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2021/01/08 13:58 "Blithe Spirit" is released in Taiwan Friday. (Cai Chang International photo) "Blithe Spirit" is released in Taiwan Friday. (Cai Chang International photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – British love drama "Blithe Spirit" featuring Judi Dench and Downton Abbeys Dan Stevens opens Friday (Jan. 8) in Taiwan. Directed by Edward Hall and starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, and Judi Dench, the film is adapted from the screenplay written ...

The 78-year-old actress explained how her parents hadn't chosen a moniker for her immediately after she was born, but a chance meeting with a woman who claimed to communicate with spirits led to them settling on calling her Judith

Luke Evans as Steve Wilkins and Alexandria Riley as DI Ella Richards in The Pembrokeshire Murders A second series of the crime drama, The Bay (January 20) is also due on ITV1 with Morven Christie returning as police family liaison officer DS Lisa Armstrong for a brand new case. FEELGOOD READS Despite the bumpy start, 2021 is still going to be a sizzling year for new reads. Bridget Jones fans will rejoice as Helen Fielding brings us a new reissue of that famous diary early next month, 25 five ye...

1/5 The linguistic wit and thrust of Noel Cowards play have been replaced by posh-speak pastiche and ham-fisted narrative gambits 15 January 2021 • 10:56am Judi Dench in Blithe Spirit Credit: StudioCanal  12A cert, 96 min. Dir: Edward Hall. Cast: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Judi Dench, Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt  If you’ve spent the last nine months pining for some light relief in the theatre, a sparky screen adaptation of Blithe Spirit might be just what you need. Good news...

Last modified on Mon 28 Dec 2020 03.02 EST Noël Coward was the epitome of style. Fittingly that is the subject of a major exhibition opening at London’s Guildhall Art Gallery, containing costumes, set designs, paintings and production photos. Brad Rosenstein, its curator, says Coward is “especially celebrated for his verbal wit” but that the exhibition “will remind us that his original productions were also visual feasts for their audiences”. That sounds tempting â�...

We’ve all needed escapism this year – and where better to escape to than the Star Wars galaxy? The arrival of The Mandalorian has been a shining light through the year that was 2020, telling a whole new set of gripping adventures in a fictional universe we all know and love. To celebrate the giddy heights of its recently-concluded second season, Empire brings Mando, Grogu and Ahsoka to the cover for the February 2021 issue – coming to newsstands from Wednesday 23 December, and available...

The best directors always wanted Rosalind Knight in their casts. Photograph: Simon Annand/PA In a career stretching over seven decades, the distinctive, cut-glass character actor Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, renewed her TV profile with younger audiences in two quirkily original comedy sitcoms: Jonathan Harvey’s Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999-2001) and Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner (in the second series, 2012). She dressed down and...

Noël Coward knew just “how potent cheap music is”, as he says in his play Private Lives, but he also understood the power of striking a pose. His sophisticated stage dialogue was always delivered in matching style. Now admirers of this towering talent – he was acknowledged in his day as “the Master” – will have the chance to see glamorous costumes, designs and props, along with letters and photographs gathered from his long career. A rare collection goes on sho...

Isla started out on Australias staple soap, Home and Away  Credit: Ben Rayner  In a low-key bakery not far from the Hollywood home she shares with her British actor/comedian husband Sacha Baron Cohen and their three young children, Isla Fisher is telling me about her latest role in a new film adaptation of Blithe Spirit, one of Noël Coward’s best-loved plays. ‘I was so nervous,’ she confesses, dipping a buttered baguette into a bowl of chicken soup. ‘Being an Australian in a British ...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Bad Boys for Life and Blithe Spirit among Sky Cinema and NOW TVs January premieres Heres whats coming in the New Year. 18/12/2020 Sky Cinema and NOW TV have unveiled their movie premieres thatll help us all get settled in 2021. Among the cohort of films that will be available to stream are Will Smith and Martin Lawrences return in Bad Boys for Life, which will drop on January 1, followed by the Keanu R...