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I predicted Netflix’s new comedy movie with Sacha Baron Cohen would be bad, but it’s even worse than I imagined

"Ladies First" just arrived on Netflix, and after streaming this new comedy, I'm left perplexed at how it missed the mark by so much.

Tom’s Guide · May 23

Strike: The Ink Black Heart ending explained: who is Anomie?

Strike: The Ink Black Heart ending explained: Anomie's true identity is revealed in an intense conclusion

WhatToWatch · Dec 16, 2024

Strike: The Ink Black Heart episode 3 recap: an unmasking and a killing

Strike: The Ink Black Heart episode 3 sees Robin and Strike draw closer to Anomie's true identity

WhatToWatch · Dec 16, 2024

Sanditon season 3 on ITVX review: all good fun but this particular Austen lemon has now been squeezed dry

As ever, the costumes steal the costume drama in the show that takes Jane Austen’s last, incomplete novel and runs with it

Evening Standard · Aug 17, 2023

‘We tried very hard to be faithful to Austen’s spirit’ – behind the scenes on Sanditon’s final series

Will the characters get their happy ever afters?

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2023

Ten Percent: UK’s answer to French sitcom Call My Agent! cancelled after one season

‘Ten Percent’, a remake from the creator of ‘W1A’, will not return for a second run

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2023

‘You can’t sort out the NHS without sorting elderly care’: Richard Eyre on his new geriatric ward film and the government’s state of ‘panic’

The great stage director talks to Louis Chilton about taking on Alan Bennett’s ‘Allelujah’ and the crisis of morality at its heart

The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2023

‘We fetishised being young – it’s just stupid!’: Judi Dench and Richard Eyre on ageing, Covid and saving the NHS

Shot in 2021, a film of Allelujah, Alan Bennett’s 2018 play set on a geriatric ward, is released next month. How relevant does it remain? Its stars, including Jennifer Saunders and Bally Gill, share their thoughts during production – and more than a year later

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2023

Allelujah review – Judi Dench stars in sweet but slight Alan Bennett hospital drama

Toronto film festival: A-listers are tended to by formidable nurse Jennifer Saunders in Richard Eyre’s adaptation of the 2018 play about a struggling geriatric hospital

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022

Ten Percent review – a perfectly pleasant if pointless remake of Call My Agent!

Stars from Helena Bonham Carter to Himesh Patel pitch up in this British twist on the showbiz drama, though they can’t all make fun of themselves. Still, you’ll plough through it with gusto – especially if you’ve not seen the original

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2022