Classics Revisited
The amount of time between Caligula’s original 1976 shoot and an uncompromised version of the filmmakers’ original vision reaching audiences in the form of Caligula: The Ultimate Cut is 48 years. This is nearly double the lifetime of the corrupt and maniacal Roman emperor at the film's
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TV host Richard Osman's debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, became a pandemic hit in the U.K. in September 2020. He's since released three more in the series, the last of which hit the New York Times best-seller list. Various attempts at a movie have
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Anyone who ever VPNed Doctor Who on BBC One last decade when it aired on Saturdays in the early evening has probably seen Richard Osman while establishing their iPlayer connection. The game shows Pointless and Pointless Celebrities, in which he was the reader of the clues alongside the main host,
Classics Revisited
While Netflix's lavish period drama The Crown may have established itself as the pinnacle of our collective pop cultural shorthand for how we understand not only the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, but the larger struggles of the House of Windsor, Peter Morgan's six-season epic is
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Michael Gambon, born into a working-class family in Cabra, a suburb of Dublin, did not seem destined for an acting career. He left school at 15 to become an apprentice with an engineering company. His first contact with the theater was when his father, a communist sympathizer, told him to
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Helen Mirren is certainly no stranger to playing historical women, having portrayed three English monarchs (Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Charlotte, and Queen Elizabeth II --- twice!), a Russian Empress (Catherine the Great), and an infamous American gun heiress (Sarah Winchester). So, the fact that she's doing it again
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The Queen's Jubilee doesn't officially take place until the weekend of June 2, 2022, the 70th anniversary of her coronation. But that hasn't stopped the U.K. from celebrating ever since Feb. 6 hit, the day Elizabeth II ascended the throne. It's
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Basically, put the Oscar-winning duo of Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a movie together and chances are most Anglophiles would immediately line up to watch it, no matter what it happens to be about. Thankfully, their 2021 art heist drama The Duke looks like precisely the sort of charming,
Drama
HBO's newest Russian-themed miniseries, Catherine The Great, started airing this past Monday night, occupying the same spot as Gentleman Jack and Chernobyl from earlier this year. Featuring Helen Mirren as the titular empress, the series is a gorgeously detailed piece. Catherine The Great follows in the footsteps of
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HBO has taken to mining Russian history for great drama. Chernobyl, the 1980s era period piece that ran last May, was not just a hit with viewers, but critics as well, and is now up for five Emmys in September. The premium cabler is almost assuredly hoping for the repeat
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It’s official: Catherine the Great’s reign starts this Fall in America. HBO and Sky Atlantic announced the premiere dates for their upcoming limited series, which stars Oscar winner Helen Mirren as one of the most powerful women in history – and the person responsible for basically creating the nation
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HBO's upcoming limited series Catherine The Great promises a Helen Mirren tour-de-force as the titular monarch. It is the Year for Russian History on HBO. Following this spring's miniseries Chernobyl, the hit dramatization of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in the USSR, HBO is bringing forth Catherine