After Two Decades and One Darcy, Matthew MacFadyen Has Never Been More Iconic Carmen Paddock April 27, 2020 Analysis, Features, Spotlight In his 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright attempted to undo the long shadow cast by Colin Firth’s pitch perfect Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC miniseries. Instead of watching his romantic hero...
Sad Russians: Top Five Russian Lit Adaptations Carmen Paddock April 26, 2017 Analysis, By The Book, Features By reputation, Russian literary works are giants – War and Peace and Crime and Punishment are possibly the first to spring to mind among these classics, and their troubling psychological themes, large cast...
Second Chance: Keira Knightley Rachel Brook February 7, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Over the years, negative assessments of Keira Knightley’s acting abilities have included the phrases ‘woeful’ and ‘so bloody awful it hurts my eyes’, with many critiques specifically focussing on the...
