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Keira Knightley and Jude Law head Anna Karenina cast
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Film producers Working Title have confirmed that Joe Wright will direct Tom Stoppard‘s adaptation of the epic romance Anna Karenina. Production filming in the U.K. and Russia this month with the film expected to be released in the second half of 2012. Keira Knightley will star as Anna Karenina opposite Jude Law, as Anna’s husband…
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Guardian announces more ebook titles
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The Guardian has announced ten new titles in its Guardian Shorts ebooks range of books for Apple’s iBooks and Amazon’s Kindle. The newspaper launched the range last month with Phone Hacking – How the Guardian Broke the Store, an account of the paper’s role in uncovering phone hacking by the News of the World. The…
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Warning – the BBC website just spoilered Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Beware of reading ANYTHING about the superb Tinker Tailor Solider Spy on the BBC News website, its Magazine section has just published an article containing MAJOR spoilers. If you read the article you’ll know exactly which character is the mole – the whole point of the film. As I type this, the article in question…
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Jason Ritter discusses The Event, showbiz families and working with Kathleen Turner
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The first series of TV drama The Event comes to DVD and Blu-ray on October 3rd. Ahead of the release, we speak to series star Jason Ritter about how it felt growing up in a showbiz family – he’s the son of the late actor John Ritter and actress Nancy Morgan – what it was…
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Spitfire’s 75th anniversary marked in new BBC 2 docu
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Veteran BBC journalist John Sergeant celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Spitfire in a new BBC Two documentary due to air later this month. Britain’s Flying Past is a new hour-long show in which Sergeant, a former RAF cadet, embarks on his own journey to discover what made the Spitfire such a special aircraft and…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Review
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Films of books you love rarely deliver on your expectations and, for me at least, the recasting of iconic roles seldom creates a feeling of happiness. Generally I leave the cinema after such films with a long list of ‘well that was wrong’ to spit out to anyone silly enough ask what I thought. So…