Theater
In the words of the weird sisters: A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come. Fans of great theater, William Shakespeare, David Tennant (Rivals), and Cush Jumbo (Criminal Record), can all breathe a sigh of relief: Macbeth will screen in select cinemas across the U.S., the U.K., and Australia
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Since its debut at Cannes, Santosh has received rave reviews (there are only a handful of reviews so far, but Rotten Tomatoes currently rates it as 100% Fresh). The Hindi language movie is the debut fictional feature-length film from director Sandhya Suri. It is the story of a widow who
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Long before "Bennifer" got back together 20 years after their original breakup, got re-engaged, and now divorced, when someone brought up the celebrity couple who couldn't stay broken up despite how toxic they were for each other, two people worthy of their full names sprang to
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The words "Victorian," "Regency," and "Period Drama" often get used interchangeably despite being two totally different eras and an entire genre of film and television. It happens because most English-speaking period dramas are set in the U.K. during the 1800s, defined by the
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Netflix has set a November release date for Joy, its accidentally timely forthcoming period film about the historical origins of in vitro fertilization. For those who aren't aware, IVF was pioneered in Britain, and Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test-tube" baby, was born
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World War II films seem to proliferate every time you turn around, especially since 2016. That was the year the NSA released a vast treasure trove of previously classified documents detailing many lesser-known missions, including the feats of derring-do undertaken by the spy community, of which writer Ian Fleming was
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There's a certain type of British A-list actor who finds themselves going through an awards bait phase. Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, made a string of biopic films in the mid-2010s, all of which were very obviously geared toward garnering Academy Award nominations. Barry Keoghan has seemingly entered that
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The British Film Institute's London Film Festival is one of the last significant chances for most films to get themselves into the Awards Conversation. (The AFI Film Festival in November is THE last chance.) It's also a good bellwether of which films think they can grab
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We Live in Time has been on the awards buzz radar since it was first announced in 2023. The film stars Florence Pugh (Little Women) and Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) as the main couple in a dramatic romance. She's a chef with big dreams; he
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It’s tough sometimes for the TV and film industry when one of the world’s most famous British women authors only wrote six books. Jane Austen is so beloved by the British public and readers around the globe that her face is literally on the £10 note. But there
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Historical novels about William Shakespeare aren't uncommon; however, Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 fictionalization of Shakespeare's real-life family tragedy, stood out as head and shoulders above the others in the genre from its initial release. Shakespeare and his wife only ever had one
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While Disney+ and Netflix were announcing release dates for their respective high-end British shows for 2024, Sky Film's The Radleys was having a splendid debut on the movie side of the Edinburgh Film Festival. The TV movie adaptation of Matt Haig's hit novel of the same