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2007 Echo Beach - Watergate Bay    
  Television well and truly collapses in on itself in the much anticipated inter-related soap/comedy-drama Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper.

Echo Beach is set in the coastal town of Polnarren in Cornwall, and follows the lives of Daniel (Jason Donovan), Susan (Martine McCutcheon) and Mark (Hugo Speer), and their families and friends. Mark and Susan are married with children but their loyalties are put to the test when her ex-lover, and Mark's ex-friend, Daniel, turns up in town after 20 years to set up a surf-shop-cafe. Secrets, rivalries, passion and surfing, all set against a beautifully romantic Cornish backdrop.

Moving Wallpaper is a fictional depiction of the soap's production office; going behind-the-scenes to expose the antics, arguments and backbiting of the show's staff, helmed by the irrepressible producer and 'mastermind' Jonathan Pope (played with relish by Ben Miller). Filmed in a mockumentary-style, this comedy-drama cleverly pokes fun at the TV industry and its players. The cast of the soap regularly appear as versions of themselves; throwing diva strops and pestering writers for more lines, providing plenty of in-jokes and cross-over stories when viewed alongside ECHO BEACH.
2005 Cold and Dark    
 

Horror shot in St Agnes by South West Film Studios. Who can argue with this synopsis...?

"When Detective Mortimer Shade (Kevin Howarth) is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark (Luke Goss) accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw. However, Dark notes that Shade is losing the rest of his humanity and becoming a monster..."

   
2005 Guns, Money and Home Cooking    
       
2004 Ladies in Lavender    
 

With a title like this, don't expect many explosions or car chases...

Ladies in Lavender is exactly the sort of film that prompts people to question, "Why don’t they make films like this anymore?" It’s a delicately-paced story of two aging sisters--Ursula (Dame Judi Dench) and Janet (Maggie Smith--who live together on a Cornwall beach in 1936. They discover a foreign stranger washed ashore (Daniel Bruhl), and while nursing him back to health make an astonishing discovery: the young man, a Pole, is a phenomenally gifted violinist. And Ursula finds her feelings for the man go far deeper than merely maternal.

Writer and director Charles Dance has crafted an admirable debut. Ladies in Lavender a tenderly done and bittersweet story of innocence and regret. Though the dialogue sometimes seems too earnest, and he has an over-reliance on slow motion cinematography, he still allows his two talented leads enough time and space to shine. It’s only unfortunate that more effort did not go into the DVD release of the film: the extras only consist of soundbites from the cast and crew, which add little insight.

 
2004 Wild West    
 

Set in the hamlet of St Gweep, "Wild West" observes the strange goings-on in the local Cornish community. Shop owners Mary Trewednack and her life-partner Angela head a rag-bag of bizarre characters.

The village of St Gweep is actually the real village of Portloe in Cornwall where most of this sitcom was filmed.

This sitcom took a critical mauling. "Wild West" had some very black humour and dark characters so was never meant to appeal to the masses - it's a Marmite show and is definitely worth a shot if you like your comedy a little subversive.

 
2004 Ecstasy    
       
2003 San Antonio    
       
2002 Die Another Day - James Bond    
 

Locations include Holywell Bay and the Eden Project at St Austell (which doubles as Gustav's Arctic base).

In the 20th James Bond adventure 007 (Pierce Brosnan) gets off to a rough start when he's captured and subsequently tortured during an assignment in North Korea. When the suave secret agent is eventually liberated, he embarks on a dangerous mission that involves tracking a terrorist named Zao (Rick Yune) to Cuba, where 007 also encounters Jinx (Halle Berry), a highly formidable and alluring fellow spy. Soon Bond is back in England following a mysterious trail that leads to Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), a flamboyant diamond mogul. After a rather bloody introduction, Graves invites 007 to Iceland, where he plans to unveil his enigmatic Icarus project. Before long, Bond and Jinx are reunited and battling Graves, Zao, and other villains bent on world domination. With this Bond instalment, directed by Lee Tamahori, 007 catches up with the 21st century and the results are grittier and more explosive than ever before. Although it begins as one of the darkest and most violent Bond films, the intense mood of Die Another Day is also counterbalanced by typically clever and funny moments. Brosnan is in fine form as the iconic hero, while Berry shines as the immediately likeable Jinx. Stephens and Yune are excellent as the two main bad guys, and the rest of the cast - including Judi Dench, John Cleese, Rosamund Pike, and Michael Madsen--provide key supporting roles. With its hi-tech gadgets and special-effects-laden set pieces, Die Another Day clearly has its eye on the future, but in numerous scenes it also lovingly embraces the past, placing the film in the upper tier of Bond movies.

