Tag Archives: Hayley Atwell

Film review | The Sweeney – Ray Winstone & Ben Drew pack a wallop in cops-and-robbers reboot

Posted on 13 September 2012 by Jason Best

Nick Love, stalwart maker of British geezer movies, has come up with a flashy big-screen reboot for the iconic 1970s TV series The Sweeney. With Ray Winstone and Ben ‘Plan B’ Drew filling the shoes of John Thaw and Dennis … Continue reading →

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Film review | Captain America: The First Avenger – Marvel’s red-white-and-blue hero socks it to the Nazis

Posted on 29 July 2011 by Jason Best

A special serum turns a 90lb weakling into a brawny hunk in this pumped-up action movie featuring Marvel Comics’s red-white-and-blue superhero Captain America. Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers is a plucky but puny youngster from Brooklyn who’s desperate to enlist in … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 11 August 2009 by Beth Williams

  When the TV series of Brideshead Revisited hit UK screens in the early 1980s it saw most UK households tuning in. Those of us old enough will remember that adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, and recall how Jeremy Irons … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 9 March 2009 by Jason Best

Currently appearing on the big screen looking distinctly uncomfortable in superhero Spandex in Watchmen, Matthew Goode seems much more at ease in Oxford bags in this film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He plays Charles Ryder, a middle-class Oxford … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 3 October 2008 by Jason Best

How does the new film of Brideshead Revisited compare with the classic TV series? That’s what everyone wants to know – and, frustratingly, I’m not in a position to say, at least not definitively… A confession: I’ve never seen the … Continue reading →

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The Best View – The Duchess

Posted on 5 September 2008 by Jason Best

Why does Keira Knightley arouse such loathing? Type the words ‘I hate Keira Knightley’ into Google and blog after blog pops up to denounce her for being too skinny, for sounding too posh, for pouting too much, for having funny … Continue reading →

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