrix in the drama, and is joined by Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley, in a film that covers a year in Hendrix’s life, from 1966-67, presenting an intimate portrait of the sensitive, young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend, cutting his teeth as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York’s Cheetah Club, to making his mark on London’s music...

“Jimi: All is By My Side,” distributed by Xlrator Media and written and directed by recent Oscar winner John Ridley, is a documentary that seemed to be both often talked about but rarely discussed in the media. However, all of that is changing thanks to the upcoming release of the Jimi Hendrix biopic March 12 at SXSW before its theatrical release this summer. “Jimi: All is By My Side” stars André Benjamin (“Idlewild,” “Semi Pro”), Imogen Poots (“Need for Speed,” “That Awkward Moment”), Hayley Atwell (“Captain America: The First Avenger”), Andrew Buckley (“Borgia”), and Ruth Negga (“World War Z”) and is written and directed by Academy Award Winner John Ridley [ Read More ]

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Andre as Jimi Hendrix. Photo credit: Patrick Redmond

Jimi: All Is By My Side stars André Benjamin (Idlewild, Semi Pro), Imogen Poots (Need for Speed, That Awkward Moment), Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger), Andrew Buckley (Borgia), and Ruth Negga (World War Z) and is written and directed by Academy Award Winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave).

The film’s World Premiere was at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival with stellar reviews. It currently has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and was Entertainment Weekly’s Top 4 films of the festival.

Jimi: All Is By My Side will have its U.S. Premiere this Wednesday, March 12th at 9:00pm at the Paramount Theater at the SXSW Film Festival. Attendees include John Ridley, Imogen Poots and music supervisor/producer Danny Bramson.

Xlrator Media will be distributing Jimi: All Is By My Side in theaters Summer 2014

Check out the article on RollingStone.com...

The long-awaited Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side won't see its U.S. premiere until next week at South by Southwest 2014, but Rolling Stone is giving you a first look at Andre 3000 as the guitar god in an exclusive clip today. The video features Hendrix (played by the Outkast's Mc) sitting next to friend Linda Keith (Imogen Poots) in a New York restaurant while future manager Chas Chandler (Andrew Buckley) attempts to convince him to move to London, where guitarists are playing music inspired by the blues.

I’m a sucker for biopics and always have been, but I understand why they’re often thought of as a second-rate form. In a sense, each one is trying to tell two stories at once: the chronicle of its subject’s artistic or political or whatever other worldly achievement (the thing that made us hungry to see a biopic about him or her in the first place), and, at the same time, the private, tumultuous “human drama” of it all. Given that these two dimensions can’t really be separated, and that you have to cram both of them into two hours,...

WikiLeaks drama kicks off a huge slate of major world premieres, including August: Osage County, Twelve Years a Slave, Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom and new films for Brits such as Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Richard Ayoade, as well as the late James Gandolfini

• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures

• The full Toronto film festival line-up

The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.

Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.

Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film

The big story

"Shaken not stirred;" "I expect you to die;" "Keeping the British end up"... James Bond has been part of the movie furniture for so long it hardly seems there could have been a time when 007 wasn't around. But it was in 1962 that the first Bond movie hit cinemas – exactly 50 years ago – and to celebrate we put on our thinking caps and considered what was our favourite Bond film.

Incredibly, we didn't all agree. Peter Bradshaw got all amorous for

From Russia With Love, Philip French said yes to Dr No, Tom Lamont aimed his peepers at Goldeneye, and Xan Brooks treasured Diamonds Are Forever.

There's more where that came from next week, as other Guardian critics have their say. You can have yours here, on the open thread.

In the news

Jim Carrey on board...

Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film

The big story

A violent reality check emerged this week: the moving image still has power to shock and disturb on a global scale. The crude anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims – allegedly a 13-minute trailer for a longer piece, which seems not to exist – showed that film, for better or worse, does retain the power to influence world events.

The first most people became aware of the film was on (ironically

enough) the 11th anniversary of 9/11 when protestors in Egypt beseiged the Us embassy; already the story was a news event, rather than a film one. Events soon spiralled, with the death of the Us ambassador in Libya and the identification of the film-maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.

As our critic Peter Bradshaw pointed out, the instant dissemination afforded by the digital age has only amplified the effect of...

Skeletons, the brilliant British comedy from Nick Whitfield, is available to watch here on demand from 14 September

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Welcome to Skeletons, the latest in the Guardian's series of films to watch on demand. "Intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny," our film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote, back in 2010, in his review of this award-winning indie comedy. Written and directed by Nick Whitfield, and starring standup comics Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley alongside Jason Isaacs, Skeletons is a bona fide British original, and looks even more miraculous and brilliant now than even when it first surfaced.

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Arriving seemingly from nowhere to bag a major award at the Edinburgh film festival, Skeletons is the story of a pair of psychic detectives: their job is to exhume the metaphoric skeletons from their clients'...

