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Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed work, published six months after her death in 1817. The story is one of Austen's least frequently adapted works, likely due to its prickly, older heroine and more difficult subject matter. A story of missed opportunities, regrets, and second chances,
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Ben Whishaw's run on This Is Going To Hurt may have only just started over on AMC+, but he already has more projects in the works. The actor has been revealed in a first-look photo as the titular lead in Limonov, The Ballad of Eddie, a biopic
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Fresh off his Oscar nomination for The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch is apparently gunning for another one. He's set to star in United 93 director Paul Greengrass' upcoming period drama about the Peasants Revolt, which will likely be full of the sort of sweeping spectacle
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Netflix's recent wave of successful true crime documentaries and docu-series—covering topics both serious and off-the-wall—has inspired a wave of true crime dramatizations on other networks and streaming platforms. Netflix does Tiger King, and Peacock does Joe vs. Carole; Netflix does The Staircase as
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Some fairy tales never go out of style; the same story is merely retold in modern settings. These parables usually reflect a moral code that's stood the test of civilizations — Beauty and the Beast's admonishment to look beyond the surface of a person's appearance,
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Move over Anthony Bridgerton, a new Regency rake is in town. Arriving just in time to fill the Bridgerton-shaped hole in our hearts in the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 is Mr. Malcom's List, a Regency-set romantic comedy full of all the extravagant dresses, verbal
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Downton Abbey has made a habit of defying expectations. The series was not supposed to be a big hit for Masterpiece; edited down to four episodes from seven and exiled to the doldrums of January. The first film, distributed by indie studio Focus Features, was viewed as a niche offering
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Some works of fiction are pivotal in the making of modern storytelling, like Bram Stoker's Dracula. And there are some groups of literary artists make you wish you could go back in time and be part of their intellectual circle, like Dorothy Parker's Algonquin Round Table.
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The Western World still holds up World War II as the last "good" war, making it endless fodder for television and movies. The era that launched modern technology endlessly fascinates us, from mainstream mega-hits like Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List to PBS dramas like
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Although England's King Henry VIII famously had six wives, mainstream pop culture has not been equally interested in all these women's stories. Modern audiences remain generally fascinated by the downfall of second wife Anne Boleyn, a woman who pushed boundaries and triumphed from beyond the grave
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Streaming service Disney+ doesn't have a ton of content of particular interest to fans of British TV at the moment—unless you count Tom Hiddleston's turn in Loki—but like its compatriot Apple TV+, it's slowly starting to greenlight more directly Anglophile friendly projects.
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It's a couple of weeks until the Cannes Film Festival, and the pre-event market that runs side-by-side with it is in full swing. The annual Cannes Film Market is one of the major points in the calendar year where indie movies, especially those looking to