Mike Leigh and his longtime collaborator Marianne Jean-Baptiste search for answers in their latest tour de force ...

In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...

The village will transform into the Victorian era with many attendees dressed in period costumes for the 28th annual Charles Dickens Festival. "It’s immense. We have street characters.

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III used his annual Christmas message Wednesday to hail the selflessness of those who have cared for him and the Princess of Wales this year, after both were diagnosed ...

King Charles III thanked the medics who have cared for him and his daughter-in-law Princess Kate, after they both underwent treatment for cancer this year, in a Christmas Day message that touched ...

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Can you work out who this Die Hard star is? Stepping out this week in a rare public outing, the Canadian actor looked totally unrecognisable, 36 years after appearing in the iconic Bruce Willis ...

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Art Evans, a film and television actor known for his roles in “Die Hard 2” and “Fright Night,” died Dec. 21. He was 82. Evans’ death was confirmed to Variety by publicist Erica Huntzinger.

from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” to get to the bottom of the death of Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Sherlock Carol, ” running at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany through Dec. 22.

There is not, in all literature, a book more thoroughly saturated with the spirit of its subject than Dickens’s “Christmas ... in a repulsive vein of hard, gross selfishness, on the death ...

Yet as a summary for 1949 the judgment was too jaundiced ... Most fortunate in his biographer was Charles Dickens, who profited by Hesketh Pearson’s lively interest in Dickens: His Character ...