Superhero Bits: Kevin Smith Directing in ‘Supergirl’ Season 4, Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Infinity War’ Cameo & More

What was Kenneth Branagh‘s cameo in Avengers: Infinity War? Will Luke Cage pop up in the second season of Iron Fist? Which joke in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies almost got cut by the studio? Is there another symbiote character in Venom besides Riot? Which Suicide Squad member had a different fate than we […]

TV Bits: Seth Rogen Remaking ‘Plebs’, Kenneth Lonergan Signs For More Amazon, Amazon’s First Animated Adult Series, and More

In this edition of TV bits: Seth Rogen has yet another TV project in the works Manchester By The Sea director Kenneth Lonergan will make more films for Amazon Speaking of Amazon, they’re going to be making their first animated series for adults The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj gets his own Netflix talk show Transparent will […]

Mary Beard opens up on presenting Civilisation and watching Kenneth Clark

GETTY/PR Mary Beard opens up on watching Kenneth Clark and presenting Civilisation But historian Mary Beard can, more or less. She was 14 in the spring of 1969, and on Sunday evenings that year she would hunker down on the sofa with her parents to watch a new TV series on a fledgling channel called […]

‘Artemis Fowl’ Casts Ferdia Shaw in Title Role, Judi Dench & Josh Gad Round Out Kenneth Branagh’s Cast

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally getting an Artemis Fowl movie. Nearly a decade after the Harry Potter-inspired children’s fantasy phenomenon breathed its last fiery breath, and on the tail end of the fading YA dystopian craze, Artemis Fowl is coming. And it has a pretty impressive cast and crew. Kenneth Branagh will be taking the helm of […]

Here’s Your New Trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ Adaptation

It’s not like there was a huge shortage of Murder on the Orient Express adaptations. Agatha Christie’s 1934 Hercule Poirot novel was already turned into a 1974 film, with Sidney Lumet directing an all-star cast, including Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Lauren Bacall, and Ingrid Bergman (who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress); […]

Hamlet tickets: Tom Hiddleston and Kenneth Branagh team up for London play – 3 weeks ONLY

The actor will be directed by Kenneth Branagh in the Shakespearean classic, which runs from September 1 to 23 only as a fundraiser for the drama school. It’ll be staged in the 160-seat Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, meaning tickets will be very limited indeed. A ballot for tickets is set to open at midday today, August […]

A look at Kenneth Grahame – the author of The Wind In The Willows

GETTY/DARREN BELL The life of the book’s author, Kenneth Grahame, was beset by tragedy The show features (of course) Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger and maybe even a chorus of weasels. If it’s worth its salt the adaptation for the stage – by Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes – should be a riverbank tale that […]

Jon Hamm and Jack McBrayer (Kenneth Parcell) Confess Things So that Our Lack of Internet Privacy Can’t Do it First

Jon Hamm and Jack McBrayer (30 Rock‘s Kenneth Parcell, who is utterly similar in real life, at least in persona, to his character) have teamed up with Funny or Die in a PSA calling for people to support the ACLU, in light of the GOP-majority House of Representatives vote on a bill that will negate Obama […]

An impossible mind: the late Kenneth Arrow

SOME great economists are Aristotelians, discerning the logic of markets from tangible examples around them. Others are Platonists, using their powers of reasoning to grasp ideal economic forms, of which actually existing markets are but flickering shadows. Kenneth Arrow, who died on February 21st aged 95, was both. His ideas gave economics some of its […]