Kathryn Morris UK

Kathryn @ Newport Beach Film Festival – Update x2

First!

Kathryn’s first public appearance of the year that is. Let’s hope it is the first of many. It is so great to see her again.

As reported previously the short film The Coin was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival yesterday (26th April) and all our wishes came true because Kathryn was in attendance.

As you can see she was there with Fabien Martorell (co-writer/co-producer/director of the film), Will Kemp (co-producer/actor) and young Jack Ryan Shepherd (actor).

Thanks to Fabien for the photo. It is in the KM UK Gallery.

Everyone here sends best wishes to everyone there.

Update: A couple more photos have been added. Thanks to Will Kemp and Fabien again.

Update (28th Apr): An additional three photos courtesy of Fabien and Severine.

The Coin By The Beach On Saturday

I’ve been trying to work out with a link between a coin and the beach to me an amusing subject line for this reminder of The Coin‘s Saturday screening at the Newport Beach Film Festival. So far I’ve failed. I just keep coming back to the memory of grandparents giving me some money to buy an ice-cream whilst on the next family holiday to the seaside.

Anyhoo. As I covered before, the short film is part of a programmed called ‘Short Connections’ made up of 7 films in a 90 minute event. It takes place in a venue called The Triangle on Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, California. Show starts at 3:45pm. The city of Costa Mesa is in Orange County (that’s the O and C in The O.C.). Ain’t Wikipedia useful

KM UK wishes all those showing films at the NBFF the best of luck, especially friend-of-the-site Fabien Martorell and his cast and crew.

The official NBFF website HERE has all the details.

Hell Swarm

It’s a double bank holiday weekend so prepare for rain.

Going through my very long to-do list for KM UK I realised that I have never written here about Hell Swarm, despite screencaps from it being in the Gallery from day one. It’s been a while since the last one so it is time for another of my “it’s been in the Gallery from the beginning but I’ve never written about it here” posts.

I sat down to write a lengthy review of it, and even re-watch the film if necessary, and then I realised that I’d written a review ages ago for the Look Again Cold Case fan site. So, along with having the screencaps already, I don’t need to write anything new. Result! It turned into a Good Friday after all

You can read my particularly entertaining take on Hell Swarm HERE.

However, to prove I’ve done something new for this post I have sweetened the deal a little with a set of small video clips and a couple of miscellaneous images.

All the Hell Swarm goodness/badness can be found in the Gallery.

Oh yes, Happy Easter/Friday/Saturday.

Murder, She Wrote: A Story To Die For – Saturday ITV

I’ve posted several times over the years about this post-series Murder, She Wrote TV movie getting airings in the UK. Up to now all those screenings have been on the sister ITV3 channel. On Saturday it returns to the big leagues on the main ITV1 channel. You’ll have to get up early (for a Saturday) to catch it though as it’s a 9:30 start.

In January there was big Murder news as it was reported that the US TV network NBC had decided not to go ahead with making a pilot of a remake after they’d had a re-think. Isn’t re-imagining the same as re-thinking? Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) was signed up as the lead in the re-imagining.

Original Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury was said to be “terribly pleased and relieved” at the news of the project’s cancellation. Fans of the show seemed largely to be against the idea as well. A few weeks prior to that, Angela, who in 2014 celebrates 70 years in the business known as “show”, received the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for her acting and charity work. She may have lived and worked in the US for much of her life but Angela is British by birth and holds dual citizenship so can use the attached title of Dame. Non-citizens can hold the honorary title and are only allowed put the letters after their name. 20 years ago Dame Angela was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), which has no title attached, so getting the DBE is a promotion. The equivalent to the DBE for men is the KBE, or Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which gets you a Sir.

A Story To Die For was the second of four TV movies made in the seven years after the series finished its amazing 12 season run of 264 episodes in 1996. (This post is brought to you by the numbers 2, 4, 7, 12, 264 and 1996, and the letters K, M and U ). As we know, earlier in her career Kathryn had a small role in one of the last episodes of the final season of the TV series. The episode title was What You Don’t Know Can Kill You and KM UK covered it HERE. Hopefully that episode will be broadcast on UK television at some point in the not to distant future.

Kathryn’s role in A Story To Die For is quite significant in its air time and importance to the plot. Details of the broadcast can be found on the Radio Times website.

Screencaps (such as the one above) from the film can be found in the Gallery.

Golden Coin Wins In France

The award winning short film has won an award. Another one.

As I originally posted back in January, The Coin was screened last Saturday (5th April) at the south of France-based Avignon International Short Film Festival (known better to locals as the “Fenêtre Sur Courts” Festival International du Film de Court Métrage d’Avignon).

The event proved fruitful for the 9 minute-long movie The Coin as the co-writer and co-producer Fabien Martorell took the prize for his other role as the film’s director.

Congratulations to Fabien and everyone else involved in this project for its continued success.

Next stop (that we know about so far) is the Newport Beach film festival in two weeks time.