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After a good few years of overlong, cringingly unfunny, and pandering Academy Awards telecasts, this year’s Oscars had a refreshing sharpness and humor to them – led by host Conan O’Brien, whose enthusiasm, wit, and sincerity uplifted a pretty unsurprising and tired roster of awardees. One pack that fared
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If you haven’t been paying attention to Daisy Ridley’s career since she last played Rey in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, then you’ve missed out on the joy of watching the actress prove her talents in a series of really interesting roles in a
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If you need a dose of joy in your life, there is no better remedy than the National Theatre Live’s The Importance of Being Earnest. This production of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy originally ran at London’s Lyttleton Theatre from November 2024 to January 2025. Now, thanks to
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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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On the heels of Jessie Buckley's critically acclaimed turn in The Lost Daughter in 2021, where she played opposite Olivia Colman, it was announced she'd be teaming up with another British actor heading for Dame-hood, Fiona Shaw, in a new film called Hot Milk. The picture
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It may seem like most awards-bait films starring a high-profile British cast that debut at the various film festivals are instantly scooped up by studios eager for Acamdey Award attention, but that's not always true. Many get bogged down in negotiations with buyers or come away with tepid
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As William Shakespeare once proclaimed through Jaques in As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage…” In theory, yes. However, if you seek world-class productions of Bard’s great works, they are usually very location-specific. Unless you’ve got an inexhaustible income, seeing many of those plays in
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James Norton's exit from Grantchester was messier than anyone would have liked. At the end of his three-season contract, he declined to re-sign for another season, delaying the show's fourth season by nearly a year as an agreement was worked out where he would be written
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Most British movies we cover here at Telly Visions tend to be the highfalutin kind that makes grand debuts at international film festivals, but that's because those are the sorts of films most classically trained British actors get cast in. However, one should never assume that the U.
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Of the Big Five Film Festivals held over the first nine months of the year, The Berlin International Film Festival probably produces the least buzz here in the States. There are several reasons for that, starting with the Film Festival’s openly political bent, which has been a hallmark of
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January 2025 has already had a very rough start. Destructive California wildfires, the death of creative legends, tech bros gone wild, freezing cold snaps ... Can Punxsutawney Phil just see his shadow now so there’s a mass excuse for us all to hide in our “burrows” for six more weeks?
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When Netflix transitioned to streaming originals in 2013, it made the move to " disrupt" the entertainment industry. It's certainly done that: destroying cable, sending multiple successful production studios into bankruptcy, and changing how the average person consumes television. But it's also been forced to