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Modern pop culture tends to make only one kind of King Arthur movie. It's usually focused on the king himself and it almost always covers one of two aspects of his story: As a young man embracing his destiny and discovering Excalibur, or as a slightly older version
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If the trailer for the upcoming Ridley Scott historical drama The Last Duel is anything to go by, Killing Eve star Jodie Comer's film career is off to an incredible start. Based on the book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France
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It's been over a decade since Luther first lumbered onto the scene with his trademark jacket and red tie. The series that took Idris Elba from "that guy in HBO's The Wire" and turned him into a household name has managed to run five
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Most of us are very familiar with the story of King Henry VIII and his six wives. Yet, most pop culture only tends to focus on the lives of the first few: The steadfast, religious Catherine of Aragon; the boundary-pushing Anne Boleyn, occasionally the tragic Jane Seymour merits a
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Basically, put the Oscar-winning duo of Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a movie together and chances are most Anglophiles would immediately line up to watch it, no matter what it happens to be about. Thankfully, their 2021 art heist drama The Duke looks like precisely the sort of
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Sad news Downton Abbey fans - we won't be spending Christmas with the Crawley family this year after all. Though the initial announcement of the long-awaited second Downton Abbey feature film came with a theatrical release date of Christmas 2021 attached, it looks like that may have been
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The 2020 film Ammonite is written and directed by Francis Lee and features a strong ensemble cast who perform the miracle of expressing emotion tempered with restraint, doing a lot with few words. It is a film about passion that is for the most part understated, with the eloquent palette
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Step right up and get a good look at the first of not just one but two brand new adaptations of Jane Austen's Persuasion that will be headed our way this year. The story is one of Austen's least frequently adapted works, likely due to its
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The trailer for A24's upcoming adaptation of The Green Knight is here, and it's everything any epic fantasy fan could ask for. The film is loosely based on the medieval alliterative verse poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous chivalric romance written in the
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What a time to be a Jane Austen fan: It looks like we're getting not one but two new versions of Persuasion headed to our screens in the not too distant future. According to The Hollywood Reporter, streaming giant Netflix is producing its own updated take on Austen&
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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