The Righteous, a black and white movie of the Film Noir category, in which Nigel Bennett appears, is starting in Canadian movie theatres this week. Check out the review from the Toronto Guardian.

And check out the trailer:



Let's hope it will screen internationally, too.

I stumbled over this audio interview with Nigel. Nice to hear his voice. Lots of reminiscing about Forever Knight.

Nigel Bennett made a movie last year called The Family, which recently premiered at the Buson International Film Festival in South Corea (don't ask me why there). While the plot sounds rather creepy and disturbing (it's categorised as a genre-bending thriller), it's nice to see that his part seems to be quite huge.

I love how the trailer begins with the voice-over.



See IMDB for more information and some stunning pics.

I wonder whether this movie will come to cinemas or directly on DVD and TV.

Nigel Bennett has filmed Christmas in the Rockies. The film is currently streaming in the US on Fox Nation. I'm not familiar with this channel, but I cannot access it from Europe. I hope it will be available to broader audiences later in the year. In Canada it is supposed to air on CityTV in December.

Here's a trailer with a few glimpses of Nigel.

I've been watching V-Wars because Nigel Bennett is in episode 1. The 10 episodes are available on Netflix. I'm rather ambiguous about the series. While it was overall suspenseful, there were quite a lot of subplots which didn't make sense. And I missed some explanations as to why some things were the way they were. I didn't like the concept of vampires being depicted as mindless killers (that assuaged a little later in the series), but I found the scientific approach interesting (sadly that was less prominent later in the series).

Ian Somerhalder played the lead. He's always nice to watch, but I preferred him as a vampire in "Vampire Diaries". Whom I really liked was Peter Outerbridge. He plays the villain and appears in almost all episodes. Other FK alumni included Phil Bedard and Larry Lalonde as executive producers of the series.

The series is based on a book which I haven't read. The way it ended suggests that there is a second season planned.

Geraint Wyn Davies is currently on stage at the Stratford Festival playing Elyot in Noel Coward's Private Lives and Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Both plays opened last week. Reviews for Private Lives are available here and for Merry Wives here.

Here's a promotional video of Private Lives:



I love that robe! :)

From July 9-21, Nigel Bennett will be on stage in Wellington, Ontario in John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar. Nigel will be reprising the role of Tony, which earned him a Winnipeg Theatre Award nomination for best performance by a supporting actor when he performed it at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre last February.

Source: Theatre Website

Nigel had a guest appearance in this week's episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries. He plays a shady magician. Brief, but nicely mysterious.

Finally I saw The Shape of Water in the movie theatre. What a delightful film! A nice change from today's action-packed movies. Instead it was wonderfully nostalgic with a lot of nods towards classic Hollywood. Ranging from Jack Arnold's Creature from the Black Lagoon over Betty Grable to Mr. Ed. The sentence "Bonanza is too violent for kids" was hilarious. Oh those good old times...

The end was totally awesome. And I liked the music so much (in particular Renée Fleming's "You'll Never Know") that I'm going to buy the soundtrack.

And then there was Nigel, speaking Russian all the time, with subtitles. He appears in several scenes. I was torn between watching him and reading what he was actually saying. I definitely need to watch that again.

John Kapelos was supposed to be in the movie as well, but I have to admit that I missed or didn't recognise him. Shame on me! Another reason to watch it again.

Other familiar sites included a teal-coloured Cadillac, although it wasn't a convertible. And I recognised several Toronto locations, such as streetcar tracks, Massey Hall, Cherry Street shore, Gardiner Expressway, and the beautiful Elgin Theatre.

Both, Geraint and Nigel are currently on stage in Stratford, Ontario, and received excellent reviews.

Geraint Wyn Davies plays Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

A collection of reviews is available here for Twelfth Night and The School for Scandal. The Globe and Mail wrote about School for Scandal that Ger gives one of his most charmingly permeable performances ever.

(Some links are wrong, but if you type the play's name into the newspaper's search box, you'll get there)

Nigel Bennett plays Kadmos in what has been called a jawdropping production of Bakkhai by Euripides and Ted in the novel mystery thriller The Virgin Trial by Kate Hennig. The character he portraits in the latter has been described as deliciously devious...

A collection of reviews is available here for Bakkhai and The Virgin Trial.

Other FK alumni currently appearing at the Stratford Festival are Lucy Peacock (The Human Factor) in Twelfth Night and Bakkhai and Joseph Ziegler (The Code) in Timon of Athens and The School for Scandal.

I saw my first 3D movie this week. So far, I've avoided 3D because I wasn't sure if it would work with my eyes and if my stomach would agree with it.

However, Doctor Strange didn't leave me a choice. The 2D version was available only in the German dubbed version, and I definitely wanted to see it in English because of Benedict Cumberbatch's wonderful voice. So I went last night, put my contact lenses in and got one of these glasses.

I loved the movie. The 3D technique is fascinating, but also distracting. It took some time getting used to. Some things just looked computer-generated which of course they were, but in 2D it's not that obvious. And sometimes I was close to getting sick.

Overall, I still prefer 2D. However, there are a couple of upcoming movies that I wish to see, so I might watch the 3D version again if no 2D is available.

Upcoming movies I want to see are:
Fantastic Beasts
Rogue One
xXx (Nigel Bennett has a part in this one. Might be thrilling to see him in 3D :))