The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

found 2025 › Apr › 16 (Wed) @ 08:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina

Here is a well-meaning, awkward tonal jumble…

Behind the curtain: what really goes on in theatre dressing rooms?

found 2025 › Mar › 01 (Sat) @ 16:39 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Ahead of next month’s Olivier awards, photographer David Levene reveals the secrets of life backstage in London’s West End, capturing the likes of Steve Coogan, Vanessa Williams, Paapa Essiedu and Jo…

How Queen Camilla introduced this bunion-busting footwear to celebrity friends Judi Dench and Mary Berry

found 2025 › Feb › 15 (Sat) @ 17:44 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Queen Camilla is known for her elegant yet practical footwear from Sole Bliss, a brand specialising in shoes designed for bunions.

Dame Judi Dench teams up with Bronte ancestor to help battle to save beauty spot from developers after Labour bid to build 1.5million UK homes

found 2025 › Feb › 09 (Sun) @ 17:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Local residents want to turn the 20-acre site on the edge of Great Ouseburn, North Yorkshire, into a nature reserve and save it from potentially being turned into another housing development.

‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone

found 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 07:32 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The actor, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 2012, has also struggled to see on film sets and learn lines having done so thanks to a photographic memory

Judi Dench has said she can no lon…

Judi Dench, 90, reveals she can no longer go out alone due to the severity of her sight loss as she shares fears she could 'fall over or walk into something'

found 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 07:32 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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The veteran actress, 90, first revealed in 2012 she is suffering with macular degeneration in her eyes, which can cause permanent and rapid central vision loss.

Dame Judi Dench and Bill Nighy lead protest against BBC plans to cut drama on Radio 3

found 2025 › Jan › 20 (Mon) @ 15:17 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The actors have called on the broadcaster's director-general Tim Davie and culture secretary Lisa Nandy to reverse their decision.

‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age | Peter Bradshaw

found 2025 › Jan › 17 (Fri) @ 20:54 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Her film breakthrough in 1960’s The Entertainer was a harbinger of the calmness and strength she brought as a distinguished character actor – and as her lovable self in Nothing Like a Dame

Joan Plowri…