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Batman: Caped Crusader is an animated pulp-noir superhero action-adventure series created by Bruce Timm, JJ Abrams, and Matt Reeves. Based on the DC Comics superhero of the same name by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the Prime Video series is set in the 1940s and it follows the story of Bruce Wayne newly working as Batman as he goes against several masked weirdos, criminals, and corruption in Gotham City. Batman: Caped Crusader’s voice cast includes Hamish Linklater, McKenna Grace, Minnie Driver, Toby Stephens, Christina Ricci, Jamie Chung, Diedrich Bader, Reid Scott, Jason Watkins, Tom Kenny, and Krystal Joy Brown. So, if you love the visuals, dark storyline, and noir aspects of Batman: Caped Crusader here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Batman: The Animated Series is an animated pulp-noir superhero action-adventure series created by Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm.

Alfred Pennyworth has his sights set on America — but first, he and his mates will have to navigate all sorts of civil strife in England, while juggling the very odd job to pay for their passage.

When last we tuned in, the titular former British Sas soldier (played by Jack Bannon) had to gun down his own dad, Arthur — a secret member of the government-overthrowing Raven Society — though the tragic trigger-pulling proved fruitless in foiling a mad bomber plot targeting British bigwigs.

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Pennyworth is getting ready for its return to Epix. The series now has its premiere date set for season two -- December 13th. A new poster and trailer have also been released. Fans will see some new characters this season, including Lucius Fox. The live-action series is focused on Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's trusted butler, and shows his early days with the Wayne family.

Jack Bannon stars as Alfred, and he is joined by Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker.

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Pennyworth now has its premiere date set for season two. Danny John Cannon, an executive producer and a director on the series, revealed the premiere date on his Instagram account -- December 2, 2020. *Update below.

As revealed last month, the second season will bring a big change to the lives of Thomas and Martha Wayne. In addition, Lucius Fox, another character from Batman comics, will be joining the series in season two.

Pennyworth focuses on the caped crusader's future butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon). Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker also star in this Batman prequel series.

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Pennyworth is getting ready for its season two, and fans were given some intel on what is coming next on the Epix series at DC Fan Dome over the weekend. Fans will see the entry of a big name in the DC universe. Martha Kane will find out she is pregnant, and that child will be Bruce Wayne, the future Batman. It was previously revealed that Lucius Fox, another character from Batman comics, would be joining the series in season two.

The series' cast includes Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker.

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"You can stay. For now." Make a short film about a robot, and we'll pretty much always feature it. Because everyone loves robots! Especially when they're nice and friendly and helpful. And not mean, no thank you, nice robots only. This Time Away is an excellent sci-fi / robo short film made by London-based filmmaker Magali Barbe that originally premiered at festivals in 2019. It's now available to watch online and I highly recommend giving this a quick 15 minutes of your time to enjoy. The short is about a robot companion who helps brighten up the life of an old man. Nigel is an elderly man living as a recluse, haunted by his past and the memory of the family he once had... until an unexpected visitor arrives and disrupts his lonely routine. Starring Timothy Spall as Nigel, and Jessica Ellerby as Louise. There's a gorgeous score composed by Azel Phara that...

Is the first season of the Pennyworth TV show on Epix worth your time? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Pennyworth is cancelled or renewed for season two. As a subscription service though, Epix collects its own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the Pennyworth season one episodes. We invite you to rate them for us here. *Status update below.

An Epix Batman prequel series from executive producers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, Pennyworth is based on the DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The drama stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker. It unfolds in 1960s London, where former British Sas soldier Pennyworth...

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An Epix Batman prequel series from executive producers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, Pennyworth is based on the DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The drama stars Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Paloma Faith, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Emma Paetz, Jessica Ellerby, and Polly Walker. It unfolds in 1960s London, where former British Sas soldier Pennyworth founds his security firm and starts working with American billionaire Thomas...

"Pennyworth" is the newest, 10-episode, live-action, 'Batman' prequel TV series, focusing on 'Alfred', the butler of 'Bruce Wayne' when he was a young British Sas soldier, based on characters published by DC Comics, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, starring Jack Bannon, Ben Aldridge, Ryan Fletcher, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Paloma Faith, and Jason Flemyng, premiering July 28, 2019, on Epix:

"....'Alfred Pennyworth' (Bannon), a former British Sas soldier forms a security company and goes to work for young Us billonaire 'Thomas Wayne', during the 'swinging' 1960's in London, UK.

"Characters include 'Dave Boy', a long-time alcoholic friend of Alfred's who served with him in the army, army buddy and ladies man 'Bazza', 'Bet Sykes'...

