Tag: James McAvoy

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Casting news aplenty!

I round up some of the recent casting news, including Queen Margaret at the Royal Exchange, Wasted…

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Film Review: Atonement (2007)

“I suppose we should start by reading it” Atonement was only Joe Wright’s second film but crikey…

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Hallowe’en Film Review: Victor Frankenstein (2015)

“This is not life” Released last year, Victor Frankenstein has the ignominy of being something of a…

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Film Review: Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

“The story you’re about to hear as been told before, a lot” Oh my giddy aunt, I…

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2016 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James McAvoy, The Ruling Class Bradley…

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Winners of the 2015 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Best Actor WINNER James McAvoy, The Ruling Class, Trafalgar Studios Simon Russell Beale, Temple, Donmar Warehouse Kenneth…

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The 2015 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Best Actor Kenneth Cranham, The Father, Ustinov Bath, Tricycle Theatre & Wyndham’s Theatre Ralph Fiennes, Man And…

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Film Review: Wimbledon (2004)

“Four million tennis players in the world, and I’m 119th. But what that really means is this…

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Review: The Ruling Class, Trafalgar Studios

“How do you know you are God?”  ‘Simple. When I pray to Him, I find I am…