Hints and tips:
...Set in a sad corner of Massachusetts, circa 1964, this otherwise pointedly grimy movie lights up the moment we see Anne Hathaway: a vision of Monroe-blonde pomp, accessorised with shades and cigarette....
...The lack of archive is total; Anne Frank is mentioned only briefly. (McQueen’s logic is that her story is already familiar.)...
...Leigh-Anne Treadwell runs the Bristol Upholstery Collective. She finds that people enrol in her courses because “upholstery is an expensive service but people can afford to mend their own piece”....
...Read his column on Oppenheimer here and Danny Leigh’s review here....
...An object I would never part with is a ceramic plantain that was a gift from Simone Leigh....
...Johnson plays singleton Anne Elliot, bereft after rejecting a penniless true love to please her social climbing dandy father, Sir Walter (Richard E Grant, luxuriant)....
...At first, it makes absolute sense why the gaze of Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei, superb) often falls in the middle distance....
...Danny Leigh didn’t care for it either. However you spend it, have a wonderful weekend....
...Likewise Carrie-Anne Moss, no more the fearless Trinity but a busy mom married into the patriarchy. Other roles from first time around are recast to iffy effect....
...Crosby responded: “I think you’re right. My advice, based on everything I know, is that it’s irrecoverable.”...
...Anne-Marie Trevelyan said her team had “a broad mandate to crack on from cabinet”, including to address India’s demands of easier visa access for students and skilled workers....
...Participants include William Dalrymple, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum and Natalie Haynes, hilarious polymath and author of A Thousand Ships....
...Hollywood duly landed on the Riviera in the form of Tom Cruise and the out-of-competition Top Gun: Maverick (more on that from Danny Leigh next week), accompanied by a surprise fly-past by the French Air...
...On the issue of “colourism”, Leigh-Anne has to face the idea that she was ideal for the group because she was black . . . but not too black....
...For the rest of the film, who Anne or anyone else that calls themselves “me” might really be to Anthony is a hard question....
...(Pity poor Anne Kincer.) But prepare to leave with more questions than you came with....
...In the past decade, the gallery has gained a reputation for spotting nascent talent: it exhibited Simone Leigh and Njideka Akunyili Crosby back in 2013 (the former will represent the United States at this...
...Still, as Danny Leigh’s review describes it as a superior example of the form, I am not, quite yet, going to revisit my general scepticism towards the genre as a whole....
...They are played by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor, respectively an expat American CEO and a delivery driver....
...Events play out through the eyes of the couple’s children Anne and David (the director’s proxy). The result is often sweetly comic, always piercingly well observed....
...All attention is soon claimed by the grand high witch, played at panto scale with non-specific Zsa Zsa accent by Anne Hathaway — a calculated centrepiece in a film frantically trying to please nine different...
...It’s the way each sibling reflects those conflicts of identity that makes them so vivid: Meenah (Amy-Leigh Hickman) is defiantly outspoken; Tariq (Gurjeet Singh) is loose-limbed and restlessly rebellious...
...Other highlights from the first quarter include Love Marriage (Virago, February), a new novel from Monica Ali, and Anne Tyler’s French Braid (Chatto & Windus, March)....
...A hedonistic night out among Haldwell students unfolds in darkness lit by the beams of miners’ helmets while Bing Crosby croons on the soundtrack....
...The fictional reporter at the heart of the matter, Elena McMahon (Anne Hathaway), is not Didion, but writes like her. “Plug into this news cycle,” she says in voiceover....
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