Title: Little Deaths Directed by: Sean Hogan, Andrew Parkinson and Simon Rumley Starring: Daniel Brocklebank, Luke de Lacey, Siubhan Harrison, Jodie Jameson, Tom Sawyer, Amy Joyce Hastings, Holly Lucas Running time: 95 minutes, Unrated, Available on Blu-ray Three short films set in Britain with the shared themes of sex and death. House and Home – Richard & Victoria are a well to do couple who have a fetish for picking up homeless women off the street, giving them a bath, hot meal, glass of wine laced with roofies and a bit of raping. It’s all in good fun to them until Richard takes Sorrow home. Mutant Tool – Jen is…

Title: Toast Directed By: SJ Clarkson Written By: Lee Hall, adapted from Nigel Slater’s memoir Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Oscar Kennedy, Victoria Hamilton, Freddie Highmore Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 9/13/11 Opens: September 23, 2011 The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but there is this big exception: it helps if you like the cook. Watching SJ Clarkson’s period piece, which takes place in small-town British Midlands during the sixties, you’ll be tempted to re-think the Scepter’d Isle as Europe’s prime location for godawful food, but Lee Hall’s script, adapted from food writer Nigel Slater’s memoir, makes us wait a while before liberating a…

Title: In Our Name Writer-director: Brian Welsh Starring: Joanne Froggatt, Mel Raido, Andrew Knott, Chloe-Jayne Wilkinson, Janine Leigh, Shah Amin A British coming-home-from-war drama that toes the line between pedestrian and interesting, though tilting toward the former, ‘In Our Name’ connects chiefly as a gender-shift curiosity given its main focus on a female soldier. Joanne Froggatt’s engaging performance, which picked up the Most Promising Newcomer prize at this past year’s British Independent Film Awards, is the chief selling point of writer-director Brian Welsh’s sophomore outing, which otherwise cycles through the expected interpersonal difficulties of trying to readjust to civilian and married life. ‘In Our Name’ opens with Suzy Jackson (Froggatt) returning…

Title: Toast Director: S.J. Clarkson Starring: Oscar Kennedy, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton, Matthew McNulty British period piece import ‘Toast’, playing at Laemmle theaters in Los Angeles this weekend as part of their “From Britain With Love” series, is a well-acted if somewhat meandering and pedantic coming-of-age story, based on the memoir of Nigel Slater, a popular English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. Fans of ‘EastEnders’ and all other sorts of across-the-pond television, as well as kitchen-sink dramas in general, will find reward in the detail and clarity of this tale. The movie opens in Wolverhampton in the late 1960s, where nine-year-old Nigel (Oscar Kennedy, quite…

Title: Hector – Badge of Carnage: We Negotiate with Terrorists Developer: Telltale Games Downloadable on Windows XP, Vista or 7 and Mac You are Inspector Detective Hector, a portly badass Brit with an attitude. You are the only one who can negotiate  with a terrorist in order to save the lives of the hostages and possibly save the dwindling numbers of the Clappers Wreake police force. The game itself is fairly simple, click and double click to interact with characters and objects in order to advance each scene. There are objects in the game that you need to collect and combine to complete tasks; choose the wrong ones, and you…

Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to produce a big-screen adaptation of the hit British TV series “Primeval”, just as the 3rd season of the show begins this weekend on BBC America, and the series is rolling along on the Sci-Fi channel. “Primevil” follows a team of scientists and adventurers from the British government who are dealing with portals to the prehistoric past called “anomalies” that allow various creatures to venture into the present. The film will be produced by Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster for Weed Road, Goldsman’s production company. Emily Cummins will also produce. No other information about the film has been released yet in terms of a…

Eliza Coupe (“Scrubs”) has been tapped to join the cast of the “No Heroics” pilot for ABC, based on the hit British TV series of the same name about the personal lives of a group of friends, who just happen to be superheroes. Taking place in a world that’s the same as ours except for the existence of superheroes, called “capes” in the series, “capes” are shown performing a variety of functions from standard superheroics to paying superhero taxes to using their powers in mundane ways, such as fixing the heating in a home. The show details the lives of a group of friends, the heroes The Hotness, who controls…

In August, it was announced that British duo Nick Frost and Simon Pegg were going for round three, this time with their film Paul. More details have be released about the exact plot of the film, in which two friends (Frost and Pegg), after visiting Comic-Con in San Diego, go on a road trip to Area 51 where they discover an alien named Paul, who asks the duo to help him find his way home. Unlike Pegg and Frost’s other films, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Pegg and Frost have penned the script for Paul, rather than Pegg and Edgar Wright, the director of the first two films….

British actor Simon Pegg has signed a $1 million ($1.8 million U.S.) deal with publishers Hodder + Stoughton to write an autobiography plus two more books. A spokesman for the publishing house says, “Pegg writes for us but somehow the films appeal to America too. He is our biggest export. I don’t think there is any British actor of his ilk who has been so successful.” Pegg recently starred in a memoir adaption of British journalist Toby Young’s life, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, which opened October 3rd in the U.S. Although it made $1.4 million in the U.S. box office, not breaking into the top ten for…