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New Movies to Watch This Week: Nomadland, I Care a Lot, Test Pattern Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have bee...

I’ve watched The Rental, his two latest and remarkably different movies, in the space of two days. The English star is being modest. Ever since his career-making role in Downton Abbey abruptly ended in 2012, when his character Matthew Crawley died in the Christmas special, he has deliberately kept that face of his fresh in our minds. Along the way, he has been a murderous army veteran in The Guest, the Beast to Emma Watson’s Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast live-action remake an...

Noël Coward’s ghostly comedy Blithe Spirit first hit audiences back in 1941 in the West End. However, if ghosts are real in the sense that Coward imagined them, surely he was haunting this ghastly adaptation of his play. The real spirit of this play is Elvira (Mann), a successful mystery novelist’s late wife who is summoned from the dead after a washed up spiritualist (Dench) accidentally conjures her. This is a wonderful convenience for writer Condomine (Stevens), who used his previous w...

‘Blithe Spirit’ Review: Dead, but Not Loving It Dan Stevens stars as a writer taunted by the ghost of his dead wife in this grating adaptation of the 1941 play. Dan Stevens and Leslie Mann in “Blithe Spirit.”Credit...Rob Youngson/IFC Films When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. A comedy that’s more screw-loose than screwball, Edward Hall’s “Blithe Spirit,” a ludicrous adaptation of...

Whats on at the cinema? Blithe Spirit. The rule of thumb tends to be: if the movie’s title is even approaching a pun, avoid it. However, we’re going to have to hang the golden regulation this week as Blithe Spirit looks like our choice picture. As a result of the stellar cast and the fact it is based on a Noel Coward play, how could we possibly settle on anything else? 1930s writer Charles Condomine (Dan Stevens) is having a tough time converting his award-winning novel into a screenplay. ...

Premium Content Subscriber only FOLLOWING a disastrous 2020 in which they were forced to rely on donations to survive, members of the Ipswich Little Theatre are just happy to be back in rehearsals. The usually proactive local theatre society was all but crippled by the onset of the pandemic last year, unable to hold performances at the citys famous Incinerator Theatre despite still having to pay the bills. Little Theatre spokeswoman Robyn Harm said if it wasnt for a grant from the RACQ Found...

Despite a game cast that includes Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, and Judi Dench, a new big-screen take on the Noël Coward play Blithe Spirit fizzles.

Coastguard cottages have stood on Cuckmere Haven’s cliffs near the Seven Sisters for generations. The famous stretch of coastline, known the world over after featuring in countless feature films, music videos and TV programmes, has been at the centre of a campaign aimed at protecting it from the elements. But now the clifftop hamlet is set to be saved after an ambitious plan to build new sea defences was approved. Dame Judi, who filmed Blithe Spirit at Cuckmere Haven last year, said: ...

Built just after the Napoleonic era the cottages attract millions of visitors each year