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Photographer Rich Hardcastle is crowdfunding to produce a hardback book containing portraits of comedians taken during his 25 year career. The KickStarter page explains: “Whilst recently trawling old hard drives and negative files, Rich has discovered a treasure trove of rare and revealing
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June 29, 2017 // 0 Comments
Edgar Wright’s latest film, Baby Driver, is out in cinemas at the moment. And although, strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with The Velvet Onion, the origins of the film certainly do! The 2017 action crime comedy, written and directed by Wright, stars Ansel Elgort as Baby, a young,
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June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments
The UK adaptation of the 2014 animated French film Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods will be released in UK cinemas this summer. Matt Berry will be voicing one of the characters in the film although, sadly, it won’t be one of the main duo; instead Asterix will be voiced by Jack Whitehall,
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June 28, 2016 // 1 Comment
Rupert Grint, Nick Frost and Don Johnson will star in Sick Note a brand new comedy for Sky Atlantic to air in 2017. The show tells the tale of compulsive liar Daniel Glass (Grint), who is stuck in a failing relationship and dead end job, under the thumb of his irrepressible boss Kenny West
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May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments
Although we don’t get too much opportunity to write about the awesome Spaced, the seminal 90’s comedy show features a couple of TVO-faces, so we had to share this new artwork with you. Entitled ‘A-1 tip top clubbing jam fair’ after Tyres O’Flaherty’s (Michael
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May 15, 2016 // 0 Comments
Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the LATEST NEWS, and see what’s so hot right now below. CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR TVO TELLY FANS! As Noddy Holder once sang: IT’S
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December 22, 2014 // 0 Comments
Cuban Fury, the salsa-dancing romantic comedy featuring Chris O’Dowd amongst its cast, is released on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 9th April. Nick Frost plays the lead role in the film (with O’Dowd playing the part of his alpha male nemesis), and another actor with TVO connections, Kayvan
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June 3, 2014 // 0 Comments
If you’ve watched any UK TV in the past couple of weeks, you can’t fail to have seen the trailer for Mr Sloane, a new series made for Sky Atlantic. But did you notice a couple of familiar TVO-connected faces? Kevin Eldon makes a fleeting appearance in what appears to be a job
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May 18, 2014 // 1 Comment
This week marks the tenth anniversary of Shaun of the Dead being released in UK cinemas, and to celebrate, director Edgar Wright has made the scripts to all three parts of his Three Cornettos Trilogy available to download for free. Each film in the series – Shaun…, Hot
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April 9, 2014 // 0 Comments
The trailer and theatrical poster for forthcoming animated movie The Boxtrolls have been released. The adaptation of children’s fantasy novel Here Be Monsters! is stop motion 3-D adventure, set in the town of Cheesebridge, where the wealthy inhabitants are seemingly under siege from sewer
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March 7, 2014 // 0 Comments
It seems that Cuban Fury, the Salsa Dancing spectacular starring Nick Frost and Chris O’Dowd, will finally come out, in the UK, on Valentines Day 2014. A new trailer and poster have been released for the film, which also stars Rashida Jones, Kayvan Novak, Olivia Colman and Ian McShane, as
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November 16, 2013 // 0 Comments
The critically acclaimed box office smash The World’s End finally opens in US cinemas this week, and whilst we’d be recommending it to you regardless, the inclusion of a few TVO regulars sweetens the deal somewhat. The film, directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg & Nick
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August 21, 2013 // 0 Comments
If, like us, you’re ridiculously excited about the impending release of The World’s End, then the following YouTube video will be a slice of fried gold. The film – which features appearances by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram – is the final part of Simon Pegg & Edgar
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June 28, 2013 // 0 Comments
The first teaser trailer for The World’s End premiered today. The film reunites the creative trio behind the enormously brilliant Shaun Of The Dead and the somehow even better Hot Fuzz for the third and final film in their infamous Cornetto trilogy. Stars Simon Pegg & Nick Frost
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May 8, 2013 // 0 Comments
Richard Ayoade has joined the cast of upcoming animated movie The Boxtrolls. An adaptation of Here Be Monsters! – the incredibly popular fantasy novel for younger readers by Alan Snow, the 3-D film will be made via a combination of stop motion and cgi. Set for release in 2014, it tells the
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February 12, 2013 // 1 Comment
With all this talk of new things in Onion Land, it’s sometimes easy to forget that certain items slip people by. Such is the case of last summer’s blockbuster comedy The Boat That Rocked (aka Pirate Radio in the USA) – lost in the mêlée of big budget action adventures, it
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October 5, 2010 // 4 Comments
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