Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ashley Thomas, Rudi Dharmalingam and Parth Thakerar take part in FX’s adaptation of Great Expectations. The limited series also stars Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman and Matt ...
It’s a warm morning, the sky is cloudless and the marshes of the Hoo Peninsula, 25 miles downriver from London, are thick with daisies and red clover. In the churchyard of St Mary’s in the village of ...
Great Expectations, Steven Knight’s anticipated return to the world of Charles Dickens, has debuted its first teaser trailer (check it out above). The FX/BBC adaptation stars Olivia Colman as Miss ...
Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” boasts one of the literature’s most enigmatic and forbidding figures in Miss Havisham, the jilted bride who spends the rest of her days in her wedding gown as her ...
Eddie Izzard in “Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations” (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Eddie Izzard is a Pip in the new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” which opened Thursday at Off ...
As long as viewers set their expectations to "pretty good," the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' seminal tale of social climbing and secret identities will satisfy. Broadcast in three parts over ...
Arden Theatre glides steadily through the broad sweep of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” – and when it comes to adaptations of novels, you’d be right to have great expectations for the Arden.
There’s a reason why the book “Great Expectations” has inspired at least two dozen films, plays, television shows and literary spinoffs, ranging from David Lean’s Oscar-winning 1946 film — the gold ...
There’s a palpable darkness in Steven Knight’s adaptation of “Great Expectations.” It’s figurative, embedded in the characters and the storyline, but also literal, with dirt and rot caking everything.
Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” is the original and still the ultimate rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Generations of best-selling authors have borrowed from his tale of a provincial boy whose ...
Here’s how young Pip learned that he had great expectations. One day the lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, showed up at the forge, where young Pip lived and worked, and said to Joe the blacksmith, Pip’s adult ...
According to IMDb, there are over three hundred film or TV titles adapted from or inspired by the work of Charles Dickens. And Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectation is one the best of them.