Kenneth Branagh

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Kevin Spacey, Kenneth Branagh and Alan Rickman up for Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard kicked off the 08/09 British Theatre awards season announcing their longlist of theatrical heavy-weights, newcomers, regulars and Hollywood stars for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Kevin Spacey and Kenneth Branagh fight it out for the best actor accolade; Kev for Speed-The-Plow at …

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Saturday Cinema Summary

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Brad Pitt’s latest (with a title so long it shouldn’t be allowed) The Assassination of Jesse James etc, the alternate realities of The Nines, Vince Vaughn slumming it in Fred Claus, the …

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Saturday Cinema Summary

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Michael Caine and Jude Law give it some Pinter in Sleuth, Wes Anderson delivers his latest quirky offering in The Darjeeling Limited, Christian Bale eats maggots in Rescue Dawn and Blade Runner …

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Branagh’s Magic Flute: Probably Without Ducks

Sir Kenneth Branagh’s recent project, as the director of Ducktastic seems to have been cursed from the beginning. And now it’s closing — its last performance is this coming Saturday. But this doesn’t mean that our favourite Shakespearian is taking a break. No, plucky Kenneth …

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Ducking Hell!

Jurassic Bark

The Wollemi Pine is to be reintroduced to Kew Gardens. This might not sound remarkable, but Wollemis were thought to have died out in the Jurassic era, 200 million years ago. This Coelecanth of among trees was rediscovered in a gorge in Australia in 1994. …

Getting To Grips With Gum

As far as the Liberal Democrats are concerned, no political issue is too small, as the release of their snappily titled report