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Queen Elizabeth II

weekend watchlist: is it good to be the queen?

Tue, Oct 18, 2022
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Plus a teenage con artist, a skewering of late-night comedy, and more… (First published September 18th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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loaded question: what are the best movies about taking a day off?

Mon, May 30, 2022
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Of course Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the very best, and the most obvious answer, so let’s get that one out of the way right off the bat. What are some others?

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A Royal Night Out movie review: princess hijinks

Fri, May 15, 2015
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A bit of House of Windsor fan fiction: cute but slight, though the re-creation of London’s citywide VE Day celebrations is kind of amazing.

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House Windsor wants the Iron Throne

Tue, Jun 24, 2014
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This is not Photoshopped. This just happened on live TV.

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just go ahead and download Neil Finn’s lovely Hobbit tune now (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Dec 11, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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London photo of the day: Jubilee bunting

Tue, May 15, 2012
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Visual evidence of the growing excitement for the upcoming celebrations of Queen Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary on the throne.

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counting down the best films of 2006: No. 6, ‘The Queen’

Wed, Apr 04, 2007
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WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Helen Mirren turns in one of the greatest performances in cinematic history as the reigning queen of England, Elizabeth II, taking a woman who not only doesn’t come across as warm and sympathetic, she doesn’t even seem human … and Mirren humanizes her, makes … more…

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