Anthony Andrews

Despite taking the top awards at the 2011 Oscar Ceremony, or perhaps because of that, I was in no hurry to see director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech , although I had thoroughly enjoyed his previous film The Damned United written by Peter Morgan and starring Michael Sheen as the renowned bombastic soccer manager Brian Clough. For some reason I had supposed that it would be a typically turgid period piece but after watching the Blu-ray release I was pleasantly surprised to find it terribly...Read Full Story

As the Julian Jarrold version of Brideshead Revisited drags it's heals to the cinemas, its one saving grace would appear to be the casting of Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte. We last saw Ben in the gritty Criminal Justice on the Beeb & he pulled off a magnificent performace making me want to see more from him, shame it has to be in this film. Why am I so anti the film? Because I love the book, which introduced me to the wonderful world of Waugh & I love the 80s series , which made me a fan of...Read Full Story

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