Welcome to the daily briefing, move along and take a seat, quick as you can, please. As you may see from the ludicrously overpopulated suspect wall behind me, we’re on the lookout for someone very special here. These particular characters are all known killers, in that they’ve been killing it on screen as British TV detectives, some of them for decades. We’re here to find their boss, the kingpin, the very best of the best.
Intelligence says that this character is British, so please discount your Columbos, Sarah Lunds, Maigrets, Poirots and Wallanders, even if they are known suspects. We’re also confident that this person works mostly alone, so double-acts of the Dalziel and Pascoe, Dempsey and Makepeace, Scott and Bailey, Rosemary and Thyme or Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) variety are not to be included in the search. Nor are criminal profilers, otherwise we’d obviously...
Intelligence says that this character is British, so please discount your Columbos, Sarah Lunds, Maigrets, Poirots and Wallanders, even if they are known suspects. We’re also confident that this person works mostly alone, so double-acts of the Dalziel and Pascoe, Dempsey and Makepeace, Scott and Bailey, Rosemary and Thyme or Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) variety are not to be included in the search. Nor are criminal profilers, otherwise we’d obviously...
- 8/9/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
People looking for a great new library of content often turn to BritBox. You’ll get strong female characters, compelling mysteries, and much of the best entertainment produced overseas. Whether you’re just sampling the service on its 7-day free trial or whether you’re ready to become a regular subscriber, we’ve pulled together some of the best titles to get you started.
7-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month BritBox.com Shetland March 10, 2013
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows Di Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Line of Duty June 26, 2012
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Blue Lights March 27, 2023
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which...
7-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month BritBox.com Shetland March 10, 2013
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows Di Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Line of Duty June 26, 2012
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Blue Lights March 27, 2023
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which...
- 7/8/2024
- by Ben Bowman
- The Streamable
In the 1952 book “Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis argued that the most logical case against atheism was the notion that humans born in completely unrelated civilizations during every era in history all entered the world with the same internal feeling that someone above us is displeased with our conduct — and that we should make some kind of sacrifice to earn their favor back. Just like our thirst leads us to water and our hunger leads us to food, he argued that our guilt and cravings for atonement were natural urges pointing us all towards the same hope for transcendence. But in Jordan Scott’s “A Sacrifice,” Ben Monroe (Eric Bana) has a considerably simpler interpretation of the same premise: “When someone mentions sacrifice or redemption, I smell cult.”
As a bestselling author, visiting professor, and expert in the field of social psychology, Ben knows a thing or two about how cults get started.
As a bestselling author, visiting professor, and expert in the field of social psychology, Ben knows a thing or two about how cults get started.
- 6/25/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
For sports fans, the arrival of January means the start of the NFL playoffs. This is usually enough to keep the attention of football fans all month long, and this weekend’s AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens will stream live on Paramount+ for all the cord-cutting viewers out there.
But what about non-football fans? This audience segment needs some love too, and fortunately, there’s a wide variety of new shows and movies heading to a streaming service near you this week if you’re sick and tired of football talk and want to enjoy something else.
Monday, Jan. 22 ‘Judy Justice’ Season 3 Premiere | Freevee
“Judy Justice” is back and better than ever! Judge Judy Sheindlin presides over new cases with her signature blend of sharp wit and wisdom, hilarious candor, and unwavering honesty that has made her a household favorite among American audiences for almost 30 years.
But what about non-football fans? This audience segment needs some love too, and fortunately, there’s a wide variety of new shows and movies heading to a streaming service near you this week if you’re sick and tired of football talk and want to enjoy something else.
Monday, Jan. 22 ‘Judy Justice’ Season 3 Premiere | Freevee
“Judy Justice” is back and better than ever! Judge Judy Sheindlin presides over new cases with her signature blend of sharp wit and wisdom, hilarious candor, and unwavering honesty that has made her a household favorite among American audiences for almost 30 years.
- 1/22/2024
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Why do we find murder mysteries so uniquely relaxing? This is one of the age-old questions about human nature, up there with ‘what is consciousness?’ and ‘why do we keep eating mouldy cheese and fish eggs like it’s a good thing?’ Because, despite the grief and blood and mountains of paperwork that a gruesome murder causes, we simply can’t get enough of curling up on the sofa with a mug of tea and a cosy crime drama to keep us blissfully entertained all the way through to bedtime.