Ten years ago they were labouring in standup obscurity, but now Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan have a comedy hit on their hands. Here they tell how it happened

Hello. You are probably wondering who we are and why you are reading this. We are a writing-and-performing comedy double act who have been working together for the past 10 years. This year we found ourselves in the unexpected position of playing the lead roles in a film called Skeletons, which won the Michael Powell award for best British feature, the top prize at this year's Edinburgh International film festival. How did we end up in this position? As you can see from our photo, we are hardly movie-star material. In fact, this very paper described us as "a pair of not particularly photogenic standup comics". Thanks for that, you bunch of smug, passive-aggressive, Oxbridge-educated, middle-class wankers. (Only kidding: we love the Guardian really.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed; Skeletons; 4.3.2.1.; Greenberg; The Human Centipede; Letters to Juliet

With movie-makers still coming to terms with the loss of the UK Film Council (which backed both gems and clunkers in its time), two low-budget home-grown releases remind us just how inventive and exciting our indigenous film industry can be. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009, Icon, 18) is a stripped-down, three-handed thriller shot almost entirely on a single-location set; a fortified room in which the eponymous heroine is held. The opening scene, in which Alice is bound and gagged, is horrible (Eddie Marsan, who stars, describes the filming as "really uncomfortable") and seems to suggest some leering torture-porn endurance test ahead. Yet a smart script soon confounds expectations, as Gemma Arterton's resourceful "victim" and Martin Compston's duplicitous kidnapper reveal unexpected sides to their respective situations and the tension increases as the twists continue.

Despite the obvious...

This is the review of Skeletons, starring Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, Jason Isaacs, Paprika Steen, Tuppence Middleton and Josef Whitfield, directed by Nick Whitfield. Bennet (Andrew Buckley) and Simon (Ed Gaughan) are employed by people to clear out their closets. Using magic runes and electronic devices they are able to walk through a closet and find all the hidden skeletons inside and deal with them; everything from visiting prostitutes to secret salsa lessons. When they are employed to find the missing husband of a rather odd woman they come up against challenges which will ultimately make them question what is important in their lives and whether they should be spending so much time in the past.

Skeletons

DVD, Soda Pictures

You wait ages for a film about mysterious agents with a device of unspecified origin that can place them into someone's brain and then two arrive at once. This low-budget British sci-fi/supernatural comedy (of sorts) beats Inception by having more originality, wit and ingenuity; characters (instead of walking, talking plot devices); no pointless CGI – and all for a fraction of the price. Actor-turned-writer-director Nick Whitfield's film is a complete joy from beginning to end. Comedy duo Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley play Mr Davis and Mr Bennett, two bickering operatives for a psychic cleansing company wandering the Peak District. They travel to the houses of customers with dark(ish) secrets that need to be unearthed – the skeletons of the title – and enter their memories via a closet in their homes with the help of two mysterious stones and various meters. Their job is fraught with danger,...

Mark checks out the supernatural indie flick Skeletons, and finds a film that could be a British answer to Inception…

Earlier in the year, I reported back on Toy Story 3 from the UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. I was too skint to fork out for more than one night's accommodation and so missed out on some of the other great films showing at the festival.

This leaves me scrambling through the rest of 2010 to catch up with The Illusionist, The People Vs George Lucas and Jackboots On Whitehall. Another film I missed, Skeletons, went on to win the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Film, so I definitely had to seek it out once its limited release in cinemas nationwide finally arrived.

I knew a little about it before going in, but found my attention diverted by two things I hadn't anticipated. Firstly, that one of its players,...

Shrek Forever After (U)

(Mike Mitchell, 2010, Us)

Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy. 93 mins.

Like us, Shrek yearns for the good old days here, and – somewhat tellingly – the premise finds the green ogre trying to regain his former fearsome edge. Instead, he gets tricked into an alternate reality where he basically has to re-enact the first film all over again. In some ways, such familiarity is a strength as much as a weakness, and it's nice to see these characters again. Compared to the Toy Story trilogy, though, Shrek is merely The Flintstones to Pixar's Simpsons; fun enough, but really no match.

White Material (15)

(Claire Denis, 2009, Fra/Cam)

Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé. 106 mins.

After the touchy-feely 35 Shots Of Rum, Denis switches to stronger medicine with a sparse evocation of wartorn west Africa. Huppert is a defiant colonial matriarch striving to keep her family and plantation together.

CrimeFighters (Nc)

(Miles Watts,...

This award-winning British film is a real breath of fresh air – both odd and very funny, writes Peter Bradshaw

We might just have found our own Charlie Kaufman in Nick Whitfield, a former actor and stage dramatist whose feature-film debut, Skeletons, won the Michael Powell award at the Edinburgh film festival this year. It's intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny: a film I watched to the incessant accompaniment of my own giggling. Newcomers Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley play Davis and Bennett, two hassled functionaries in ill-fitting black suits. They are the representatives of a shadowy company that specialises in exhuming difficult and painful memories, inaccessible to every other kind of therapy, lancing existential boils and dragging out metaphorical skeletons, by pointing their strange bleeping equipment at bedroom closets – this being, predictably, the place where occult energies are at their strongest.

