#Hamish McColl

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#Paddington #Ben Whishaw #Paul King #Hamish McColl #David Heyman #Michael Bond #Sally Hawkins #Mary Brown #Henry Brown #Hugh Bonneville #Jim Broadbent #Samuel Gruber #Pastuzo #Lucy #Mrs Bird #Julie Walters #peru #london

[genevieveetguy]

. Mrs Brown says that in London everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in. I think she must be right—because although I don't look like anyone else, I really do feel at home. I'll never be like other people, but that's alright, because I'm a bear. A bear called Paddington.

Paddington, Paul King (2014)

#Paul King #Hamish McColl #Ben Whishaw #Hugh Bonneville #Sally Hawkins #Madeleine Harris #Samuel Joslin #Imelda Staunton #Michael Gambon #Julie Walters #Nicole Kidman #Peter Capaldi #Jim Broadbent #Erik Wilson #Nick Urata #Mark Everson #2014

[official-lauchzwiebel]

I love love LOVE folk songs because of their WIDE thematic range. There's literally a song for every situation - your boss won't pay you what you've earned? Sure bud here's approximately a 100 songs about that alone. The mine collapsed? Got you covered. You're a sailor but can't come back home? Here are the 20 top jam hits for that. You solve a love problem by crossdressing? Ah yes, take your pick. You're serenading a lovely cow? There you go, old chap!!!! It's so DIVERSE and you can always discover new songs and topics. DON'T even get me started on protest songs. I LOVE FOLK MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!

#folk music #folk #this is partly about songs interpreted by #mary o'hara #peggy seeger #hamish imlach #maddy prior #june tabor #pete seeger #ewan mccoll #irish folk #hozier #>:)

[byneddiedingo]

Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany in The Reckoning (Paul McGuigan, 2002) Cast: Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Gina McKee, Simon McBurney, Tom Hardy, Stuart Wells, Vincent Cassel, Ewen Bremner, Matthew Macfadyen, Hamish McColl, Simon Pegg, Marián Aguilera, Trevor Steedman, Elvira Minguez. Screenplay: Mark Mills, based on a novel by Barry Unsworth. Cinematography: Peter Sova. Production design: Andrew McAlpine. Film editing: Andrew Hulme. Music: Adrian Lee, Mark Mancina. Nobody, I think, sets out to make a mediocre movie; they just happen to turn out that way. Certainly, the makers of The Reckoning must have had hopes of excellence when they hired such fine actors as Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Vincent Cassel, Matthew Macfadyen, and a 20-something up-and-comer named Tom Hardy. The story they wanted to film came from Morality Play, Barry Unsworth's novel, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, about the theater in medieval England as it edged away from dramatized Bible stories into secular material, mixed with a murder mystery solved by a renegade priest. Unfortunately, The Reckoning is something of a mess, starting with the priest, Nicholas (Paul Bettany), cutting off his hair and escaping through the woods after being discovered in flagrante with a married woman, whose husband he killed in the ensuing melee. On the road, he encounters a troupe of traveling players headed by Martin (Dafoe) and persuades them that he would be an asset to their company. They go to a village by the castle of Lord De Guise (Cassel) where the trial of a woman accused of killing a teenage boy has just concluded with her conviction and sentence to be hanged. One thing leads to another as Nicholas becomes involved with proving the woman's innocence and exposing De Guise as a murderous pedophile, dragging not only the acting troupe but also the villagers into his exposé. The narrative is muddled by too many unnecessary flashbacks into Nicholas's past, by the intervention of a character known only as "the King's Justice" (Macfadyen), and by a half-hearted attempt to strike up a romance between Nicholas and the woman accompanying the acting troupe, Martin's sister, Sarah (Gina McKee). The brightest moment in the movie comes when the players perform their version of the story of Adam and Eve, with Hardy's Straw, the actor tasked with playing women, as Eve in a sort of bare-breasted body suit and a ropy blond wig. He looks a little like Botticelli's Venus in the get-up. If The Reckoning had more moments like that, and less of the mystery-solving plot, it might have been a better movie, but as it is, the mise-en-scène is cluttered and gloomy and the action unconvincing.