"...a spirited sadistic sharp-tongued woman who rivals against Alfred, 'Lord Harwood', an enemy of Alfred who works with Bet, 'Martha Kane', Thomas' love interest and the future mother of 'Bruce Wayne'..."

Cast also includes...

Exclusive: Emma Paetz (Gentleman Jack) is set as a series regular and Jessica Ellerby (Lovesick) will recur opposite Jack Bannon and Ben Aldridge in Pennyworth, Epix’s upcoming Batman sequel from Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller, executive producer/director Danny Cannon and Warner Horizon Scripted TV.

The 10-episode, hourlong drama series is based on DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger. It follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon), a former British Sas soldier in his 20s who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Aldridge), who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London. The series also stars Paloma Faith (Bet Sykes), Jason Flemyng (Lord Harwood), Ryan Fletcher (Dave Boy) and Hainsley Lloyd Bennett (Bazza).

Paetz will portray Martha Kane, who eventually will become Martha Wayne, mother of Bruce. Ellerby will recur as The Queen.

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Review Gem Wheeler 1 Apr 2014 - 07:00

The new series of Endeavour maintains the tricky balance between satisfying Morse fans and drawing in new viewers...

This review contains spoilers.

2.1 Trove

Behind each of the cases solved by the young Endeavour Morse in 1960s Oxford lies a bigger mystery, one that taxes the audience’s puzzle-solving skills even as the detective remains blissfully unaware of the need to crack it. It is, of course, the enigma of Morse himself. John Thaw’s iconic portrayal of Colin Dexter’s dour, embittered yet thoroughly decent detective needs no real introduction, but Morse’s past exists for us only in outline: a broken engagement, a difficult Oxford career, an abiding resentment of the top brass who obstructed him at every turn.

Endeavour’s first series established Shaun Evans as a fine Morse, well able to capture the character’s established idiosyncrasies while making the role his own.

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Lead by John Cairns London-based Parkland Pictures was formed in 2006 to compliment Parkland Films, and distribute the company's own films and to also rights to other films. Now fully developed into an International Sales Agency Parkland Pictures participates in the most important film markets in the industry. This year they are present at Afm with two new titles.

Allies 

Director: Dominic Burns

Cast: Julian Ovenden, Chris Reilly, Werner Daehn, Edmund Kingsley, Matt Willis, Frank Leboeuf

August 1944. A team of British soldiers led by a Us Captain are dropped behind enemy lines in France on a mission that could shorten the war. As nothing goes according to plan, commando Sgt Harry McBain and Cpt Gabriel Jackson know they must put aside personal animosity if the mission is to succeed. Inspired by true events, Allies tells the story of friendship and survival.

Hollow

Director: Michael Axelgaard

Cast : Emma Plumtree, Jessica Ellerby, Matt Stokoe, Sam Stockman

These are the facts which can be gathered from the home video footage discovered where the bodies were found. School Friend Emma, James, Scott and Lynne drive out to a cottage in remote East Anglia. They are happy, enjoying each others company and the lonely beauty of their surroundings. But soon, they uncover a macabre local legend. Fascinated, they delve into a dark and violent history, which leads them to an ancient hollow tree by ruined monastery.

Emma's (Emily Plumtree) grandfather has recently passed away, leaving an old house on the Suffolk coastline behind. Assuming it would make for a pleasant country getaway, that is precisely where Emma brings her fiancé Scott (Matt Stokoe), her best friend James (Sam Stockman) and James' girlfriend Lynn (Jessica Ellerby). Down the road from the house is a spooky old tree that has several centuries worth of ghost stories associated with it. All of the stories share a common outcome: lovers hang themselves from the tree in ritualistic suicide. There have been previous attempts at exorcising the presumed demon(s) from the tree, as documented in a book found in the house titled British Exorcisms Of The Twentieth Century; but considering a recent spat of suicides, those exorcisms were total failures.

Hollow

Stars: Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Matt Stokoe, Jessica Ellerby | Written by Matthew Holt | Directed by Michael Axelgaard

Picture the scene, two couples in the countryside with a video camera, a dead relative and a cursed tree. Yes, you picked out the warning sign there, the video camera. What we have in Hollow is yet another found footage film. 2012 was quite a year for this style of film and some may have hoped that we’d have less of them but with this, V/H/S and Grave Encounters 2 being released with just a few weeks between them the trend is still continuing. Now just to see how good Hollow actually is.

The story revolves around a group of friends who have a weekend away at a village in Suffolk that have a legend surrounding an ancient tree which is said to hold an evil spirit within it’s hollowed out interior.

