Kenneth Branagh in Murder on the Orient Express. Belfast movie news: Screenwriter-director Branagh has begun shooting the semiautobiographical indie drama – “my most personal film” – set in the turbulent…
Author Anthony Slide discusses the frenzied and once hugely popular British comedian Arthur Askey, who has finally become the subject of a full-fledged biography.
Yvonne Monlaur: Cult horror movie actress & Bond Girl contender was featured in the 1960 British classics Circus of Horrors & The Brides of Dracula. Actress Yvonne Monlaur dead at…
Alan Rickman: Professor Snape in ‘Harry Potter’ movies. Alan Rickman dead at 69: Professor Snape in Harry Potter movies + Die Hard actor took home Bafta, Golden Globe Alan Rickman,…
Michael Caine young: Long and prestigious career – as long as one chooses to ignore dozens of titles like The Island, Jaws: The Revenge, and Austin Powers in Goldmember. Michael…
Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her…
Renée Asherson in Henry V (1944), with Laurence Olivier. ‘Henry V’ movie (1944) actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed Shakespearean classic Renée Asherson, a…
Best British movies ever made: Michael Caine in Get Carter. Best British Movies of All Time? Ten years ago, Get Carter, starring Michael Caine as a dangerous-looking London gangster, was…
Richard Griffiths in The History Boys with Dominic Cooper. ‘Harry Potter’ actor Richard Griffiths dead at 65: Renowned for gay roles in ‘The History Boys’ & ‘Withnail & I’ Richard…
What is an indie movie? Silver Linings Playbook with Jennifer Lawrence. What is an indie movie? All-star Harvey Weinstein release tops Spirit Awards As expected, Silver Linings Playbook was the…
Stage and screen British actor Nicol Williamson, who played Hamlet onstage and Merlin on screen, died on Dec. 16 in Amsterdam, where he had been living since 1970. His son…
Alfred Hitchcock on the ‘Psycho’ set: The very first BAFTA Fellowship recipient. BAFTA Fellowship: Focus on men in the American/British show business industry The first recipient of the British Academy…
Ken Russell, best known for his movies featuring sex-starved nuns, nude male wrestling, “offensive” religious symbolism, and kaleidoscopic musical numbers, died Sunday, Nov. 27, ’11, in the United Kingdom. Russell…
Actor George Baker, best known for playing Tiberius in the British television series I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, died on Oct. 7 according to The…
Weekend 2011 with Tom Cullen, Chris New Sept. 26 update: Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s gay love story Weekend brought in $27,245 – about 8 percent above Sunday estimates – at the…
Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason,…
Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in…
Jean Simmons in Great Expectations with Martita Hunt. Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box office draw, Simmons either starred…
Colin Firth in The King’s Speech, with Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. ‘The King’s Speech’ tops Bafta Awards, Colin Firth Best Actor Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech was the…
Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Brief Encounter one-line synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (and platonic) affair. The Pros:…
Beryl Reid, Susannah York in Robert Aldrich’s The Killing of Sister George Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today of bone…
Miriam Seegar, one of the last surviving adult performers featured in silent films, died of “age-related causes” on Sunday, Jan. 2, at her home in Pasadena, northwest of downtown Los…
Royal drama The King’s Speech with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Tom Hooper’s real-life-inspired crowd-pleaser topped the British Independent Film Awards with five wins, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Firth),…
Ingrid Pitt seducing Madeline Smith in Roy Ward Baker’s The Vampire Lovers (1970). Ingrid Pitt, the star of the Hammer horror flicks The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula (1971),…
Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news:…
Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman: The ‘Notorious’ British (Hitchcock, Grant) and Swedish (Bergman) talent. British actors and directors in Hollywood; Hollywood actors and directors in Britain: Anthony Slide’s…
Autumn Crocus movie adaptation with Ivor Novello and Fay Compton: Summertime precursor. Ivor Novello last movie: ‘Autumn Crocus’ Can a naive, plain-looking, spinster school teacher ever find real love in…
Joyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from…
Shame with Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender. Oscar chances? There have been precious few Oscar-winning “sex movies.” Now that Steve McQueen’s psychological drama Shame has received an NC-17 rating from…
Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. White men rule on TCM: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘The Four Feathers’ + ‘Young Winston’ Turner Classic Movies’ “Race and Hollywood:…
Alex de la Iglesia: Premios Goya ceremony. A Goya Awards ceremony to remember: Anti-piracy law controversy, party crasher Unlike the staid Bafta ceremony held in London earlier this evening, Feb.…
Mainstream – “at best, mainstreamish” – critics group picks: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience-friendly The Kids Are All Right topped three New York Film Critics Circle award categories, including Best Actress honors…