the price of love (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jack is a young husband (Richard E Grant) who is widowed when his wife (Imogen Stubbs) dies in childbirth. He is pulled apart by the shock, and clueless about babies, struggles to cope with looking after newborn Sarah. The task is made more complicated since Jack has a high-powered job, and is renovating his smart London [...]
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
A while back we received an unusual request at Dear Author. We were asked to review something other than a book — a DVD set called “The Romance Collection: Special Edition.” The 14 DVD set, which can be found here, usually retails for $99.95 but is currently on sale for $59.97, and contains nearly 30 [...]
The Age (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A three-part series of half-hour episodes from the BBC, Freezing is neck-deep in self-referential cleverness.
Pete Brown's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
In the mid-nineties I used to dream of writing for Loaded magazine, with no trace of shame or furtive embarrassment. Sure, one month they’d have perky Jo Guest on the cover, or Liz Hurley in her underbashers, but that would be interspersed with Richard E Grant, Frank Skinner or Michael Caine. Scantily clad women were just one of the laddish obsessions featured, and whether it was regular features such...
TeenHollywood.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Penelope is a truly enjoyable watch for the whole family.
This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Synopsis Tracking across a movie studio lot, several stories unfold. Executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) takes a pitch from screenwriter Buck Henry for The Graduate Part 2. On his way out, Henry chats with chief of security Walter Stuckel (Fred Ward) about the greatest one take shots of all time (“Touch of Evil, [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Christina Ricci is the fairest pig-faced girl in the land in this contemporary twist on fairy-tale romance.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
DO YOU know that bit in Withnail and I where Richard E Grant says they’ve gone on holiday by mistake? Well, that happened to me this week.
This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Synopsis In the London neighborhood of Camden Town in 1969, Marwood (Paul McGann) leaves his flat for a cup of tea, only to work himself into a fit over the injustices he sees around him. He returns home to discuss the situation with his pale flatmate Withnail (Richard E. Grant), whose most pressing [...]
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
From Digital Spy : Stars including Richard E. Grant, Alan Davies and Amanda Burton are to appear in the final two Miss Marple dramas with Geraldine McEwan. ITV has released details of Nemesis and Towards Zero , the last instalments filmed with McEwan before her retirement. Nemesis , which will air in August, sees Miss Marple sent on a coach tour in a message from a recently deceased man named Mr Rafiel....
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
By David Lambert - No one explores the human cost of crime and punishment with more depth and resonance than Lynda La Plante, creator of the critically lauded Prime Suspect. In this Law & Order-like... (more)
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Dear Readers, Last month we received an unusual request at Dear Author. We were asked to review something other than a book — a DVD set called “The Romance Collection: Special Edition.” The 14 DVD set, which can be found here, retails for $99.95 and contains nearly 30 hours of programming (not [...]
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Actor RICHARD E. GRANT has dismissed the idea of making a documentary about his native Swaziland, insisting it would be inappropriate because he was born in "colonial times". The Gosford Park star, 51, was born in Mbabane, the capital of the small African country, when it was still protected by international law by Britain. And while Grant [...]
Mustard Seed Shavings (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Robert Altman's above-named 1992 movie is one I've been trying to see for ages and I managed to pick up a copy in Fopp! Bristol today for £6. It's got a 2008 copyright date on it so I guess it's just been reissued.I love movies that deconstruct Hollywood and this one, with Tim Robbins in the starring role, is a cracker. It knows exactly what it is doing and sometimes does and sometimes undoes it. There...
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
David Tennant hasn't definitively said whether he's going to stay in the Tardis beyond the guest-startastic end of this season's Doctor Who, but a little thing like reality isn't enough to stop the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
