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Daily Record
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Cast and crew of The Wicker Man join fans at Dumfries and Galloway filming locations
Actress Lesley Mackie, associate director of music Gary Carpenter and musician Matt Deighton joined Mostly Ghostly at Anwoth Old Kirk. Cast and crew of The Wicker Man joined fans for a special tour of some of the cult classic's filming locations on Saturday. Mostly Ghostly held a tour of Anwoth Old Kirk and graveyard, which was used for some of the scenes in the original 1973 production. And guests of honour were actress Lesley Mackie, who played Daisy in the original film, associate director of music Gary Carpenter and musician Matt Deighton. The event was part of a special weekend of celebrations to mark the debut screening of a new documentary about the film. Fergal O'Riordan – who was also at Anwoth on Saturday – gave Return to Summerisle – Something About Sacrifice – its premiere at Newton Stewart Cinema on Saturday night. Despite being released more than half a century ago, the film – which starred Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland and Christopher Lee – still generates interest, as proven by the number of people who visited Dumfries and Galloway over the weekend. Many scenes were filmed around the region – including the film's finale, the burning of a giant wicker man. And that was recreated on Sunday night, when a 25 foot high wicker woman – created by Girvan-based willow artist David T Powell – was burned on the cliffs at Burrowhead Holiday Park, where the original sculpture was burned in the movie. There was also a Wicker Man evening, an after party following the documentary's debut screening and the release of a new beer brewed for the occasion by Isle of Whithorn's Five KingdomsBrewery.
New York Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Surfer' Review: Catching a Wave, and Catching Hell
Some successful actors start to downshift when they hit their 60s, but Nicolas Cage, 61, still works with the frequency of a man who has a hellhound or a collections agency on his trail. Cage is the best reason to watch 'The Surfer,' a deliberately punishing drama in which he plays the title role. His character is an apparently successful wheeler-dealer who's taking a day off to catch some waves at a beach close to a house he hopes to buy. His plan runs afoul of an aggressive group of surfers who advise him the spot is for 'locals only.' But he is a local, he protests. That may or may not be true. And the surf gang, who want him gone, don't care either way, as they demonstrate with mounting violence. Cage has a penchant for characters who take a lot of punishment, like in the 'Wicker Man' remake (2006) or the first half or so of 'Mandy' (2018), and here his character just keeps coming back for more. Is he crazy? Maybe. But something else is going on. There's an older man hanging out at the beach handing out fliers about his lost son — and didn't Cage's character first come to the beach with his own teenage son? The surfer is increasingly addled by visions that come to him in harrowing split-second blackouts. The director Lorcan Finnegan drops other intimations of a time loop, reminiscent of Chris Marker's 'La Jetée.' But if this movie leaves Cage adrift, he doesn't seem at all uncomfortable about it.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Julianne Moore Is Super Rich, Maybe a Cult Leader in New ‘Sirens' Trailer
Julianne Moore toes the line between enigmatic socialite and cult leader in the new trailer for Sirens, a new limited series premiering May 22 on Netflix. In the series, Moore plays the wildly wealthy, but mysterious Michaela Kell, who presides over her luxurious seaside estate, Cliff House, with a rather unsettling air (there's kind of a Wicker Man/Midsommar in Lily Pulitzer vibe to the whole place). Meanwhile, Milly Alcock plays Michaela's devoted assistant, Simone, who has become deeply enthralled with all this wealth and developed an exceptionally strange relationship with her boss. More from Rolling Stone Watch Toronto Grunge-Punk Band Metz Reunite on 'Everybody's Live' 'Wednesday' Returns to the Scene of the Crime in Season 2 Teaser Raw Meat and 'Roids: Liver King Talks Online Notoriety in New Doc Trailer In one wild moment, Simone asks Michaela (or 'Kiki') if her breath smells, and Michaela responds by saying, 'Take my gum' — before taking a piece of gum out of her mouth and feeding it to Simone. Things start to go awry, though, when Simone's sister, Devon (Meghann Fahy), shows up at Cliff House. The trailer hints at some tumult and mystery in the DeWitt family's past, though it centers largely on Devon's efforts to get Simone to snap out of the hold Michaela has on her: 'This Michaela bitch has her talons so deep in your brain that you can't even tell you're in trouble,' Devon warns at one point. Along with Moore, Alcock, and Fahy, Sirens also stars Kevin Bacon as Michaela's billionaire husband, Peter Kell, and Glenn Howerton as a fellow wealthy neighbor, Ethan Corbin III. Other cast members include Bill Camp, Josh Segarra, Felix Solis, Britne Oldford, Lauren Weedman, and Jenn Lyon. Sirens was spearheaded by Molly Smith Metzler, and it's based on her play, Elemeno Pea. Metzler was also behind the 2021 Netflix miniseries, Maid, starring Margaret Qualley. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Best 'Saturday Night Live' Characters of All Time Denzel Washington's Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best 70 Greatest Comedies of the 21st Century
