Blessings by Aled Jones
Album
For 2020, and his 40th album, one of our most loved singers Aled Jones presents Blessings. An idea...
Keeping on
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'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I...
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to...
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: A Second Treasury: The Much-Loved BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series
Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttelton, B.B.C. Radio comedy and Tim Brooke-Taylor
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Another bumper collection of classic fun and games from one of BBC Radio 4's best-loved and most...
The National Theatre Story
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"The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage...
A Rogues' Gallery: Off the Record Encounters with Figures of Fame, Folly and Fun 1950-2000: 1950/2000
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A Rogues' Gallery is a journey through the past half-century, charting the ups and downs of leading...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Skyfall (2012) in Movies
Jun 22, 2018
Hence this, which is not as earnest or obviously Bourne-inspired as Quantum of Solace, but still departs from the playbook in a number of key ways. It's a very introspective Bond film, quite glum and dark (though Bardem tries his best to have some fun with his role) - there's no main Bond girl per se (unless you count Judi Dench), and the exotic location for the finale is eschewed in favour of the London underground and foggy Scotland. As a change of pace it is striking, but if every Bond film was like this I think people would soon get sick of it (as the reaction to SPECTRE perhaps proved). Still, much good stuff here, Naomie Harries, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw make good first impressions, and there's some well-staged action. Whatever the influence this film ends up having on the franchise, on its own terms this is a fine film.
Daniel Day-Lewis -The Biography
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Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor regarded by many as the finest of his generation. His portrayal of...
Keeping on Keeping on
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'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am...
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice
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Adventures in advice with some of the world's most remarkable people. President Bill Clinton, Clare...