   
2002 Johnny English    
 

St Michael's Mount fatures in this film as the villain's castle.

Taking its inspiration from the Barclaycard commercials, which starred Rowan Atkinson as a hapless MI6 agent, this full-length film is a cross between a James Bond spoof and Mr Bean. Johnny (a pen-pusher who dreams of a life in her majesty's secret service) is given the mission to protect the crown jewels after a bomb kills all of MI6's existing spies. Unfortunately they are stolen from right under his nose by evil industrialist, Pascal Sauvage (a ridiculously accented John Malkovich) who is intent on seizing the British throne and turning the UK into the biggest prison colony in the world. Thus follows comic set-piece after set-piece, including a hilarious car chase and the obligatory breaking-into-the-evil-genius's-lair sequence, in which English, ably assisted by his much more intelligent subordinate Bough (a brilliantly patient Ben Miller), tries to recover the jewels, stop Sauvage's nefarious scheme, prove to his superiors that he is not completely insane and get the girl, here an Interpol agent played by Natalie Imbruglia.
It's a one-joke movie: he's the worst secret agent in the world. Situations and script are more than a trifle cliched, too, and John Malkovich's performance is cringeworthy. But Atkinson's talent for creating a frustrating but ultimately endearing character is firmly set in the British tradition of rooting for the underdog. The result is an entertaining and endearing spoof with some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments and sparks of originality that more than outnumber the groans.

   
2002 28 Days Later    
 

 

Anti-vivisection activists make a very bad judgment call and release an experimental monkey infected with "rage". 28 Days Later..., as the title has it, bicycle messenger Cillian Murphy wakes up from a post-traffic accident coma in a deserted London hospital, ventures out to find the city depopulated and the few remaining normal people doing everything to avoid the jittery, savage, zombie-like "infecteds" who attack on sight.
Our bewildered hero has to adjust to the loss of his family and the entire world, but hooks up with several others--including a tough black woman (Naomie Harris) and a likable London cabbie (Brendan Gleeson)--on a perilous trip northwards, to seek refuge at army officer Christopher Eccleston's fortified retreat. However, even if they survive the plague, the future of humanity is still in doubt.

Directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by novelist Alex Garland, this is a terrific SF/horror hybrid, evoking American and Italian zombie movies but also the very British end-of-the-world tradition of John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids) and Survivors. Shot on digital video, which gives the devastated cityscapes a closed-circuit-camera realism, this grips from the first, with its understandably extreme performances, its terrifyingly swift monster attacks and its underlying melancholy. Deliberately crude, 28 Days Later is also sometimes exceptionally subtle.

   
2002 Conspiracy of Silence    
       
2002 Hornblower    
   
2002 Wild West    
       
2002 Rosamunde Pilcher
   
  Until the End of the World, Paradise Of Dreams, Shooting Stars in August, Falme of Love  
2002 Inspector Lynley Mysteries    
       
2002 The Beekeeper’s Daughter (aka Ted and Sylvia)    
       
2001 A Line in the Sand    
       
2001 Doc Martin    
   
2001 Two Men Went to War    
       
2000 Vaterflucht (Fathers Flight)    
       
2000 From Hell    
       
2000 Revelation    
       
1999 Hotel Splendide    
       
1999 Wind (Short)    
       
1999 Saving Grace    
       
1999 Mrs Bradley Mysteries: The Worsted Viper    
       
1999 Leprechauns    
       
1999 Wives and daughters    
       
1999 Longitude    
       
1999 Pandaemonium    
       
1999 The Express and The Warrior    
       
1999 The Calling    
       
1998 Wycliffe    
       
1998 Frenchman’s Creek    
     
1998 War Zone    
       
1998 Scarlet Pimpernel    
       
1998 The Lighthouse    
       
1998 Mansfield Park    
       
1998 Nancherrow    
     
1998 Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley    
     
1998 The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier    
       
1998 The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier    
       
1998 Derek Tangye’s Books    
       
1998 John Betjeman’s books    
       
1997 Coming Home    
       
1997 All The Little Animals    
       
1997 A Respectable Trade    
       
1997 Hollyoaks    
       
1997 Plunge    
       
1996 Moll Flanders    
       
1996 Tea With The Professor    
       
1996 Amy Foster    
       
1996 Oscar & Lucinda    
       
1996 Thief Takers    
       
1996 Jonathan Creek    
       
1996 Rebecca    
       
1995 Bugs    
 

Daisies in December (Craig NcLaughlan, Jaye Griffiths and Jesse Birdsall) - Helicopter chase filmed in the Tamar Valley; Out of the Hive (Joss Ackland and Jean Simmons) - Filmed at the Tregenna Castle Hotel, St Ives and at St Michael's Mount.

