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Joel Tobeck
Joel Tobeck (born 2 June 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand) is an actor known for his roles in the television series '' Tangle'', ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries'', '' Xena Warrior Princess'', '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', and ''Young Hercules'' and ''Sons of Anarchy''. In 2016 Tobeck began performing as the demon Baal on the show ''Ash vs Evil Dead''. Tobeck lives in Cambridge with his partner Yvette, with whom he has three children. Career Tobeck is known for his roles in the television series '' Tangle'', ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries'', '' Xena Warrior Princess'', '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', ''Young Hercules'' and ''Sons of Anarchy''. In 2016 Tobeck began performing as the demon Baal on the show ''Ash vs Evil Dead''. Just before playing ethical police superintendent Lawson of the 1950s and 1960s in ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries'' from 2013 to 2017, he took a turn playing a crooked cop of the 1920s in one episode, ''Blood and Circuses'', in the '' Miss Fisher’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is also home to the biggest ethnic Polynesian population in the world. The Māori-language name for Auckland is ', meaning "Tāmaki desired by many", in refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channelling Baby
''Channelling Baby'' is a 1999 New Zealand film starring several of the country's well known actors as well as up and coming actress Amber Sainsbury. Plot After being blinded by taking drugs in the 1970s during an eclipse, Bunnie ( Danielle Cormack) marries her Vietnam soldier boyfriend, Geoff (Kevin Smith). However, as she remains very flaky, he eventually disappears and takes their child with him. Twenty years later, Bunnie decides to use a medium, Cassandra (Amber Sainsbury), to try to find her daughter. Cast * Danielle Cormack as Bunnie *Kevin Smith as Geoff *Amber Sainsbury as Cassandra *Jodie Rimmer as Baby (voice) *Donogh Rees as Childbirth Nurse #1 * William Sabin as David Curtis * Joel Tobeck as Tony * Alison Wall as Childbirth Nurse #2 *Bunny Walters Bunny Te Kokiri Miha Waahi Walters (31 May 1953 – 14 December 2016) was a New Zealand singer who had a number of New Zealand hits during the 1970s. He is best known for the hits "Brandy" and "Take the Money and Run" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleopatra 2525
''Cleopatra 2525'' is an American science fiction television series that aired in syndication for two seasons, from January 2000 to March 2001. Produced by Renaissance Pictures and distributed by Studios USA, many stations aired it as part of the '' Back2Back Action Hour'', along with ''Jack of All Trades''. Plot When complications arise during her breast augmentation surgery, 20th-century exotic dancer Cleo (Jennifer Sky) is put into suspended animation. Waking 525 years in the future, Cleo joins two women in their fight against the Baileys, armed flying machines that now control Earth's surface. Her team leader, Hel (Gina Torres), is commanded by a mysterious female entity called "Voice", who relays orders via a communications implant under Hel's right ear. Voice controls many other teams and gives them their orders in a similar fashion, in effect, forming a resistance to the Baileys, with their ultimate goal to retake the Earth's surface. Their final team member is Sarge ( V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shortland Street
''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992. It is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 7,500 episodes and 30 years, and is one of the most watched television programmes in New Zealand. The show was originally screened as five half-hour episodes each week and initially receiving mixed reviews on its premiere. After its launch, it dropped in ratings and would have been cancelled if TVNZ had not ordered a year's worth of episodes in advance. TVNZ renewed the production in early 1993 when the show's rating had picked up, and it now has "long-term public enthusiasm". Today, it is one of New Zealand's highest-rated shows, frequently making AGB Nielsen Media Research's top 5 programmes of the week, achieving an average linear daily reach of 345,000 viewers (in the year up to June 2021) and is TVNZ's "most streamed show". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortal Engines (film)
''Mortal Engines'' is a 2018 steampunk film directed by Christian Rivers and with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Philip Reeve, and starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang. An American–New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and practise municipal Darwinism; its movie universe is different from that of the books. Jackson purchased the rights to the book in 2009, but the film languished for several years before being officially announced in 2016. Jackson picked Rivers, who won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on Jackson's ''King Kong'', to make his feature-length directorial debut with the project, and also brought on several members of his production teams from '' The Lord of the Rings'' and '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty (2011 Film)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is a 2011 Australian erotic drama film written and directed by Julia Leigh in her directorial debut. The film stars Emily Browning as a young university student. She takes up a part-time high-paying job with a mysterious group that caters to rich men who like the company of nude sleeping young women. Lucy is required to sleep alongside paying customers and be absolutely submissive to their erotic desires, fulfilling their fantasies by voluntarily entering into physical unconsciousness. The film is based on influences that include Leigh's own dream experiences, and the novels '' The House of the Sleeping Beauties'' and '' Memories of My Melancholy Whores'' by Nobel laureates Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel García Márquez, respectively. The film premiered in May at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as the first Competition entry to be screened. It was the first Australian film In Competition at Cannes since ''Moulin Rouge!'' (2001). ''Sleeping Beauty'' was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accidents Happen
