Great Performances
Though live performances are largely still shuttered over a year into the coronavirus pandemic, fans of Shakespeare can rejoice, and those who have needed a jolt of theatrical goodness are in for a treat. PBS's Great Performances has picked up the rights to Romeo & Juliet, the planned
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Benedict Cumberbatch has an array of intriguing roles in the works, but one of the most interesting has to be The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, a biopic that features both vibrant art and multiple cats. (My dream? My dream.) The Sherlock star will portray the real-life Wain, who was
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Killing Eve star Jodie Comer is in talks to star in director Ridley Scott's upcoming film Kitbag, an epic tale of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Deadline reports that while there's no official deal in place just yet, Comer is Scott's first choice to
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Netflix's The Dig is a beautifully made film, a meditative exploration of time, mortality, and heritage, that tells the story of one of England’s greatest archaeological discoveries, the Sutton Hoo ship burial and its treasures. It is set in 1939, when England was on pause, waiting for
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Benedict Cumberbatch is set to play the most unlikely of spies in the upcoming Cold War thriller The Courier. Formerly titled Ironbark, the film is based on the real-life story of Greville Wynne, a British businessman-turned-spy who was recruited by MI-6 and the CIA to smuggle secrets out of the
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Harriet actress Cynthia Erivo is set to star in and produce a film chronicling the remarkable life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the 19th-century African princess "gifted" to Queen Victoria by a West African king. Born Omoba Aina, an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people, her family was slaughtered
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—Why do you think people like films? —It’s because story’s a structure, and there’s shape, purpose, meaning. And when things turn bad it’s still part of a plan. You know, there’s a point to it. Unlike life. When Their Finest released almost four years ago,
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We deserve something good this year, don’t we? Well, it's here - The Personal History of David Copperfield is finally available to stream or rent on most video on-demand platforms. Taking on Charles Dickens’s longest and most autobiographical novel with its cast of grotesques and eccentrics
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Netflix has released a trailer for its upcoming period film The Dig and if the clip is anything to go by, the movie promises to be a lush, heartfelt tale about the ways the past can inform our present. The film is based on a book - also called The
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in
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The trailer for the controversial new David Bowie biopic Stardust is here, and fans of the iconic performer are likely to have conflicting feelings about it. Though most Bowie enthusiast (yours truly included) are likely quite excited about the thought of a film that explores the singer's quite
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After repeated delays, reschedulings, and cancellations as studios around the world struggle to figure out how to release movies during the coronavirus pandemic, the critically acclaimed film The Personal History of David Copperfield will finally get a digital release in the U.S. next month. This latest adaptation in a