* James Lipton - born Louis James Lipton on 19th September 1926, died 2nd March 2020, aged 93. Lipton was an American Actor, Writer, Scriptwriter, academic, choreographer, interviewer, and Producer for stage and television projects, as well as being a Dean Emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. During his career which began in 1951 he amassed sixteen acting credits, eighteen as Writer, eleven as Producer garnering eighteen Primetime Emmy nominations and one win along the way, plus three Producers Guild of America nominations among his total haul of four wins and another 25 nods. His TV career kicked off on a single episode of 'Pulitzer Prize Playhouse' in 1951, with his first feature film credit coming two years later in 1953's 'The Big Break'. His big screen roles were few and far between, starring next in 'Bewitched' in 2005, and then lending his voice on 'Bolt' and 'Igor' both in 2008. His more notable television credits took in the likes of 'Guiding Light' in 1953 across three episodes, six episodes of 'Arrested Development', and then singular episodes of 'According to Jim', 'Family Guy', 'Saturday Night Live', 'Celebrity Apprentice', 'Glee' and 'Suburgatory'. He is however, perhaps best known for creating and hosting the noted and popular TV series 'Inside the Actors Studio' in 1994 where successful and prominent Actors discuss their craft for the benefit of acting students. In September 2018, Lipton declared that he was stepping down from the programme after more than 24 years and 22 seasons of the multi-award nominated and winning programme across some 260 episodes.
* James Otis - born 16th March 1948, died 3rd March 2020, aged 71. Otis was an American Actor of film and television whose career began in 1976 with the feature film 'Dragonfly'. From here he accumulated twenty-four acting credits including Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories' in 1980, then in 1996 'Henry II : Portrait of a Serial Killer', 1998's 'Another Day in Paradise' with James Woods and Melanie Griffith, 2003's 'The Kiss' with Terence Stamp, 2006's 'The Black Dahlia' with Aaron Eckhart and Scarlett Johansson and that same year 'The Prestige' for Director Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale and concluding with 'Dark Streets' and 'Nite Tales : The Movie' both in 2008. In the meantime there were mostly single episodes on TV shows including 'Missing Persons', 'Profiler', 'The X Files', 'Law & Order : SVU', 'ER', 'Cold Case', 'Criminal Minds', 'Supernatural' his last screen role in 2010, and three episodes on 'Star Trek : Deep Space Nine' back in 1999. 
* Roscoe Born - born 24th November 1950, died 3rd March 2020, aged 69. Born was an American Actor and singer/songwriter, who mostly starred in day time soap operas and long running television shows, usually playing the bad ruthless evil guy. Born had just three feature films and three made for TV movies to his name - beginning with his big screen debut in 1977's 'End of the World', followed by 'Jailbait Babysitter' that same year, then 'Powwow Highway' in 1989, with TV movies 'Fast Friends' in 1979, 'Lady Mobster' in 1988, and 'The Haunting of Sarah Hardy' in 1989. In the meantime there were appearances on 'The Rockford Files', 'The Incredible Hulk', 'Midnight Caller', 'Murder, She Wrote', 'The Guiding Light' with multiple episodes on the likes of 'Paper Dolls', and then 176 episodes of 'Ryan's Hope' between 1980 and 1988, 304 episodes on 'Santa Barbara' between 1989 and 1991, 353 episodes of 'The City' from 1995 to 1997, ten episodes of 'Passions' in 2007, 45 episodes of 'Days of Our Lives' from 2001 to 2008, 62 episodes of 'The Young and the Restless' from 2005 through 2009 and 63 episodes of 'One Life to Live' from 2009 to 2012. Born also acted for many years in Off Broadway and regional theatre productions.
* David Paul - born 8th March 1957, died 6th March 2020, aged 62. David was one half of 'The Barbarian Brothers' with his twin Peter Paul, and was an American Actor, one time Writer, Producer and Director, television personality and bodybuilder. With just eleven acting credits to his name, his screen debut launched in 1983 in Joel Schumacher's 'D.C. Cab' with Adam Baldwin, Gary Busey and Mr. T when David was billed as David Barbarian. This was followed up with a turn on a single episode of 'Knight Rider' then feature films more often than not co-starring with his brother in 'The Flamingo Kid', 'The Barbarian Brothers' in 1987 (giving the pair the chance to flex their highly toned bodies in a self titled swords and sandals epic), 'The Road Raiders', 'Think Big', 'Ghost Writer', 'Double Trouble', Oliver Stone's 'Natural Born Killers' (although their scene ended up on the cutting room floor), 'Twin Sitters', 'Souled Out' and 2013's 'Faith Street Corner Tavern' which was Written and Directed by David and starred Peter. Aside from acting, David also had many celebrated shows of his photography all around the US from which he developed his cinematographic abilities to be able to create and shoot 'Faith Street Corner Tavern' which ran the international festival circuit.