''Accidents Happen'' is a 2009 Australian coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Andrew Lancaster and starring Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook, Sebastian Gregory, Joel Tobeck, and Sarah Woods. Written by Brian Carbee, based on his own childhood and adolescence, the story revolves around an accident-prone teenage boy and his family. The film was shot in Sydney, New South Wales, over June – July 2008, and opened in Australia on 22 April 2010. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 the soundtrack was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.ARIA Award previous winners. Plot In 1974, the Conway family are at a drive-in theater in Connecticut watching ''The Three Stooges''. The parents are Gloria (Geena Davis), a foul-mouthed and strict mother who will always take responsibility over the family, Ray (Joel Tobeck), an easy-going father, and siblings Linda, Gene, Larry ( Harry Cook), and Billy (Harrison Gilbertson), who is an acciden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Water Horse
''The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep'' (stylised on-screen as simply ''The Water Horse'') is a 2007 fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on Dick King-Smith's children's novel ''The Water Horse''. It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it: a "water horse" (loosely based on the Celtic water horse) which later becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster. The film also stars Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Visual effects were completed by the New Zealand-based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. ''The Water Horse'' was released in the United States on 25 December 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2008. This was originally the last film to be released by Revolution Studios until 2017's '' XXX: Return of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Days Of Night (film)
''30 Days of Night'' is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film was directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a 30-day-long polar night. ''30 Days of Night'' was originally pitched as a comic, then as a film, but it was rejected. Years later, Steve Niles showed IDW Publishing the idea and it took off. The film was produced on a budget of $30 million and grossed over $75 million at the box office during its six-week run starting on October 19, 2007. Critical reviews were mixed. The film has since developed a cult following. A sequel, '' Dark Days'', was released on October 5, 2010, straight to home video. A prequel miniseries, '' Blood Trails'', was released on FEARnet.com and FEARnet On Demand in 2007. Another sequel miniseries, '' Dust to Dust'', placed chronologically before ''Dark Days'', was released in 2008. Plot The town o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Rider (2007 Film)
''Ghost Rider'' is a 2007 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The film was written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, known for helming 2003's ''Daredevil'' previously, and stars Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider, with Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue, Matt Long, and Peter Fonda in supporting roles. ''Ghost Rider'' was released on February 16, 2007, in the United States. The film was met with negative reviews from critics, but was a box office success, earning $228.7 million worldwide on a $110 million budget. ''Ghost Rider'' was released on DVD, Blu-ray and UMD on June 12, 2007. A sequel, titled '' Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'', was released on February 17, 2012, with Cage reprising his role. Plot The demon Mephistopheles sends his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve the contract of San Venganza for control of a thousand corrupt souls. Seeing that the agreement would give Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eagle Vs Shark
''Eagle vs Shark'' is a 2007 New Zealand romantic comedy film written and directed by Taika Waititi (in his directorial debut) and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission. The film had its world premiere at Sundance in the World Cinema Dramatic section of the festival. Plot Lily ( Loren Horsley), a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works at a fast food restaurant and has a crush on Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), a geek who works in a video game store. One day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her workmate Jenny, who throws it away. Lily retrieves it and shows up at the party with her caring and supportive brother Damon. The party is sparsely attended with what are apparently teenage and adult customers of Jarrod's store, all dressed extravagantly in animal costumes. Jarrod is impressed with Lily's shark costume as well as her remarkable video game skills. They go to Jarrod's room and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silence (The Twilight Zone)
"The Silence" is episode 61 of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone''. The plot of this episode was based in part on the short story " The Bet" by Anton Chekhov.Twilight Zone, Laserdisc release It originally aired on April 28, 1961 on CBS. It is one of the few Twilight Zone episodes to feature no supernatural or sci-fi elements. Opening narration Plot Colonel Archie Taylor, a gruff aristocrat, has difficulty enjoying his men's club because of the constant chatter of fellow member Jamie Tennyson. In an effort to shut Tennyson up, Taylor bets him $500,000 that he cannot remain silent for one year. If Tennyson accepts the wager, a small glass-walled apartment will be erected in the club's game room where he will be monitored by microphones so that he cannot speak without detection. He may only write notes to communicate, and the other members may observe him through the glass. Tennyson is offended but agrees, needing the money to pay the debts incurred by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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