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Lost Girl Cast News – Ksenia Solo, Zoie Palmer, Emmanuelle Vaugier

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 22/06/2018 by pixel5114/09/2019
Emmanuelle Vaugier

Emmanuelle Vaugier in “Killer Ending”

Emmanuelle Vaugier (The Morrigan) stars as Agatha Sayers, a novelist whose daughter is kidnapped, in the TV movie KILLER ENDING. The abduction is carried out in a way that imitates the plot of Agatha’s latest book (which has not yet been published) and she begins to suspect that her recently hired assistant might be involved. Written and directed by Christie Will Wolf, and filmed in Langley, B.C., KILLER ENDING will premiere on Lifetime in the US Saturday 30 June at 8pm, and in Canada on Superchannel Friday 20 July at 9:05pm.

The Fluffball Foundation (an orgainization that supports animal rescue, founded by Vaugier in 2009) recently posted this on Instagram: “Emmanuelle’s birthday [23 June] is coming up, and we’re hoping you’ll help make it extra special! Give her the best gift ever by donating to the 2019 Fluffball, which will once again benefit Forgotten Horses Rescue. Donate $10 or more and we’ll give you a surprise gift in return! To donate, visit our GoFundMe Page.” Continue reading →

Posted in Lost Girl, TV | Tagged Alex Paxton-Beesley, animal rights, Another You, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Gord Rand, In Search of Fellini, Killer Ending, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, Pure, Sweet Harmony, The Fluffball, Zoie Palmer

Dark Matter Cast News – Kirstin Rae Hinton in “Alias Grace”

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 11/05/2017 by pixel5102/02/2019

Trenna Keating and Gord Rand on the set of CARDINAL. — Keating is Isla McNeil in the film AWAY HOME, written & directed by Jana Stackhouse, which had its first screening at the Ryerson University Film Festival in Toronto on 6 May.

Trenna Keating (Felicia Brand, the attorney for CoreLactic Industries in DARK MATTER Episode 2.1) is Kristin Baldwin in the CTV crime drama CARDINAL, which tells the story of two detectives, John Cardinal (played by Billy Campbell) and his partner Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), who determine that a serial killer is in their midst after a girl’s body is found frozen in ice. The tale, which is based on the novel Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt, is set in a place called Algonquin Bay (a thinly disguised version of North Bay, Ontario, where Blunt grew up) and was, in fact, filmed in and around North Bay and Sudbury. All eight first season episodes of the critically acclaimied series will be available to stream in the US on Hulu on 16 June. A trailer is available on YouTube. CTV has renewed CARDINAL for two more seasons.


Melanie Liburd (Nyx Harper) will be Alexis in GYPSY, which will follow Manhattan therapist Jean Holloway (Naomi Watts) as she begins to develop inappropriately intimate relationships with people in her patients’ lives. Six of the ten episodes will be directed by women, two each by Sam Taylor-Johnson, Victoria Mahoney, and Coky Ciedroyc. Created by Lisa Rubin, GYPSY premieres 30 June on Netflix.


Kirstin Rae Hinton as Sadie Hopkins,
and Richard Davis as her son Finn in MURDOCH MYSTERIES episode 7.9 “A Midnight Train to Kingston”. The episode can be streamed on Netflix (US).

Kirstin Rae Hinton, (The Android’s diagnostic double at the end of Season One) will be Grace’s mother in ALIAS GRACE, a six-episode series based on the 1996 novel by Margaret Atwood (which was in turn based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland imprisoned in 1843 for the murder of her employer and his housekeeper). A decade after her conviction, the fictional Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace (Sarah Gadon) recall her past. (Grace became one of the most notorious women of 1840s Canada for her alleged role in the double murder, and was eventually exonerated after 30 years in jail.) Margaret Atwood will make a cameo appearance as a “disapproving lady in church“. Written by Sarah Polley and directed by Mary Harron, ALIAS GRACE will be broadcast later this year on CBC in Canada and on Netflix elsewhere.


Yvonne Strahovski, Amanda Brugel, and Margaret Atwood. Brugel is Faith in the TV movie SOMETIMES THE GOOD KILL, which will next air on 13 May at 8/7c on Lifetime

Amanda Brugel (Keeley in the DARK MATTER pilot) is Rita, one of two domestic servants assigned to the Commander’s household in THE HANDMAID’S TALE, a science fiction drama based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. It takes place in an alternate USA, one which has been transformed into a totalitarian theocracy and renamed Gilead. Women’s rights have been taken away and a class system imposed forcing some women to bear children for powerful men and their infertile wives. Atwood has a cameo in the first episode. (She gets to slap Elisabeth Moss.) New episodes of THE HANDMAID’S TALE happen Wednesdays on HULU in the US (Episode five aired on 10 May). In Canada the show is seen on BravoTV Sundays at 9/8c. (Episode three aired on 7 May.) THE HANDMAID’S TALE is the most popular show in the history of HULU, and has been renewed for a second season.


Showrunner Joe Mallozzi‘s first live-action production was STUDENT BODIES, a high school comedy that ran on FOX and YTV from 1997 to 1999. A 20th anniversary reunion special is in the early planning stages. Fans of the show who would like to see this happen should go to the Student Bodies 20th Anniversary Facebook page and let them know.

Posted in Dark Matter, science fiction, TV | Tagged Alias Grace, Amanda Brugel, Away Home, Cardinal, Gord Rand, Gypsy, Jana Stackhouse, Joseph Mallozzi, Kristin Rae Hinton, Margaret Atwood, Melanie Liburd, Student Bodies, The Handmaid's Tale, Trenna Keating

Skinwalkers, Sylvan Dread, and Stories

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 07/06/2016 by pixel5103/12/2018

WYNONNA EARP – Season 1 Episode 10 – SPOILERS

Eve (Natalie Krill) whom Gus recognizes immediately as Wynonna's missing sister  Willa

Eve (Natalie Krill) whom Gus recognizes immediately as Wynonna’s missing sister Willa

Gord Rand as Neolutionist Detective Marty Duko on ORPHAN BLACK, and  as Lou the Rrevenant on WYNONNA EARP.  Both Detective Duko and Lou were shot to death in the same week.