#The Reckoning #Willem Dafoe #Paul Bettany

[roman-alfonso-godoy-videla]

Paddington es una película cómica británica dirigida por Paul King, escrita por el mismo King y Hamish McColl, y producida por David Heyman. La película está basada en el Oso Paddington de Michael Bond. Entre sus protagonistas destacan Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, con Nicole Kidman y Ben Whishaw como la voz del personaje del oso.[1] La película fue estrenada el 27 de noviembre de 2014 en Perú y algunos países latinoamericanos, el 28 de noviembre de 2014 en el Reino Unido,[1] y el 16 de enero de 2015 en los Estados Unidos.[2]

[scarletunit6]

Looking closely at British culture I wanted to deepen my research further into typical British films.

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations. The main film series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations.

Wikipedia. (2024). Wallace and Gromit. [online] Available at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_and_Gromit#:~:text=Wallace%20and%20Gromit%20is%20a [Accessed 17 Mar. 2024]. ‌

Paddington

Paddington is a 2014 live-action animated comedy film written and directed by Paul King. It was developed from a story by King and Hamish McColl, which was based on the stories of the character Paddington Bear created by Michael Bond.

Wikipedia. (2024). Paddington (film). [online] Available at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_(film)#:~:text=Paddington%20is%20a%202014%20live [Accessed 17 Mar. 2024]. ‌

Mr bean

Mr. Bean is a British comedy television show about a silly buffoon with the same name. Mr. Bean has been very popular on TV and has been played by Rowan Atkinson. He had later gotten a movie based on the show as the star and soon an animated series. While the series may be over now, we can still try and show our love for it here at the Mr. Bean Wiki.

mrbean.fandom.com. (n.d.). Mr. Bean Wiki. [online] Available at: https://mrbean.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Bean_Wiki#google_vignette [Accessed 17 Mar. 2024]. ‌

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit, his cousin Benjamin and his triplet sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail spend most of their days stealing vegetables from the garden of Mr. McGregor, a nearby farmer. After Mr. McGregor dies of a heart attack, his nephew Thomas arrives from London to take over the property in order to sell it for a profit. Thomas removes the animals from the house and begins to secretly wall up the garden, despite the objection of local woman Bea – a friend to the rabbits – who begins to fall in love with Thomas. Peter becomes jealous, and becomes embroiled in a war of traps with Thomas in this family comedy which mixes live-action and animation, adapted from the beloved children’s books by author Beatrix Potter.

Film, I. (n.d.). Peter Rabbit. [online] www.intofilm.org. Available at: https://www.intofilm.org/films/19116 [Accessed 17 Mar. 2024]. ‌

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Paddington es una película cómica británica dirigida por Paul King, escrita por el mismo King y Hamish McColl, y producida por David Heyman. La película está basada en el Oso Paddington de Michael Bond. Entre sus protagonistas destacan Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, con Nicole Kidman y Ben Whishaw como la voz del personaje del oso. La película fue estrenada el 27 de noviembre de 2014 en Perú y algunos países latinoamericanos, el 28 de noviembre de 2014 en el Reino Unido, y el 16 de enero de 2015 en los Estados Unidos.

Paddington

[yorkcalling]

The Play What I Wrote Announced For York Theatre Roya;

The Play What I Wrote Announced For York Theatre Roya;

David Pugh, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Birmingham Repertory Theatre present The Play What I Wrote By Sean Foley, Hamish McColl and Eddie Braben York Theatre Royal, 27 June – 2 July Thom has written a play, an epic set in the French Revolution called ‘A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple’. Dennis on the other hand, wants to continue with their double act. He believes that if they…

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#york theatre royal

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Tickets to watch the streaming performance online are £10.

