Terence Stamp News

'These Foolish Things' [DVD only] - Terence Stamp steals every scene as a wisecracking butler in this wacky, uneven, romantic 2006 film based on Noel Langley's novel 'There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us' in which the comely, orphaned daughter of a famous British actress falls for a handsome playwright and a smitten actor while dealing with her ...

Zod is coming to Smallville next season as the CW announces that Brit Calllum Blue has joined the series as a regular in the iconic role of Superman's real hometown nemesis.

Kneel before Callum Blue. The alum of such shows as Related , The Tudors and Secret Diary of a Call Girl has been tapped to join Smallville in the series regular role of big, bad Zod, says the Hollywood Reporter .

Recommended The Series: In 1997 cable premium channel Showtime decided to launch a dark fantasy anthology series.

In 1983, director Tony Scott made his directorial debut with The Hunger , an intriguing erotic horror film of sorts starring David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon.

This week we have a special giveaway from E1 Entertainment for The Hunger: The Complete First Season including 22 tales of the forbidden and bizarre as seen on Showtime! Terence Stamp hosts the first season of this spine-tingling horror anthology series from Executive Producers Tony and Ridley Scott, which features a phenomenal cast of familiar ...

Whittaker is hard for Jessica Biel to handle in 'Easy Virtue.' Coward's Way Out Stephan Elliott's version of 'Easy Virtue' does no good for Noel's reputation By Richard von Busack WHAT DRAWS a brash comedic temperament to a melodrama of manners? Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is still the principal road movie ...

Alex von Tunzelmann: Set during an important frontier war, Christopher Cain's 1988 western is a rollicking ride with impressively authentic facial hair and rapping outlaws.

PICK OF THE WEEK "The Hit" : This early outing by Stephen Frears is a prickly, tight little crime drama giving a fine central role to Terence Stamp, who deserved more of them in his career, and offering viewers a peek of Tim Roth before he made his name Stateside.

The Hit is a movie that sneaks up on you. It's very low-energy for a crime thriller--there are bursts of action, yes, but for most of its running time, it's more of a character study.

Director Stephen Frears knows how to show crooks meting out their own brand of justice - hence our permanent inability to ever look at oranges quite the same way after "The Grifters." But Frears also gave us "The Queen." It's hardly surprising, then, to see him and his cast handle the threat of imminent mob retribution with the sort of unflashy ...

Anyone who has kept an eye on Stephen Frears, the prolific British director of The Queen and High Fidelity , must look at Criterion's release of The Hit , his hitmen-cum-road-trip slow-burner, with a cocked head and a raised eyebrow.

PARTY TIME: Wayne's World screens on C4 on Wednesday night. Top 10 TV picks: April 21-27 Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, April 21 to Monday, April 27.

"Yes Man" Is the premise of Jim Carrey's latest comedy silly? Yes! Do the filmmakers rely too much on Robin Williams-style riffing from Carrey? Yes! Can I see where the plot is headed from miles away? Yes! Despite all of that, "Yes Man" is an entertaining lark - funnier and quirkier than I expected.

Modestly budgeted revenge tale about a British ex-con, just out of prison after a nine-year hitch, who comes to L.A., tossing around uncomprehended slang such as "nicked" and "scarpered," to look into his daughter's death.

Xan Brooks tries to pin the director down as his new comedy, Looking for Eric, is touted as one of the main British hopes at this year's Cannes film festival World exclusive: have a sneak preview of Ken Loach's Looking for Eric Link to this video Tackling Ken Loach is like running at shadows.

A stage musical version of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the 1994 Australian film about a trio of drag queens who take their show to the middle of the outback aboard a battered old bus ...

"There is no 'Way,' Marty... your own true nature&#8212your Buddha nature&#8212is inside of you, whether you realize it or not.

Tony Sheldon on the drag-queen role he is bringing to the West End. Tony Sheldon, left, in 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical' The first inkling that my life was about to change came in October 2005.

A number of Hollywood actors will play voice-over parts in the upcoming film tie-in Wanted: Weapons Of Fate .