Pretty Woman the Musical opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London Valentines day 14th February 2020. Based on the 1990 mega box buster film of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, the stage adaptation of the romantic comedy which received its Broadway premiere last year. Pretty Woman the Musical features original music…
Military Wives starring Kristen Scott Thomas. In British Cinemas on 6 March 2020. Bitter Sweet homespun drama comes to the silver screen, directed by winner Peter Cattaneo. Interestingly but perhaps not in the context that this is a drama about ladies women and girls, the screenplay for this moving docudrama was written by two female…
The fourth quarter ticket sales for US films in India were up 114 per cent on a year earlier while Bollywood’s box office take rose only 34 per cent. Hollywood superheroes encroach on Bollywood’s local dominance, as in the past American films struggled to make a splash in India, where Mumbai based Bollywood and other…
South Korean film Parasite has been named the best picture at 2020 Oscars becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize beating 1917 and Joker. Parasite won four awards while Sam Mendes’s 1917 took three. Renee Zellweger won the best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Joaquin Phoenix was named the…
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera both aged under 30, at MGM’s animation department had worked 80 years ago and struggled to emulate the success of other studios who had hit characters like Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse to come with a cartoon cat sick of annoying mouse living in his home, devices a plot to…
A play which makes most peoples’ complex lives by comparison seem somehow happily mundane! On McQuillan’s Hill by Joseph Crilly The English premiere at The Finborough Theatre, Kensington. This production supports CALM – The Campaign Against Living Miserably. 4 Feb – 29 Feb inclusive. No shows on Mondays. Tues to Sat 7.30. Sat and Sun…
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend, stage and screen actor spanning 6 decades had died aged 103. Hi s 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character won him for Oscars. Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danelovich Demsky in the city of Amsterdan , New York State, in 1916, to penniless Jewish immigrants he got…
EMMA – a new take on a well loved story. Look for it from February 14th onwards! Georgian Regency England which is the era where this film, inspired by the 1815 novel of Emma by Jane Austen takes place, is depicted in an instantly enchanting catalogue of book readers, musicians and glamorous landed gentry tete…
Bafta Awards have taken place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, where World War One film 1917 was the big winner with seven awards, including Best film, best British film, best director and best cinematography. Joker won three awards including the best actor for Joaquin Phoenix while Renee Zellweger was named the best actress for…
Review by Penny Nair Price World Wars One and two are acknowledged regularly in books, films, television dramas and of course on Remembrance Sunday each year. Stories abound in the daily press regarding different characters who have featured in these momentous wars and pubs are named after them, or ceremonies performed. Museums harbor collections…