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Lesley Manville, Toby Jones, Nina Wadia and Sheila Hancock Several sitcom stars have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours tonight. Mum star Lesley Manville is made a CBE for services to drama and to charity. Her other credits include Phantom Thread, Harlots, Cranford and several collaborations with director Mike Leigh, as well as her stage work. She will play  Princess Margaret in seasons five and six of Netflix series The Crown. Detectorists star Toby Jones is awarded the OBE for ...

BBC News Published image captionLesley Manville, Sally Dynevor and Craig David have been recognised in the New Year Honours Several leading figures from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, art and literature have been recognised in the New Year Honours. Here is a rundown of some of the biggest names, and their new titles: Dame Sheila Hancock Actress Sheila Hancock, who made her name in the West End before becoming a perennial presence on British TV screens, has been made a dame. Commenting on...

▶︎ Phantom Thread is widely available on digital platforms, 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD. The ‘phantom thread’ in the title of Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth feature refers to a term that seamstresses working in the East End of Victorian London used to describe the sensation they felt after emerging from long, repetitive hours in the workshop. After returning home exhausted, the women would find their hands moving involuntarily, their fingers clasped as though sewing invisible, ‘phantom...

Lesley Manville’s recent flourish put cherry on top of already stellar career Lesley Manville has enjoyed a stellar career that included everything from TV soaps to Hollywood blockbusters (Ian West/PA) Wed, 30 Dec, 2020 - 22:30 Keiran Southern, PA Lesley Manville has enjoyed a stellar career on stage and screen, combining a formidable acting talent with an equally impressive work ethic. One of her early roles was in what was then known as Emmerdale Farm, appearing in the ITV soap in the mid-1...

news Horror and gore elsewhere Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) As far as Oscar preferences went, 2018 was a tough year. What would your pick have been for Best Picture? Phantom Thread was intriguing, but Dunkirk was no less so. Darkest Hour was as revisionist as Dunkirk, and Lady Bird seemed a trifle too sentimental. The second half of The Post gushed up as late Spielberg invariably does – clichéd, self-indulgent – though the second half of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, M...

  A suspenseful mystery drama, White Wall from Sweden is about a wall found deep underground at the site of the world’s largest nuclear waste depository. Project director Lars Rapp (Aksel Hennie) wants the wall to be kept secret, but rumours run rife through the small mining town. Rapp’s life’s work is to complete this facility, yet nuclear waste is piling up and the project is years behind schedule. Even so, he has no intention of postponing the upcoming opening ceremony, but a spanner...

30 of the Best Art and Design Books of 2020 Got some shelf space? We hope you have a lot of it. Because the amount of great design books that were published this year is daunting. (Really—as I glance to my left, I see a teetering column of hardcovers that’s a Darwin Award in the making.) But to start: disclaimer time! When we write “The Best Books of 2020,” what we really mean is “our favorite design books that we came across in 2020.” Though many publications might be hesitant to...

Let Him Go is Taken way out West. Based on a novel by Larry Watson, writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s film pitches a couple living a quiet life in rural Montana against a violent criminal family in order to retrieve an infant grandson, but it might be the most glacially paced rollercoaster revenge in many years that, despite one stand-out performance and strong craft, devolves into an unengaging, tonally wayward mish-mash of quiet character study and over-the-top thriller. George Blackledge ...

Whats it about? A candid look inside the agony and ecstasy of making people laugh for a living. The funny and heartfelt documentary contains original interviews interlaced with personal footage of life on the road - all from a comedians point of view. Once you take this step behind the curtain, you will never look at these funny folks the same way again. Features Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfield, Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, and more.  Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round swept the European Film Awards on Saturday (December 12), winning four awards including best film, director, screenplay and actor for Mads Mikkelsen. Scroll down for full list of winners Accepting the best screenplay prize via video link, sat alongside co-writer Tobias Lindholm, Danish filmmaker Vinterberg said: “In a time of confinement, financial crisis and death, our attempt to make a life-affirming film has somehow succeeded.” Best actor winner Mikke...