But Davis has a secret of his own.

Somewhere between Charlie Kaufman and Monty Python, Skeletons is a very odd, very British little film, made on a shoestring. Is this the way forward for domestic filmmaking?

On paper, it isn't exactly a recipe for success: a former stage actor directing his first feature, two not-particularly-photogenic stand-up comics as the leading men, very little budget to speak of, and a far-fetched plot involving divining people's innermost secrets via their wardrobes. But Skeletons could well be this year's Moon: a film few had heard of a couple of weeks ago, but has suddenly been catapulted into the spotlight by winning the Michael Powell prize for best new British feature film at the Edinburgh film festival.

"Frankly I'm slightly embarrassed that it means people will have to put my name and Michael Powell's name in the same sentence," says Nick Whitfield, the film's 42-year-old writer-director. The phones in Whitfield's Derbyshire...

By Hanako M. Ricks

hollywoodnews.com: This week’s Edinburgh International Film Festival brought honors for two beloved actors from the Harry Potter films. Jason Isaacs, who was both loved and hated as malicious Lucius Malfoy, will appear in the dark comedy Skeletons, which was named Best New British Feature at the festival.

Skeletons is the story of two on-call exorcists (played by Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) who travel the country to clear the skeletons of former misdeeds from the closets of their clients. Jason Isaacs plays the Colonel in charge of the two exorcists.

Best Performance in a British Feature Film honors went to David Thewlis, for his portrayal of an Ira gun-runner in the film Mr. Nice. This film is based on the autobiography of Howard Marks, who was one of the most notorious drug dealers/smugglers in Britain in the 1980s. Thewlis plays the part of Jim McCann,...

Lovely bones...

The 64th Edinburgh international film festival closed last night, giving its highest prize to Skeletons. Directed by Nick Whitfield, the dark comedy stars Jason Isaacs and two new talents, Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley, as a pair of "emotional exorcists". Skeletons goes on general release next weekend, boosted by the Michael Powell Award for the festival's best new British feature. Other winners included the brilliant David Thewlis for Mr Nice (although Rhys Ifans plays the film's lead, as drug runner Howard Marks), and the Moët New Directors Award went to Gareth Edwards for his inventive sci-fi road movie, Monsters. The festival closed with Hattie Dalton's debut feature, a tender male bonding drama called Third Star. It looks beautiful, and Dalton brings a sensual understanding of male ego to the proceedings.

Lynch mob

David Lynch has appealed to his fans for cash in order to finance an autobiographical documentary.

Director: Nick Whitfield Writer: Nick Whitfield Starring: Andrew Buckley, Ed Gaughan, Paprika Steen, Tuppence Middleton, Jason Isaacs, Josef Whitfield Bennett (Andrew Buckley) and Davis (Ed Gaughan) are two British guys in suits who are trained to exorcize the proverbial skeletons from people’s closets. (For example: engaged couples utilize Bennett and Davis’ services to get their scandalous affairs and other dirty bits of laundry out in the open.) The duo walk the lush rolling green hills of the British countryside until they find a home that matches a hand-sketched picture. Once they find their destination, they interview their clients and acquire the required signatures and waivers. Then, it’s on to business. They use a device sort of like a Geiger counter to detect the closet or wardrobe where the skeletons are hiding; then with goggles strapped on and magic rocks and fire extinguisher in hands, they dive into the...

SXSW Review

Skeletons

Director: Nick Whitfield

North American Premiere

Emerging Visions

94 minutes

Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010

Synopsis

In this surreal comedy, Davis and Bennett are a mismatched pair of traveling salesmen in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing ‘the Procedure’ whereby secrets and lies are exposed.

Bennett is a stickler for the rules and finds that Davis has been using their special procedure illegally to reconnect with comforting moments from his past.

Their boss, The Colonel assigns the pair to their biggest challenge yet, a graduation test that could see them moving up the company ladder. But when they arrive at a remote family home and can’t get the job done, they discover that you can’t always get away from your own skeletons and you can’t always leave and never come back.

Director Bio

Nick Whitfield grew up in...

The days are surely blowing by fast. Day six of SXSW Film has already come and gone. Next thing I know the festival will be over and I will be back at my day job! But I guess as the saying goes: time flies when you're having fun. And I am having fun. Despite all the frustrations this year - primarily not getting into the films that I want to see - I think 2010 has been one of the strongest SXSW Film festivals that I have attended to date (this being my 13th year in attendance). This is also by far the most badges that I have ever seen at SXSW Film. I suspect this has something to do with the ever-growing amount of Gold Badges (which offers combined access to SXSW Film and Interactive). So either Interactive is becoming more popular and they are crossing over into the Film...