_A Christmassy Ted (1996)

Its hard to be Father Ted Crilly. In this 1996 Christmas special entitled “A Christmassy Ted” Father
Ted is obsessed with the fame and wealth of others he has crossed paths with. His assistant Father
Dougal McGuire constantly tests his patience in this special as he always does in the series. Unlike
Ted, Dougal takes everything to heart, and because of this ends up in compromising situations. Their
housemate Father Jack Hackett is constantly angry and drunk. Considering this it is quite fitting that
where they reside is called Craggy Island. There is also Mrs. Doyle their housekeeper who is obsessed
with having tea and trying to put up the Christmas decorations. Like all the Father Ted episodes, there
is a lot of slapstick comedy with the occasional dig at the church. The best part of the special is when
Ted and Dougal are lost in a women's underwear department at the mall, along with several other lost
priests (among them a young Kevin McKidd), and Ted tries his best to lead them out of the department.
After several hijinks, the priests are lead to safety by Ted and yet another scandal involving the
Catholic church is avoided. Later Father Ted is given the Golden Cleric which makes him happy but
when another priest named Father Todd Unctious shows up out of the blue claiming to know Ted, more
silliness ensues when Ted can't remember who the person is.
Maya

Who can forget Colin McMurray "Kevin McKidd" tossing the Caber in Made of Honour ...

Highland Games Season is upon us ...

Full 2011 programme of Highland Games across Scotland   ~  link

Highland Games, which take place from Cowal to Tomintoul and all points in between, are a unique mix of the sporting, the cultural and the social. They usually comprise a programme of field and track events, piping and Highland dancing competitions and 'heavy events' like the tug-o-war, the hammer throw and tossing the caber. read more here

Caber tossing : The caber is a tapered wooden pole, typical length 19 feet 6 inches (5.94 m) tall and weighs 175 pounds (79 kg).. records of the modern game can be traced back to at least the turn of the nineteenth century.

The origins of Caber tossing are not really known however it is believed it might have been  developed as a way for foresters to get there logs down to a river. 

Contrary to popular belief its not how far you throw the caber but style. There is an imaginary clock on the floor in front of the thrower the idea is to throw the caber from the 6'oclock position, with the heaviest portion landing in the centre of the clock and finishing off by landing with the narrow point facing the 12'oclock position. The winner is also judged by style of throwing, that is stance and steps, as well as strength, balance and agility.
reference Wiki ~ qivmg.com ~ Wiki ~ ancientsites.com

Made of Honour available from Amazon.com (region 1)
Amazon (uk) (region 2)

During Scottish week (USA) 3-11April we posted on our Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages our recommended Scottish Movies/TV productions starring Kevin McKidd for more information about these productions here is a condensed list of those Movies

The Rocket Post (2004)

filmed in Taransay, Western Isles, Scotland, UK”


Kevin McKidd …Thomas McKinnon

(Source: imdb.com)

Amazon Region 2 DVD

Looking after JO JO (1998 )

Tv Series (4 episodes)

Kevin McKidd …Basil

filmed in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (Sighthill estate)

Amazon VHS
(Source: imdb.com)

One Last Chance (2004)

Kevin McKidd … Seany

Film location included the area Kevin Grew up in, Moray (Tomintoul, Moray, Scotland, UK)

(Source: imdb.com)

Amazon Region 2

Afterlife
Kevin McKidd……. Kenny Brogan

Afterlife (2003)

Kenny’s (Kevin McKidd) budding journalist career is really beginning to take off in Glasgow, Scotland, aided in no small part by his ambition and guile for getting the grittiest story. He enjoys his life in Glasgow but is drawn to the possibility of a promotion in the US.

Living a very different lifestyle in Ayrshire, Kenny’s mother May (Lindsay Duncan) spends her days looking after her pride and joy: her daughter Roberta (Paula Sage). Roberta is a bright, sassy and artistically gifted girl with Down’s Syndrome. She has a penchant for chocolate and a knack for winning at Bingo. Roberta is content in her life with her mother and her felt tip pen art.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375529/
Amazon Region 2

Small faces

filmed in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

(Kevin McKidd as Malky Johnson)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114474/

Amazon Region 2

The Acid House

Three twisted tales from the seamy side of Scotland and the mind of Irvine Welsh.

You will find Kevin in The Soft Touch: a story about a man who is too soft to do anything when his wife moves in with the thug upstairs

Filmed in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

Amazon Region 2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122515/

If you enjoyed 16years of alcohol try Richard Jobson’s Purifiers in which Kevin takes the Part of Moses … also filmed in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

Amazon Region 2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371902/

I for one have seen Trainspotting the movie more times than I can remember, so to celebrate its 15th Anniversary I decided to get a hold of the book and give it ago.  First and for most not the easiest read its one thing to hear the Scottish accent but a whole different ball game to read it.  However do persists it is a great read and a good compliment to the movie. Of course if you are not keen on profanity in a book avoid this one.

