Daily Archives: July 9, 2018

Preview, Forget Mad King George, let Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz play “The Favourite” instead

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The people who made “The Lobster” have opted for “period piece” for their next trick, a dark comedy about the reign of daft Queen Anne of Great Britain. With Olivia Colman as God Save Me and Rachel Weisz as her … Continue reading →

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Movie Pitch: “Young Gandhi; MKG in the UK”

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  All of my leisure reading is taken up with non-fiction, with the odd fiction classic thrown in just to clear the palette (Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Patrick O’Brian). And as I read this history of Dunkirk or that Life of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Not every reporter got the run-up to”Shock and Awe” wrong

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The most dramatic and damning story about the heedless run-up to the invasion of Iraq has to be the ways a humiliated and enraged America blundered into Iraq, led by a Bush administration hell-bent on getting a war and an … Continue reading →

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