Set in the majestic Canadian Rockies and starring BAFTA award-winning actor Tim Roth and six time Emmy award nominee Christina Hendricks, TIN STAR tells the story of Jim Worth, a former British detective, now small town police chief, who brings his family to the tiny and tranquil town of Little Big Bear for a better life.
To celebrate the release of TIN STAR, we’re giving away 5x copies on DVD. If you don’t win a copy seriously track this one down, it is dark and bloody amazing – binged the entire thing over two days. TIN STAR runs for a total of 456mins and is rated MA15+.
TIN STAR SYNOPSIS:
When a vast industrial facility opens nearby, and their new home is flooded with migrant workers looking for drugs, gambling and prostitution, Jim has to work hard to protect his family and the town from organised crime.
Then crime strikes back. And when Jim’s family suffers a shocking tragedy, old, dark and dangerous secrets surface. We discover that Jim is not the man we think he is but is in fact Jack – the professional name for his alcoholic alter-ego: an undercover cop with a violent past and a long list of enemies; a man more unpredictable, more charismatic and infinitely more menacing than Jim.
Part drama, part thriller and part dark comedy, TIN STAR is a brain rattling, heart wrenching rollercoaster ride that grabs you by the guts from the start and never lets you go.
THOUGHTS ON TIN STAR:
Just marvellous. When I first hear about these TV shows through a media company asking me to run a giveaway I think little of them. Why wouldn’t I have heard about it online? Seen it on the TV, Netflix or other channels? I give them an episode or two and then usually run the giveaway. Not for TIN STAR, it firstly had me because I bloody love Tim Roth, could watch him anything. Secondly, as soon as I started I couldn’t stop. The writing from Rowan Joffe, Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford take this show to places I would never have imagined in a show wonderfully layered and complex. Void of cliche with characters and performances worthy of awards TIN STAR is one of my favourite TV shows of 2018.
Tim Roth is as wonderful as you can imagine and gives us a truly non-mainstream character that is to be hated as much as loved. Christina Hendricks and Genevieve O’Reilly give wonderful showings as Jim/Jack’s two love interests, O’Reilly’s character was just a lot more fun and nothing you would imagine from any sane wife. Abigail Lawrie is a truly engaging daughter to Tim Roth’s crazy dad, I can totally buy most of her choices in the show considering the insanity going on in her life. And a surprisingly matched performance for Roth was Oliver Coopersmith, besides my obvious shallow swooning for the hot bad boy his conflicted character was a great story arc to watch.
LEAP OF FAITH:
You do need to take a small leap of faith with the police procedures in the small town, there is no way Jack/Jim would have gotten away with what he did in reality. But it is at times quite humorous in its presentation.
And two wonderful final characters of the show were the stunning cinematography of the area filmed in Alberta, Canada and the chilling drawn out score and soundtrack.
I am absolutely stoked there is a second season confirmed because Jack/Jim deserves more screen time.
HOW TO WIN TIN STAR ON DVD:
With special thanks to Acorn Media to win one of the five copies of TIN STAR on DVD you need to either like and share/ retweet this post on Facebook/Twitter/ Google+/ Pinterest/ LinkedIn/ Flipboard or Instagram (all the links to follow us are on the top right of homepage). Further to this you then need to leave a comment below stating the answer/s to the following questions:
What is your favourite TIM ROTH performance and why?
If you do not have social media then you can still enter, leave your entry below in the comments and then email me at jking@saltypopcorn.com.au telling me you don’t have social media (you still need to enter on the website).
This is a game of skill and selected purely on the thoughts of the judges.
The prizes will be drawn on or before June 21st. Good luck! Oh, and minor housekeeping – huge apologies for overseas readers, this competition is only available to Australian residents.
YOUR REVIEWER:
Jason King owns, writes and edits Salty Popcorn and Spooning Australia. He is a movie, food, restaurant, wine, chocolate, bacon, burger and brussels sprouts addict. He is a member of the Australian Film Critics Association and has been in the Australian movie industry for 25yrs. Furthermore he loves watching people trip over and is Leonardo DiCaprio’s biggest fan.
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I immediately went to Reservoir Dogs and I can’t go past it. So many of his scenes are monologues, he has amazing delivery and really sells the nervous energy of a man trying to convince himself he can do this as well as a man knowing he’s going to die if he can’t persuade a criminal to get him to a hospital. Utterly gripping stuff and probably my favourite movie ever
It has to be Rob Roy, he was amazing in this role and it really showed his talent’s as an actor.
I’m like you, I’m very dubious of TV Series if I haven’t heard of them already but there seems to be so many different outlets these days and quality TV getting produced in so many countries it’s hard to stay on top of everything. Plus there’s the hype that tends to be dominated our media streams from just a few series. This sounds like a Canadian Top of the Lake and I’ll definitely check it out. Tim Roth has so many great performances to mention but I’ll go for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, he looks so young in it ! It’s hilariously witty and his chemistry with Gary Oldman is fantastic, it’s basically a filmed play but if you like witty one-liners, hijinx and mischievnous it’s brilliant.
Playing Dr. Cal Lightman in Lie to Me.Roth struck the perfect balance between troubled and true .Tim Roth is the sort of actor capable of reaching great dramatic heights, and his role here gave him the room to show off a variety of emotions, whilst also keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
He was an amazing Abomination to Edward Norton’s Hulk, Roth always plays amazing bad guys and villains
Mr Orange i n Reservoir Dogs – he was the most popular with the other gangsters until they found out that he was an undercover cop – loved how good he was at fooling them all
You’ve got me hooked on wanting to see this on loads of levels – Tim Roth ! Great Canadian Scenery – visiting the Canadian National Parks has been on my bucket list for almost 20 years and a great score and soundtrack, I’m hoping for something as good as the Leftovers?
I love Tim Roth in one of my all time favourite films – Pulp Fiction, he’s barely in it 15 minutes but as Ringo he’s utterly pivotal in the film, technically he’s even only in one scene but we keep seeing it from different angles and his dialogue which is trademark Tarantino is delivered with brilliance. I almost feel I need to do a Tim Roth season after thinking about it and reading your review.
I was thinking not another one of these. There seems to be more and more film starts staring in TV series these days. But you had me at the Canadian Rockies. I can see this location being a fantastic backdrop. And yep, Tim Roth could make this worth watching. I know others have mentioned it, but one of his best performances is probably Mr. Orange in Reservoir Dogs. He looked so much younger back then. This was a career-making role for him. I think what helped here were a great group of actors who really took to their roles; each was fantastic making each other look even better. I felt the emotion with him. Will they find out who he is? Will he get taken to a hospital? Will Mr White kill him? Oh. I think it’s time to watch it again.