Tag: Nicholas Farrell

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News: RADA President Kenneth Branagh to direct Tom Hiddleston in Hamlet

Kenneth Branagh’s Olivier Award-winning theatre company will join forces with RADA for a co-production of Hamlet, to…

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TV Review: Will, Episodes 1 + 2

  “You are a curiosity” American versions of Shakespeare (whether his plays or the man himself) are…

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Film Review: Testament of Youth (2014)

“The whole situation’s been really quite dreadful” Based on Vera Brittain’s First World War memoir, Testament of…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: Hamlet (1996)

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Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: Othello (1995)

“But yet the pity of it” Oliver Parker’s directorial career has taken in glossy takes on Wilde…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)

“I’m clean, I’m conscientious and I travel with my own tits” Where else would you get to…

Posted in Film Theatre

Film Review: Late Bloomers (2011)

“Did you see how he combined misogyny with just blatant ageism” A film that passed me by…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Legend (2015)

“It took a lot of love to hate him” On the one hand, Legend has a pair…

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Film Review: Grace of Monaco (2014)

“The idea of my life as a fairytale is itself a fairytale” The recent biopic Diana is…