Tag: best of brits
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #127 (August 10th, 2022)
The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Movie Review: Bullet Train (with Brad Pitt) The best thing about this movie is the humor. The audience laughed countless times. The story is creative. It’s a rare action/mystery movie. Believe me, a lot happens…
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Best Of British Biographies – Danny Boyle
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I’m sure that I’ve said somewhere else that, way back in the nineties, I bought a house based mainly on the proximity to the Davenport Theatre. It was couple of hundred metres away and I could walk around, get a pint or two, and watch a film. As the name suggests, it was originally a…
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Downton Abbey – A British Perspective…Sort Of
This week sees the American release of Downton Abbey 2: A New Era (read review of the first movie here) and I’ve been asked to write about it from a British point of view. This always makes me smile as, while the UK is only the 21st most populous country in the world, there’s still…
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Best of British Biographies – Christian Bale
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Some actors can adopt any number of accents. Others are comfortable under pounds of prosthetics. Yet more can slim down, bulk up, or stack on mountains of muscle. It takes someone very special to be able to manage all three. I would argue that one such actor is Mr Christian Bale. To be honest, the…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #105 (March 16th, 2022)
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. You’ve Been In Two Huge Franchises? How nice for you…A Brief Bio of Benedict Cumberbatch Smaug, Khan, Sherlock, Dr. Strange…then there are all the characters he’s played that aren’t part of multi-million franchises… Read more……
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Best of British Biographies – Benedict Cumberbatch
Prior to 2010 not many people had heard of Benedict Cumberbatch nor could they, probably, pick him out of a line up. That wasn’t due to lack of exposure; parts in seventeen TV shows, ten films, thirty radio programmes, and eighteen theatre plays gave him a decent amount of public attention but he was never…
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Best of British Biographies – Miriam Margolyes
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in BiographySome actors are known for their stage careers, others for their film and TV work. Some actors are known for their vocal versatility or their commitment to radically change their physique through diet and/or exercise. Still others are renowned either for the beauty or the character of their appearance. A rare, special few are none…
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Best of British Biographies – Roger Allam
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in BiographyWe’re all allowed favourites. Similarly, we’re all allowed someone we admire. Someone we want to be like, someone we secretly copy and could imagine ourselves actually being. It probably changes over the years. A bit like actors play Romeo, then they move on to Hamlet, before finally ending up as Lear so who you idolise…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #101 (February 16th, 2022)
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. British Legends Of Stage & Screen For decades Brits have been brought in to play the bad guy, place the action in a particular time or place, or to make clear the class and background…
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RunPee British Biography Hub
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With a lot of encouragement and advice from RunPee C.O.O. Jill I’ve been doing occasional biographical articles about British talent and what they bring to the big — nay — huge blockbuster franchises. It’s one of those mysteries lost in the depths of time…how did this actually start? My recollection is that I saw somewhere…
