Movies
Filming on Lesley Manville's next major motion picture, Winter of the Crow, has officially wrapped. The project was first announced in January 2024, when HanWay Films boarded the production, which was already filming in Warsaw. One of the current crop of low-key successful indie film distributors that tends
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
A few weeks ago, as we were busy gasping over Amazon Studios having to pay twice for the Bond franchise, it was noted how much Barabra Broccoli hated Amazon from the jump. She hated their ethos, their marketing plans, and perhaps most of all, their franchising of "IP"
Theater
Broadway is bursting with opportunities for Anglophiles to catch some critically acclaimed British theater for themselves this spring, from a transfer of Sarah Snook's (Succession) award-winning turn in The Picture of Dorian Gray to Andrew Scott's (Ripley) one-man Vanya and the musical Operation Mincemeat. However, the
Movies
The Oscars Primetime telecast may signal the end of awards season, but the next wave of awards contenders are already gearing up to take the public's attention. Even before the Academy Awards announced its nominations for the year that was 2024, Sundance was introducing the tentative hopefuls, and
PBS
We are in a golden age of murder mysteries on TV. Cozy crime like Grantchester, Father Brown, and Death in Paradise are all hitting double-digit seasons. Meanwhile, more highbrow fare aims to do something different with the genre, from Agatha Christie reimaginings like Murder Is Easy to upcoming comedy mysteries
BritBox
As Sherwood Season 2 winds down, the separate threads are starting to come together, but in typical Sherwood fashion, the tapestry is devastating as the truth emerges. Any hope that St. Clair had of keeping this case under wraps is blown out of the water when Sheriff Lisa Waters joins
Movies
Daniel Craig initially rose to prominence as Joe Pitt in the 1993 National Theater production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the most seminal theatrical work of the last fifty years. While his career has gone in other directions since, including a 15-year stint playing the lead in
BritBox
It's time to return to Nottingham for the second season of Sherwood, which picks up in 2024, twenty years after the gruesome murders and investigation of the first season. There's a new Sheriff of Nottingham, Lisa Waters (Ria Zmitrowicz), determined to do good for the community
Apple TV
The fifth episode of AppleTV+’s Disclaimer was a tough one. It was the first one that didn’t bounce back and forth between the past and the present, and it really brought the drudgery of the present-day storyline to light. After Robert kicks her out of the house, Catherine
PBS
We’ve reached the finale of Moonflower Murders and its labyrinthine plots. Throughout the show, I kept asking: What is the significance of Natasha, the maid, going specifically to Cecily after she finds Parris dead? And does the fact that Parris occupied a room that was booked for another guest
Apple TV
AppleTV+’s Disclaimer arrives with two more episodes in its second week, which are all about grief and sex. But mostly grief... and also a lot of sex. We see Stephen and Nancy on the day they learn Jonathan has died. They are going about their casual lives grilling in
PBS
Creepy Martin Webster digs in his garden while his wife Joann scowls as the fifth episode of Moonflower Murders begins. In the woods nearby, a pile of moss and dirt reveals a secret: peeking out is a dead woman’s hand, wearing a wedding and engagement ring. Cecily has been