David Harewood Talks Supergirl & Cyborg Superman
Supergirl star, David Harewood, has been opening up about the upcoming DC comics show due later this year. Talking to Red Carpet News TV at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday, Harewood promised ‘a lot of surprises’ for the new show in which he plays Hank Henshaw who, in the comic books, goes on to become villain Cyborg Superman. It seems we’ll catch a glimpse of the villain at some point in the show but, Harewood says, ‘you’ll see a lot of [Henshaw] pre [his] comic book incarnation’.
On his co star, Melissa Benoist, who plays Supergirl, Harewood promises a ‘very different take’ on her character’. Harewood is quick to asure fans that thisversion of the character has a great costume and really kicks ass.
See the full interview below, where he also discusses the idea of a crossover with The Flash and Arrow!
Orange Is The New Black Season 3 Yael Stone Interview
Orange Is The New Black star Yael Stone has said that ‘making any assumptions [on where the story will go] would be a bad idea’ and there’s ‘no telling where Jenji [Kohan, the creator] can go’. Talking to Red Carpet News TV at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday, Stone expressed her excitement on working on the hit Netflix show, which is due to release its third season on June 12 calling it ‘one of the most generous working environments I’ve ever been in’.
Watch the full interview below, where she also discusses one of her favourite moments of the show so far:
BAFTA TV Awards 2015 Winners List
Sherlock, True Detective and Marvellous were among the winners at the BAFTA Television Awards ceremony in London last night. In a night of varied winners there were a few surprises with Benedict Cumberbatch being yet again denied a best actor BAFTA. Jason Watkins and Georgina Campbell took home the top acting prizes for leading actor and actress. Full List of winners below for all categories:
LEADING ACTOR Jason Watkins The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
LEADING ACTRESS Georgina Campbell Murdered by My Boyfriend
ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
SCRIPTED COMEDY Detectorists Production Team
SINGLE DRAMA Marvellous
REALITY & CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL The Island With Bear Grylls
FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAM Jessica Hynes W1A
RADIO TIMES AUDIENCE AWARD Sherlock
SPECIALIST FACTUAL Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAM Matt Berry Toast of London
DRAMA SERIES Happy Valley
SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA Coronation Street
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Gemma Jones Marvellous
COMEDY AND COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM The Graham Norton Show
SUPPORTING ACTOR Stephen Rea The Honourable Woman
CURRENT AFFAIRS Children on the Frontline (Dispatches) Production Team
SPORT & LIVE EVENT WW1 Remembered
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY The Paedophile Hunter
FEATURES Grand Designs Production Team
NEWS COVERAGE SKY News Live at Five: Ebola
INTERNATIONAL True Detective
FACTUAL SERIES Life and Death Row
MINI-SERIES The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
London Has Fallen Teaser Poster
The first poster for Olympus Has Fallen sequel, London Has Fallen has landed (or ‘fallen’ if you’ll excuse the pun…) online. London Has Fallen reunites Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart as the President (Eckhart) and his trusty guard Mike Banning and transfers them to London, with Morgan Freeman also returning.
If this first teaser poster is anything to go by, we’re in for more of the same action and excitement from Olympus Has Fallen only bigger, in a story that centres around a plot to assassinate all the world leaders as they attend the Prime Ministers funeral. London Has Fallen is due for release on October 2.
Big Game Review
The Plot
On the eve of his 13th birthday, Oskari (Onni Tommila) is sent into the Finnish woodlands alone to capture and kill the biggest game he can find. But, when the President of the USA (Samuel L Jackson) drops out of the sky after an attack on Air Force One, these two unlikely allies must join together to survive the night and evade capture from the terrorists in search of them.
The Good
When you’ve got Samuel L Jackson playing the President of the United States of America in a Finnish action movie, there’s not much that can go wrong. And when it’s directed by the same man who brought a Santa Clause horror movie to our screens (Jalmari Helander – Rare Exports) the hands you’re in become even safer.
Big Game is everything you would expect from an action film whose main selling point is that Samuel L Jackson IS the President. It’s big, loud and a huge amount of fun. Whether it be Jim Broadbent pottering around the typical response bunker eating a cheese sandwich while trying to save the president, or Jackson himself giving his usual Jackson-esque reactions to utterly absurd idea of a plot line that unfolds in front of your eyes – at one point he even screams the thing we’re all thinking; ‘we gon’ die!’ . There are enough nuggets of pure undiluted entertainment peppered throughout this insane film to ensure your time isn’t wasted.
The whole film feels like a loving throwback to early action films like Die Hard and even more recent examples such as White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. The main antagonist (Mehmet Kurtulus) in particular feels at times that he could be a distant relative of Alan Rickman’s iconic Hans Gruber, giving off the same airs and graces that Rickman did in his performance. Which leads us to one of the film’s few downfalls…
The Bad
Though Kurtulus does bring an incredibly suave performance to the screen, he is nowhere near as developed a villain as someone like Rickman’s Gruber. Of course, topping one of the best villain performances of 80s action movies is hard to do. Though Kurtulus plays a villain impressively described as an ‘apolitical heir to wealth’, a man who believes in nothing and follows no one, the film does’t quite do enough to show this during his modest screen time.
The Ugly Truth
One glance at the poster for Big Game and you know what you’re in for, big boisterous fun with touches of humour. Those that accept the film for what it is may just and enjoy the ride, might just find themselves eager for a seemingly inevitable sequel as the final credit role
Review by Johnny Ellis