Phyllida Lloyd, Dame Harriet Walter and Michael Morpurgo
Claudia Winkleman interviews Phyllida Lloyd and Dame Harriet Walter about the all-female Henry IV, and Michael Morpurgo discusses his latest lovel Listen to the Moon.
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Phyllida Lloyd and Dame Harriet Walter
Back in 2012 they broke not just the Box Office, but all the rules when director Phyllida Lloyd and Harriet Walter joined forces to create an all-female cast of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Now Phyllida and Harriet are about to do the second instalment of the promised Shakespearean trilogy Henry IV.
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Henry IV is currently at The Donmar Warehouse and runs until 29th November 2014
Peter Bradshaw with the film review
THE JUDGE
Director:ÌýÌý David Dobkin
Starring:ÌýÌý Robert Downey Jr, Vera Farmiga, Robert Duvall, Vincent D'Orforio, Leighton Meester, Billy Bob Thornton
Synopsis:Ìý Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.
The Judge is out now and rated 15
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THE BEST OF ME
Director:ÌýÌýÌý Michael HoffmanÌýÌý
Starring:ÌýÌýÌý Michelle Monaghan, Liana Liberato, James MarsdenÌýÌý
Synopsis:ÌýÌý A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
The Best Of Me is out now and rated 12 A
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CITIZEN FOUR
Director:ÌýÌý Laura Poitras
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Starring:ÌýÌý Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald
Synopsis:Ìý A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Citizen Four is out now
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OCULUS– DVD/BluRay Release
Director:Ìý Mike Flanagan
Starring:ÌýÌý Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff
Synopsis:Ìý A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Oculus is out on Monday and rated 15
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Michael Morpurgo
Author Michael Morpurgo is best known for his children's novels. He became the third British Children's Laureate in 2003. His latest book "Listen To The Moon" is about the sinking of The Lusitania, submarines and islands!
Michael is also patron of the Ìýwhich brings a variety of quality family arts events with over 2,000 events across the UK.
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Listen To The Moon is out now and published by Harper Collins.
Alex Heminsley with the book review
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
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When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she’s unscrupulous about how she gets it.
Noel’s mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Brought up to share her disdain for authority and eclectic approach to education, he has little in common with other children and even less with Vee, who hurtles impulsively from one self-made crisis to the next. The war’s thrown up new opportunities for making money but what Vee needs (and what she’s never had) is a cool head and the ability to make a plan.
On her own, she’s a disaster. With Noel, she’s a team.
Crooked Heart by Lissa EvansÌý is published by Doubleday
What I Love About Movies - Little White LiesÌý
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During the first eight years of its existence, Little White Lies magazine has published countless interviews with some of the biggest names in the movies. These interviews have been rounded off by posing a single, searching question: 'What do you love about movies?' The answers have been entertaining, profound, personal, ridiculous, revealing and unexpected, but always unique.
Now for the first time, these declarations of movie passion have been collected into the ultimate one-stop celebration of cinema, with subjects including legendary directors (Francis Ford Coppola, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Pedro Almodóvar, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze) as well as A-list icons (Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Kristen Stewart, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hardy).
Alongside these star-spangled testimonies are newly commissioned illustrations and immaculate art direction care of the award-winning LWLies creative team.
What I Love About Movies - Little White Lies is published by Faber & Faber
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Classic - The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose.
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