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Undercover Brits: ‘Star Trek’s Anglophile Spacefarers
In honor of 'Star Trek Day' and the franchise’s 60th anniversary, we are rerunning our Top 10 British actors from across its many series.
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'Verona's Romeo & Juliet' Resurfaces as 'Juliet & Romeo'
It would be impossible to list out all the various adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, even if one were to stick to only those committed to film. Moreover, much like Pride & Prejudice, feature-length stories of the star-crossed lovers seem to function on a
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All The British Actors from 'The White Lotus,' Ranked
Even though The White Lotus is created and written by the very American multi-hyphenate Mike White, who also acts, directs, and was in a season of The Amazing Race, its international yet predominantly English-speaking acting ensembles have made me think of it as a British series. The brief
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Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs Take 'The Salt Path'
Most films on housing insecurity, poverty, and homelessness follow the same playbook. People in bad situations make poor life choices and end up on the street; their inner strength and burning will to live help propel them through hardship until they pull themselves up and find their way back to
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BritBox's 'Archie' Tries to Find the Man Behind the Myth of Cary Grant
Most Americans are familiar with actor Cary Grant. Star of such iconic films as North by Northwest, The Philadelphia Story, and An Affair to Remember, Grant is synonymous with the entire concept of Golden Age Hollywood; a wildly popular performer who helped define what we now consider a movie star
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Jason Isaacs Looks Positively Dreamy In the Trailer for BritBox's Cary Grant Drama 'Archie'
BritBox has released the trailer for its upcoming biographical drama Archie, a four-part series that explores the life and career of Bristol-born British actor Archibald Leach, better known to the world as All-American heartthrob Cary Grant. Grant is rightly remembered as Hollywood royalty, the star of such
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BritBox's 'Archie' Lands a December Release Date
In the current era of prestige TV, actors who are “secretly British” are everywhere. The forthcoming Masters of the Air, for example, is about WWII’s American Air Force’s Bloody Hundredth, but two-thirds of its stars hail from their British allies. Fans are so used to Undercover Brits
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The First Looks at Jason Isaacs in 'Archie' Are Uncanny
When most people think of Cary Grant, they think of iconic movie moments, like his comedic turn as a New England doctor with a tiger with Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby, his fast-talking New York newspaper editor of His Girl Friday, the Mid-Atlantic socialite caught in a
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Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs To Star in 'The Salt Path'
The production working on Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path for theatrical production initially announced it was pivoting to a big screen production just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023. Marianne Elliott, the Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning director behind The Curious Incident of
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Jason Isaacs Will Play Cary Grant In New BritBox Series 'Archie'
Most people know Cary Grant as the debonair romantic lead of such films as His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby or the famous scene of him chased by an airplane in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. But the British-American actor, born Archibald Alec Leach in January
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‘Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris’ Is a Frothy, Gorgeous Fairy Tale
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a wonderful, feel-good movie, blessed with a strong British and French cast and careful direction by Tony Fabian, who wrote the script with Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed. It's based on the novel by Paul Gallico. Costume design is