EXCLUSIVE: Mr. Turner star Timothy Spall is set for a recurring role opposite Ben Kingsley, Jimmi Simpson and Jacki Weaver in Epix's Our Lady, LTD, a 10-episode modern noir drama series, from Patriot creator Steve Conrad and Epix's sister studio MGM Television. Shooting is currently underway in New Mexico. Written by…

EXCLUSIVE: Toby Stephens (Black Sails), Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty), Linus Roache (Homeland) and Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) have been set to star in writer-director Stephen Poliakoff’s (Dancing on the Edge) semi-autobiographical BBC Two drama Summer of Rockets, which is underway. The six-episode hourlong series is set…

A feel-good British comedy in the vein of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the new film Finding Your Feet finds its own feet by presenting light and engaging fare employing veteran English actors in ways we rarely get to see them on the big screen. As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), in these…

Antonement star Vanessa Redgrave and Harry Potter star Timothy Spall are to front Geniuses Pictures' Mrs Lowry & Son, a feature that looks at the relationship between artist L.S. Lowry and his mother, Elizabeth. The film is directed by Adrian Noble, the former Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was…

The first thing you should know is that Amazon's Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams doesn't try to be Black Mirror – and that's a good thing. With varying results including one very good and one extraordinary offering in the star- studded 10-episode anthology series debuting tomorrow on the streaming service, what Electri…

What happens when you stick two people who hate each other in a car together? And what if those two men were sworn enemies on which the entire peace process between two countries rested? We’ve got a first look at the new trailer for The Journey, an account of how two men from opposite sides of the political spectrum…

Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, Secrets & Lies) has been tapped to star in the first installment of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, a 10-episode sci-fi anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV. The show, based on short stories by the award-winning novelist, was…

Back in October, we got a brief glimpse at Aardman Animation and Studiocanal’s prehistoric comedy adventure, Early Man. Today we have the first teaser. Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston and Maisie Williams star in the Stone Age pic that’s helmed by Nick Park. Redmayne plays Dug, a plucky caveman whose tribe is really…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. MEL IS BACK It was an emotional night Monday at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, where director Mel Gibson got a sustained standing ovation after Andrew Garfield, star of his new film Hacksaw Ridge, brought him up on the stage following the Los…

Although the libel trial brought by British Holocaust denier David Irving against the American academic Deborah Lipstadt happened nearly 20 years ago, it simply could not be more pertinent today. With the level of discourse about various attacks on the truth and a certain current presidential campaign that had its…

With a script by playwright David Hare based on Deborah E. Lipstadt's nonfiction book about Holocaust deniers, Mick Jackson’s upcoming drama called, appropriately enough, Denial, promised fireworks from the get-go. This new trailer doesn’t back away, opening with a scene in which denier David Irving (Timothy Spall)…

Bleecker Street will open Mick Jackson’s Denial on September 30. Denial follows Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Rachel Weisz) legal crusade for historical truth against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. I’ve heard great things about this one for awards season. Pic…