John Adams

0 Posted By: BD929 Views: 2 Replies: 0 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001684L0AJohn Adams HBO Miniseries Blu-Ray Set $24.99 Based on David McCullough's bestselling biography, the HBO miniseries John Adams is the furthest thing from a starry-eyed look at America's founding fathers and the brutal path to independence. Adams (Paul Giamatti), second president of the United States, is portrayed as a skilled orator and principled attorney whose preference for justice over anti-English passions earns enemie  

When Carey Mulligan signed on to play the sophisticated English schoolgirl in "An Education," she immediately had to set her friends straight on what kind of '60s movie she was making. Yes, it was set in London, but in suburban Twickenham, not the West End. And yes, it was set in the '60s, but the decidedly swing-free 1961, which made the film as much a coming-of-age story for the decade as it was for Mulligan's 16-year-old heroine. "It's a little period of English history that hasn't often been depic

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The Damned United / In The Damned United , Michael Sheen portrays his third major historical Brit figure, after playing Prime Minister Tony Blair in The Queen in 2006 and David Frost in 2008's Frost/Nixon . This time around, he's Brian Clough, a British "football" coach both revered and reviled for his career, and more importantly, for 44 particular days. Let's get this out of the way right now–Sheen is so good in each of these roles, one wonders what Englishman Sheen can't play when teamed with screenwri  

The Atlantic City set of HBO's upcoming "Boardwalk Empire." HBO's next set of New Jersey wiseguys will be conducting business out of a parking lot in Brooklyn. "Boardwalk Empire," which debuts sometime next year, deals with gangsters in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition in the 1920s.  

There's always more to give and while we should all definitely be giving around this time of year*, we have five news stories than we didn't have time to craft into a bigger article but still though they were worth a read.  

A roll call of British acting talent has been added to the cast list of The King's Speech, a drama about George VI's struggles to overcome his stammer.