Albert Finney News

In truly diverse fashion, the last 10 years offered us some of the richest motion pictures the medium has seen.

A movie mystery with accoutrements of the finest quality but with the soul of a Charlie Chan -ish, B-grade, grindhouse product.

Just one more wafer-thin mint... The human appetite, in all its voracious, messy, and metaphorical forms, is one of the cinema's more enduring themes.

THE immensely talented Bridgwater Amateur Operatic Society will be lighting up the town hall with its rendition of Scrooge - The Musical.

Getting Scrooged: Special effects overshadow story, characters in Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' CAROL CLING MORE COLUMNS Review "A Christmas Carol" 96 minutes PG; scary sequences and images Grade: C at multiple locations; in 3-D and IMAX 3-D at select locations Deja View From Mickey Mouse to Mr.

Charles Dickens' story in "A Christmas Carol" is the ultimate tale of redemption, so sturdy that it has survived being retold on film as stealthy drama, Bill Murray farce, Albert Finney musical and Mr.

Celebrated in the 20th century as a victor in war, Winston Churchill has turned out in the 21st to be just as reliable a winner of awards.

After winning an Emmy and a Bafta for his performance as Sir Winston Churchill in the drama The Gathering Storm, Albert Finney naturally had first refusal when it came to reprising the role in Hugh Whitemore's eagerly awaited sequel, Into the Storm.

This week, flights of theatrical fancy at the Phoenix Theatre and in Chicago. __________ The same week that we were misled by tall-tale-telling parents into believing that their child was flying high over Colorado in a Jiffy-Pop-like balloon, Phoenix Theatre audiences were joyfully introduced to an Englishman who claimed, among other things, to ...

With book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty , A Man of No Importance is about the power the theatre has to transform our lives and the capacity each of us has to love one another.

There are occasional reminders why, amidst all the bullshit that flies in my profession these days, I still write about movies.

The 1967 film "Two for the Road," directed by Stanley Donen, written by Frederic Raphael, starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn, is a glorious work of art.

This Friday, the Coen brothers latest film A Serious Man opens in Seattle. The Coens have spent twenty-five years building up one of cinema's finest resumes, growing a cult following between critics and fans alike.

This is the lengthy animated sequence from the rarely-seen 1969 film 'The Picasso Summer', starring Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux, and based on the short story by Ray Bradbury.

Dear All-Knowing Dave: In the mid-1970s, I saw a TV movie that scared me silly. All I can remember about it is a man cutting off people's heads and carrying them around in hatboxes.

The Coen brothers may have already exited town, but there's still an opportunity to celebrate their greatness in the comfort of your own home.

A measured, ironic Ph.D. thesis on Dashiell Hammett and film noir, this 1990 film by Joel and Ethan Coen boasts Caravaggio lighting, a stately tempo, and a quietly immodest approach to its own mastery.

Agatha Christie has proved herself as immortal as her bestselling mysteries. As the 119th anniversary of her birth approaches, the Queen of Crime still rules the English Riviera, a scenic stretch of the Devon coast embracing Tor Bay.

Oliver Warbucks protects Annie from the mean Miss Hannigan in the Wichita Theatre's production of "Annie," opening Saturday.

Torquay, where Agatha Christie was born, is part of a scenic area known as the English Riviera.