I did not know that Charles Dickens ditched his wife of a gazillion years, the mother of his ten kids, for an 18 year old actress called Ellen Ternan. While this would be gleeful tabloid fodder in 2014 (if not the cause of something of a spectacular Max Clifford-esque fall from grace), in the Victorian…
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Coriolanus is the grim tale of a war-hardened hero who’s forced to play the charming “people’s politician” – a role for which he’s disastrously ill-equipped. Undermined in this uncomfortable, pandering role by two scheming tribunes, and, to be honest, by his own pride, he’s cast out of Rome, where he ultimately joins forces with Rome’s…
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The title says it all, really: Aussie Brickie Sam Worthington spends an entire movie stuck on a ledge, twenty-something floors up and on the outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Elizabeth Banks is the cop who has to talk him down, Ed Harris the corrupt businessman that Sam’s trying to nab in the most…
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