Movies
If the 1941 Blitz of Belfast, Northern Ireland, doesn’t seem the likeliest setting for a heartwarming, family-friendly film, think again.
June 5, 2018
Culture Monster Blog
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July 16, 2011
Awards
John Madden and Ol Parker riff on ‘Marigold Hotel’
Nov. 29, 2012
Over the years British playwright-screenwriter David Hare has taken grand passions with increasing seriousness, a dangerous development when his plots have come to resemble nothing so much as ‘40s melodramas.
June 10, 1994
“Blame It on the Bellboy” (citywide) is a dated, mildly amusing comedy of errors that benefits from its seductive Venice setting and a stalwart, largely British cast.
March 6, 1992
No one lives alone in author Mary Norton’s world.
Nov. 21, 1993
Entertainment & Arts
Critic’s Notebook: Why are England’s actresses so fantastic?
July 17, 2011
They’ve never been lovers. They’re definitely not cop buddies. And they’re not really related.
May 28, 2015
Television
Best of 2011 in TV: Mary McNamara
Dec. 18, 2011
“Cry Freedom” (selected theaters) is not a great movie--it’s an earnest, clunky, awkward one without a fluid sense of story and with its most charismatic figure, the martyred black South African activist, Bantu Stephen Biko, gone before the film’s 2 hours and 35 minutes are half over.
Nov. 6, 1987