Movies
The Venice Film Festival is the unofficial kickoff to awards season, where many of the fall and holiday-timed debuts first screen to build critical buzz. However, between the current SAG-AFTRA strike and the massive box office one-two punch of Barbinheimer, this year’s offerings may not land with the same
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Streaming service BritBox will be closing out summer with a little extra sizzle next month with the launch of the new series The Ex-Wife, a four-part psychological thriller about a woman who can't seem to let go of her previous relationship. Based on Jess Ryder’s novel of
Wolf
Seemingly overnight, BBC’s newest thriller series WOLF has burst onto the scene with a spine-chilling trailer and an all-star cast. This six-part crime drama is based on the gruesome and twisted Jack Caffery novels, a contemporary thriller series written by Mo Hayder. The show stars a dream team of
Our House
The title Our House for a certain generation will conjure up either 1960s sitcoms or old MTV videos and new wave Madness, but here in 2023, it's not in the middle of our street, but on PBS. The ITV "real estate thriller" series, based on Louise
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After two episodes spent on red herrings, D.I. Ray’s third episode finally picks up the pace, as DI Rachita Ray has an opportunity to prove herself as the “Culturally Specific Homicide” she was brought on to investigate turns into something much more significant. The young man discovered alive
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Will Davenport may have avoided going to prison for his role in the motorcycle accident that killed an innocent passerby, but if the third episode of Grantchester Season 8 is anything to go by, he certainly hasn't escaped punishment. In the wake of last week's devastating
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Ridley starts at the jazz club again, but this time it's not Adrian Dunbar showing off his golden tones. Instead, it's Eve Marbury (two-time Olivier Award winner for musicals Carousel and My Fair Lady Joanna Riding) who kicks off this week's story by having
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Wilkie Collins is credited with inventing the modern mystery with The Woman in White. Arthur Conan Doyle is considered the father of the modern detective for introducing the world to Sherlock Holmes. But for sheer breadth and depth of canon, nothing beats Agatha Christie, whose writing career spanned 50 years,
Actors and Actresses
Renowned British actor Roger Allam (b.1953), is an actor and musician of great talent. He initially rose to prominence in the US after originating the role of Javert in the original London Les Misérables, after rising through the ranks at the Royal Shakespeare Theater and the National Theater. We
Doctor Who
The “Barbinheimer” phenomenon may seem like a promotional crossover for the ages, but Doctor Who fans know that the most significant crossover in the galaxy is Barbie and Doctor Who (Doctor Barbie? Barbie Who?), spurred by Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa’s role in Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster. The crossover
Oppenheimer
You could argue that post-war America, having gained the ability to obliterate entire sovereign nations, elected to focus its power on killing itself. The dogmatic conservative values, the ruthless Cold War paranoia, and the constant dog-piling on its nation’s most creative and radical thinkers (not to mention its militarized
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Barbie may be the current major high point of director Greta Gerwig's career, but the reason is that it's rather off-brand for her. Previously, the director has behind the last big-screen adaptation of Little Women and Lady Bird, films that are much closer to the sort