Directed by: Michael Axelgaard

Written by: Matthew Holt

Cast: Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Matt Stokoe

Though many think of the British countryside as the setting for the novels of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, Hammer Films in particular has made good use of the crumbling old manors and remote locations to showcase the true creepiness of the British Isles. Most recently in The Woman in Black (2012) and Wake Wood (2011) Britain was shown as a land filled with tortured ghosts that suffered from Victorian oppression and pagan mysticism. Director Michael Axlegaard takes all of these themes and shoves them into a haunted tree in the new found-footage chiller Hollow.

Axlegaard and writer Matthew Holt employ the found footage technique to tell the story of four friends Emma (Emily Plumtree), Scott (Matt Stokoe), James (Sam Stockman) and Lynne (Jessica Ellerby) on a weekend away in a country home that used to...

Tribeca released Hollow on VOD yesterday, and we have a trailer and poster for you to check out:

“An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realize that belief in a myth can quickly materialize into reality, bringing horror to life for the town.”

Hollow was directed by Michael Axelgaard, written by Matthew Holt, and stars Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Jessica Ellerby, and Matt Stokoe.

Title: Hollow Director: Michael Axelgaard Starring: Emily Plumtree, Jessica Ellerby, Sam Stockman, Matt Stokoe A world premiere at last year’s Fantasia Film Festival, British import “Hollow” cashes in on the found footage revival kicked off at least in part by 2009′s “Paranormal Activity,” telling the story of a quartet of friends who suffer a dark turn of events in a remote village in Suffolk, England that’s been haunted for centuries by a local legend. Solid, largely naturalistic performances and a nice technical package help offset a story whose bump-in-the-night eerieness reaches a certain level of diminishing return long before the end of its 95-minute running time, rendering “Hollow” a marginal recommendation for hardcore genre enthusiasts. On holiday, [ Read More ]...

October is right around the corner, and have we got a scary movie for you... Directed by Michael Axelgaard, Hollow is a found-footage horror flick direct from the English countryside. Inspired by the real-life folklore, the film follows Emma (Emily Plumtree), who, along with her boyfriend Scott (Matt Stokoe) and their friends Lynne (Jessica Ellerby) and James (Sam Stockman), decide to holiday in the eerie village of Dunwich, where Emma grew up. Prompting their curiosity, Emma tells the group about the legend of an ominous tree that looms over her family's property. When Emma and her friends uncover the grisly history of the tree, they inadvertently disturb a horror that has terrorized the countryside for centuries. Written by Matthew Holt, Hollow is a worthy entry into the fresh and terrifying new wave of modern British horror. From across the pond, we interviewed the team of Michael Axelgaard and Matthew Holt...

Hollow

Directed by: Michael Axelgaard

Starring: Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Jessica Ellerby

Rating: Not Yet Rated

Release Date: September 19, 2012

Trailer Score: 3/10

Thoughts by Tsr: Oh, I see we’re still doing the thing where we pretend this is totally real footage showing these poor folk’s torturous last moments on Earth. Great. It wouldn’t be so bad if the idea still felt fresh, but this comes off as a hodgepodge of films that have come before, some of which already felt like retreads. There are shades of The Blair Witch Project, Kill List, and virtually every recent found footage horror movie throughout. While I’ve enjoyed a handful of those films, this trailer did little for me.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say I’m disappointed it doesn’t look better, but the adequately creepy premise makes me hope the finished product proves more successful. I mean,...

Today the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have announced this year’s Awards nominations on Halloween. What better day to celebrate the nomination of Hollow – this year’s breakout British supernatural thriller from first time filmmakers Michael Axelgaard and Matthew Holt.

Directed by first time feature director Michael Axelgaard and written and produced by Matthew Holt, Hollow boasts strong performances from young, up and coming British actors Emily Plumtree (The Merchant of Venice, Hollyoaks), Sam Stockman (Whitechapel), Jessica Ellerby (Get Him to the Greek, Eastenders, Hollyoaks) and Matt Stokoe (Comes a Bright Day, Black Mirror).

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★★☆☆☆ Was ever a film more aptly named than Hollow (2011), the new indie Brit horror from first time director Michael Axelgaard and writer Matthew Holt? Like the tree at the centre of the story its suitably gnarled exterior hides little real substance, and the sinister tale of four twenty-somethings (Emily Plumtree, Matt Stokoe, Jessica Ellerby and Sam Stockman) whose lives are irrevocably effected by its malignant influence, is high on old school shocks but little else.

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