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FATHER BROWN (2013 - Present) Season 11, Episode 9: The Dead of Night

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Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo, and Ray Fearon, 24 September 2024, London

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Father Christmas Is Back (2021)

This is more adult than a lot of other Christmas movies with a rating of PG-13, so I would caution watching with young children.

Caroline Christmas-Hope (Nathalie Cox) and her husband Peter Hope (Kris Marshall) are hosting Caroline's family for Christmas at their manor in the English countryside with their children Daisey (Amelie Prescott) and Henry (Oliver Smith). Caroline has invited her mother Elizabeth Christmas (Caroline Quentin) and her uncle John Christmas (John Cleese). Also arriving is her fashionista sister Joanna Christmas (Elizabeth Hurley) and her most recent boyfriend Felix (Ray Fearon), her sister Paulina Christmas (Naomi Frederick) who is working on her dissertation about the musical genius of The Beatles, and the youngest sister Vicky Christmas (Talulah Riley) who has been couch-surfing across America for some months. We find out pretty quickly that the Christmas sisters have a dysfunctional relationship with each other and Caroline has been trying to have the perfect Christmas every year since the year their father left on Christmas when they were kids.

Surprise, surprise, when Vicky was couch-surfing, she ran into their father in Florida and invited him back for Christmas, so James Christmas (Kelsey Grammer) shows up with his girlfriend Jackie (April Bowlby). Everybody has strong reactions to this, but nobody is more directly rude to James than his older brother John. The Christmas sisters mostly fight with each other. Vicky and Joanna probably fight the most, but everyone regularly jabs at Caroline for being too uptight and having a bad sex life with her husband. Peter and Felix are so chill about the chaos that they have to be wildly in love to deal with it, because I sure wouldn't. Also Jackie is an American nightmare and seems like she has no idea when she's being ridiculous, like a true American. They muddle through various Christmas events with each other, warts and all, until the shit really hits the fan Christmas morning.

This movie is clearly meant for adults, and it's very fun. Not super raunchy, just enough to keep things interesting. There's not a ton of background music, but there are some "live" performances throughout. It's a very sweet train wreck to watch, and I would watch it again, but I don't know that I would choose it again. Overall, 3.5 stars.

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My Fault: London Teaser

Noah is 18 when her mother falls in love with a wealthy man and they move from America to London to live with him and his son Nick. Noah and Nick are adjusting to this new life and their attraction to each other. Meanwhile, Noah's estranged father is released from prison and is looking for his daughter.

My Fault: London is a British remake of Culpa Mia, which itself is based on Mercedes Ron's novel Culpa Mía, the fist in the Culpables trilogy. The film stars Asha Banks (Noah), Matthew Broome (Nick), Eve Macklin (Noah's mom Ella), Ray Fearon (Nick's dad William), Enva Lewis (Jenna), Jason Flemyng (Travis), Kerim Hassan (Lion), Sam Buchanan (Ronnie), Amelia Kenworthy (Anna), and Harry Gilby (Dan). Dani Girdwood and Charlotte Fassler direct from a screenplay by Melissa Osborne.

My Fault: London releases on Prime Video on February 13, 2025.

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Ray Fearon as Rodon in Red Dwarf: The Promised Land (2020)

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This Italian double Jacket costume is worn on Sebastian De Souza as Alfonso of Aragon in The Borgias: Siblings (2013) and later worn on Ray Fearon as Carlo de' Medici in Da Vinci's Demons: The Vault of Heaven (2014)

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Sir Simon Russell Beale and Dame Harriet Walter performing during a reception hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla to celebrate the work of William Shakespeare, on the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first Shakespeare Folio at Windsor Castle on July 18, 2023 in Windsor, England.

Photo by Andrew Matthews - Pool / Getty Images

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So long as we're posting Marc Anthony readings, I'd be loathe not to add this triumphant filmed version of Gregory Doran's production by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012.

A draw of this production was the talented Paterson Joseph as Brutus, but Ray Fearon is compelling as Marc Anthony; it's the only version of this speech I've seen that still brings me to tears, since it's the only version I've seen where Anthony seems to be genuinely hurting from his recent loss. The anger, the locus, the gestures...

This probably won't be seen by many people, but I personally think it's a tragedy in and of itself that a talented actor like Fearon doesn't get better roles. Seeing him do minor parts in stuff like Fleabag or The Foreigner is like seeing Michelangelo go from the Sistine Chapel to painting ceilings with a roller.

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Title: Hamlet

Rating: PG-13

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Richard Briers, Nicholas Farrell, Rufus Sewell, Reece Dinsdale, Timothy Spall, Michael Maloney, Robin Williams, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Lemmon, Ian McElhinney, Ray Fearon, Billy Crystal

Release year: 1996

Genres: drama

Blurb: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer...his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

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it is very funny that a film about barbie, *thee* all-american icon, is stacked with british actors, including to my specific delight ray “fleabag’s hot lawyer” “evil hot bastard medici cousin carlo” fearon for like 2 seconds

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PICTURE THIS

It's believed that Frederick Douglass, the famed nineteenth-century American thinker, orator and abolitionist, was the most-photographed person in the world. An engaged subject, he seized the power of the medium to reshape the image of both free and enslaved black Americans. In an 1861 lecture delivered in Boston called Pictures and Progress he hectored all who could to sit for a daguerrotype. So that, he said, "Men of all conditions may see themselves as others see them."

