From late August through early October 2014, MORE Productions of Los Angeles shot the principal scenes for 'The Summerland Project” in Cedar Rapids. The cast featured Hollywood actors - including Ed ...

On the surface, Jessica Swale would seem to have a lot of beginner’s luck. The first play she ever wrote, “Blue Stockings,” was a massive success with audiences and critics, premiering at ...

It’s 1975 and Alice Lamb, played by Penelope Wilton, is cussing at her typewriter and telling cute children to “bugger off.” When we cut back to the same typewriter some 30 years earlier, Alice, now ...

For my money, the new movie Summerland could not have come at a better time. Cast to perfection, beautifully shot, and marking a lovely feature directorial debut for Jessica Swale, this is not only a ...

In the new film 'Summerland,' Gemma Arterton plays Alice, a woman living alone in a small English village during the Blitz. In this exclusive interview with Made in Hollywood, Arterton and the film's ...

It's the 1970s. An elderly woman sits at her desk, clacking away on her typewriter. She's a reclusive writer, like many in history, and this hooks you in from the very start thanks to a fiery ...

“ Summerland ” might look like something you’ve seen before: A scenic story about a schoolchild who must leave London during the war and take up shelter with a reluctant caregiver. But while it is ...

If we are to accept that there are certain performers who never get their due, then the career of Gemma Arterton will go down in film history as one of the industry’s greatest missed opportunities.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an intrepid journalist who has covered Hollywood for two decades Set mostly during World War II, Arterton stars as Alice, a ...

Of course, luck has little to do with Swale’s success; she’s a self-proclaimed workaholic who spent a decade building her bona fides as a stage director on such plays as “Sense and Sensibility” and ...