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Our first look at buzzy feature film The Roses is here, and it's essentially got awards-bait written all over it. From the star-studded cast, led by Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Thing with Feathers) and Oscar winner Olivia Colman (Wicked Little Letters), to its buzzy pedigree, everything about
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Netflix does not have the best track record for Jane Austen adaptations. So far, the streaming service has only produced one (1) Jane Austen adaptation, 2022's Persuasion, but it so fundamentally misunderstood the spirit of Austen's best novel that it instantly became an entire track record.
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The War of the Roses will recommence this summer...just not quite in the way many Anglophiles likely expect. (Sadly, there are no Plantagenets or Lancasters to be found.) Feature film The Roses is officially set to arrive in theaters this August, a reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The
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The calendar gods (and Sony Pictures) have given us all the greatest gift of 2025 — the third cinematic adventure of Paddington Bear. Paddington in Peru is the very much needed and appreciated next chapter about the life and times of this very kind bear with a marmalade sandwich habit. This
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John le Carré's status as a (spy)master of espionage fiction has yet to be seriously challenged, not least because his 60-year writing career spanned one of the most eventful periods of international relations in human history – from the dawn of the '60s to the equally fractured
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first few months of the year are a slog. Don't believe me? A U.K. psychologist came up with a whole formula to prove that January 24 is the most depressing day of the year, thanks to the combination of
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Before the advent of streaming, TV and movies ran on a cycle. Networks produced new episodes of their shows from September to May, with a long holiday break and summers off. Movies dropped their blockbusters at the top of the summer and mid-July, with the awards bait arriving from September
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Paddington Bear, the star of the best franchise in theaters in the 2010s, is finally back on the big screen after a seven-year absence in the first trailer for Paddington in Peru. It’s a Cinderella story of family films; when BBC Films said they were resurrecting the country’s
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When the cast list for The Night Manager Season 2 was announced at the beginning of June 2024, it was pretty noticeable that only one name from the show's first season, which aired in 2016, was listed on the roster: Tom Hiddleston. Obviously, he was a requirement for
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are two of the biggest actors working today — and now they're finally going to work together. (Or, at least, work together properly.) The prestige duo are joining forces for The Roses, a reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses.
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Move over Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain; there’s a British version of Mother’s Instinct’s period drama “Mother-off” – with equally beloved national treasures Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman. Even better, they’re swearing the whole gosh-flipping time; Wicked Little Letters tells the surprising story of the Littlehampton “poison
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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to the feature film Wicked Little Letters, a foul-mouthed period comedy starring Olivia Colman (The Crown) and Jessie Buckley (Fingernails). The film, which reteams former The Lost Daughter co-stars, is based on a true story of a dark and absurd nineteenth-century