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King's Speech crowned big winner at Oscars

FilmBob Tourtellotte | 2011-02-28 07:09:00

The King's Speech was crowned the big winner with four Oscars on Sunday, including best film and best actor for its star, Colin Firth, on...

The King's Speech sweeps board at Baftas

Arts and CultureStaff Reporter | 2011-02-14 07:35:00

The King's Speech continued its regal progress through the awards season, winning the best film award at the British Academy of Film and...

The King's English

Arts and CultureStaff Reporter | 2011-02-11 00:00:00

Some films are known as "game-changers". The King's Speech is not one of those films. It is a don't-change-the-game-er, or yet a jolly-well-change-it-back-er: a traditionally mounted, handsomely furnished British period movie, available at a cinema near you in dead-level 2D....

A grief observed

Arts and CultureShaun De Waal | 2010-02-26 06:00:00

I am on record as saying that I'm not sure great novels should be adapted to film at all. This feeling was in response to yet another bowdlerised...

Su-per-per trouper-pers

Arts and CultureShaun De Waal | 2008-08-29 06:00:00

When I was a high-minded youth, I despised Abba. They stood for all that was empty, formulaic and ridiculous about pop music (as opposed to...

The last legion

Arts and CultureStaff Reporter | 2007-09-14 17:11:00

ON CIRCUIT: The good guys are rather down-at-heel in Night Watch and movies showing at the North West film festival.

His final bow: Bush's last supper with the press

WorldStaff Reporter | 2008-04-28 09:23:00

United States President George Bush described his mood as "a little wistful" on Saturday night as he attended his last White House correspondents'...

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