Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
"We're genuinely excited about this season because we feel it represents a real development here," enthuses the Royal Exchange's associate artistic director Sarah Frankcom as she reveals to me the theatre's upcoming spring-summer season.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with “Secrets & Lies” and “Vera Drake.”
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
A 59yearold woman turned her Cotswold cottage into a sophisticated cannabis factory after losing her job with Dyson the vacuum cleaner manufacturer.
This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Synopsis As an old man threads a fishing line on the Big Blackfoot River, a narrator (Robert Redford) begins: “Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, ‘Norman, you like to write stories.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ Then he said, ‘Some day when you are ready, [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Isn't it high time for a Cheech and Chong reunion?
once more with feeling (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Tim's mom, Jean, is a bawdy and risqu comedienne, on the downside of her career, still hoping to make it big. His intellectually challenged brother Mark helps their mother rehearse for shows. ... Starring Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden, Emma Booth... Download This movies In High Quality 300x faster downloads then anywhere else online. Watch new movies in theater in streaming divx format. No virus...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
When Jess's husband, Jacob, leaves her for a younger woman Jess's once contented life becomes a hurt tangle of duty, rage and self-doubt. CAST: Brenda Blethyn
The Stage - Newsblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
There are only a handful of theatres beyond London that can now routinely count on a mass showing of national critics - I was surprised earlier this year when I went to see the opening of the Manchester Glass Menagerie with Brenda Blethyn (in a production that is soon to be revived for a national tour) that only Sam Marlowe and John Peter, for The Times and Sunday Times respectively, were there, too,...
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Tchaikovsky is a BBC production that mixes dramatic recreations of the composer's life with conductor Charles Hazlewood trying to seek out what the man means in Russia. He does this by providing commentary and interviews, which can be a little jarring since the cover would make this seem to be a straight up biopic [...]
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
MAYBE you'd pick fish and chips. Or maybe you'd go for a full Sunday roast with all the trimmings. Or perhaps something a little simpler, like a perfectly-constructed cheese and pickle sandwich on crusty bread.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
(2002) Nicolas Cage's directorial debut stars James Franco as Sonny who, following his discharge from the army, returns to New Orleans to resume his desultory life as a gigolo at the bordello run by his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn).
Rachel from north London (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Brenda Blethyn is filming in Blackstock Rd! I just went out to get some spicy Tunisian sausages and flatbread for the barbie my mate is having in Peckham later this afternoon, and found everyone all agog at a fake police car, a film crew, some actors in police uniform and Brenda. This explains the film units that have been spotted in the road where my friend lives. I had a chat with a man who had come...
