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Redemption (2013 Film)
''Hummingbird'' (released as ''Redemption'' in the United States) is a 2013 action crime drama film written and directed by Steven Knight in his directorial debut. It stars Jason Statham as a haunted, alcoholic veteran who befriends a Catholic nun, becomes involved in organized crime, and exacts vengeance on a man who beats and kills prostitutes. Plot Joseph Smith, a fugitive ex-Special Forces soldier and a homeless drunk in London, is attacked by a group of thugs one night, and he breaks into a luxurious apartment to escape them. Learning that the owner, a successful photographer named Damon, is away for the next 8 months until October, Joseph starts squatting there and assumes a new identity, calling himself Joey Jones and using Damon's resources while looking for his homeless friend Isabel who has been coerced into becoming a prostitute by the same gang that attacked him. Joseph is friends with Sister Cristina, a Polish nun who runs the local soup kitchen, who gives him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Knight
Steven Knight (born 5 August 1959) is a British screenwriter, producer, and director for film and television. He wrote the screenplays for the films ''Closed Circuit (2013 film), Closed Circuit'', ''Dirty Pretty Things (film), Dirty Pretty Things'', and ''Eastern Promises'', and also wrote and directed the films ''Locke (film), Locke'' and ''Hummingbird (film), Hummingbird'' (a.k.a. ''Redemption''). Knight is one of three creators of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (British game show), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', a game show that has been remade and aired in around 160 countries worldwide. He is also the creator of the BBC's ''Peaky Blinders (TV series), Peaky Blinders'' and ''SAS: Rogue Heroes'', and has written for ''Commercial Breakdown'', ''The Detectives (1993 TV series), The Detectives'', ''See (TV series), See'', and ''Taboo (2017 TV series), Taboo''. He has built a large film and television studio complex in inner-city Birmingham called Digbeth Loc., opening in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhan Hewlett
Siobhan Hewlett (born 15 April 1983) is a British-born Irish film, television, radio and theatre actress, writer, producer, poet and artist. Her acting credits include '' Monsieur N'' (2003), ''The Canterbury Tales'' (2003), '' The Philanthropist'' (2005), '' The Virgin Queen'' (2005), '' Irina Palm'' (2007), ''Torchwood'' (2008), '' Hotel Babylon'' (2009), '' Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant'' (2009), '' Sherlock'' (2010), '' Bonded by Blood'' (2011), ''Hummingbird'' (2013), '' Brakes'' (2016), '' The Show'' (2021), and '' McDonald & Dodds'' (2021). Biography Hewlett's father, Donald Hewlett, was an actor who appeared in '' It Ain't Half Hot Mum'' and other sitcoms, and her mother, Thérèse McMurray, was a child star. She was the lead in the hospital-based drama '' Emergency Ward 10'',and star of ''Dad's Army'', and '' Are You Being Served''. Educated in England on art scholarships, Hewlett attended Wellesley House School, Downe House School, and The King's School, Cante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai Bradley
David "Dai" Bradley (born 27 September 1953) is an English actor known for his debut role of Billy Casper in the critically acclaimed 1969 film '' Kes'', directed by Ken Loach. Early life David Bradley was born in the hamlet of Stubbs, near Barnsley. His mother was Nora, a seamstress, and his father was Horace "Pop" Bradley, a miner who worked from North Gawber Colliery. By his own account, he had an "unremarkable" childhood, and was not involved in any acting apart from amateur Christmas pantos. Career At the age of 14, he gained the part of Billy Casper in ''Kes''. Bradley has said that the making of the film was a happy one. The cast was "like one huge family" and he spent much of his time playing with the other young boys who appeared in the film. One of his least favorite memories was of the filming of the football scene, which he recalled in an interview: "They chose the worst day of the summer for that scene. They had a local fire engine come round and flood the fiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Webb (actor)
Danny Webb (born 6 June 1958) is an English television and film actor. His roles include the prisoner Morse in the movie ''Alien 3'', Thomas Cromwell in ''Henry VIII'' and John Maynard Jefferson in the two part ''Doctor Who'' story " The Impossible Planet" and " The Satan Pit" in 2006. Early life Webb was born on 6 June 1958 to Eileen and Maurice Webb. He attended The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1977. Career Webb has appeared in many British television programmes, including ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'', ''Our Friends in the North'', '' A Touch of Frost'', ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''The Bill'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Silent Witness'' and '' Shackleton''. He also appeared in two episodes of ''Doctor Who'' – " The Impossible Planet" and " The Satan Pit". He has also appeared in '' Britannia High'' as Jack Tyler and in ''New Tricks'' as a DJ. In 1985, Webb appeared alongside Jon Pertwee in a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's Broadway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youssef Kerkour