* Johnny Yune - born 22nd October 1936, died 8th March 2020, aged 83. Yune was a South Korean American Actor, comedian and two time Writer and Producer and one time Director who amassed just sixteen screen acting credits to his name in a career spanning thirty years from 1974 until 2004. He gained his small screen break in a one off episode of television's 'Kung-Fu' in 1974, and followed this up with four episodes on 'M*A*S*H', an episode of 'Kojak' and then his lead role in the made for TV movie 'Sergeant T.K. Yu' in 1979, before his big screen break in the Sci-Fi actioner 'Meteor' opposite Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. This was followed up by 'The Cannonball Run' and then 'They Call Me Bruce' which was Co-Written, Co-Produced and starred Yune - a role he would reprise five years later in 1987 in 'They Still Call Me Bruce' which as well as starring in, Co-Writing, Co-Producing he also Directed. 'Nothing in Common' followed with Tom Hanks, then 'Hamburger Johnny', then 'Western Avenue' which was to be his last big screen production in 1993. In the meantime there were scant appearances on 'The Love Boat', 'Hollywood Beat' and 'Love Story in Harvard' in 2004 being his final screen role. In 1977, Yune was discovered at a Santa Monica comedy club by comedian Johnny Carson and was the first guest of Asian descent on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson' and soon became a firm favourite making 34 appearances between the 1970's and '80's, one of the most appearances by a stand-up comedian.
* Max von Sydow - born Carl Adolf von Sydow on 10th April 1929, died 8th March 2020, aged 90. Sydow was a Swedish born (although a French citizen at the time of his death) Actor of cinema, stage and television whose career spanned seven decades launching in 1949's 'Only a Mother' and subsequently took in a total 163 screen acting credits amassing 27 award wins and a further 25 nominations including two Academy Award, two Golden Globe, and two Primetime Emmy nods along the way. He rose to prominence in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film 'The Seventh Seal' in which he plays a man seeking answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. He followed this up with ten other films with Bergman taking in 'Wild Strawberries' also in 1957, then 1958's 'Brink of Life' and 'The Magician', 1960's 'The Virgin Spring', 1961's 'Through a Glass Darkly', 1963's 'Winter Light', 1968's 'Hour of the Wolf' and 'Shame', 1969's 'The Passion of Anna' and 1971's 'The Touch'. Sydow's other memorable big screen appearances included the 1965 epic 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' in which he plays Jesus Christ, then 'The Quiller Memorandum', 'The Exorcist' in 1973 and its follow up in 1977 'Exorcist II : The Heretic', 'Three Days of the Condor', 'March or Die', 'Flash Gordon' as Emperor Ming in 1980, 'Escape to Victory', 'Conan the Barbarian', 'Never Say Never Again' as Blofeld in 1983, 'Dune' in 1984, 'Hannah and Her Sisters', 'Duet for One', 'Awakenings', 'A Kiss Before Dying', 'Needful Things', 'Judge Dredd', 'What Dreams May Come', 'Snow Falling on Cedars', 'Minority Report', 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly', 'Rush Hour 3', 'Shutter Island', 'Robin Hood', 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close', 'Star Wars : Episode VII - The Force Awakens', 'The Command' (aka 'Kursk'), and in post-production 'Echoes of the Past'. In the meantime there were TV appearances on mini-series including 'Quo Vadis' and 'Christopher Columbus' both in 1985, 'The Tudors' in 2009, and 'Game of Thrones' in 2016. He lived in France since the late '90's following his second marriage to French documentarian Catherine Brelet in 1997 and he died at his home in Provence.
* Gary B. Kibbe - born 9th January 1941, died 9th March 2020, aged 79. Kibbe was an American Cinematographer, Director of Photography and camera operator who accumulated sixteen cinematography credits to his name throughout his career plus many more as a camera operator. He worked on many John Carpenter films including 1987's 'Prince of Darkness' followed by 'They Live', 'In the Mouth of Madness', 'Village of the Damned', 'Escape from L.A.', 'Vampires', and 'Ghosts of Mars'. In the meantime as camera operator he worked on the likes of 'Convoy', 'Butch and Sundance : The Early Days', 'Melvin and Howard', 'Halloween II', 'Sixteen Candles', 'Fletch', 'Big Trouble in Little China', 'Stand By Me', 'Misery', 'City Slickers', 'Alien 3', 'A Few Good Men', 'Virtuosity', and 'The Crow : City of Angels'.
