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Kiko Martinez The amount of literary content German authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were able to publish during the early to mid-19th century has given Hollywood a seemingly bottomless trove of imaginative narratives to pull from.
Inspiration from these more than 200 fairy tales was used, for example, to produce six seasons of the NBC fantasy police procedural “Grimm.”A prolific writer himself, late English novelist and satirist Terry Pratchett may not be as referenced in the mainstream film
.direct to your inbox Inauguration Day is here as Joe Biden is to be sworn in as the 46th US President.
Anna Paquin‘s television series Flack is premiering on Amazon Prime Video this week and the official trailer has arrived.
Arlo Parks has shared a stripped-back cover of ‘VCR’, originally released in 2010 by The xx.The 20-year-old breakthrough artist took to Twitter yesterday (January 17), announcing plans to start sharing more of the songs getting her through Britain’s current lockdown. First up on her self-coined “lo-fi lounge” series, lockdown edition, is ‘VCR’.“The xx’s first album has this specific sense of sweetness and simple romance,” Parks tweeted out.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIt started with a hunch. Edith Pretty and her husband bought a house at Sutton Hoo, the estate of which contained several large mounds of earth.
Class as much as gender constraints obscured the achievements of 19th century English paleontologist Mary Anning, magnificently played by Kate Winslet in Francis Lee's slow-burn elemental love story Ammonite. And class barriers continue to marginalize the work of Ralph Fiennes' self-taught archeologist Basil Brown almost a century later in The Dig.
Featuring a standout, awards-worthy performance by Tahir Rahim, Kevin Macdonald’s “The Mauritanian,” adapted from Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s memoir “Guantanamo Diary,” about his prolonged imprisonment at the titular base, is a staggering work of docudrama, that highlights the horrors that the American government inflicted on terrorist suspects post-9/11.
Running time: 97 minutes. Rated R (language and some domestic violence).
© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Jane Krakowski is believed to live in New York with her son, Bennett Robert Godley, after splitting from ex-fiancé Robert Godley, an actor and British clothing designer.
Alissa Simon Film CriticA naïve teenager comes of age amid the carnage of World War I’s Eastern Front in this propulsive adaptation of Aleksandrs Grins’ 1934 patriotic classic “Blizzard of Souls.” With its muscular direction by former documentarian Dzintars Dreibergs, atmospheric cinematography and careful attention to period detail, this account of a troop of Latvian Riflemen fighting first for the Russian Imperial Army against invading German forces and then for an independent Latvia should
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticWatching “All Creatures Great and Small” feels like gripping a warm cup of tea and settling inside a very cozy, extremely British snow globe. Based on the immensely popular novels by Alf Wight (aka James Herriot), the series follows a 1930s veterinary practice in a sleepy Yorkshire town where farmers and vets alike gather every evening over foaming pints at the local pub after a long day’s work.
On the award-winning BBC sitcom Miranda, which premiered in 2009, British comic Miranda Hart used her prodigious height to grand comedic effect. Her six-foot-one protagonist, a joke shop owner, was lumbering and awkward and loveable: With vaudevillian ungainliness, she towered over nearly every other person on screen while never missing an opportunity to flaunt her unconventionality.
recently named the best performing private-equity firm in Europe, said it would combine the Priory Group with Median, Germany’s largest provider of rehabilitation and neurology treatments to create “Europe’s leading rehabilitation and mental health services providers”. The combined group will be able to treat 260,000 patients across 570 clinics.
(Reuters) -Acadia Healthcare Company Inc said on Wednesday it would sell its UK unit the Priory Group, a care homes operator known for its celebrity clientele, to private equity firm Waterland for about 1. 08 billion pounds ($1.
Apple TV+, I’m happy to report that stars Esther Smith and Rafe Spall make a winning team in this 10-episode British dramedy, which has been renewed for a second season.Smith and Spall play couple Nikki and Jason who, after struggling to conceive a child, decide to go the adoption route.
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and a divisive presidential election, not everything that happened was bad.The first year of the decade started off on a high note for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who shocked the world when they announced their plans to step back as senior members of the British royal family less than two years after marrying.
The Masked Singer, which is probably the most Covid-safe show around right now, it’s hard not to wonder if someone slipped a hallucinogenic into your Christmas pudding. For the uninitiated, the UK version of The Masked Singer – based on the South Korean game show – disguises celebrities in elaborate costumes and makes them sing pop covers to a panel of judges (Rita Ora, Davina McCall, Jonathan Ross and new judge Mo Gilligan).
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.HIS House is a British horror with a difference as it focuses on refugees Bol (Sope Dirisu) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) and their transition to life on these shores as much as any type of ghoul or boogeyman.Remi Weekes makes an imposing directorial debut with a London-set ghost story reminiscent of 2016’s Under the Shadow.Like that Persian-language flick, the real-life terrors in His House are every bit as