Kevin told us in our last chat that he has read the book :  yes - i read it when i knew i had audition for it -- rushed out and bought one

click on the image to the left for a brief glimpse

Tommy :
It has to be said that Tommy's a fairly handsome **** wi a tan. It brings oot the best in him.  Handsome, easy-going, intelligent, and pretty tidy in a sedge.  Tommy should make you jealous, but somehow he doesnae. This is probably because Tommy doesne have the self-confidence tae recongnise n make the maist ay his qualities; ....

prefer to watch the movie : available from Amazon region 1and Region 2

screen-caps from the movie  by Anna from Mckiddingme (a great new screen-capping site, all Kevin, worth a peek)

Number 10

Trainspotting (1996)Dir Danny Boyle (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller)

Choose life, etc

At the planning stage of this survey, not a single member of the Time Out Film team would’ve expected Danny Boyle’s eye-wateringly hip, epoch-defining second feature to make much of a dent, let alone break in to the top ten. Yet here we are, and it seems that ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (which didn’t place) was not enough to make us overlook the ambition, charisma and sheer, blood, sweat and shit-soaked brio of this 1996 Irvine Welsh adaptation which gave Ewan McGregor a role that – if we’re being honest – he has never bettered.

The film – which now bizarrely makes the mid-1990s Britpop fad appear to have been the cultural highlight of modern times – told of happy-go-lucky junkie Mark Renton (McGregor) and the band of mischievous associates he would occasionally call friends, including Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). It’s still a lively watch, especially in the way its meandering, episodic first half emphasises the highs of pub fights, drugs scores, casual sex and a sub-aqua, Eno-scored mission down the world’s most disgusting lavatory bowl, only for the second half to condemn the drug culture that so many claimed it was glamourising.

Director Danny Boyle had already shown with his previous film, ‘Shallow Grave’ (1994), that he could reel off a juicy, character-driven yarn which had depth and ambiguity, but what makes ‘Trainspotting’ stand above the crowd is the industrious way in which he uses editing and camera movement to convey time, activity, violence, love, ecstasy and pain. Plus, is this the greatest opening five minutes ever? DJ

Number 64

Topsy-Turvy (1999)Dir Mike Leigh (Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall)

He remains an Englishman

Notwithstanding ‘Naked’ and the second half of ‘Another Year’, Mike Leigh’s in some ways most atypical film – it’s a period drama, with song and dance, and rather longer than usual – is also his finest. About Gilbert and Sullivan responding to withering criticism of ‘Princess Ida’ by making a comeback with ‘The Mikado’, it’s the kind of film that perhaps shouldn’t work but does – magnificently, thanks to a clutch of great performances and unshowy but precise direction, which ensures the movie succeeds on three levels: as an illuminating, partly self-reflexive meditation on the creative process; as an unusually vivid insight into just how different the world was as recently as the 1880s (all that wariness of the newfangled telephone!); and as witty, touching, utterly engrossing entertainment. GA

full list here
link thanks to Marrymeowen

All aboard for a special screening of Trainspotting


Published Date: 27 January 2011 By LIAM RUDDEN Arts and Entertainment editor

CHOOSE life! By introducing cinema audiences to Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy, Begbie and Diane, Trainspotting showcased the talents of Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald, making them international stars in the process.

That was 15 years ago, and on Wednesday that milestone will be celebrated with a special one-off screening of the cult Edinburgh-set movie at the Royal Scottish Academy, which features in the background of the unforgettable opening chase scene in which Renton, played by McGregor, runs down Princes Street.

On the off chance that you have managed to avoid Trainspotting for the last decade and a half, the action centres around the exploits of heroin addict Mark Renton.

Deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, he decides to clean up, kick his smack habit and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends who are quite happy to just party. It's an escape that finds Renton mixed up in drug deals, armed robbery and prostitution as he battles to get straight.

Directed by Danny Boyle, of Slumdog Millionaire fame, and based on the Irvine Welsh (pictured) novel of the same name, Trainspotting was ranked tenth by the British Film Institute in its list of Top 100 British films of all time.

Exposing the underbelly of an 80s Edinburgh regarded by many as the 'heroin capital of Europe,' the film not only launched its young cast on the road to stardom but made Welsh a household name, thanks in no small part to the controversy that surrounded its release.

Wednesday's screening is the third free event in Volkswagen's See Film Differently series.