* Roy Hudd - born 16th May 1936, died 15th March 2020, aged 83. Hudd was an English stand up comedian, ventriloquist, Actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on English Music Hall entertainment. He made his small screen debut in 1960's 'Our House' following this up with 61 episodes on 'Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life' between 1964 and '65, and then on six episodes on the self titled 'Hudd' in 1965 and a further 21 episodes on 'The Illustrated Weekly Hudd' in 1966/67. Hudd made his big screen debut in 1968's horror 'The Blood Beast Terror' and subsequently had roles in 'Up Pompeii', 'Up The Chastity Belt', 'The Alf Garnett Saga', 'A Kind of Hush', 'Purely Belter', 'Jack, the Last Victim', 'Robot Overlords' and 'Patrick' most recently in 2018. In between time there were numerous television series appearances including six episodes on 'Lipstick on Your Collar', twelve on 'Common as Muck', one hundred episodes on 'Coronation Street', and multiple appearances on 'Missing', 'Just William', 'Doctors', 'Broadchurch' and 'Casualty' amongst others. Hudd also appeared in many pantomimes and variety performances, and wrote several books on old time music hall, re-recorded music hall records, and appeared in the BBC's music hall revival show 'The Good Old Days'. He was seen by broadcasters as an authority on the subject and was the longstanding President of the British Music Hall Society. He was also considered an authority on the comedian Max Miller (1894-1963), was known for his impersonation of Miller and served as President of the Max Miller Appreciation Society. He was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's 2004 New Year Honours List.
* Stuart Whitman - born 1st February 1928, died 16th March 2020, aged 92. Whitman was an American Actor of film and television who amassed 189 acting credits throughout his career which launched with an uncredited role in 1951's 'When World's Collide', which was followed up over the next two years with further uncredited roles in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'Barbed Wire', 'One Minute to Zero', 'All I Desire' and 'The Man from the Alamo'. Throughout the remaining 1950's and into the '60's Whitman worked with some of the more notable Directors of the era on such films as 'Darby's Rangers', 'China Doll', 'Ten North Frederick', 'The Decks Ran Red', 'Hound-Dog Man', 'These Thousand Hills', 'The Story of Ruth', 'Murder, Inc.', 'The Comancheros' and 'The Mark' in 1961 for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. The '60's also saw 'The Longest Day', 'The Day and the Hour' and 1965's 'Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines' featuring an ensemble cast of British acting talent. From 1967 to 1968 he appeared in the lead role in the Western TV series 'Cimarron Strip' which aired for just one season of 23 episodes, and then in either single or multiple episodes of such TV shows as 'The Streets of San Francisco', 'Tales of the Unexpected', 'Knight Rider', 'The F.B.I.', 'S.W.A.T.', 'Fantasy Island', 'Matt Houston', 'The A-Team', 'Knots Landing', 'Murder, She Wrote', 'Superboy', and 'Walker, Texas Ranger' reprising his role from the 1994 film 'Walker Texas Ranger 3 : Deadly Reunion'. In 1998 Whitman was honoured with inclusion in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and following his role in the made for TV movie 'The President's Man' in 2000, he retired.
* Saskia Post - born Saskia Steenkamer on 1st January 1961, died 16th March 2020, aged 59. Post was an American born Australian Actress of film, television and stage who also worked as a transpersonal art therapist and educator. She had just seventeen screen acting credits to her name gained in a career that kicked off on an episode of the Aussie soap opera 'The Sullivans' in 1982 followed by fifteen episodes on 'Sons and Daughters' between 1982 and 1983. Her big screen debut came in John Duigan's 1984 film 'One Night Stand' followed by 'Bliss' in 1985 and then the lead role opposite Michael Hutchence in 1986's 'Dogs in Space'. Her other big screen appearances came with 'Proof' in 1991 with Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe, 'True Love and Chaos' in 1997 with Hugo Weaving, Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor and Miranda Otto and 2017's 'Throbbin' 84' which was to be here final screen appearance. In the meantime there was eleven episodes on 'Return to Eden', six on 'Introducing Gary Petty', eleven on 'Eugenie Sandler P.I.' and single turns on the likes of 'All Together Now', 'Short Cuts' and 'City Homicide'. She also appeared in numerous stage productions in Melbourne and Sydney.