#tom hiddleston #the play what i wrote #morecambe and wise #Hamish McColl #Sean Foley #Eddie Braben

[greenhatsinthesky]

lockdown film no. 28 - Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) dir. Steve Bendelack

24/04/2020

because I am An Adult, this was the film that me and my parents decided to watch for my birthday this year. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening given I hadn’t seen it in several years and we got a takeaway from the best pizza place around and my dad bought wildly overpriced vegan ben and Jerrys 

- when mr bean wins the raffle its actually very heartwarming how happy everyone is for him

- THE TRAIN TRANSITION HOLY HELL

- im absolutely in love with all the the video camera footage they use 

- “un café?” “oui” “du sucre?” “non” “you speak very good French” “gracias”

- last year for a film project we had to make a short film with only 20 words of dialogue and this is actually a great example of how to do it because he never really uses words its mainly just sounds

- the soundtrack in this is absolutely boss no lie

- i went on holiday with my friends last year to an island that was so small you could walk around the whole thing at least five times in a day, and also had basically no buildings. And so from there the concept of ‘mr beaning it’ was born, where you pick where you want to go and walk in a straight line in that direction

- the fact that this was the first film I saw Willem Dafoe in is hilarious to me because he’s such a serious actor and then there’s this. I saw this, Spiderman and then Mississippi burning and man that really threw me off

- ties and vending machines are a health risk

- richard curtis worked on this ??

- the plateau de fruits de mer scene absolutely sent my entire family it is just the peak of comedy. Me and my mum saw the film for the first time in a cinema when I was about eight and it just gets us every time

- THE OYSTER WHEN IT MOVES 

- apparently the guy who plays the waiter in that scene is a very celebrated actor in France and he’s done loads of serious stuff so this is another kind of Willem dafoe situation it seems

- the boy playing Stepan was Viktor in the series years and years and when I say that absolutely blew my mind when I found out

- the scene where Stepan copies mr bean and they’re crossing their legs is so cute and a bit of nice light humour before the real shit kicks in

- I know it wouldn’t work if they could call the dad straight away but the two numbers at the end are clearly 97

- THE HOTEL WORKER WITH THE PHONE WHAT PAIN THEY WERE SO CLOSE

- ohhhhhh the market scene. whoever came up with the idea for that should get an Oscar 

- mans got some strong legs holding a squat for the whole of rondo alla turca

- i think the opera scene in the market (i don’t know the name of the piece) is one of the funniest scenes in the whole film if not in a lot of films. Its absolute class and I love how mr bean, who doesn’t speak a full sentence for the majority of the film all of a sudden knows every word to an Italian opera. Also the scene that they construct and play out is actually very emotional and they both end up dead but its still funny ?

- stepan really just yeeted the camera at a total stranger now that is some faith in humanity right there

- I wanna grab onto a car while riding someone else’s bike in the middle of the French countryside and go zOOM past the tour de France 

- the chickens cluck in tune with the song and I personally am a huge fan of that

- I think rowan atkinsons face is made of rubber or something

- he goes into that little hut and the vehicles gradually get more and more absurd like tHIS IS HOW YOU DO COMEDY

- I don’t think they went into how fucking weird it would be to fall asleep and wake up under a cart in a French village that turns out to be under siege by nazis

- also, I know Carson Clay is meant to be a parody of a Hollywood director, but I just want to know what happens at the end of the advert. Does sabine end the war and appease the nazis with yoghurt?

- Une minuscule explosion?

- Sabine was super chill about them using her phone to call basically everyone in France 

- the car scene with the matches has absolutely gone down in history. Literally every time were driving at night someone will mention that scene

- the French translator at Cannes was hilarious like clay said his bit, looked over at the guy, the guy sort of cringes (?) and goes “he says it is a very good film”

- all the scenes we see from playback time get me every time and I’m pretty sure its one of my dads favourite scenes 

- nothingnothing nothing nothing n o t h i n g 

- OHHHH when the fam gets back together ! So wholesome!

- la mer. what a tune, and all the things lining up so he can just walk straight down to the sea I lOVE

- oh man what a good film

- its just a great comfort film and its so funny but its really warm as well and its not cheesy but its really funny and I love it

#mr beans holiday #steve bendelack #rowan atkinson #mr bean #peter bennett-jones #tim bevan #eric fellner #hamish mccoll #robin driscoll #simon mcburney #richard curtis #emma de caunes #max baldry #howard goodall #baz irvine #tony cranstoun #willem dafoe #karel roden #jean rochefort #catherine hosmalin #urbain cancelier #stephane debac #julie ferrier #steve pemberton #lily atkinson #monsieur hulot #monsieur hulot's holiday #comedy #lockdown films #lockdown film no. 28

[hello-folks-calling-folks]

In The Wake of Wakefield: Adam Rutherford presents a documentary on Andrew Wakefield’s now discredited research into the link between vaccination and autism, explaining how the effects of his appalling scientific conduct are still being felt around the world today. 1 hour.

