Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Children’s Hour’ (West End): give it a miss
Did director Ian Rickson make the conscious decision to replace emotion with a studied old-fashionedness? If so, why?
Did director Ian Rickson make the conscious decision to replace emotion with a studied old-fashionedness? If so, why?
Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men is making her West End debut this weekend when the classic drama The Children’s Hour opens on Saturday night. And I’ll be there to see it…
In fact, Dickens might have written something like Scrooged, an 80s, greed-isn’t-good update of the Dickens classic. The wittiest satire of television since Network, Scrooged gives us Frank Cross (Bill Murray: cradle, rushmore), the ‘youngest president in the history of television,’ the maniacal — and megalomanaical — head of the IBC TV network.
Annie Hall is kinda Seinfeld: The Motion Picture. Of course, Woody Allen’s self-deprecating, nebbishy stand-up comedian was around long before Jerry Seinfeld’s show about nothing, but it’s really amazing how much they have in common.