Tag: downton abbey
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #115 (May 25th, 2022)
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The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Downton Abbey: A New Era The latest escapades of the Grantham family and the army of servants that look after them. Our Jilly went along to see how it was and called it “a beautiful…
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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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First View Movie Review – Gosford Park
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Ah, yes… a British historical drama set in the early twentieth century created and written by Julian Fellowes. Oh… hang on… that’s Downton Abbey. Gosford Park is, in fact, a British historical drama set in the early twentieth century created and written by Julian Fellowes… bugger. I’m being whimsical. There are similarities between the two works and for…
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Best of British Biographies – Maggie Smith
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It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Maggie Smith on 27th September 2024 Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH DBE, or Maggie Smith as she’s more commonly known, has been acting for very nearly seventy years. She started out as a student with the Oxford Playhouse in 1952 and made her…
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What You Need to Know to Watch the Downton Abbey Movie
Have you seen or recently rewatched the UK six-season show Downton Abbey? Do you remember enough of it to make sense of the new film — one that doesn’t bother with any backstory exposition at all? Here’s a cheat sheet to remind you of what you need to know to enjoy the Downton Abbey Movie…
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Movie Review – Downton Abbey
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At the premier, everyone in the audience clearly enjoyed themselves. A lot. People laughed so much I could barely get Peetimes. And the entire room was so sold out that I had to sit in the very front row, on the edge. All this is to say I need to see the film again. The…
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What Downton Abbey is About, and How to Binge Watch It
I’m doing a 6-season rewatch of UK period drama Downtown Abbey — and Mary Mother of God — I’ve forgotten how melodramatic this show was. There are entire storylines I fast-forward past as I trudge along. (I refuse to pay any more attention the overwrought Anna/Mr. Bates storyline than I absolutely have to.) All The…
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Movie Review – The Man Who Invented Christmas
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This charming little film does a nice job ushering in Christmas time at the theaters. I really don’t know how much of this movie was fact or fiction concerning the character of Charles Dickens. In the movie, one moment he’d be in a screaming rage, and the next, a funny, engaging fellow. I think in…
