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What links Lesley Manville to Nic Roeg and Vic Reeves?

Go down the rabbit hole to discover how acting royalty meets the real thing, by way of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Verve

The Guardian - UK

The seduction of “Dangerous Liaisons"

What is it about this epistolary novel's ruthless high-society predators that keeps us wanting more of them?

Salon

The Lost King: why are we still obsessed with Richard III after 500 years?

The release of Stephen Frears’ film The Lost King once more focuses attention on one of the most controversial figures in English history: King Richard III. The film is a compelling account of the struggle of a woman called Philippa Langley to find the grave of the 15th-century king, which…

The Conversation

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The Lost King review – Sally Hawkins saves Richard III dig drama

The team behind Philomena turn the true story of how the infamous king’s remains were found under a Leicester car park into an uneven comedy drama

The Guardian - UK

The Lost King review: Discovery of Richard III’s skeleton is farcically replayed in Frears and Coogan’s drama

Why does the comedy drama think it can undo one form of malevolent villainisation by creating enemies of its own?

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan sets his sights on the life of a fugitive king

Inspired by a book by Princess Diana’s brother, the actor is researching flight of Charles II from Oliver Cromwell’s troops

The Guardian - UK

The Queen is dead: The face that launched a thousand likenesses

For millions, Her Majesty’s features were as familiar as their own mothers’, writes John Walsh

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For many of our best creatives, the Queen was the ace in the pack

“I could see she was a good card to have in my hand,” director Stephen Frears told me when I interviewed him about The Queen, his 2006 film starring Helen Mirren as the monarch, adjusting to the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death. Yet neither he nor the movie’s writer Peter…

Evening Standard

Lights, camera, corgis! How movies tackled the enigma that was Elizabeth II

Wise, witty, patient, crisp, faintly martyred or skydiving with James Bond … our film critic looks at how cinema portrayed the monarch – and recalls the night she put him on the spot at Windsor Castle

The Guardian - UK

How Peter Morgan, Netflix and The Crown brought us closer to understanding the real Queen Elizabeth II

Film and TV depictions of her reign tapped into our collective urge to peek behind the royal curtain, but the popularity of multiple Emmy winner The Crown did something more.

ABC News

Royal row erupts over Steve Coogan film about Richard III

Archaeologists fear they are ‘villains of the piece’ in movie, co-written by Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears, about search for British monarch

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: look through the lens of an £8bn space telescope

The universe is there for the taking on BBC Two. Plus: The Lazarus Project nears its endgame. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The famous faces from film and TV to have come from the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre

Many stars of stage, TV and film got their start at the Everyman and Playhouse

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