‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Emma Thompson Shines as a Razor-Tongued Gumshoe in an Apple TV Drama with ‘Slow Horses’ Vibes (if Not ‘Slow Horses’ Consistency)

‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Emma Thompson Shines as a Razor-Tongued Gumshoe in an Apple TV Drama with ‘Slow Horses’ Vibes (if Not ‘Slow Horses’ Consistency)

For a series about misfit intelligence operatives doggedly refusing to live up to even the lowest level of their potential, Apple TV’s Slow Horses is remarkably self-actualized. Every year, come rain or shine or strike or global cataclysm, Slow Horses delivers a new season. Each season thus far has been six episodes, with those episodes…

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Emma Thompson on Getting a “Stalking” Call From Donald Trump and Why ‘Harry Potter’ Is “Not Really an Important Part of My Creative Endeavor”

Emma Thompson on Getting a “Stalking” Call From Donald Trump and Why ‘Harry Potter’ Is “Not Really an Important Part of My Creative Endeavor”

Emma Thompson discussed her career, including getting a call from Donald Trump, her days doing stand-up comedy, including jokes about herpes and Margaret Thatcher, Sense and Sensibility, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal playing out during the Primary Colors shoot in Locarno, Switzerland on Saturday. She appeared in front of a huge and hugely excited crowd…

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Emma Thompson on Pulling “Every Single Muscle” Playing “a Real Heroine” in Action-Thriller ‘The Dead of Winter’ — and What “Really Scared” Her

Emma Thompson on Pulling “Every Single Muscle” Playing “a Real Heroine” in Action-Thriller ‘The Dead of Winter’ — and What “Really Scared” Her

Emma Thompson has gone from snowy landscapes to sunny pastures. The star plays a widowed fisherwoman who travels alone through snowbound northern Minnesota and interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl, portrayed by Laurel Marsden (Ms. Marvel), in her latest film, The Dead of Winter, directed by Brian Kirk (21 Bridges, The Day of the…

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#‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Review: Renée Zellweger Shines in Poignant Moments of Closing Chapter Flush With Fan-Service

#‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Review: Renée Zellweger Shines in Poignant Moments of Closing Chapter Flush With Fan-Service

It’s been almost a quarter-century since Renée Zellweger first stepped into the shoes of the wine-guzzling, smoking, babbling, pratfall-prone and terminally awkward title character in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Over the course of four movies, the erstwhile singleton, forever sorting out complicated romantic entanglements and riddled with self-doubt, has become a virtual compendium of tics and mannerisms…

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#Emma Thompson to Narrate Daniel Ellsberg Documentary ‘How to Stop Nuclear War’ (Exclusive)

#Emma Thompson to Narrate Daniel Ellsberg Documentary ‘How to Stop Nuclear War’ (Exclusive)

Emma Thompson to Narrate Daniel Ellsberg Documentary ‘How to Stop Nuclear War’ (Exclusive) Emma Thompson is set to narrate a feature doc about Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, dubbed “the most dangerous man in America” by then U.S. President Richard Nixon. The Hollywood actress will lend her voice to director Paul Jay’s How to Stop a…

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#’Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’

#’Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’

“‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’” Hugh Laurie said he drew inspiration from “The Thin Man” movies for his three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” “I’ve always loved the relationship between the two central characters [in ‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’] — their sense of adventure, the pleasure they take…

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