 

   
1995 Daisies In December    
       
1995 The Empty House    
       
1995 Another View    
       
1995 Voices In Summer    
       
1995 Snow In April    
       
1995 Poldark - Stranger From The Sea    
       
1995 The Wind In The Willows    
       
1995 Twelfth Night    
       
1995 Treasure Island    
       
1995 The Vet    
       
1994 Blue Juice    
  JC (Pertwee) is the hero of the Cornish surfing community, and at times, it's only member. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up. Featuring McGregor and Zeta Jones in prominent roles shortly before they reached worldwide fame in TRAINSPOTTING and MASK OF ZORRO, respectively. An admirable contribution to that rarest of genres, the British surf drama.    
1994 The End Of Summer    
       
1993 The Three Musketeers    
  The Musketeers, 16th Century defenders of the French monarch, have just been disbanded by the duplicitous Cardinal Richelieu. Now only three of them remain--Athos, Prothos and Aramis--to stand in the way of Richelieu who's plotting to overthrow the young King and assume the throne. Barely post-pubescent, His Royal Highness is extremely vulnerable to Richelieu's elaborate political machinations; but fortunately, D'Artagnan, a young man longing to join forces with the Musketeers, happens along. D'Artagnan's worldly idealism and reverence for the Musketeers infuses the trio with a renewed sense of importance as they unite one for all and all for one. The classic adventure tale updated, with soundtrack music by Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart.    
1993 Cycle Of Death    
       
1992 Inspector Alleyn    
  From the golden age of the British mystery comes a hard-working Scotland Yard detective whose breeding and bearing give him unique access to the fashionable world in which these stories are set. New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this series. The keen intelligence and subtle persistence of Chief Inspector Alleyn, Partick Malahide (The Singing Detective), are complemented by the insight of his independent lady friend, artist Agatha Troy, Belinda Lang (To Serve Them All My Days) and the loyalty of his partner, Detective Inspector Fox, William Simons (Cribb). Special Features include: Ngaio Marsh Biography, Cast Filmographies, Subtitling and A Picture Gallery.    
1991 The Camomile Lawn    
       
1990 The Tale Of Little Pig Robinson    
       
1989 The Shell Seekers    
  Based on Rosamunde Pilcher's novel, the story of an ailing woman who finds a chance to bring her family together for the first time after suffering a mild heart attack. Little does she know that a family portrait will stir up some unwelcome emotions.    
1989 First And Last    
       
1989 Shootout At The OK Tea Rooms    
       
1989 Ball Trap At The Cote Sauvage    
       
1988 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes    
       
1988 The Wild Things    
       
1988 The Witches    
       
1984 Robin Of Sherwood    
       
1983 Top Secret     
       
1983 A Distant Scream    
       
1983 Samson & Delilah    
       
1982 To The Lighthouse    
       
1982 My Cousin Rachel    
       
1982 Jamaica Inn    
       
1982 The Flame & The Sword    
       
1981 Nightmare Man    
       
1981 The Island Of Adventure    
       
1981 Omen III - The Final Conflict    
       
1980 The Badness Within Him aka Last Summer’s Child    
       
1980 Priest Of Love    
       
1980 The Onedian Line    
       
1980s Ripping Yarns - Whinfrey’s Last Case    
       
1980s Charles Darwin - The Voyage Of The Beagle    
       
1980s The Men’s Room    
       
1980s Jumping The Queue    
       
1975 Poldark  
       
1970s Dracula    
       
1970s Malachi Cove    
       
1970s Rebecca    
       
1970s Doctor Who    
       
1970s Blake’s Seven    
       
1972 Doomwatch    
       
1971 Straw Dogs    
       
1971 Stocker’s Copper    
       
1971 Crucible Of Terror    
       
1963 Crooks In Cloisters    
       
1963 Stolen Hours    
       
1959 Behemoth The Sea Monster aka The Giant Behemoth    
       
1957 Dangerous Exile    
       
1953 Knights Of The Round Table    
       
1953 Never Let Me Go    
       
1951 Circle Of Danger     
       
1949 Treasure Island    
       
1948 Scott Of The Antarctic    
       
1947 Miranda    
       
1945 Johnny Frenchman    
       
1944 Love Story aka A Lady Surrenders    
       
1942 Next Of Kin    
       
1941 Ghost Train    
       
1940 The Thief Of Baghdad    
       
1938 Yellow Sands    
       
1929 Street Of Abandoned Children    
       
1929 The Manxman    
       

 

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