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There's a certain type of British A-list actor who finds themselves going through an awards bait phase. Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, made a string of biopic films in the mid-2010s, all of which were very obviously geared toward garnering Academy Award nominations. Barry Keoghan has seemingly
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Everyone is familiar with William Tell, but few probably know much about him beyond the often-repeated story about the time he shot an arrow through an apple on top of his son's head. Somehow, the bit where that whole thing actually sparked a battle for Swiss independence
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The British Film Institute's London Film Festival is one of the last significant chances for most films to get themselves into the Awards Conversation. (The AFI Film Festival in November is THE last chance.) It's also a good bellwether of which films think they can grab
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We Live in Time has been on the awards buzz radar since it was first announced in 2023. The film stars Florence Pugh (Little Women) and Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) as the main couple in a dramatic romance. She's a chef with big dreams; he
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It’s tough sometimes for the TV and film industry when one of the world’s most famous British women authors only wrote six books. Jane Austen is so beloved by the British public and readers around the globe that her face is literally on the £10 note. But there
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For all that it's been around for thousands of years at this point, the institution of the Catholic Church is still fascinating to many people. The Church has centuries of tradition behind it, from the colors of the vestments priests wear on particular Sundays to the prayers that
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If it's September, then that can only mean one thing: Christmas is coming. You know it's true, Spooky Season People. Despite your love of Halloween and all things that go bump in the night, retailers are already one foot out the door on pumpkins and well
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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’
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It's the last days of August, so naturally, it's time to start thinking about Christmas, at least if you're in the TV business. However, no festive special this year will beat the return of Wallace & Gromit, the claymation duo famous for their 1990s-
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Historical novels about William Shakespeare aren't uncommon; however, Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 fictionalization of Shakespeare's real-life family tragedy, stood out as head and shoulders above the others in the genre from its initial release. Shakespeare and his wife only ever had
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While Disney+ and Netflix were announcing release dates for their respective high-end British shows for 2024, Sky Film's The Radleys was having a splendid debut on the movie side of the Edinburgh Film Festival. The TV movie adaptation of Matt Haig's hit novel of the
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For a while, Timestalker is about as romantic as you can make a film with the word “stalker” in its title. Charting an odyssey of one-sided infatuation, Timestalker comes from deadpan royalty Alice Lowe, who has been involved in a good dozen British comedy classics this millennium. Lowe has