This isn’t a new thing, either: while modern series like Death in Paradise and Shakespeare and Hathaway are the current champions of cosy crime TV, back in the eighties and nineties classics like Murder She Wrote and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates taught us how it’s done. So whether you’re after the latest in the cosy crime genre or some more nostalgic viewing,...
This isn’t a new thing, either: while modern series like Death in Paradise and Shakespeare and Hathaway are the current champions of cosy crime TV, back in the eighties and nineties classics like Murder She Wrote and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates taught us how it’s done. So whether you’re after the latest in the cosy crime genre or some more nostalgic viewing,...
- 7/29/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Photo: Web Series In 2020, content was king. Trapped inside our homes looking for distraction, we turned to our devices and our streaming platforms to take our minds away from the politics and the plague. With the end of the pandemic still not yet in sight, and having trawled the deepest trenches of Netflix, it’s never been a more perfect time to look for content elsewhere. The web series is a common starting place for many up-and-coming content creators. They often consist of approximately ten-minute, low-budget episodes which are then released on YouTube or Vimeo. As writer and critic G.K. Chesterton said, “Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” As the following list will go on to prove, the restraints of budget, time, and resources can produce some of the most original content out there, as the following list proves. Web series as...
- 1/13/2021
- by Cat Sole
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
You start with a corpse. A murder has been committed — maybe it’s at a country estate, or on a train, or during a cruise headed to some exotic locale. If the victim is powerful, rich, and possibly hated for a variety of reasons, all the better. You need suspects, each with a motive for wanting said person six feet under. Lastly, and this is important: You’ve gotta have a sleuth. Preferably someone eccentric, with a quirk or a tic; bonus points if you can make the brainiac seem innocent or easily underestimated.
- 12/2/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Genre specialists to distribute Balazs Juszt’s film in North America.
Genre specialists Devilworks have struck a North American distribution deal for thriller The Man Who Was Thursday.
The deal was reached with Sp Releasing for Hungarian director Balazs Juszt’s film, which was inspired by G.K. Chesterton’s existentialist novel of the same name. The film stars Ana Ularu (Emerald City, Inferno), François Arnaud (The Borgias, Rabid Dogs) and Jordi Mollà (Riddick, Criminal).
This Us-Hungary-Italy-Romania co-production follows Father Smith’s descent into the Roman Underworld and a battle between god and the devil, with the fate of humanity at stake.
Genre specialists Devilworks have struck a North American distribution deal for thriller The Man Who Was Thursday.
The deal was reached with Sp Releasing for Hungarian director Balazs Juszt’s film, which was inspired by G.K. Chesterton’s existentialist novel of the same name. The film stars Ana Ularu (Emerald City, Inferno), François Arnaud (The Borgias, Rabid Dogs) and Jordi Mollà (Riddick, Criminal).
This Us-Hungary-Italy-Romania co-production follows Father Smith’s descent into the Roman Underworld and a battle between god and the devil, with the fate of humanity at stake.
- 3/7/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Sales outfit is bringing six market premieres to Berlin.
Ahead of the European Film Market (Efm) at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed more detail about its slate of films.
The company’s full slate features six market premieres, including sci-fi thriller Incontrol from director Kurtis David Harder (Cody Fitz). Starring Levi Meaden (Aftermath, Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Rory J. Saper (The Legend Of Tarzan), the film tells the story of a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of other people.
Screen can exclusively reveal the film’s first trailer:
[Click here to watch on Youtube]
Also on Devilworks’ slate is meta horror Cut Shoot Kill [pictured top], from writer-director Michael Walker (Chasing Sleep, The Maid’s Room). The film stars Alexandra Socha (Red Oaks) and Phil Burke (Hell On Wheels) in the story of an ambitious young actress who signs on as the star of a horror film. On the set...
Ahead of the European Film Market (Efm) at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed more detail about its slate of films.
The company’s full slate features six market premieres, including sci-fi thriller Incontrol from director Kurtis David Harder (Cody Fitz). Starring Levi Meaden (Aftermath, Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Rory J. Saper (The Legend Of Tarzan), the film tells the story of a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of other people.
Screen can exclusively reveal the film’s first trailer:
[Click here to watch on Youtube]
Also on Devilworks’ slate is meta horror Cut Shoot Kill [pictured top], from writer-director Michael Walker (Chasing Sleep, The Maid’s Room). The film stars Alexandra Socha (Red Oaks) and Phil Burke (Hell On Wheels) in the story of an ambitious young actress who signs on as the star of a horror film. On the set...
