All I knew about The Guest going in was that this was one of the first starring roles by Dan Stevens since he jumped ship (or rather crashed his car), leaving red-hot Downton Abbey. How would this pretty-boy, so very very swoon-worthy and noble in period pieces, do on the big screen? It didn’t bode …
Based on Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Line of Beauty shows Margaret Thatcher’s 80s-England through the eyes of a wide-eyed young gay man. Nick Guest (pretty Dan Stevens who has appropriately fluffy hair) is aptly named, as he becomes a sort of permanent houseguest of his school-chum’s family. But the Feddens aren’t your typical …
It has been great fun to watch friends and family become obsessed with Downton Abbey. When was the last time we all enjoyed such a guilty pleasure TV show masquerading as highbrow entertainment? PBS has gold on their hands as long as the Brits keep churning out deliciously short, yet jam-packed seasons of this juicy …
The series opens deliciously, with the ironing of the daily newspaper, and the delivering of a telegram. It is 1912, and the breaking news is that a certain unsinkable ship has sunk in the Atlantic. The script trusts the audience to figure it out, as the word “Titanic” is not even uttered for the first …