By Anne Brodie BritBox’ six-month retrospective Austen Forever celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday and her tremendous legacy is underway now. On offer are films of her best-known works like Emma, Pride & Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility and modern Austen-inspired films like …
Architecture Doubles as Grand Opera, a Bunch of Modern Stressed Mums Find the Funny. Short and to the Point.
By Anne Brodie E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea is a story of design excellence, theft and betrayal. Gray, an Irish born architect, potter and loner designed her masterpiece, a Modernist gem of a home in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, on the Cote D’Azur. It’s described as “a white …
Juicy Week! Haute Couture, Jane Austen, Spies and Conspiracies, Summer Love and Animal Love.
By Anne Brodie Yet another superb performance by Lesley Manville in a film set in the world of Haute Couture. From fashion house co-director in Phantom Thread to Royal clothes horse Princess Margaret in The Crown to London cleaning lady besotted by Dior in the wonderful Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, …
Alicia Witt, a Jane Austen Heroine in Modern Persuasion
Alicia Witt, Tedra Millan and Daniella Pineda in Modern Persuasion Alicia Witt's all business as a rising exec in Modern Persuasion, a contemporary comic riff on Jane Austen’s social manners novel Persuasion, set in a Manhattan boutique PR firm. Witt’s Wren is approaching forty and happily …
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We Offer The Works This Week – from Deep Freeze to Torrid Love!
Caoilinn Springall and George Clooney in The Midnight Sky By Anne Brodie Looks like Nomadland’s Frances McDormand has fierce competition for all the Best Actress awards in Viola Davis. Davis is unrecognizable as 20’s blues icon Ma Rainey, in George C. Wolfe’s film adaptation of August …
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