* Lyle Waggoner - born 13th April 1935, died 17th March 2020, aged 84. Waggoner was an American Actor and male model, who notched up 56 acting credits throughout his career spanning from 1966 through until 2005 beginning with a single episode on 'Gunsmoke' and gaining his big screen debut that same year on 'Swamp Country'. This was followed up by 'Catalina Caper' and 'Journey to the Centre of Time' a year later and the horror offering in 1972 'Love Me Deadly'. Then came a bunch of B movies including 'Surf II', 'Murder Weapon', 'Mind Trap', 'Gypsy Angels', 'The Girl I Want', 'Wizards of the Demon Sword' and 'Dead Women in Lingerie' which was to be his final feature film role in 1991. Meanwhile there was 174 appearances between 1967 and 1974 on the 'Carol Burnett Show' and then perhaps his most famed role as Steve Trevor on 59 episodes of 'Wonder Woman' between 1975 and 1979 opposite Linda Carter. There were also singular appearances on shows including 'Charlie's Angels', 'Mork & Mindy', 'The Love Boat', 'Fantasy Island', 'Happy Days', 'Mike Hammer', 'Murder, She Wrote', 'The Naked Truth', 'That '70s Show' and 'The War at Home' in 2005 being his final screen role. Appreciating that his film career was made up of largely dead end roles, and one off appearances in TV land, he perhaps wisely diversified his career by starting up in 1979 'Star Waggons' which served TV and film production companies with custom made location trailers for lease to cast and crew members. When he retired from acting, he spent his time working full time on his now successful location trailer business.
* David Collings - born 4th June 1940, died 23rd March 2020, aged 79. Collings was an English Actor of television, theatre and cinema whose career launched with several television series appearances in 1965, before his big screen role in an uncredited performance on 1966's 'A Man for All Seasons'. In total he had 101 screen acting credits to his name. His feature film roles were sporadic in the years that followed, taking in 'Scrooge' in 1970, 'For the Love of Ada' in 1972, 'Mahler' in 1974, 'Hennessy' in 1975, 'The Thirty Nine Steps' in 1978, 'The Outsider' in 1979, 'Tangiers' in 1982, 'Mission London' in 2010 and 'The Invisible Woman' in 2013 marking his final film role. Over the ensuing years, there were numerous TV appearances on series including 'Z Cars', 'Canterbury Tales', on twelve episodes of 'Midnight Is a Place', 'The Professionals', lending his voice to 52 episodes of the English dubbed version of 'Monkey', on eight episodes of 'Dark Towers', 'Blake's 7', on ten episodes of 'Sapphire & Steel', on eleven episodes of 'Dr. Who', 'Boon', 'The Darling Buds of May', 'Press Gang' and 'Holby City' in 2015 being his last TV performance. He also had a long stage acting career appearing in various productions in the UK, US and around the world, ranging from Shakespeare and his contemporaries, classical works, dramas and farce, through to contemporary classics and new plays.
* Stuart Gordon - born 11th August 1947, died 24th March 2020, aged 72. Gordon was an American Director, Producer, Screenwriter, and Actor who amassed 21 Directing, 21 writing, twelve Producing and nine Actor credits to his name during his career which launched in 1979 with his Directorial debut 'Bleacher Bums'. The majority of his subsequent film making output was in the horror or Sci-Fi genres, putting out 'Re-Animator' next in 1985 and 'From Beyond' the following year both based on the H.P. Lovecraft stories, then the likes of 'Robot Jox' in 1989, 'The Pit and the Pendulum' based on the Edgar Allen Poe story, 'Fortress' in 1992, the straight to video production of 'Castle Freak' in 1995 again based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, 'Space Truckers' in 1996 with questionable performances by Dennis Hopper and Charles Dance, 2001's 'Dagon' once more based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story, 'King of the Ants' in 2003, 'Edmond' in 2005 with William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Aldis Hodge and Denise Richards, 'Stuck' in 2007 and finally 'Bunker of Blood : Chapter 5 : Psycho Sideshow : Demon Freaks' in 2018. In the meantime Gordon also wrote 22 episodes of 'E.R' and the story upon which the 1989 film 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' was based, plus writing one episode of the television series based on the film in 1998. He also won eleven awards and was nominated another eleven times from around the awards and festivals circuit.
