The League of Gentlemen Review – Series 4 Episode 2: Save Royston Vasey

The League – The Genius In Action

In the second part of this excellent reunion, we catch up with more of the oddball characters of Royston Vasey as the community comes together to save the town.

★★★★☆

One of the marks of a truly good comedy is its ability to make you not only laugh, but feel for its characters. For a show as devilishly dark as The League of Gentlemen, with a cast of characters as reprehensible and downright disgusting as any assembled on television screens this surely is a big ask. And yet both during last night’s episode, and during this evenings second special the writing actually means we cannot help but feel sympathy for this cast of degenerates. Last night we discovered that job coach Pauline is suffering from dementia, and the bullying of her subordinate “dole scum” pupils is only being allowed as a form of reminiscence therapy. In a single moment the…

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Timothy Dalton: most underrated actor of all time?

“alarming eccentricities or peculiar demands.”
I think that’s what makes him stand out to us fans.
Thank you for this lovely post.

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Dalton – dashing then as Bond & now at 65

Inspired by a recent similar post by Caz from Let’s go to the movies, and the fact that award season looms upon us, I thought I’d bring forward the one actor that I thought deserve far more recognition than he currently gets. Perhaps the title of this post could be construed as a bit of a hyperbole. But I make no apologies that I think Timothy Dalton is a fantastic actor, and for the life of me I cannot fathom why he isn’t as big a star as other equally talented thespians like Daniel Day-Lewis or Michael Caine.

Like most people, I first saw Dalton in his debut as Bond in The Living Daylights (1987). The film itself is entertaining, albeit far from perfect. But the best part of the movie is Dalton, no question about it.

Stuff my…

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Scopriamo il cast … Charles Dance!

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Dracula Untold Italia

Chi ci segue sa che abbiamo inaugurato da poco la rubrica intitolata “Scopriamo il Cast …“. Il protagonista speciale che scopriremo qui oggi è Charles Dance, il nostro Master Vampire in Dracula Untold: la creatura del “Picco del Dente Rotto”.

Stavolta per descrivere un attore così carismatico e di questo calibro ci siamo affidati e fatti aiutare da dei veri esperti ed appassionati di Charles Dance: a Charles Dance Italia.

Ecco qui il loro racconto, in esclusiva per noi di Dracula Untold Italia, corredato da alcune foto della carriera del nostro Charles.

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M.R.James Ghost Stories – Mark Gatiss

https://embed.iono.fm/epi/638757” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>M.R.James – Ghost Stories – Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss – The League of Gentlemen – an overview

The League of Gentlemen

Geoff (on the right) and lost his job. He goes to London to try his hand at comedy (badly). Don (on the left) is a fairly accurate portrait of their tour manager (accurate for LoG at least)- though he doesn’t wear an eyepatch. Don says to Geoff “you’ve come to the right place” to try to make it big (spoiler: he doesn’t). At the end of the scene, Don throws the golden apple in the air and tries to catch it. In this outtake, he misses it (due to the eyepatch) and says, as Mark, “I so knew that was going to happen”. In the show, Don throws the apple in the air but the scene is cut before he catches it.

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Mark Gatiss as King George III

The Madness of George III

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss gives a “tour de force” performance as George III in a new production of Alan Bennett’s play about the king, according to reviews.

The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse is “a perfect star vehicle” for Gatiss, according to The Guardian’s critic Kate Maltby.

The Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish agrees, saying Gatiss had come “into his own as a leading theatre actor”.

Bennett’s 1991 play shows King George battling a mystery mental illness.

Nigel Hawthorne won an Olivier Award for playing the troubled monarch in the original production and went on to reprise his role in the 1994 film.

Cavendish gave the play five stars and saluted the way the Gatiss “keeps drawing out more from himself, coiled entrails of pain, confusion and fear, while somehow retaining his lovability”.

According to The Stage, the League of Gentlemen and Game of Thrones actor “rises to the challenge” of following in Hawthorne’s footsteps and “turns out to be very good casting”.

Critic Natasha Tripney wrote: “Gatiss’s performance is very physical. He makes the most of his height, stalking the stage, splay-toed, as he conveys the king’s rapid decline.”

Gatiss also drew high praise from Nottingham culture website LeftLion, whose reviewer Jared Wilson said Gatiss was “excellent, engaging and energetic throughout”.