More importantly, it could be said today, so that men of all conditions may present themselves in the way they want others to see them. In the daguerreotypes and photographs we have of Douglass, from youth through old age, he is smartly suited, formally posed, magnificently coiffed, and staring purposefully into the distance. Through these images he shaped an indelible image of himself, one that was circulated through newspapers, pamphlets, and folk art, and that compels even now. Looking into a daguerreotype of him today, Douglass emerges not just as a historical figure but as a regal, captivating man.

Issac Julien's video installation at MoMA, Lessons of the Hour, takes the notion a step further, employing English actor Ray Fearon to portray Douglass. In the film we see recreated scenes of the great man traveling and speaking in Great Britain in 1845, interior shots of his home in Washington DC (Cedar Hill), surveillance footage of the 2015 Baltimore protests after the killing of Freddie Grey, and glistening contemporary drone footage of the New York City skyline. Unlike most high art videos, the imagery and mis-en-scene here are fluid and spectacularly beautiful, particularly sequences showing Douglass walking in English fall foliage and along the Scottish coast. The shots inside his house are some of the loveliest depictions of interiors I've seen. The splendor of Douglass' physical world befits his own. There is the sense that, through obscene injustice, he moved freely in the world and found places of discovery and repose. He is comfortable addressing an audience of privileged white abolitionists in an auditorium and he is comfortable leading a horse, alone, through the Scottish hills.

Can one make artwork that's effective politically that is also highly beautiful formally? The imagery in Julien's video is lyrical but doesn't lull; it rouses one to think more deeply about the subject. Who, really, was Frederick Douglass? Skirting sentimentality and hagiography, it adds complexity to the iconic image we have of him. It shows us the worlds -- natural, social, domestic -- that he moved through and made his own.

Photograph of Frederick Douglass, ca. 1877. Image courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Swede Caroline (2024) Movie Review

Swede Caroline – Movie Review Director: Finn Bruce, Brooke Driver Writer: Brooke Driver (Screenplay) Cast Jo Hartley (Eddie the Eagle) Aisling Bea (Greatest Days) Ray Fearon (Beauty and the Beast) Richard Lumsden (Darkest Hour) Celyn Jones (Submergence) Alice Lowe (Prevenge) Plot: Set to poke a comedic carrot at the world of competitive vegetable growers. Runtime: 1 Hour 36…

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Champion (Serie 2023) #KerimHassan #TomForbes #JoMartin #CosbyPrawl #FergusRees #DejaJBowens Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2023- Genre: Drama Hauptrollen: Kerim Hassan, Tom Forbes, Jo Martin, Cosby Prawl, Fergus Rees, Déja J. Bowens, Malcolm Kamulete, Nadine Marshall, Ray Fearon, Ray BLK, Karl Collins, Andy M Milligan, Khairika Sinani … Serienbeschreibung: London. Bosco Champion (Malcolm Kamulete) war ein erfolgreicher Rapper vor seiner Inhaftierung im Gefängnis. Als er frei kommt, möchte er seinen…

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I admit i was watching The Muppet's Christmas Carol when I typed this, but the first edition illustration by Leech in 1843 really sets the tone

not just a little slutty chest hair poking out, the man's(?) entity's(?) spirit's whole big otterly torso is out and he's one jolly leap from giving Scrooge the full frontal of his life! Giant jolly ginger whore is the ideal Ghost of Christmas Present archetype, like Desmond Barrit in 1999 and Edward Woodward in 1984

(although both could open those robes another few inches, "extra slutty v-neck" is the bare minimum here and they're only just clearing that)

Mikey Boateng in 2020 may not be ginger but look at that smile! Certainly jolly and giant! And while his robe appears to disappointingly reserved in openness, elsewhere we do achieve the minimum "extra slutty v-neck" amount of chest

Also David Tennant in 2009 Nan's Christmas Carol, I know thirsting after this man is the height of basic, but I've had this thirst since 2012. Anyway this depiction deviates from the usual Ghost of Christmas Present but a scruffy disheveled chaotic man always does it for me

Some honorable mentions

Patrick Stewart in the 1988 one-man play (I don't have any pics, but c'mon, it's Patrick Stewart)

Ray Fearon in 2000. I haven't seen this one, and cannot seem to find any pics online of how he looked as Christmas Present but look at this man! He could literally just walk out in a green robe and a wreath stolen off the door and he'd be in top tier Ghosts whose Christmas Present I want to unwrap! If that's not the case then what was the costumer doing!?

Carol Kane in Scrooged 1988. I am unfortunately not at all attracted to women, but I did love her this GOCPr. Very fun and off the wall! Secondly, she's in The Princess Bride, the hottest movie ever. Thirdly, I would be grateful if she could introduce me to Scrooged!Ghost of Christmas Past, so I can hire that disheveled scruffy chaotic man's taxi 👀

i was hoping I could find a version of like Goofy as Christmas Present (only Jacob Marley that I saw) as a final joke to leave the reader dead (as a doornail) but alas i did not

Also, while I was looking up stuff to see if I missed anything that I might have seen but forgotten, I never saw a single one of the adaptions with a woman as GOCPr commit to the Tits Out look demanded by the character. Disappointing!

The Ghost of Christmas Present?

Would

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