HBO Max and Discovery Plus merger event recap: What you need to know about Max Yes, Warner Bros. Discovery renamed HBO Max as Max. Here's our live blog for the HBO Max and Discovery Plus merger event. Tom’s Guide · Apr 12, 2023
After 'The Queen', Stephen Frears rehabilitates Richard III in 'The Lost King' From "Dangerous Liaisons" and 'High Fidelity", to his Oscar-nominated films "The Queen" and "The Grifters", Stephen Frears is a director with one of the most diverse outputs of any British filmmaker. The culture editor on FRANCE 24's French channel Louise Dupont sat down with him by Zoom to talk about… France 24 · Mar 28, 2023
Steve Coogan discusses "The Lost King" Salon talks to the comic and writer about his latest effort, a tribute to the woman who found Richard III's remains Salon · Mar 25, 2023
Aliens, activists and art: the five best films added to US streaming this week Highlights include Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, the prescient abortion drama Call Jane and Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed The Guardian - US · Mar 24, 2023
'The Lost King' review: A real-life story perfectly suited for the movies Stephen Frears' "The Lost King" is based on one of those real-life stories that's so delightful you can't quite believe it's true: An amateur historian in Edinburgh named Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), fascinated by King Richard III, manages to pinpoint the exact location of the monarch's long-lost remains — beneath… Tribune News Service · Mar 23, 2023
TV Tonight: Our highlights for Thursday, March 23 The Apprentice final is just one of the gems on TV Tonight. WhatToWatch · Mar 23, 2023
Movie review: 'The Lost King' recounts woman's adventurous search for the truth Fact, fiction, and feeling collide and combine in Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King,” written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, an adaptation of the book “The Lost King: The Search for Richard III.” This unique and lively mystery based on a true story comes from the team behind the Oscar-nominated… Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2023
TV Tonight: Our highlights for Monday, March 20 The Gold: The Inside Story is just one of the gems on TV Tonight. WhatToWatch · Mar 20, 2023
Brian Tufano obituary Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2023
What links Lesley Manville to Nic Roeg and Vic Reeves? Go down the rabbit hole to discover how acting royalty meets the real thing, by way of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Verve The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2022
The seduction of “Dangerous Liaisons" What is it about this epistolary novel's ruthless high-society predators that keeps us wanting more of them? Salon · Nov 6, 2022
The Lost King: why are we still obsessed with Richard III after 500 years? The release of Stephen Frears’ film The Lost King once more focuses attention on one of the most controversial figures in English history: King Richard III. The film is a compelling account of the struggle of a woman called Philippa Langley to find the grave of the 15th-century king, which… The Conversation · Oct 21, 2022
The Lost King review – Sally Hawkins saves Richard III dig drama The team behind Philomena turn the true story of how the infamous king’s remains were found under a Leicester car park into an uneven comedy drama The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022
The Lost King review: Discovery of Richard III’s skeleton is farcically replayed in Frears and Coogan’s drama Why does the comedy drama think it can undo one form of malevolent villainisation by creating enemies of its own? The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022 Steve Coogan sets his sights on the life of a fugitive king Inspired by a book by Princess Diana’s brother, the actor is researching flight of Charles II from Oliver Cromwell’s troops
The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022 The Queen is dead: The face that launched a thousand likenesses For millions, Her Majesty’s features were as familiar as their own mothers’, writes John Walsh
Evening Standard · Sep 13, 2022 For many of our best creatives, the Queen was the ace in the pack “I could see she was a good card to have in my hand,” director Stephen Frears told me when I interviewed him about The Queen, his 2006 film starring Helen Mirren as the monarch, adjusting to the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death. Yet neither he nor the movie’s writer Peter…
The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022 Lights, camera, corgis! How movies tackled the enigma that was Elizabeth II Wise, witty, patient, crisp, faintly martyred or skydiving with James Bond … our film critic looks at how cinema portrayed the monarch – and recalls the night she put him on the spot at Windsor Castle
ABC News · Sep 11, 2022 How Peter Morgan, Netflix and The Crown brought us closer to understanding the real Queen Elizabeth II Film and TV depictions of her reign tapped into our collective urge to peek behind the royal curtain, but the popularity of multiple Emmy winner The Crown did something more.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022 Royal row erupts over Steve Coogan film about Richard III Archaeologists fear they are ‘villains of the piece’ in movie, co-written by Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears, about search for British monarch
The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2022 TV tonight: look through the lens of an £8bn space telescope The universe is there for the taking on BBC Two. Plus: The Lazarus Project nears its endgame. Here’s what to watch this evening
Liverpool Echo · Jul 2, 2022 The famous faces from film and TV to have come from the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre Many stars of stage, TV and film got their start at the Everyman and Playhouse