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The Outcast: A Review

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Sadie Jones risked smashing a perfect thing when she signed up to adapt her book The Outcast (BBC1, Sunday) for television. The novel, one of my favourites, bursts with a fragile intensity that, while filmic, seemed unlikely to survive the transition....

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SPOILERS: review of series 5 in French

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Il est préférable d'avoir vu toute la saison 5 pour lire cette note C 'est un peu toujours la même histoire. Et dans le cas présent, c'est une histoire un peu différente car elle tient à une absence de concordance, à des divergences (irréconciliables)...

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Jekyll and Hyde (1990): made-for-tv film adaptation

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In films like ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,'' Michael Caine is adept at playing charming con men. On television, though, he has taken to exploring seriously the darker side of Victorian society. Last year, he played the Scotland Yard inspector pursuing the...

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Review: Jamaica Inn (BBC 2014)

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Jamaica Inn (BBC One) I’m not sure when you’ll be reading this. It might be just before the BBC’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn starts (21-23 April, 9pm) – or it might be after it has begun. So I’ll be careful. Some of you will know...

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