Youssef Kerkour is a Moroccan-British actor. He is best known for portraying Syrian refugee Sami in the comedy-drama series ''Home (British TV series), Home'', a role for which he was nominated at the 2020 British Academy Television Awards. Early life and education Kerkour grew up in Rabat, Morocco. His father was a Moroccan Mathematician, mathematics professor and his mother an English schoolteacher; they had met in France in the 1960s and moved together to Morocco. As a child, Kerkour loved to sing and dance, and idolised Bruce Lee after his father took him to a screening of the film ''Enter the Dragon''. In his early teens, Kerkour took a school trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the home town of William Shakespeare, and attended a production of Henry V (play), ''Henry V''; he credits this experience with inspiring his love of acting. Kerkour moved to the United States to study psychology at Bard College, but spent much of his time taking dance an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ger Ryan
Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include '' Queer as Folk'', ''Family'', '' The War of the Buttons'', '' The Van'', ''Moll Flanders'', ''Intermission'' and '' Little Dog''. Career Ryan has twice been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for ''Family'' and ''Amongst Women'', and received several nominations in the Irish Film and Television Awards, including for ''Amongst Women'', ''Intermission'' and ''The Return''. She is also a recipient of a ''Belfast Telegraph'' EMA Award in for her work on ''A Place with the Pigs'' and ''Song of the Yellow Bittern''. In 2007, she received an IFTA for her work on the two-part docu-drama, '' Stardust'', by RTÉ. She also played Margie McEvoy in the BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ... d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedict Wong
Benedict Wong (born 3 July 1971) is an English actor. He began his career on stage before starring in the film '' Dirty Pretty Things'' (2002), which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination, and the BBC sitcom '' 15 Storeys High'' (2002–2004). This was followed by roles in the films '' On a Clear Day'' (2005), '' Sunshine'', '' Grow Your Own'' (both 2007), and ''Moon'' (2009), and the CBBC series '' Spirit Warriors'' (2010). Wong gained further recognition in the 2010s for his roles as Kublai Khan in the Netflix series ''Marco Polo'' (2014–2016), Bruce Ng in the film '' The Martian'' (2015), and Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise since the film ''Doctor Strange'' (2016). He has since starred in the Syfy series '' Deadly Class'' (2019). His performance in the film '' Nine Days'' (2020) earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Since 2024, he has a main role in the Netflix series ''3 Body Problem''. Early life and education Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky McClure
Vicky Lee McClure (born 8 May 1983) is an English actress, model and presenter. She is known for her roles as Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series ''Line of Duty'' (2012–2021) and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows's film '' This Is England'' (2006) and its Channel 4 sequel mini-series '' This Is England '86'' (2010), '' This Is England '88'' (2011), and '' This Is England '90'' (2015). Before ''This is England'', she appeared in another of Meadows' films, '' A Room for Romeo Brass'' (1999), where she played Ladine. She won the RTS Award and British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Lol in ''This is England '86'' in 2011. McClure is also well known for her role as Karen White in ITV's ''Broadchurch'', and other roles such as in '' Filth and Wisdom'' (2008), ''Hummingbird'' (2013), ''Svengali'' (2013), and '' The Replacement'' (2017). Early life Vicky Lee McClure was born on 8 May 1983 in the Wollaton area of Nottingham. Her father w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Brassington
Christian Brassington (born 6 June 1983) is an English actor and writer, best known for playing the odious vicar Ossie Whitworth in the third and fourth series of the BBC hit period drama '' Poldark''. Brassington also portrayed a young Boris Johnson in the More4 documentary drama '' When Boris Met Dave'' (2009), having previously played a young Tony Blair for Channel 4 in 2006. Early life and education Brassington was born on 6 June 1983 in Wellington, Shropshire, England. He spent much of his youth in Basingstoke, going to the local comprehensive Brighton Hill Community School and then to Queen Mary's College. He also attended a stage school run by his father Colin Flaherty. Determined to become an actor, he studied at London's prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Career He made his on-screen debut in the BBC's police procedural drama '' The Cops'' back in 1999 and got his big break shortly after graduation in ''Tony Blair: Rock Star'' (2006), a Channel 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common History of Poland, history, Culture of Poland, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizenship, citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the ''Polish diaspora, Polonia'') exists throughout Eurasia, the Americas, and Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw metropolitan area and the Katowice urban area. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building (usually residential) that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. Squatting is practiced worldwide, typically when people find empty buildings or land to occupy for housing. In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. In African cities such as Lagos, much of the population lives in slums. There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and rural land-based movements. In industrialized countries, there are often residential squats and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