* John Callahan - born 23rd December 1953, died 28th March 2020, aged 66. Callahan was an American Actor who amassed 34 screen acting credits to his name in a career that launched in 1982 in a bit part in the TV series 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. In the years that followed he had small roles in made for television movies and series, including 'Three's Company', 'General Hospital', 'Hotel' and 'Fantasy Island' before landing the role of Eric Stavros in sixty-six episodes of 'Falcon Crest' between 1986 and 1988. This in turn gave way to 293 episodes on TV's 'Santa Barbara' between 1989 and 1992 and then as Edmund Grey in 'All My Children' for 356 episodes between 1992 and 2005. There was a two episode turn on 'Desperate Housewives' then 105 episodes on 'Days of Our Lives' and six on 'The Bay' in 2010. In the meantime his film roles included 'Marvin's Room' with Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1996, 'His and Hers' with Liev Schreiber in 1997 and then a bunch of largely B-Grade movies taking in 'Lost in the Woods', 'eCupid', 'Tentacle 8', 'Zoe Gone', 'Do It or Die!', 'A Doggone Adventure' and 'Loyalty' most recently which has only recently finished filming.
* Matthew Faber - born 31st January 1973, died 28th March 2020, aged 47. Faber was an American Actor who accumulated 27 acting credits during his career which began with a small role in the Kevin Spacey starring film 'Darrow' in 1991. From here he gained small supporting roles in the likes of 'Bob Roberts' in 1992 Directed, Written and starring Tim Robbins, then Oliver Stone's 'Natural Born Killers' followed by 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' for which he was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male Actor, 'The Pallbearer', 'Restless', Ang Lee's 'Ride with the Devil', 'Hard Luck', 'Palindromes', 'Still Life', 'On the Road with Judas' and 'The Devil You Know' being his last acting gig in 2013.
* David Schramm - born 14th August 1946, died 28th March 2020, aged 73. Schramm was an American Actor of stage, television and cinema who accumulated a fairly strong background in theatre acting roles before graduating to film and TV work in 1976 with a part in the made for TV movie 'The Time of Your Life'. He followed this up in 1983 with a more substantial role in the TV mini-series 'Kennedy' before a number of single episodes on TV shows including 'Spenser : For Hire', 'Miami Vice', 'The Equalizer', 'Wiseguy' and 'Jake and the Fatman' before his big screen debut in 1989 with 'Let It Ride' with Richard Dreyfuss, then 'Johnny Handsome' that same year with Mickey Rourke, 'A Shock to the System' with Michael Caine in 1990 and 'Big Packages' in 1996. In the meantime there were multiple appearances on TV series 'Max Monroe', 'Working Girl' and perhaps his most remembered role as Roy Biggins in all 172 episodes of 'Wings' which aired between 1990 and 1997. Following this, Schramm returned to theatre work from 2003 through until 2015 on Broadway and across the country. He was also a founding member of 'The Acting Company' - a professional theatre company that tours the United States annually, staging and performing one or two plays in as many as fifty cities, often with runs of only one or two nights.
* Vincent Marzello - born 4th July 1951, died 31st March 2020, aged 68. Marzello was an American born Actor living in London, England, where he died, who amassed 74 screen acting credits throughout his career which launched in a single episodes of TV series 'The Brothers' in 1976, and concluded in 2017 on three episodes of 'The Magical Music Box'. In between there were big screen outings on such films as 1977's 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 1978's 'Superman', then 'Never Say Never Again', 'Honor Bound', 'The Witches', 'A Kid in King Arthur's Court', 'The Missing Reel', 'Velvet Goldmine', 'Laws of Attraction' as well as lending his voice to multiple videos and the television series across 71 episodes as Robert and Farmer Pickles on the popular kids animated 'Bob the Builder' franchise. In between there were mini-series, singular and multiple episodes on TV series including 'Secret Army', 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Taggart', 'The House of Eliott', 'Father Ted', 'Dalziel and Pascoe', 'Rebus' and 'Mile High'.
