‘This feature-length biographical documentary, made last year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, charts his progress from child performer in the pre-screen days to becoming, by the age of thirty, the highest-paid writer in the world and a star, as they say, of stage and screen. ‘
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“I wondered how many times you could get a laugh from a prim and proper character suddenly dropping the f-bomb. For me the novelty wore off very quickly,, and the main pleasure I got out of it was from doing that thing: what’s he/she been in?”
“Kingsley Ben Adir…absolutely nails Marley’s charisma, his physical gestures, his stage moves and of course that charming accent for which I am a total sucker.”
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After seeing the brilliant French wartime drama Farewell Mr Haffmann I was looking forward to more of the […]
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The setting is Berlin in the early days of WWII. The people are rejoicing at the news that […]
Belfast is based on Kenneth Branagh’s boyhood memories of living with his working class family in Northern Ireland […]
A brave and sometimes affecting performance by Eddie Redmayne as the Danish artist Einar Wegener who became Lili […]
I’m not a sporty person, but I do love a good human interest story, and the thing about […]