Home of British film launches online player
LONDON (Reuters) - The British Film Institute plans to launch a digital service this month offering access to one of the world's richest movie collections stretching from rare Edwardian footage...
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Sex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
LONDON (Reuters) - A new musical from British impresario and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will delve into the sex, spies and politics at the heart of Britain's biggest post-war scandal...
Critics rip ‘cheap and cheerless’ Diana film
LONDON (Reuters) - Film critics have savaged a new movie of the late British Princess Diana's relationship with a Pakistani doctor as an intrusive and embarrassingly cheap soap opera. British-born...
Critics rip ‘cheap and cheerless’ Diana film
LONDON (Reuters) - Film critics have savaged a new movie of the late British Princess Diana's relationship with a Pakistani doctor as an intrusive and embarrassingly cheap soap opera. British-born...
Comic book writer bows out from Batman after killing off Robin
LONDON (Reuters) - After killing off Batman's Robin and re-inventing the X-Men, Scottish comic book writer Grant Morrison is looking for other superhuman legends to transform with his pen. Morrison...
Olympians and old blazers on show at English regatta
HENLEY-ON-THAMES (Reuters) - It's one of England's great days out: a combination of gruelling sports event and high-society picnic. While Olympic rowers and plucky amateurs did battle along the Thames...
Rolling Stones strut back to 1969 woodland for London gigs
LONDON (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones will take a step back in time this weekend by replicating a woodland in London's Hyde Park present for a 1969 show there that...
U.S. writer A.M. Homes denies Hilary Mantel literary treble
LONDON (Reuters) - The American novelist A.M. Homes beat double Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel to the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday with a tale of murder, sibling...
Peer into Samuel Beckett’s mind for $2 million at Sotheby auction
LONDON (Reuters) - A rare glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest writers will go up for sale in July when a manuscript for Samuel Beckett's...
Peer into Samuel Beckett’s mind for $2 million at Sotheby auction
LONDON (Reuters) - A rare glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest writers will go up for sale in July when a manuscript for Samuel Beckett's...