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Jhon Lumsden, Sara Vickers, Peter Mullan, and Brian McCardie join ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’

Peter Mullan (Ozark) has joined the cast of Starz’s Outlander prequel, Outlander: Blood of My Blood. New additions to the series also include Brian McCardie (Rob Roy), Jhon Lumsden (The Famous Five), and Sara Vickers (Watchmen).

Starz announced Mullan will be playing Red Jacob MacKenzie, Laird of Clan MacKenzie and father to Ellen, Dougal, Colum, Janet and Jocasta. McCardie will take on the role of Isaac Grant, leader of Clan Grant, and Jhon Lumsden has signed on to play Isaac’s son, Malcolm, a potential suitor for Ellen MacKenzie. Sara Vickers joins as Davina Porter, a housekeeper in the Lovat household and mother to Brian Fraser.

The prequel stars Jeremy Irvine as Henry Beauchamp, Hermione Corfield as Julia Moriston, Jamie Roy as Brian Fraser, Harriet Slater as Ellen MacKenzie, and Tony Curran as Lord Lovat.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Phil Rosenthal hasn’t been to a country in Asia for his Netflix food travel series “Somebody Feed Phil” since the “Singapore” episode of Season 4 aired in 2020. But with the Season 7 debut Friday, the “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator is back in the east with four out of eight episodes, including an installment featuring one giant bucket-list destination Rosenthal has been anxiously dreaming about for years.

“I’ve always wanted to go to India, so Mumbai was a real thrill for me. I’ve always loved Indian food, I have so many beautiful Indian friends,” Rosenthal told Variety. “But there were two things that kept me away.”

First, he was “afraid” of the ethical complications of doing his goofy bits in a country with such deep contrasts in its population’s standard of living.

“They call Mumbai Maximum City because it has everything,” Rosenthal said. “You...

Rory Alexander, Conor MacNeill, Sam Retford and Séamus McLean Ross join ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’

Starz’s Outlander prequel, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, has added four actors as series regulars. Rory Alexander, Sam Retford, Séamus McLean Ross, and Conor MacNeill are confirmed to play members of Clan Fraser and Clan MacKenzie in the new addition to Starz’s Outlander series franchise.

“We are thrilled to expand our season one cast with some well-known characters from the Outlander universe. We’re so excited to welcome Rory, Sam, Séamus and Conor to the MacKenzie and Fraser clans and to explore the young journeys of these fan-favorite characters,” stated Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner and executive producer on Outlander: Blood of My Blood.

Clan Fraser has added Rory Alexander (Inland) as a young Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, a role originated by Duncan Lacroix. The headstrong Dougal MacKenzie will be played by Sam Retford...

Starz’s Outlander season seven episode eight, the mid-season finale, finds Jamie thrust back into battle. Directed by Joss Agnew from a script by Luke Schelhaas, episode eight – “Turning Points” – will air on Friday, August 11, 2023. (Midnight on the Starz app and 8pm Et/Pt on Starz.)

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

“Turning Points” Plot: Jamie fights in the pivotal Second Battle of Saratoga.

The promo video for Starz’s Outlander season seven episode seven teases the battle of Saratoga and that we’ll get to spend more time with Buck MacKenzie aka the Nuckelavee. Directed by Joss Agnew from a script by Luke Schelhaas, episode seven – “A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers” – will air on Friday, July 28, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

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Starz’s Outlander season seven episode six will find Jamie and Claire hustling to stay ahead of the British, while in Roger and Brianna’s world a mystery is set to be solved. Directed by Tracy Deer from a script by Sarah Haught, episode six, “Where the Waters Meet,” will air on Friday, July 21, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

This article contains major Outlander spoilers from the books

In the seventh season of the popular Starz series Outlander, time travel is once again a big plot device that separates the Fraser family across the centuries, and this time it’s Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) who are in “the future” with their children Jem and Mandy, while Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) are still in the past, facing the onset of the American Revolutionary War. But Roger and Bree seem to have some mysterious company at Lallybroch!

In the latest episode of the show, “Singapore”, Brianna is having a hard time at her new engineering job, where she faces misogyny from her male co-workers. On her first day in her new supervisory position, the men haze her by locking her in the dark during a dam inspection and driving off with the keys. While making...

Starz’s Outlander season seven episode five will find Jamie and Claire making it to Fort Ticonderoga. The promo video also shows Brianna and Roger opening a letter with news about her parents’ time at the fort. Directed by Tracy Deer from a script by Taylor Mallory, episode five – “Singapore” – will air on Friday, July 14, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

Hey, "Outlander" fans. We're back in your faces to tell you that the folks over at Starz will indeed serve up another new episode of Outlander next Friday night, July 14, 2023. That's right, guys. This next, new episode will be the 5th installment of Outlander's current season 7, and we've got some new spoiler scoops for it. We were able to gather up a couple of new, official teaser scoops for this new episode 5 via Starz's official episode 5 press release synopsis. So, that is what we're going to dig into for this spoiler session. Let's go. To start, Starz let us know that this new episode 5 of Outlander season 7 does come with an official title. The writers decided to name this one, "Singapore." It sounds like episode 5 will feature some very intense, dramatic, interesting, possible action-filled and suspenseful scenes as an intense assault is about to take place! New info about time travel gets collected.

The 15th Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival continues faithful to the path it has set until today and, from July 2 to 14, opens its eyes to a cinema worth discovering!! This year's Psarokokalo returns with a multitude of tributes, events, and surprises, aspiring to arouse the interest of cinephiles in Greece for another year.

In its established international competition section, which this year includes 94 selected short films from 34 countries, Psarokokalo turns its attention to new creators as well as to those familiar to the Greek public such as Efira Virginie, Niels Schneider, Joseph Wilson, Nadav Lapid. While in the national competition section, it offers a selection of new emerging talents from Greece and Cyprus and is the main program that promotes the festival around the world.

Of particular interest is the dedication to the environment and architecture, innovative, ambitious, diverse, and impressive focus on channeling constructive collective action and providing a cross-cutting analysis of politics,...

‘Things Blowing Up Good’ has been surefire entertainment since the beginning of cinema, but this ill-fated Cinerama extravaganza about the biggest explosion in recorded human history limps along despite some pretty darned impressive volcanic effects. It’s quite an entertaining spectacle, with various good performers in three soap opera plots, either overacting or loitering about with nothing to do. And don’t forget the from-left-field musical striptease.

Krakatoa East of Java

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Kl Studio Classics

1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.

Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer

Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes

Production Design: Eugèné Lourié

Costumes: Laure Lourié

Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper

Original Music: Frank De Vol

Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...

Ava Gardner was legendary for her beauty, her classic Hollywood films — and her tumultuous love life, especially with Frank Sinatra.

Ava, a Life in Movies, a new biography by Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski, delves into the late screen siren’s colorful life, on and offscreen. (Read her 1990 People obituary here.) From her wild affair and marriage with Sinatra to her other rocky romances — and her regrets late in life — here are some of the most fascinating details about the woman who won the hearts of movie audiences and some of Hollywood’s most famous leading men.

She was divorced...