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WATCH: Play ‘Find the Brit’ in This Weekend’s Releases

Leah Rozen — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:24:42 +0000

At long last it’s finally the weekend, which means you have another chance to play Find the Brit at the multiplex. This weekend, you’re sure to be a winner because there are plenty of British actors to be spotted.

WATCH: Hugh Dancy in NBC’s ‘Hannibal’

Leah Rozen — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:00:48 +0000

Hide the fava beans and Chianti. Hannibal Lecter is back, and he’s coming to your TV screen.

Hannibal, a new crime series from NBC, begins April 4 at 10 pm. It’s a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs and other films featuring novelist Thomas Harris’s terrifying creation, Hannibal Lecter, the shrink-turned-serial killer ...

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, ‘Parade’s End’ Begins on HBO

Leah Rozen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:26:16 +0000

Downton Abbey’s season may be over but fans of the period drama can again travel back to early 20th century England, this time in the impressive company of Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, when Parade’s End begins on HBO ...

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart Are Heading to Broadway

Paul Hechinger — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:52:41 +0000

X-Men colleagues Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are going to be reunited on stage in Broadway productions of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land this fall.

WATCH: Carey Mulligan in Trailer for New Coen Brothers Movie

Leah Rozen — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:53:34 +0000

London-born Carey Mulligan has a busy 2013 ahead of her. The actress will be out beating the publicity drums for two films in which she stars: the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis and Baz Luhrmann’s spanking new version of The ...

British TV Cop Show Reboot ‘The Sweeney’ to Open March 1

Leah Rozen — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:40:09 +0000

The poster for the new movie reboot of one of the most popular of British TV shows of the 1970s has just been released in the U.S.

The Brit List: The Best and Worst of 2012′s British Movies

Leah Rozen — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:07:21 +0000

It’s awards season in Hollywood and we here at Anglophenia are doing our bit. We are handing out awards of our own – let’s call them the Anglies – to recognize both the high and low points for British movies in 2012.

Mark Strong to Reprise ‘Low Winter Sun’ Role in AMC’s Remake

Leah Rozen — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:36 +0000

So nice, he’s playing it twice. Fast-rising British actor Mark Strong is having a second go at a role he already made his own back in 2006.

British Actors Populate Middle-Earth in ‘The Hobbit’

Leah Rozen — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:04:18 +0000

It is easy to mistake The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for a British movie. That’s because English actors play so many of the major roles in the fantasy adventure film, which opens Friday (Dec. 14).

Brits Daniel Day-Lewis and Rachel Weisz Score Big Wins from New York Film Critics

Leah Rozen — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:03:20 +0000

Raise the Union Jack over Manhattan in celebration. The New York Film Critics Circle, the prestigious movie reviewers group based in the Big Apple, picked Brits Daniel Day-Lewis and Rachel Weisz for top acting prizes in its annual ...