Last Holiday News

A porcelain-skinned redhead with a child prodigy past and a promising acting future, Alicia Witt made her TV debut at the age of four, reciting Shakespeare on a 1979 episode of ABC's "That's Incredible". Probably best.... A porcelain-skinned redhead with a child prodigy past and a promising acting future, Alicia Witt made her TV debut at the age of ...

A word to the even wiser: Make sure you take Queen Latifah along with you. "Last Holiday," Wayne Wang 's energetic remake of the 1950 comedy starring Sir Alec Guinness , gets new life breathed into it by a wonderful, slightly toned down performance from Latifah.

Entertainer Queen Latifah answers a question during an interview on Friday, July 3, at the Essence Festival in New Orleans In town for Essence Music Festival, Queen Latifah breezed into an upstairs meeting room of the Morial Convention Center on Friday morning, looking like she stepped out of the pages of a fashion magazine: hair pulled back in a ...

High on the list of undervalued, under-appreciated and just plain little-known movies that ought to be seen is Henry Cass' Last Holiday - as perfectly constructed, witty and moving a little drama as you're likely to encounter anywhere.

As graduate-school alumni and several Nobel-nominated professors have noted, Alec Guinness and Queen Latifah don't look anything alike and, as performers, they are polar opposites.

Having made much hay out of the housing injustices perpetrated on the two child actors who helped Slumdog Millionaire make more than $343 mil worldwide, it's nice to report that director Danny Boyle is rectifying the situation.

Last Holiday 6.50pm, Film4 Wang's comedy remake gives the 1950 British original a major makeover: the Alec Guinness role goes to Queen Latifah who, believing herself terminally ill, quits her department store job and heads off for the gourmet goodlife at chef Grard Depardieu's Czech hotel.