Stuart Heritage

6 days ago | msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

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6 days ago | theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Stuart Heritage

Over the last few years, we have found ourselves inundated with sadcoms. Again and again, we’ve been deluged by ostensible comedies that are so concerned with grief and trauma that the laughs end up feeling like a distant afterthought. Striking the right balance between comedy and drama takes absurd levels of effort and craft at the best of times. Doing it with a premise as bleak as BBC Three’s new series Just Act Normal is almost impossible.

1 week ago | msn.com | Stuart Heritage

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Stuart Heritage

You’d be forgiven for not watching The Baldwins, the just-concluded TLC reality series about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and all their children. This is because it was exactly the thing you assumed it to be. On one hand, The Baldwins desperately wanted to be a show in the traditional TLC mould; a zany happy-go-lucky series about the chaos of raising an enormous family. But on the other, it was also about what happened on the set of Rust in 2021.