Sentences with phrase «as penny dreadful»

Accordingly, Hodge's work has developed as a kind of mash - up, inspired by the Surrealist collage work of max Ernst and, in particular, his novel Un Semain De Bonté (A Week of Kindness), a work that derives source material from 19th century popular media such as the penny dreadful and illustrated newspapers.

As Penny Dreadful Season 3 nears its conclusion, that dilemma has never been more keenly felt or more deepy explored.

It's easy to guess why Burton decided to collaborate with Green again for his film take on Riggs» novel (a literary work inspired by vintage photos of strange people and places that the author had collected), seeing as the Penny Dreadful star reads as a perfect fit for a character whom Burton describes as being a Mary Poppins - like magical caretaker... a stranger Mary Poppins, that is.

As far as Penny Dreadful, definitely check it out man.

What I do know is that in «Resurrection» it was all made clear, or at least, as clear as Penny Dreadful ever is.»

Not exact matches

Violent, sex - soaked dime novels and penny - dreadful magazines were immensely popular, and upstanding publications such as Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly took delight in denouncing them.

Patti LuPone returns to PENNY DREADFUL this season as Dr. Seward, after receiving critical acclaim and a Critics» Choice Award nomination for her performance last season as The Cut Wife.

Penny Dreadful, Season 1: The cast of Penny Dreadful discuss Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray and Billie Piper as Brona Croft.

The film stars Rose Leslie («Game of Thrones») and Harry Treadaway (Showtime's upcoming «Penny Dreadful») as happy young couple, Bea and Paul.

Attanasio quit and options on the cast ran out before a replacement could be found, but more importantly, the show (which reportedly also included a supernatural element) was seen as a risky prospect versus rivals «The Affair» and «Penny Dreadful» (which have both since arrived to critical acclaim).

Far from the Gothic trash on the surface, Penny Dreadful emerges over its surprising, scary and sad first season as an atmospheric exploration of what it means to be different.

Yes, there are cliffhangers of a sort to be resolved from last season as well as new business to be introduced, but Penny Dreadful isn't in any particular hurry to get to any of it.

The eight - episode series is anchored by Elijah Wood («The Lord of the Rings,» FX's «Wilfred») and Samuel Barnett («Penny Dreadful»), who play off each other nicely — Wood as Todd Brotzman, a depressed Seattle hotel clerk unwittingly -LRB-?)

Penny Dreadful doesn't mess around, it's as dark as television can get.

Sure, we all loved her as Rose on Doctor Who, but Billie's demonstrating some serious acting chops on Penny Dreadful.

Penny Dreadful isn't afraid to mix up its format within the season, as we've seen before in the episode largely devoted to The Creature narrating his origin tale to Victor.

Just sticking to relatively recent television (as opposed to something like the movie version of From Hell), The Alienist arrives after The Knick and Boardwalk Empire featured a New York only slightly further in the future, Peaky Blinders and Penny Dreadful have done the same across the pond (the latter featuring an alienist character of its own), and Netflix's Mindhunter tackled the»70s codification of the kinds of criminal profiling that Kreizler fumbles about with here.

Penny Dreadful Created by John Logan Starring Eva Green, Timothy Dalton, Rory Kinnear, Josh Hartnett and Billie Piper SYNOPSIS: Victorian London is under threat as mysterious evil forces seek to envelop the world in darkness, with monsters and ghouls stalking the streets butchering and bloodletting.

The miniseries based on JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy arrives this week, as does the premiere of Penny Dreadful's second season.

Word has emerged that Skyfall duo Sam Mendes and co-writer John Logan have decided to trade in bow - ties and martini's for literary creatures as Showtime has given a series commitment for their horror - flavored detective drama, Penny Dreadful.

Alex Price («Doctor Who,» «Penny Dreadful») appears in the eagerly anticipated stage production as Harry's former Hogwarts rival, while Anthony Boyle is his son Scorpius Malfoy.

(Too bad that they can't be fused into one with the best elements of both because good luck finding an actress as famous and as talented and as theoretically bankable as Viola for the actual theatrical version) Playbill Patti Lupone on Penny Dreadful (uff, she's so great on that show) and her next musical War Paint Lenny Letter Tony nominee and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o reveals why she chose a small play as Oscar follow up in a great piece.