The Remains of Foley and McColl: A surreal black comedy programme from 2000 about a double act trying to create a successful radio show. In this episode, Foley and McColl must try to make their programme more edgy and dark. Tw death of an animal. 1/2 an hour.

#radio #radio 4 #radio documentary #adam rutherford #andrew wakefield #vaccination #antivaxxers #science #medicine #autism #asd #sean foley #hamish mccoll #radio comedy #tw animal death

[king-galaxius]

New 2020 British Film Release: Artemis Fowl

Film: Artemis Fowl Release: 6/12/2020 Genre: Fantasy

Screenplay: Conor McPherson and Hamish McColl

“Based on the book Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer.”

Director: Kenneth Branagh Producers: Kenneth Branagh and Judy Hofflund

Starring: Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Had, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozie, Colin Farrell, and Judi Dench

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_films_of_2020

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#Artemis Fowl #Colin Farrell #Conor McPherson #Eoin Colfer #fantasy #Ferdia Shaw #Hamish McColl #Josh Had #Judi Dench #Judy Hofflund #Kenneth Branagh #Lara McDonnell #New 2020 British Film Release: Artemis Fowl #Nonso Anozie #Tamara Smart

[wornoutspines]

Artemis Fowl: Time To Believe | That Haphazard Shredded Chunks of Story Does Not Make a Good Movie

#ArtemisFowl : Time To Believe | That Haphazard Shredded Chunks of Story Does Not Make a Good Movie #review

Directed by Kenneth Branagh (Cinderella) and based on – not really – inspired by – nop – dressed as the beloved books by Eoin Colfer. The film stars Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Tamara Smart, Nonzo Anozie, with Josh Gad, and Judi Dench. The screenplay is by Conor McPherson and Hamish McColl.

Premise: Artemis Fowl II (Ferdia Shaw), a young Irish criminal mastermind, kidnaps the fairy…

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#Adrian Scarborough #Artemis Fowl #Artemis Fowl II #Artemis Fowl: Time To Believe #cinderella #colin farrell #Conor McPherson #Diana Alexandra Pocol #disney #Eoin Colfer #Ferdia Shaw #Gerard Horan #Hamish McColl #Hong Chau #Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit #jimmy vee #josh gad #Joshua McGuire #judi dench #Judy Hofflund #Kenneth Branagh #Lara McDonnell #LEPrecon #Matthew Jenkins #Miranda Raison #Murder on The Orient Express #Nikesh Patel #nonso anozie #Tamara Smart #Taylor James

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Tom Hiddleston in The Play What I Wrote | Show footage - 2021.12.06.

Avengers and Loki star Tom Hiddleston made a star appearance at the Birmingham Rep tonight for The Play What I Wrote.

The award-winning comedy, penned by the venue's artistic director Sean Foley, Hamish McColl and Eddie Braben has run at the theatre from 27 November, directed by Foley and produced in association with David Pugh and Theatre Royal Bath.

It sees a guest star appear every night, and is designed by Alice Power with lighting by Tim Mitchell, music by Steve Parry, choreography by Ian West and casting by Sarah Bird.

The the show originally opened in the West End with direction from Kenneth Branagh (who, to help this come full circle, directed Hiddleston in Thor).