The event is free but ticketed, with tickets available through an on-line draw. For the chance to win you need to log on to www.seefilmdifferently.com now. Tickets will be available until midday tomorrow, after which winners will be informed.

The event follows original location screenings of An American Werewolf In London, which was held inside London Zoo, and gangster classic Get Carter, shown at Newcastle Racecourse, both notable locations featured in the films.

Turning the camera on the locations featured in Trainspotting offers movie fans an immersive cinema experience designed to provide a behind the scenes-style insight into the BAFTA award winning favourite.

After the screening, viewers will be invited to follow Renton's route to Calton Road, where the opening chase ended with McGregor being hit by a car.

There, the Ingleby Gallery will host an exclusive exhibition featuring rare Trainspotting stills, original promotional material and photography, along with a live DJ set featuring music from the movie.

And just in case you are wondering why there are no references to train spotting in the movie, well, here's your answer. The title is taken from a scene from the novel in which Begbie and Renton meet a drunken dosser who turns out to be Begbie's estranged father, in the long-closed Leith Central railway station (now the site of Waterworld and Tesco), at the foot of Leith Walk – the drunk asks them if they are trainspotting.

15th Anniversary Screening of Trainspotting, Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, free but ticketed - tickets courtesy of Volkswagen.

For the chance to win visit www.seefilmdifferently.com before midday tomorrow, after which winners will be informed

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Yes its "Father Ted : A Christmassy Ted" time once again and this year we thought we would share with you some quotes from Kevin with regards  what it was like acting with the Father Ted cast....

"It was brilliant working with the 'Father Ted' cast," said Kevin (23).

"They are great comics and very easy-going - no pressure at all, just a lot of laughs and a lot of Guinness.

"I don't get a chance to do much in the way of comedy, and I really enjoyed myself."
Source : Northern Scot 3 January 1997 (expired link)

Ever been drunk on the job?

KM: No, but when I did Father Ted, we drank so much Guinness my experience is clouded. I was told they never cast anyone who wasn’t Irish, but I was the exception because the people that made it really liked Trainspotting. It was brilliant, I went to Ireland and shot there for two weeks but I don’t have many memories. I was the only non-comedian in the group so they tested out their material on me – I laughed my head off all the time.Source

Father Ted is shown all over the world so Check your local listing for Father Ted : A Christmassy Ted it might very well be scheduled...UK More 4

Amazon.co.uk


screencaps by Oldounce

...and yes, well members of KMKonline celebrate Halloween by either watching one or both of Kevin's Horror movies ie Hannibal Rising and Dog Soldiers of course

Something new to Kevin's Filmography, not quite a horror, but about Ghosts ..The Great Ghost Rescue which completed filming in Summer of this year and is due for release ..in 2011

I found some stunning images and, well, great ideas on costumes for any Halloween party from the Great Ghost Rescue website/images

The Great Ghost rescue Synopsis :-
Sometimes you are just better off dead
Life for orphan ghost Humphrey is complicated -
mainly because he is dead

Adopted by the Craggtfords, a three headed hag, a legless Scottish warrior and a flaming skull Humphrey begins to realize that maybe this family he's been looking for isn't all its cracked up to be THE GREAT GHOST RESCUE takes our hero on an incredible journey. Ousted from their haunted home in the country they march through the streets of London to the heart of Government Now the fight begins for the rights of his people ... dead people (synopsis from the Official website)

Now for a true horror  in every sense
Hannibal Rising
Kevin's character : Petras Kolnas

Petras Kolnas: What did I ever do to you?
Hannibal Lecter: Aside from eating my sister? Nothing.


Appearing in ''Hannibal Rising'', Kolnas is a former member of the Grutas Gang. Eight years after the murder of Mischa Lecter, Kolnas is stalked by Hannibal Lecter. Lady Murasaki pleads with Hannibal not to kill Kolnas because he has children and has seemingly turned his life around. Lecter later barters with Kolnas for information as to Grutas' location. Kolnas then attempts to kill Lecter, and is .... if you want to know what happens read here Souce (Spoiler alert) or hire/purchase the movie for Halloween

below a Behind the Scenes Clip of Kevin from Hannibal Rising ...

Last but not least my Halloween costume, well this year Ive managed to get my hands on a set of GA type Scrubs and with fake blood all down the front I'm going to my Halloween party as one of the casualties from the GA S6 finale ...;-) if anyone else is going as a Kevin related character please let us know in our comments. Photos would be most appreciated (send via contact page)

over Halloween weekend we will be celebrating Halloween in pure KMKonline style so do pop back and see what our Members  have created for your entertainment .....

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