Gord Rand as Neolutionist Detective
Marty Duko on ORPHAN BLACK, and as
Lou the Rrevenant on WYNONNA EARP.
Both Detective Duko and Lou were shot
to death in episodes that aired
on consecutive days.

Lou (Gord Rand) and Bobo del Rey had a falling out some hundred years ago (Wynonna is told). Lou left town with his first wife Tadewi (Riza Santos), a skinwalker, who transforms herself into hungry predators (wolves, bears and the like) and devours Lou’s enemies. Bobo discovers that Lou has returned to the Ghost River Triangle after Cal (David Trimble), the operator of a gas station, relates the tale of Tadewi (in wolf form) devouring a woman (Christa Taylor Brown) who bore Lou’s mark and had escaped his compound in the Pine Barrens.

After a surreptitious visit from Bobo, Whiskey Jim tells Wynonna where to find Lou. When she and Dolls go after him, we discover that Dolls has hylophobia (fear of the woods). Dolls describes his fear as “sylvan dread”, a seldom-used term which may have been coined by British ghost story writer M.R. James (1862-1936) and is also the title of Richard Gavin‘s fifth collection of short stories, released last April by Three Hands Press.

David Trimble as Cal, who sees Haven attacked by the skinwalker near his gas station

David Trimble as Cal, who witnesses the skinwalker’s attack from his gas station

It is possible, then, that Wynonna has disposed of Bobo’s greatest enemy. Maybe he’ll give back the bar. Actually, Wynonna was too busy dealing with the skinwalker in bear form, so Eve shot Lou with Peacemaker. We know that the gun can only be fired by an Earp, and that it works for any Earp. (Wynonna fired it when she was 12 and accidentally killed her father.) It would seem that Eve is Willa (Gus recognizes her immediately), but if this is so, how did she come to be with Lou’s cult? Willa was taken by Bobo’s hunting party from the Earp Homstead in 2000. Did she escape Bobo’s men, only to fall into the clutches of the cult? When Eve/Willa turned 27, why didn’t she come into her powers?

It might make more sense if the whole story about Lou was made up by Bobo. What if Lou was a friend of Bobo’s and Willa was living there willingly? It is also possible that Bobo learned some spells from Clootie and conjured up a doppleganger of Willa. (Remember that at the beginning of the episode, Bobo appropriated Willa’s necklace from Waverly.) If either of these scenarios is true, Bobo now has a spy living on the Earp homestead.

Calgary model Christa Taylor Brown as the ill-fated escapee from Lou's compound.

Calgary model Christa Taylor Brown as the ill-fated escapee from Lou’s compound.

Wynonna gives Doc the Stone Witch’s Lincoln, and this conversation follows:

DOC: “Wynonna Earp. The only woman so bold as to woo a man with another woman’s car.”
WYNONNA: “I thought that if anyone should have it, it’s you.”
DOC: “And exactly what am I to do with it?”
WYNONNA: “What do you usually do with your enemy’s horse? Shoot it; ride it; paint it something other than pink?”
DOC: “Colour is the only thing this pony has going for it. Strong. Masculine.”
WYNONNA: “Pink’s traditionally a girl’s colour.”

DOC: “Oh, how history rewrites itself. Back in my day, girls were all dainty and delicate in blues, [pauses] I Think you would look very pretty in blue.”
WYNONNA: “Everybody knows. About us. The sex.”

Doc left town for a very good reason. It must have seemed to him that Wynonna was ashamed of their relationship.

Margo (Hannah Duke), one of Lou's more compliant subjects

Margo (Hannah Duke), one of Lou’s
more compliant subjects

A 30 year old Lincoln is a good car in which to teach yourself to drive. It’s huge, heavy, and built for comfort, not performance. Everything’s automatic, so maintaining control is fairly easy. Because the ride is so smooth, it is also quite easy to not realize how fast one is going, hence Doc gets ticketed for doing 140 kph in a 50 kph zone.


NOTES

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Natalie Krill (Eve) co-stars with Erika Linder in the April Mullen film BELOW HER MOUTH, about two women who embark on an unexpected, but life-changing relationship. The modern day love story also has the distinction of being the first all-female film. All of the (approximately 50) cast and crew are women. BELOW HER MOUTH should be relased sometime this summer.

Doc prepares to take a sledge to Clootie's Lincoln

Doc prepares to take a sledge
to Clootie’s Lincoln

Riza Santos (skinwalker) is Madeline in PAINKILLERS, a film about soldiers returned from a secret mission in Afganistan who have no memory of who they are or what happened to them. Their memories slowly re-emerge, forcing them to face the truth about how they ended up in Afghanistan to begin with and the betrayals that wiped their minds. PAINKILLERS won a 2015 AMPIA AWARD for Best Dramatic Feature, and is available on DVD in the UK as TOUR OF DUTY. A trailer is available on YouTube.

Jeff Hanni (revenant biker – uncredited) will appear in the fifty-seventh and final episode of HELL ON WHEELS, due to air on AMC on 23 July. Hanni will play a “disillusioned dock worker”.

Posted in TV, Wynonna Earp | Tagged April Mullen, Below Her Mouth, Christa Taylor Brown, David Trimble, Gord Rand, Hell on Wheels, Jeff Hanni, Natalie Krill, Painkillers, Riza Santos

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