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Wild West Women On The WWW

still_002A lot has been said recently, and rightly so, about equality in movies.  They should reflect the times and the audience.  Of course, a film with a historical setting also needs to accurately portray its period whilst not glorifying the less progressive aspects for a modern viewership.

In most of the commentary on Bone Tomahawk the women of the piece only normally get scant mention as their roles are quite small.  Lili Simmons (Banshee) in her key part as the kidnapped wife of one of the main protagonists has no doubt had the lion’s share of what little has been said.

So, it was nice to see in a recent review of Bone Tomahawk titled The Best Western You Haven’t Seen that British author Rob Wickings made special mention of the ladies in a comparison to other recent cinematic releases The Hateful Eight and The Revenant.

Rob notes that The Hateful Eight‘s female lead is not exactly treated well and The Revenant has only one line spoken by a woman during a brief, and hardly pleasant, appearance.  In terms of the actresses on-screen time Bone Tomahawk may not out do them but the author clearly feels they are much more rounded and realistic portrayals.  Kathryn as Lorna the wife of Kurt Russell’s Sheriff Hunt gets a mention in his article beyond the usual list of credits.  As Rob says:

They are tough, smart women.

Sean Young is the third notable female cast member, thereby outdoing both The Revenant and The Hateful Eight combined :-)

You can read Rob Wicking’s post in full HERE on his blog Excuses And Half Truths as he looks forward to the mid-February release of Bone Tomahawk here in the UK.

27th January 2016 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Kathryn, Mention | Comments are closed

Kathryn Gets A BT Review Shout-out

trailer_001_screenshotSince its premiere at the Fantastic Fest film festival there have been a number of reviews of the horror western Bone Tomahawk published.  They’ve generally been favourable.

Kathryn’s role, however, has largely gone unmentioned other than in lists of additional cast members.  This is hardly surprising given that Lorna, wife of Kurt Russell’s Sheriff Hunt, only makes a some very brief appearances.

The website JoBlo has gone a little further than most in describing some of those big name, small part players:

The town the early scenes are set-in comes to life through the efforts of a truly amazing supporting cast of character actors, including people like James Tolkan as a lazy piano player, Fred Melamed as a barkeep (his saloon is memorably named ‘The Learned Goat’), Kathryn Morris, Sean Young, and even Michael Pare. Most on them only have a scene or two, but like the best character actors they make a huge impression and give the townsfolk real life.

One more thing.  Chris Bumbray’s review (read it in full here) suggests that writer/director S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk is not going to be released in the cinemas at the end of this week, just on streaming services.  Right from the start Chris writes from the premise that the film should be seen on the big screen and not via VOD.  From all the information I can find Bone Tomahawk will be in US theaters from Friday.

19th October 2015 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Kathryn, Mention, Reviews | Leave a comment

Kathryn ‘wants to get back to work’

A few days ago Johnny Messner, Kathryn’s partner and father to her twin boys, Tweeted a response to follower Dani’s question about any future plans for having more children:

Dani californication (@DcPenn29)

@JMessner so Johnny when r we expanding this gorgeous family I mean perfect family :) we need more of u and Kat in the world – Link

Johnny answered thusly:

Johnny Messner (@JMessner)

Hahaha as soon as Kat decides she wants too I think she wants to get back to work – Link

It’s good to know that Kathryn is keen to go back to work.  Of course we already know she will be doing so in the new USA Network sci-fi drama series Colony, as posted about on KM UK here.  The show is due to début in January.

A rare case of KM UK coming over all tabloid newspaper.  I feel dirty :-)

Thank you to Dani for asking and Johnny for reply.

17th September 2015 | Category: Kathryn, Mention, | Leave a comment

1st Poster For Bone Tomahawk

poster_001_1014x1500And so it continues…

Overnight (UK time) the first poster for the film Bone Tomahawk was released by the production company Caliber Media.  You may have noticed it already.  I slipped in a small copy above (full size in the Gallery).  Try squinting :-)

We know that Kathryn’s role in Bone Tomahawk as the wife of the Sheriff played by Kurt Russell will be quite small.  So it is not a big surprise that Kathryn does not feature in the stars pictured or named in large letters in the poster.  However, you never know how things can change once a film goes into post-production.  Kathryn’s filmed scenes could easily have been lost in the editing process.

The very good news is that if  you look closely at the lower section of the poster you can see this:

poster_001_1014x1500There she is, second to be listed after the actors highlighted in the main image.

As mentioned previous Bone Tomahawk is due to be showcased in some form, probably only to those in the trade, at the Cannes Film Festival starting next week.  Hopefully they’ll be more news then.

An actual release date has not been announced yet and I understand that the film is in the final stages of audio post-production.

8th May 2015 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Gallery Update, Kathryn, Mention, News | Leave a comment

A-musing Reminder Of Doctored History

on_set_001It’s been a while since we had reason to post about the not picked up TV drama pilot The Surgeon General.  Not since the last time in fact :-)

In July of 2013 we saw the surprise (and possibly accidental) publication of a promo video for the show.  By then we already knew the show had not been selected for the 2013-2014 TV season by the CBS network.  That decision was clear (largely by omission from announcements, but also by director Rod Lurie Tweeting about it) a couple of months earlier.

Much like the promo video release we can still get the occasional pleasant surprise, even 2 years later.

Rod Lurie spent a bit of time yesterday (18th April) reminiscing on his Tweeter feed with photos from various projects he’s been involved with over the years.  One of them (now in the Gallery) was the one you see above.  That is Rod and Kathryn on the set of The Surgeon General.

Rod should be well known to all Kathryn fans because she has been in most of his feature films.  She starred in Deterrence, The Contender, The Last Castle (in scene that didn’t make the final edit) and Resurrecting The Champ.  For a long time I’ve thought of Kathryn as probably being Rod’s muse.  He’s now confirmed my feelings by posting the above photo with the message:

#KathrynMorris is closest person I have to a muse. In 4 of my films. Here I direct her in a pilot  #SurgeonGeneral.

Hopefully they’ll work together again soon.

Thanks to Rod for the trip back down memory lane.

19th April 2015 | Category: Gallery Update, Kathryn, Mention, Surgeon General, TV | Leave a comment
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