Jake Gyllenhaal being interviewed in 1999 by take2MarkTV. Photo Credit:YouTube/take2MarkTV

‘October Sky’ – Interview:

24 October, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

October Sky is based on the lives of four young men who grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia. Principal photography took place in rural East Tennessee, including Oliver Springs, Harriman and Kingston in Morgan and Roane counties. The film was a moderate box office success and received very positive critical reception; it continues to

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Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (30 March 1950 – 14 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor. He gained worldwide recognition in the 2000s for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series. He was appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. In 1990, Coltrane received the Evening Standard British Film Award – Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In 2011, he was honoured for his "outstanding contribution" to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards. Photo Credit: Getty Images

The Half-Giant Prince…

13 October, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

In Memoriam: Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022) A year ago on October 14, 2022, the world bid a somber farewell to one of its most beloved actors and comedians, Robbie Coltrane. Coltrane died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert,

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Directed by Joe Johnston, Screenplay by Lewis Colick, Based on "October Sky" by Homer Hickam, Produced by Charles Gordon, and Larry J. Franco, Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, Laura Dern, with Cinematography by Fred Murphy, and Edited by Robert Dalva, with Music by Mark Isham, and Distributed by Universal Pictures (1999)

October Sky – Official Trailer:

6 October, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

To Infinity and Beyond… October Sky is a 1999 biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the true story of Homer H. Hickam

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When They See Us focuses on the wrongfully convicted five black and latino children who were sent to prison for a rape they did not commit and were later exonerated as adults. The five teens were better known as "The Central Park Five" The five teenagers as portrayed in the 2019 Netflix miniseries are: 1. Asante Blackk as Kevin Richardson 2. Caleel Harris as Antron McCray 3. Marquis Rodriguez as Raymond Santana 4. Jharrel Jerome as Korey Wise 5. Ethan Herisse as Yusef Salaam Photo Credit: Netflix

‘When They See Us’ – Official Trailer:

4 October, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

When They See Us is a 2019 crime drama television miniseries created, co-written, and directed by Ava DuVernay for Netflix, that premiered in four parts on May 31, 2019. It is based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the

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The Top Ten List

My Top Ten Book to Television Series:

29 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 4 categories

Welcome to The Top Ten List! To commemorate the Featured TV Blog for the month of September, The Looming Tower, I have gathered My Top Ten Book to Television Series! If you’re looking for the

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Angela Lansbury stars as mystery writer and crime solver Jessica Fletcher on the CBS television crime drama series "Murder, She Wrote." Image dated: January 1, 1990. Los Angeles, CA. Photo Credit: CBS via Getty Images

Poor One Out For Mrs. Potts…

28 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE was born on October 16, 1925, in London, England, to an aristocratic family. Her mother, Moyna Macgill, was a renowned actress, and her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a prominent politician

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A new drama takes viewers back to the events that led to the 9/11 attacks. Hulu’s "The Looming Tower," based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, retells the true story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden in the years before the fall of 2001, and how U.S. intelligence services withheld information from each other at critical junctures. Jeffrey Brown reports. Photo Credit: Siobhan Day/PBS NewsHour

‘The Looming Tower’ – Interview:

23 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

Pre-9/11 drama ‘The Looming Tower’ explores the failure of intelligence… On February 23, 2018, the week that The Looming Tower premiered on Hulu, PBS NewsHour produced a report summarizing the miniseries that details the events

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The Top Ten List

My Top Ten Docudrama Disaster Movies:

22 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

Welcome to The Top Ten List! To commemorate the Featured Film Blog of the month for September, World Trade Center, I have gathered My Top Ten Docudrama Disaster Movies! If you’re looking for the best

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Directed by Oliver Stone, Written by Andrea Berloff, Produced by Moritz Borman, Debra Hill, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher, Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Jon Bernthal, with Cinematography by Seamus McGarvey, and Edited by David Brenner, and Julie Monroe, with Music by Craig Armstrong, Production companies: Double Feature Films, Intermedia Films, Ixtlan, and Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company, Distributed by Paramount Pictures (2006)

‘World Trade Center’ – Interview:

19 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

BEHIND THE SCENES: WORLD TRADE CENTER The following interviews and Behind the Scenes footage was shot during the making of Oliver Stone‘s World Trade Center and was included on the DVD release of the film

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Directed by Oliver Stone, Written by Andrea Berloff, Produced by Moritz Borman, Debra Hill, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher, Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Jon Bernthal, with Cinematography by Seamus McGarvey, and Edited by David Brenner, and Julie Monroe, with Music by Craig Armstrong, Production companies: Double Feature Films, Intermedia Films, Ixtlan, and Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company, Distributed by Paramount Pictures (2006)

‘World Trade Center’ – Official Trailer:

5 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

WAKE AMERICA UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS… World Trade Center is a 2006 docudrama disaster film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Andrea Berloff. The film is based on the experience of a team of Port Authority Police officers during the September

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