Actors and Actresses
In the winter of 1989, Mystery! was entering its ninth wildly successful season as Masterpiece Theater's British murder-and-crime-focused spinoff. The series had boasted a string of Thursday night hits, starting with the 1970s Father Brown series starring Kenneth More, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, the 1980s Roy Marsden
Actors and Actresses
Emily Blunt is an award-winning acting phenomenon whose range encompasses drama, musical theater, comedy, horror, and action movies. Born and raised in Roehampton, a well-heeled London suburb, the daughter of a barrister and English teacher, Blunt was a shy and awkward child afflicted with a stutter. School was not easy
Movies
At the first Academy Awards, held in 1929, two British people were nominated — London-born cinematographer Charles Rosher and a little-known artist named Charlie Chaplin. Nearly a hundred years later, the categories have been expanded, the pageantry has skyrocketed, and the cartel of Hollywood studio influence has been broken and replaced
Oppenheimer
You could argue that post-war America, having gained the ability to obliterate entire sovereign nations, elected to focus its power on killing itself. The dogmatic conservative values, the ruthless Cold War paranoia, and the constant dog-piling on its nation’s most creative and radical thinkers (not to mention its militarized
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The post-apocalypse is not the ideal place to be stuck with a load of Brits. Whenever we’ve wondered who we’d want in our zombie survival team, we’ve rarely considered that random Brits would make the cut. They automatically have loads of points against them: they love a
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There’s a noticeable difference between a writer who can effortlessly pen pulp stories (or at least authentically recreate a pulpy voice and tone) and a writer who certainly enjoys a bit of pulp, but whose attempts to write in a rich, entrenched genre come across a little faux. This
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Female-fronted revenge tales are few and far between in the genre space, particularly in the world of Westerns, where it can often feel as though women are only present to serve as brothel workers or damsels in need of rescue from various baddies. (Look, there is a reason the stereotypes
Drama
When we think of the phrase "period drama," our minds tend to embrace specific (and generally very British) imagery: fancy ball gowns, strict class rules, the occasional inclusion of royal or at least extremely upper class (read: rich) characters. Rarely do we consider the fact that stories set
Drama
As Americans, the idea of the Old West is foundational to our national mythology. Images of cowboys, sharpshooters, prospectors, and Native American tribes lept into the world's collective imagination. That can-do frontier spirit is as much a part of our idea of ourselves as a country as Betsy