#Tom Hiddleston #The Play What I Wrote #2021.12.06. #whatsonstage #yt

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The Play that I Wrote, review: Tom Hiddleston sends himself up a treat in this hilarious revival | The Telegraph

A surprise outbreak of Hiddleston-mania occurred in Birmingham at the weekend and last night, with the opening of The Play What I Wrote, one of the daftest and most delightful stage comedy shows of the 21st century, re-minted for a new generation. Twenty years ago, it was the cameo presence of Ralph Fiennes that galvanised the press night at Wyndham’s Theatre. This time round, Rep artistic director Sean Foley – one half of erstwhile comedy duo the Right Size, who penned and first performed this arch tribute to Morecambe and Wise – had recruited another Hollywood name to guest-star: Tom Hiddleston, who proved sweetly game for a laugh. (Other big names will appear as the run proceeds.) He suffered himself to be ignored, misnamed, attired in a hideous crinoline, required to dance like a prat and send himself up something rotten. How so? As fans of the light-entertainment giants will recall, “the play what I wrote” was the lamentable exercise in playwriting that Wise would inflict on both Morecambe and viewers, dragooning famous faces to take part. It was such an institution that it became a who’s who of actors and celebrities seeking to flaunt a sense of humour, among them Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave and John Mills. The fool but hardy idea of Foley and fellow Right Sizer Hamish McColl was to hold onto the notion of a play within a play as a way into their homage, and then apply a circuitous route to it. In the Olivier-winning original production, directed by Kenneth Branagh, they offered versions of themselves: a double-act on the point of splitting up, a despondent McColl obsessed with being a playwright, Foley running along with the idea but slyly signing up his comedy partner to take part in a M&W tribute in a bid to keep them together. In this fresh incarnation, the present-day double-act are played by kindred spirits but not actual comedy partners: the actor Dennis Herdman and the sketch comic Thom Tuck. Confused? You won’t be. A longstanding fan of Eric and Ernie? You needn’t be either. The show, which was written in conjunction with the stars’ scriptwriter Eddie Braben, and has been tweaked here and there to keep it up to date, achieves the near-impossible. It weaves in all kinds of nods to the comedy legends but cleaves to the basic conceit that it’s all happening on its own terms. Sustained impersonation isn’t attempted, instead we get a flavour of what the duo embodied – the squabbling familiarity of a married couple and a nicely contrasting playfulness.

Herdman, 6ft 2in, blessed with an Eric-esque physicality and quickness, and Tuck, who possesses an Ernie-like pensiveness and dreaminess, are first seen (not lying but standing upright) in a flimsily suggested bed singing a riddling ditty. Dennis swiftly announces his impending French Revolution-set playlet – A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple. One snag is that the designated celebrity, Ian McKellen, isn’t available (he’s in panto, or the pub) and snag two is that there’s anger in the stalls from the “militant wing” of the M&W appreciation society (a multi-tasking Mitesh Soni), demanding a more overt tribute. By the time we get to the second half, and the frisson-inducing arrival of le Hiddleston, we’ve had a welter of old-fashioned gags, verbal and visual, timed to perfection. But the best material lies in the VIP lounge area of the evening. “I did The Night Manager”, explains the bemused-acting intruder, forced to identify himself. “Really?” comes the retort. “Did his wife know?” “I am a forlorn Conte”, Hiddleston later deadpans. To which: “Hold it there, son…. Can he say that?” This perhaps isn’t, then, the perfect family Christmas outing. But it is the ideal winter warmer for those in search of sophisticated nostalgia. “Bring me sunshine”, they sing at the end – complete with signature springing steps. They did then; they do now. You’ll laugh your head off. You may shed a little tear too.

#tom hiddleston #the play what i wrote #article #review #the telegraph

[tomhiddleslove]

Tom Hiddleston in The Play What I Wrote - Show footage

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Avengers and Loki star Tom Hiddleston made a star appearance at the Birmingham Rep tonight for The Play What I Wrote.

The award-winning comedy, penned by the venue's artistic director Sean Foley, Hamish McColl and Eddie Braben has run at the theatre from 27 November, directed by Foley and produced in association with David Pugh and Theatre Royal Bath.

It sees a guest star appear every night, and is designed by Alice Power with lighting by Tim Mitchell, music by Steve Parry, choreography by Ian West and casting by Sarah Bird.

The the show originally opened in the West End with direction from Kenneth Branagh (who, to help this come full circle, directed Hiddleston in Thor).

#Tom Hiddleston #The Play What I Wrote #The Birmingham Repertory Theatre #Guest Star #Comedy #Birmingham Rep #Theatre Tom #tom hiddleston on stage #drama footage #December 03 #hiddles 2021 #Birmingham #England #twhiddleston #loki #love this so much #lol