* Andrew Jack - born Andrew Hutchinson on 28th January 1944, died 31st March 2020, aged 76, from COVID-19. Jack was an English film and television dialect coach and occasional Actor, who worked on over 80 movies since 1982, and began his screen acting career way back in 1957 as a schoolboy on ten episodes of 'Whack-Oh!'. He worked on a handful of TV series during the 1960's culminating with his last small screen appearance in 1971on 'Softly Softly : Task Force' before returning to the big screen in 2001 in 'Kate & Leopold', then next in 2015 in 'Star Wars : Episode VII - The Force Awakens', in 2017 in 'Star Wars : Episode VIII - The Last Jedi' and lending his voice on 'Solo : A Star Wars Story' in 2018. However, he will be best remembered for his dialect guidance on 114 screen credits working with more than two hundred Actors during his time. His film credits take in amongst numerous others 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'Chaplin', 'Backbeat', 'GoldenEye', 'Restoration', 'The Jackal', 'Tomorrow Never Dies', 'Lost in Space', 'The Governess', 'Hilary and Jackie', 'Mansfield Park', 'Die Another Day', 'Calendar Girls', 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', 'Cold Mountain', 'Troy', 'Batman Begins', 'Sunshine', 'Eastern Promises', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'The Wolfman', 'Robin Hood', 'The World's End', 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.', 'The Nightingale', 'Men in Black : International', 'Dolittle', 'The Batman' still in production, and several MCU films including 'Captain America : The First Avenger', 'Guardians of the Galaxy', 'Thor : Ragnarock', 'Avengers : Infinity War' and 'Avengers : Endgame'. As supervising dialect coach for 'The Lord of the Rings' on 'Fellowship of the Ring', 'The Two Towers' and 'Return of the King', he created the Middle-Earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy.And so turning attention to the three movies that were originally slated for a cinematic release before the widespread and wholesale closure of cinema screens the world over because of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, below is my quick synopsis for your future reference, once a sense of normality returns to the planet, and Odeon's are one again opened for your big screen entertainment.
We kick start the week that should have been with a dark comedy thriller about an estranged father who contacts his son, and upon visiting his dad learns dark secrets that reveal that all is not quite what it seems. We then turn to a foreign language comedy offering about a Palestinian man who ventures out into the world in search of somewhere new to call home, only to discover that the further he travels the more things seem to remain the same. And we close out the week with an animated feature about a world lived in by mythical creatures, and in particular two elf brothers who set out on a journey to spend one last day with the dad who died when they were young - with a little sprinkling of magic, if indeed it really exists!
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is - be it any of the three previously scheduled new release movies as Previewed below, or those as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing on your home smaller screen during the week ahead.
'COME TO DADDY' (Rated MA15+) - this dark comedy thriller is Directed by New Zealander Ant Timpson is his feature film making debut, although he is not new to movie production, lending his name to such films as Producer on 'Turbo Kid', 'Deathgasm' and 'The Greasy Strangler' in 2016. Timpson also is the founder and host of the New Zealand film making competition '48Hours' which has run annually since 2003, and he also owns the largest collection of 35mm films in the Southern Hemisphere. This film saw its World Premier showing at the Tribeca Film Festival back in April 2019, went on release in the US in early February, and was set for a limited showcasing in Australia this week having garnered generally favourable Reviews along the way.
'IT MUST BE HEAVEN' (Rated M) - is a 2019 internationally Co-Produced comedy film Directed, Co-Produced, Written, starring and narrated by the Palestinian/Israeli film maker and Actor Elia Suleiman. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Prize for Best Film in Competition. It was also selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at this years Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Here Suleiman escapes from his native Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is constantly following behind. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors, no matter how far he travels, and which distant lands he travels to on his globe trotting journey, something always reminds him of home. This story laced with wit and mirth explored identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question, 'where is the place we can truly call home?' Also starring Ali Suliman, Francois Girard, Gael Garcia Bernal, Nancy Grant and Stephen McHattie.
'ONWARD' (Rated PG) - here this computer animated fantasy film is produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures and is Directed by Dan Scanlon, the American animator, storyboard artist and now second time feature film Director following 'Monsters University' in 2013. The film saw its World Premier screening at the recent Berlin International Film Festival and was released Stateside in early March, having received generally positive Reviews and grossing US$74M worldwide so far. Set in a world inhabited by mythical creatures, two teenage elf brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot (voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt respectively), go on a journey to discover if there is still a little magic left out there in order to spend one last day with their father Wilden (Kyle Bornheimer), who died when they were too young to remember him. Also starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Mel Rodriguez and Tracey Ullman.Despite these three films now being on the release back burner indefinitely, remember to share your movie musings with your other like minded cinephile friends here at Odeon Online. In the meantime, stay safe and remain healthy.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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