Hugh Bonneville
Sky defends slavery inheritance show from accusations of tone-deafness
Channel says Forty Acres, comedy drama about slavery inheritance from W1A team, is not comedy about slavery
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
11, Dec, 2023 @5:51 PM
Coronation Concert review – a cobbled-together bunch of B-listers
With all respect to Olly Murs and Nicole Scherzinger, true star power was lacking at this well-performed celebration for King Charles III – drones and Muppets were the highlights instead
Alexis Petridis
07, May, 2023 @10:49 PM
Mummies review – nonsense kiddie-flick should be avoided like a plague of locusts
Unpleasant to look at, with a chatbot-level script and phoned-in voiceovers, film-makers can’t get away with shovelling out this kind of thing
Leslie Felperin
29, Mar, 2023 @12:00 PM
Bank of Dave review – underdog story of an everyman v Eton poshos
Rory Kinnear is brilliant in this warming comedy about a Burnley businessman who took on London’s elite and won
Cath Clarke
15, Jan, 2023 @5:00 PM
Playing Under the Piano by Hugh Bonneville – note-perfect self-deprecation
The Downton star is happy to be the butt of his own jokes in this tremendously entertaining account of the ups and downs of his career
Rachel Cooke
30, Oct, 2022 @8:30 AM
Down with the rich! Class rage fuels new wave of ‘us v them’ films and plays
From Triangle of Sadness and Parasite to The Maid, audiences are revelling tales of inter-class violence that draw on growing discontent at inequality
Vanessa Thorpe
17, Sep, 2022 @2:21 PM
I Came By review – Hugh Bonneville gets nasty in silly Netflix thriller
The Downton Abbey star plays a believably sinister villain in an otherwise underwhelming tale of a judge with a horrific secret in his basement
Benjamin Lee
19, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM
Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama
The second – and hopefully last – film spun off from Julian Fellowes’s successful TV series is as hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever
Peter Bradshaw
25, Apr, 2022 @11:00 PM
Downton Abbey film sequel set for Christmas 2021 release
A followup to the 2019 film is currently in production, with Dominic West, Hugh Dancy and Laura Haddock joining returning cast members
Catherine Shoard
19, Apr, 2021 @2:38 PM
To Olivia review – a glib exploration of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal's grief
Keeley Hawkes and Hugh Bonneville are decent as the actor and children’s author whose daughter died aged seven, but there is no real howl of pain
Peter Bradshaw
18, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM
Scenes of a Sexual Nature review – hit-and-miss Hampstead romcom
Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy and Sophie Okonedo are among the big names doing small roles in this mostly pleasant portmanteau film from 2006
Leslie Felperin
30, Oct, 2020 @3:00 PM
Chichester Festival theatre boss to join musical stars in outdoor concert
Daniel Evans will take to the stage with Omid Djalili, Giles Terera and Gabrielle Brooks in summer event previewing postponed South Pacific
Chris Wiegand
14, Jul, 2020 @3:14 PM
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