- 1/20/2017
- by [email protected] (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Sales outfit is bringing six market premieres to Berlin.
Ahead of the European Film Market (Efm) at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed more detail about its slate of films.
The company’s full slate features six market premieres, including sci-fi thriller Incontrol from director Kurtis David Harder (Cody Fitz). Starring Levi Meaden (Aftermath, Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Rory J. Saper (The Legend Of Tarzan), the film tells the story of a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of other people.
Screen can exclusively reveal the film’s first trailer:
[Click here to watch on Youtube]
Also on Devilworks’ slate is meta horror Cut Shoot Kill [pictured top], from writer-director Michael Walker (Chasing Sleep, The Maid’s Room). The film stars Alexandra Socha (Red Oaks) and Phil Burke (Hell On Wheels) in the story of an ambitious young actress who signs on as the star of a horror film. On the set...
Ahead of the European Film Market (Efm) at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 9-19), genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed more detail about its slate of films.
The company’s full slate features six market premieres, including sci-fi thriller Incontrol from director Kurtis David Harder (Cody Fitz). Starring Levi Meaden (Aftermath, Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Rory J. Saper (The Legend Of Tarzan), the film tells the story of a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of other people.
Screen can exclusively reveal the film’s first trailer:
[Click here to watch on Youtube]
Also on Devilworks’ slate is meta horror Cut Shoot Kill [pictured top], from writer-director Michael Walker (Chasing Sleep, The Maid’s Room). The film stars Alexandra Socha (Red Oaks) and Phil Burke (Hell On Wheels) in the story of an ambitious young actress who signs on as the star of a horror film. On the set...
- 1/20/2017
- by [email protected] (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
“Poor, poor little Alice!” the critic G.K. Chesterton lamented of Lewis Carroll’s most famous character. “She has not only been caught and made to do lessons; she has been forced to inflict lessons on others.” He was talking not about her Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, but about the meanings and ideas that had been assigned to her in the decades since the nonsense classics’ publication. And so the repurposing goes, with the latest big-screen iteration a clunky composite of visual extravagance and Hollywood commonplaces about a life well lived. A sequel to Tim
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- 5/10/2016
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Spiritual Prudence Sitting on a bench in the garden of my house I stared at the infinite blue sky over my head. Hawks flew over me so high that sometimes I barely could see them—discounting the fact that I need to change my glasses prescription. Sometimes I could see their wings; sometimes I could see nothing but a small black point in the blue sky. Massive white clouds appeared. They had no shadow for the sun hit them with its light frontally; because of that, they appeared infinite cotton balls, immaculately white, like they were drawn by a child.This prosaic and innocent sight remind me of the feelings that I experienced when I watched Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella. Many filmmakers have shot the sky and the clouds. Many filmmakers have shot birds such as hawks and eagles flying rapidly over the earth (and one of them was...
- 10/2/2015
- by Victor Bruno
- MUBI
With series 8 referencing 'heaven', Nathan traces Doctor Who's varied relationships with atheism and faith...
I was a massive Simpsons fan as a child. And when I say ‘massive’, I really do mean - huge. It’s still one of the more memorable moments prior to my wedding day: emptying out my childhood bedroom with my (now) wife, only for her to discover notebooks filled with minute observations about the show. Obscure number plates, birthdays of secondary characters, dates of key events and much more besides. Having already paid for the reception venue she couldn’t exactly retract her commitment to marry me, although my mind contemplated that possibility when she hyperventilated laughing at ‘little Nathan’, circa 1999.
My point is this: I wasn’t just a fan, I was an über-fan.
You might be asking, “what’s this got to do with Doctor Who?” - trust me, I’m getting there.
I was a massive Simpsons fan as a child. And when I say ‘massive’, I really do mean - huge. It’s still one of the more memorable moments prior to my wedding day: emptying out my childhood bedroom with my (now) wife, only for her to discover notebooks filled with minute observations about the show. Obscure number plates, birthdays of secondary characters, dates of key events and much more besides. Having already paid for the reception venue she couldn’t exactly retract her commitment to marry me, although my mind contemplated that possibility when she hyperventilated laughing at ‘little Nathan’, circa 1999.
