(CNN) -- Americans love a period drama, and they dote on theBritish aristocracy. That's the way...Nicolaus MillsSpecial to Cnn
A sequel earning a 16 million opening weekend that’s half of what its predecessor made wouldn’t seem like a big deal, but that result for Focus Features’ “Downton Abbey: A New Era” is actually a sign of progress for arthouse theaters. At a time when few films appealing specifically...
First and perhaps most importantly, “Downton Abbey” isn’t medicine. It’s delicious fun. Secondly, if it doesn’t ignore the clichés of its period — so far roughly the decade from 1910 to 1920 bisected by World War I — it bounces them like a slightly lopsided ball. It is obviou...
Downton Abbey 3: Everything you need to know First trailer for Downton Abbey star's new movie Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Hearst and third parties use cookies and similar technologies (“Cookies”) on this site. Some Cookies are necessary to make this site and our content available ...
While Downton Abbey: A New Era reunites the beloved sprawling ensemble cast that make up the extended Crawley family and their many household staff members, there is one performer notably absent from the new film. Matthew Goode, who joined the franchise as Henry Talbot in season 5 and later ...
Peter reviews the latest cinematic entry of the popular BBC series, Downton Abbey: A New Era, which is featherweight fun.
Why do they pronounce the T in valet in Downton Abbey? Valet came to English from French and can be correctly pronounced anglicized asVAL-ut, or in the French manner, as VAL-ay or val-AY. ... It then came to mean “servant” in a more general way (a synonym of valet is manser...
The highly-anticipated “Downton Abbey” movie, based on the Emmy-winning hit series about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants, is being called “delightful fun.” The film is set in 1927, and centers around the family and staff preparing for a royal visit from the Kin...
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“with regards to lady mary, i wanted to really show that she is this woman working in a man's world, so i looked at men’s suits of the period and took that as an angle, and had some fun with her tailoring. we aimed for that kind of androgyny that is still feminine—there's ...