#steven waddington

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Edward II (1991) dir. Derek Jarman

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Edward II (1991) | dir. Derek Jarman

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Slow Horses, Season Four - Spook Street (2024)

Director - Adam Randall

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EDWARD II (1991) dir. Derek Jarman England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power… (link in title)

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TUDORWEEK2024 by @dailytudors Day 4: Fancast Your Favourite Tudor Family Member — Steven Waddington as Henry VIII

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UNCHARTED 2022

 So, uh, when did you decide to become Indiana Jones?

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"We must accommodate Simeon at all costs.

He will prove most beneficial to us."

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Bad movie I have The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

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The Hole (2001) Nick Hamm

July 19th 2023

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CARRINGTON (1995): Sometimes moving but lethargic and occasionally confusing character study of the relationship between English painter and oddball Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and eccentric gay author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce), written and directed by Christopher Hampton based on Michael Holroyd's Strachey biography, costarring Steven Waddington as Ralph Partridge, Carrington and Strachey's mutual partner and eventually Carrington's husband.

Divided into six chapters, the film works best in the first two, which touchingly delineate how Carrington and Strachey's relationship came about and how she became rather masochistically devoted to him despite (or because of) his being gay. The later chapters suffer from Hampton's curious reluctance to spell out the parameters of the central characters' unconventional open relationships clearly enough to make them comprehensible. In particular, the film remains awfully cagey about the nature of Strachey's relationship with Partridge (suggesting a rather one-sided infatuation Partridge tolerates rather than reciprocates), fails to establish why some of Carrington and Partridge's dalliances are off-limits and others are not, and barely even hints at Carrington's later affairs with women. Since Hampton is ultimately far more interested in Carrington's love life than her art, the lack of explicitness hurts, as does increasingly sluggish pacing. The final chapter, dealing with Strachey's death, also unsettles with its disconcertingly nonchalant depiction of Carrington's eventual suicide, which is where the film ends. Thompson and Pryce are outstanding — I've never liked Pryce, and his scraggly beard doesn't mitigate my hatred of his smug face, but he's superb here, and Thompson's heartfelt performance is exceptional. It's too bad the script and direction aren't on their level. CONTAINS LESBIANS? The real Carrington was bisexual, but there's almost no indication of that here. VERDICT: A fascinating relationship and two marvelous lead performances, but not ultimately a great film, with a weird degree of no-homo for a story about a bisexual woman in love with a gay man. CW for suicide, which may be rough to watch even if you know Carrington's biography.

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Title: A Little Chaos

Rating: R

Director: Alan Rickman

Cast: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Steven Waddington, Jennifer Ehle, Rupert Henry-Jones, Paula Paul, Danny Webb, Phyllida Law, Thomas Allam, Hope Hancock, Isabella Steinbarth, Hal Hewetson, Carolina Valdés

Release year: 2014

Genres: drama, romance

Blurb: A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other, and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.

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..and do you work for the thief taker?

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Aventurinha da sessão da tarde: Uncharted fora do mapa (Uncharted, 2022)

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