My point is this: I wasn’t just a fan, I was an über-fan.
You might be asking, “what’s this got to do with Doctor Who?” - trust me, I’m getting there.
- 9/26/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
(Rns) The third season of the megahit PBS series "Downton Abbey" wraps up on Sunday (Feb. 17), capping another must-see run of ruin and redemption at Lord Grantham's stately English manor. Yet some are still left puzzled over the absence of what should be a leading Upstairs player in this colorful cast: God.
Writing last month in the flagship evangelical magazine Christianity Today, Todd Dorman wondered why -- despite the heart-rending melodrama and all the "divine trappings" that gild the 1920s scenery -- "God is a peripheral presence at best."
"There are numerous fascinating blog posts ... that search for implicit Catholic and Christian themes in the show -- good and evil, suffering for cause, various types and grades of love and devotion," Dorman wrote. "At some point, though, especially with a vicar in the family's employ, it seems odd for such connections to remain unnamed, unspoken, and, for all we can see,...
Writing last month in the flagship evangelical magazine Christianity Today, Todd Dorman wondered why -- despite the heart-rending melodrama and all the "divine trappings" that gild the 1920s scenery -- "God is a peripheral presence at best."
"There are numerous fascinating blog posts ... that search for implicit Catholic and Christian themes in the show -- good and evil, suffering for cause, various types and grades of love and devotion," Dorman wrote. "At some point, though, especially with a vicar in the family's employ, it seems odd for such connections to remain unnamed, unspoken, and, for all we can see,...
- 2/15/2013
- by Religion News Service
- Huffington Post
From the quintessential American materialism of Disney to China's burgeoning effort to go green, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.
1. "You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!" John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times Magazine
Related story on The Daily Beast: Tatum O'Neal on Dating Jacko, Her New Show on Own
A journey to the flip side of Disney.
2. "Can China Go Green?"Bill McKibben, National Geographic
No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy.
3. "Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns" James M. Lundberg, Slate
"Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed-with students raised on your sentimental, romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict."
4. "Darwin's City" Emma Maris, Nature
David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to understand life in the struggling city of Binghamton, New York.
1. "You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!" John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times Magazine
Related story on The Daily Beast: Tatum O'Neal on Dating Jacko, Her New Show on Own
A journey to the flip side of Disney.
2. "Can China Go Green?"Bill McKibben, National Geographic
No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy.
3. "Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns" James M. Lundberg, Slate
"Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed-with students raised on your sentimental, romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict."
4. "Darwin's City" Emma Maris, Nature
David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to understand life in the struggling city of Binghamton, New York.
- 6/11/2011
- by David Sessions
- The Daily Beast
Marco Polo makes a perfect Sandman character because the book by which we know him best, The Travels of Marco Polo, does not exist in a definitive edition, and was first written down by Rustichello da Pisa, who was jailed with Polo in Genoa at the end of the thirteenth century. No definitive edition of the book exists, nor does it even have a stable name — it’s been published as Description of the World, Books of the Marvels of the World, and Oriente Poliano, among other titles.
Though Rustichello had written an Arthurian romance before he collaborated on the Travels, and though certain episodes in the book resemble certain episodes in that previous volume, and though there is good reason to disbelieve some of Polo’s adventures — nonetheless, the book seems to have been based on notes Polo took, and some of its descriptions of people and their lands...
Though Rustichello had written an Arthurian romance before he collaborated on the Travels, and though certain episodes in the book resemble certain episodes in that previous volume, and though there is good reason to disbelieve some of Polo’s adventures — nonetheless, the book seems to have been based on notes Polo took, and some of its descriptions of people and their lands...
- 5/31/2011
- by Matthew Cheney
- Boomtron
Tina Brown, Peter Beinart, John Avlon, Michelle Goldberg, and other Daily Beast writers and contributors pick their favorite books of 2010.
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
- 12/18/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
When Image Journal published its Top 100 Books of the Century, it became my reading list for over a year. Their refreshing selections from 100 different authors manifested “a genuine engagement with the Judeo-Christian heritage of faith, rather than merely using religion as background or subject matter.” Image included some of my then-favorites like Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein. These writers wrestled honestly with faith, and the list led me to read Frederic Beuchner’s Godric, G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Shusaku Endo’s Silence, Graham Greene’s The Power and...
- 3/2/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
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