Category: Films/Movies
Soap Star Recalls Bermuda Trip In The 1970s
It was a celebrity #ThrowbackThursday picture to 1970s Bermuda featuring one face that was already familiar to TV viewers of that period and one that soon would be. Posted on Twitter by British actress Emma Samms, the photo shows her as a starstruck 16-year-old schoolgirl in 1976 with actor Nick Nolte on the set of the Bermuda-based underwater thriller... Read more of this article
Sept 13: Fresh Air Films In Queen Elizabeth Park
The City of Hamilton will host the Fresh Air Film series with two free movie screenings – including How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Avengers: Endgame on Friday, September 13 in Queen Elizabeth Park. A spokesperson said, “The City of Hamilton’s Fresh Air Film series, proven to be very popular with families looking to enjoy... Read more of this article
Aug 25: BUEI Films To Screen AI Documentary
A 2018 documentary which explores the promise and potential perils of Artificial Intelligence [AI] will be screening as part of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] Film Series on Sunday [Aug 25]. Director Chris Paine’s Do You Trust This Computer? focuses on on how today’s self-learning computers are reshaping almost every... Read more of this article
Bermudian Is Walking In Film Legend’s Shoes
It was often said of Dorothy Dandridge that she wasn’t just a hard act to follow, but an impossible one. However a Bermudian actress/singer is doing her best to prove that conventional wisdom wrong. American theatre and film actress, singer and dancer Ms Dandridge [1922-1965] was a marquee name entertainer from the 1940s through the 1960s. Bermuda’s... Read more of this article
CBS: Faulkenberry And Vickers Act On Instinct
Local viewers got twice the Bermudian content on a recent episode of the CBS crime drama Instinct. Bermudian actors Rebecca Faulkenberry and Rowan Vickers were both featured in the second of two back-to-back episodes of the CBS series. Based on a James Patterson novel, Instinct stars Alan Cumming as a former CIA operative, author and university professor... Read more of this article
Actor Nick Nolte: “Bermuda Was Paradise”
He wasn’t convinced that appearing in the Bermuda-based underwater thriller The Deep would do anything to enhance his career. But Nick Nolte eventually took the plunge on the 1976 big-budget Hollywood adaptation of Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel after losing out on roles in Apocalypse Now! and other films with “artistic merit.” His... Read more of this article
Toni Morrison Documentary To Screen Again
The Bermuda International Film Festival is to screen a documentary film about the late Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison for a second time. The first screening on August 7 was a complete sellout. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, has been a mainstay at festivals since then, winning three prizes including two... Read more of this article
Outerbridge’s Film To Screen In South Korea
A new short film from award-winning Bermudian producer Bayard Outerbridge about the human cost of the Syrian civil war and the strain placed on doctors working in combat situations has been selected to help kick off a new South Korean film festival celebrating peace and reconciliation. ‘Aleppo – The Film’ will be screening at the inaugural... Read more of this article
BBC Earth Bermuda Triangle Documentary
Sony BBC Earth has produced a documentary titled “Unfold The Secrets Of The Bermuda Triangle”, which they bill as “one of the biggest mysteries of all times.” Video trailer for the documentary: The documentary ’s description says, “Discover the hidden secrets behind one of the biggest mysteries of all times – the... Read more of this article
Science Channel Spotlights Bermuda Wrecks
The sister and brother team of Céline and Fabien Cousteau travelled to the island to investigate rumours of a graveyard of lost ships in the waters beyond Bermuda’s outer reef for an episode of their new four-part Science Channel series Legends of the Deep. The show premiered in June on the American pay-TV network, owned by the Discovery Channel. Ocean... Read more of this article
ABC Considers Bermuda Triangle TV Series
American TV network ABC is mulling whether a prime time adventure/fantasy Bermuda Triangle-themed show will make the ratings of competitors’ programming disappear. Announced in May, a stand-alone pilot episode of Triangle starring Mike Vogel is wrapping up production this week. Set in a a land lost in time which exists in the mythical area bounded... Read more of this article
Bermuda Caves Inspired Global Entertainment
Bermudian artist/writer Michael Frith, a longtime collaborator of Muppets maestro Jim Henson, has long credited the island’s Crystal Caves with providing the point of departure for Fraggle Rock, the beloved puppet TV series he co-created in 1983. But in a Smithsonian.com profile earlier this year, Mr. Frith said it wasn’t just the otherworldy... Read more of this article
Library To Screen NASA Documentary On Aug 13
Director Rory Kennedy’s acclaimed documentary Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey To Tomorrow will be screened at the Bermuda National Library on August 13. Released theatrically in 2018 and shown on the Discovery Channel to mark the 60th anniversary of the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, the film was described as “slick... Read more of this article
Spider-Man Scene Of Bermuda Actor Restored
The new summer movie blockbuster Spider-Man: Far From Home pits the teenage web-slinger against Mysterio, a super-powered master of illusion who is adept at making things disappear. But the special effects wizard turned villain, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, cannot be blamed for the absence of Bermudian actress Kristen Darrell’s scene in the film. Featured... Read more of this article
Bermudian ‘Stealing The Show’ In London Play
Bermudian actress Julia Frith isn’t sure if this technically constitutes her West End debut, or if it’s actually her sophomore outing. But either way she’s back to her scene-stealing ways in the hit London stage show The Comedy About A Bank Robbery. She was cast in the British and Irish touring production of the play in 2018 as professional... Read more of this article
Scrymgeour Wins Top Honours At Film Expo
Bermudian Alex [Scrimmy] Scrymgeour and his production team recently took top honours at the Long Island International Film Expo with their TV comedy pilot Eddie’s, a stand-alone episode for a proposed series which features a number of nods to the producer’s island home. Eddie’s has previously been runner-up in its category at a number... Read more of this article
