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Bits and Bobs (Vol. 21): Some Joes you should know (Part 2) Entertainment Weekly - Dec 1, 2008 Look for her: opposite Tudors’ star Hans Matheson as the titular heroine in Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Masterpiece Classic’s new adaptation premieres ...

The Post

Downey chases villain in upcoming release The Post, Pakistan - Nov 20, 2008 ... who enjoys a tempestuous relationship with the detective from Baker Street. Eddie Marsan, James Fox and Hans Matheson are also in the film.

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Doctor Zhivago (TV Miniseries)

Sam MacLintock, Keira Knightley, Bill Paterson, Sam Neill, Celia Imrie
Doctor Zhivago is a romance story, a love triangle really, set with the Russian Revolution of 1917 as the primary backdrop. The story begins in Doctor Zhivago's childhood in the Russian countryside. His father commits suicide and Zhivago is taken to Moscow by aristocratic relatives to live. He attends medical school and becomes a fine physician but he prefers to write poetry. He marries and has children but he soon secures a mistress. As Zhivago isn't Kosher with the Bolsheviks (Communists), he chooses to move his family back to his rural homeplace which is a battleground between the competing revolutionary factions.

Half Light

Demi Moore, James Cosmo, Ceit Kearney, Hans Matheson, Jamie Edgell
True, aspects of the plot have been 'borrowed' from 'Gaslight' and 'The Wicker Man' with explicit homage to Hitchock but give me an example of a plot line that is not derivative these days...

I suspended my critical faculties, regarded it as a romantic thriller and know what ? I thoroughly enjoyed this film. The plot is suffused with an elegiac feel in keeping with a sub text of loss (and ultimately, reconciliation). Production values are very high (apart from one sequence featuring an unconvincing panorama of a cgi lighthouse.

Nero

Hans Matheson, Laura Morante, Rike Schmid, Elisa Tovati, John Simm
Being a long time student of Ancient Roman history I was greatly looking forward to this screen depiction of the life of the Emperor Nero, one of Rome's most controversial Emperors famed for his persecution of the Christians and the cold blooded murder of most of his own family. It mystifies me as to why the film makers took the direction they did in depicting Nero as an innocent victim of his surroundings and upbringing when in actual fact the real Nero was far from ever being that. Perhaps in these "revisionist", times it isn't considered fashionable to show a famous, or in Nero's case I should say "infamous", figure as completely without some redeeming characteristics? It is hard to tell but I believe what would have been far more interesting to see would have been a cinematic study of the "real", Nero, complex and gruesomely fascinating character that he was, who rather than being a victim of circumstances was actually someone who struck terror into everyone close to him and who was solely responsible for the cold blooded murder of totally innocent family members, senators and most famously of all the early Christians, during his reign as Rome's fifth Emperor.

Stella Does Tricks

Kelly Macdonald, James Bolam, Hans Matheson, Ewan Stewart, Andy Serkis
Stella is a young, alienated woman who is trapped by the tricks of her mind. She is driven into a life of prostitution by her mysterious past, which unfolds for the viewers in fractured, painful memories. Fragments of her childhood invade her present state of living, taking her back into a past which she longs to escape. She dreams of a redemption that will scourge her of her tortured memories, and allow her to live a new life, with her newfound love, Eddie. As she finally begins to break free of her past, Eddie's own tricks (drug use, prostitution) threaten to destroy their thread-bare happiness.

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