Les Misérables begins in June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and there are heaps of dead bodies around. The intro text tells us that after twenty years of war, France is defeated; Napoleon has been exiled and a new King is waiting to be crowned, meaning the old order will be restored, […]
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No Comments »Star Wars Episode VII: The Last Jedi has won big at the Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018, taking it home for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects. The Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018 celebrate the best in film and entertainment of the past year, as voted for by […]
Posted in News Tags: Amma Asante, Baby Driver, Beauty and the Beast, Coco, Dafne Keen, Daisy Ridley, Discovery, Get Out, God's Own Country, Hugh Jackman, I Am Not Your Negro, Jason Isaacs, Josh O’Connor, Logan, Mark Hamill, Nicole Kidman, Rakuten TV Empire Awards 2018, Rian Johnson, Star Wars Episode VII, Steven Spielberg, The Crown, The Death of Stalin, The Last Jedi, Wonder Woman, star trek, star wars No Comments »The BAFTA 2018 Awards will take place on Sunday February 18th and will be broadcast on BBC1 that evening. The nominations are as follows and, as usual, they include a stack of films which haven’t even been released yet in the UK. Best Film: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Shape Of […]
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The Durrells is a new six-part ITV drama based on Gerald Durrell‘s Corfu Trilogy, mixing light family-friendly drama with a hint of comedy, with Keeley Hawes‘ matriarch Louisa, frustrated at her lot. She’s a widow and has four rebellious children, hence a lack of a father figure in the childrens’ lives doesn’t help. Set in […]
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The Progman centres around investigative Sunday Times sports writer David Walsh (Chris O’Dowd) covering the Tour de France, getting suspicious about Lance Armstrong’s (Ben Foster) team because they’re winning tour after tour, but Armstrong can’t be to blame, surely? After all, his career’s took a huge setback in 1996 after he was diagnosed with testicular […]
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