Tour guide PHIL ENGLISH, originally from Cashel, works regularly as an extra, and appeared as Josh Hartnett's stand - in for the shooting of the first season of «Penny Dreadful».

As part of our Penny Dreadful Season 3 preview, we sat down with Sarah Greene (Hecate) and two new cast members, Shazad Latif and Samuel Barnett.

This season as in the previous ones, Penny Dreadful felt like a secret.

The Casino Royale and Penny Dreadful star joins Will Smith as actor tipped to appear in Disney's live - action remake

When not onstage, LuPone can be seen on - screen, where she's had memorable parts as Libby Thatcher on Life Goes On and Dr. Seward on the final season of Penny Dreadful.

The film stars Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Jonny Beauchamp («Penny Dreadful»), Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class), Joey King (White House Down) up - and - comers Karl Glusman, Vlademir Alexis, and Alexandre Nachi as well as veteran actor Matt Craven, with Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, «The Tudors») and Ron Perlman (Hellboy).

Even the small roles are affectionately written and acted, from True Blood «s Fiona Shaw as deadpan spy boss Carolyn to Penny Dreadful «s David Haig as Eve's hapless superior Bill.

Britannia was created by the Butterworths and James Richardson (Monsters), with Rupert Ryle - Hodges (Downton, The Hollow Crown) producing, and it is executive produced by Vertigo Films» James Richardson (Monsters), Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Nicolas Brown from Neal Street Productions (Penny Dreadful), as well as Jez and Tom.

But Penny Dreadful proved throughout the season that it was not beholden to the characters as we knew them — Frankenstein, in particular, was given new dimension, but no change was greater than that of Mina Harker (nee Murray).

My intention is to think more big - picture this season — which, as the premiere indicates, will be where Penny Dreadful is headed as well, at least geographically.

While film festivals can be highly significant, Hickey is eager to stress the importance of long - running series such as «Penny Dreadful» which brought $ 33m to the economy.

Coky Giedroyc, who has directed episodes of shows such as The Hour and Penny Dreadful, will start the cameras rolling this July in the UK.

In the broadest terms, Crimson Peak could be pretty comfortably described as a more visually sumptuous but significantly less subtle Penny Dreadful (indeed, if it turns out that Eva Green was at some point in the running for Chastain's role, it would be far from surprising).

As elements of the story have moved away from London, has production moved beyond Penny Dreadful's traditional home of Dublin, Ireland?

James Whale's 1931 film classic went wildly off - book to define cinema's long relationship with the text, and the past few years alone have seen adaptations both faithful (Danny Boyle's stage version, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles) and freestyle (I, Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful's heady stew, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein); even Ex Machina could be seen as an AI - themed retelling of the Frankenstein story.

As the transgender prostitute - turned - love interest of Dorian Grey, his Angelique has become a fan - favorite addition to Season 2 of Showtime's «Penny Dreadful.»

What about this show sets it apart from the thriller shows like it on television right now, such as «Penny Dreadful,» «American Horror Story,» «Supernatural» or «Hannibal»?

As if to prove a point, in three seasons, Penny Dreadful has now done three of them.

As many of you may have heard, Showtime's fantastic horror series The Eva Green Variety Hour Penny Dreadful was cancelled earlier this week...

Gothic horror drama series Penny Dreadful continues to be a success for Showtime, so it comes as no surprise that the...

Think of it as «Penny Dreadful» meets «Sherlock Holmes» meets «Van Helsing,» and you get the idea!

I'd almost classify it as one of the very first horror novels, right up there with Sweeney Todd and penny dreadfuls.

And my point is that we're selling so many penny dreadfuls — and getting so accustomed to seeing bookish bonbons as the rightful work of the industry!

As an astute and innovative insider in the business said to me the other day, it's all penny dreadfuls.

Penny dreadfuls were out there, but they weren't presented to the public as front - table season - starters.

Penny Dreadful brings literary monsters to life in Victorian London giving you a lot of books to read if you're so inclined: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Dracula by Bram Stoker; and as the title suggests the Penny Dreadfuls (zine - type publications) that were popular in Victorian England.