The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate.
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It’s not often an actor in his sixties is asked to “age up” for a role but in The Last Bus Timothy Spall, in real life a strong and healthy sixty four year old, convincingly plays Tom, a man who has to be in his eighties or even nineties,
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Production on Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Lady Di, has moved to the UK for the final stretch of filming. The production has today released a second image of Stewart as the former Princess.
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Principal photography has begun on SPENCER, which focuses on one weekend in the life of Princess Diana, as she spends the Christmas holiday with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, and decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
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Adapted by writer Martyn Hesford from what was originally his radio play and then a two-hander for the stage, Mrs Lowry and Son very much shows its theatrical origins.
Read moreThe critical and more crucially financial success of “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” demonstrated that there is gold in them there “old ‘uns” or to put it more politely, older audiences are worth courting. “Finding Your Feet” appears to be another effort to chase the “grey pound”.
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The story takes place in the cleverly fictionalised cross over period between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age – and they must have crossed over of course. Humanity did not wake up one day and say “Right, Stone Age ends here.
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The three leading actors here, Juno Temple, Timothy Spall and Matt Ryan plus Hayley Squires, who was so good in Ken Loach’s “I Daniel Blake” and has a supporting role in this, all do a superb job. But they are fighting to make sense of a story which is both clichéd and overcomplicated and some rather inept direction.
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It has always puzzled me as to how anyone could deny that the Holocaust took place, in view of the overwhelming amount of photographic and witness evidence proving that it did.
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