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Guy Ritchie initially revealed his next project would be The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare back in February 2021, but it wasn't until December 2022 that a cast began to come together. A World War II-set feature film, like several recent period piece 1940s era war dramas, will once
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It’s a common, though not universal, trait for Irish men to struggle to talk about their emotions, something that’s further complicated by the prevalence of restrictive religious values and punishing drinking cultures. A fear of vulnerability and letting people into an unsettled headspace means problems are further compounded,
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The Bronte sisters are rightly remembered as trailblazers in the world of literature, a trio of female authors who each penned novels that would go on to be considered wildly controversial and unimpeachable classics by turns, and they basically did it all in whatever the late eighteenth-century version of "
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Women Talking, the latest film by Canadian director Sarah Polley, has been on the awards junket train since its release during the 2022 Telluride Film Festival on September 2. It debuted in the U.S. just before Christmas weekend on Friday, December 23, in limited release, to rave reviews and
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When Netflix announced it was reviving the Luther franchise as a feature film, it seemed like the culmination of Idris Elba's campaign to continue the franchise that the BBC had put to bed. However, it appears that Netflix genuinely believes there's still life in the aging
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Most of the Christmas traditions we think of today as standards of the season were invented in the 1840s when the newly crowned Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, popularized his Germanic holiday standards. But, which the exception of A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker, most of the entertainment
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Despite what you may think, Matilda the Musical is not based on the popular 1996 movie Matilda that launched the career of Mara Wilson. Both are based on the same source material, Roald Dahl's beloved 1980s-era novel, Matilda. However, the new film that is out in limited release
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There is a small coterie of directors who can set their next projects and have the production studios come to compete. Sir Samuel Mendes, CBE, happens to be one of them, ever since making his name on the Oscar powerhouse film American Beauty in 1999. That the film has not
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Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre has created a miracle in Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. She and screenwriter David Magee (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) bring a romantic and feminist perspective to D. H. Lawrence’s troublesome 1929 novel. Leads Emma Corrin (The Crown) as Connie Chatterley and Jack
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Some actors become famous for being miscast by a well-meaning director: Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, for instance, or Benedict Cumberbatch in anything that requires an American accent. Then some actors miscast themselves in vanity projects, (Once again, Kevin Costner comes to mind, as does anything James
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Americans may be credited with inventing the modern day musical, but for decades, Britain has made substantial contributions to the canon. Les Mis, The Lion King, The Rocky Horror Picture Show – none of these iconic moneymakers would exist were it not for the efforts of supremely talented Britons. That’s
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Growing up, there were three truths about the holidays. Jo is right: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, the Grinch's heart would grow three sizes, and Scrooge will go from asking, "Are there no workhouses?" to buying a turkey the size of Tiny