period drama
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THE DEEP BLUE SEA
This is the work of the two Terences. The auteur filmmaker Terence Davies who’s uncompromising style has greatly restricted his output to just five features films sporadically over 23 years has put his own take on Terence Rattigan’s acclaimed post-WW2 play that hit a raw nerve when it was first staged in London in the…
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THE LAST SEPTEMBER
Fresh from watching the second series of ‘Downton Abbey’ the Emmy Award winning period drama, I had a urge to seeing some more work of one of it’s biggest stars, Dame Maggie Smith who now appears to be more regal than the aristocratic characters she excels at playing. My search turned up this rather intriguing…
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Anonymous
So evidently Francis Bacon was not the only who claimed that he was actually the one who wrote all of Shakespeare’s’ plays, as now we have a rather preposterous claim that the real author was the Earl of Oxford. The same man who according to this new movie, was also Queen Elizabeth’s son AND her…
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CRACKS
Set in 1934 on a remote island this English exclusive girl’s boarding school rears these bright but obnoxious girls to deal with the class-conscious society of the era. The focus of the story is on the diving team that has a hierarchy based on the girls ages and is led by the domineering Radfield who…
