Masterpiece Contemporary

"The stories we love best do live in us forever so whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home." J.K. Rowling

Being a huge Harry Potter fan, I am ecstatic about two new movies that will be on PBS Masterpiece Contemporary. Both have several Harry Potter actors in them, which should help ease the pain of not having new movies to look forward to.
The first is...
PAGE EIGHT.
The Synopsis is as follows. What happens when spies grow older in a post-9/11 world? Sixty-something MI-5 agent Johnny Worricker has amassed an impressive art collection, an amicable collection of ex-wives, and a droll, unflappable relationship with the work he enjoys alongside his boss and best friend, MI5 chief Benedict Baron. But when Benedict brings to light damning evidence of British complicity with illegal American torture operations, it falls to Johnny to do the right thing. And the right thing, in this morally ambiguous new era, is unclear — as unclear as the motives of Johnny's neighbor, Nancy, who draws Johnny in with her sad beauty and a secret of her own.
The movie stars: Bill Nighy (Rufus Scrimgeour), Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) and Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort). If you are not a Harry Potter fan (um..you should be...no seriously you should), the movie also stars Rachel Weisz ( and Felicity Jones (Northanger Abbey). It will premiere November 6th at 9 p.m. on channel 8 (PBS) for those of you in Phoenix.

The second is...
THE SONG OF LUNCH.
The synopsis is as follows. When a middling copy editor/failed poet meets his former lover for lunch 15 years after their affair, he finds that everything — and nothing — has changed. From the tablecloths to the wine to his former lover, wealth and success now gloss the surface where kitsch and passion once held sway. He is bitter, petulant and increasingly inebriated; she is glamorous, generous, and eventually provoked. It is dramatization of Christopher Reid's acclaimed narrative poem, The Song of Lunch.
The movie stars: Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney, aka Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility) and Alan Rickman (Snape, aka Col. Brandon in Sense and Sensibility). This will premiere November 13th at 9 p.m. on channel 8 (PBS) for those of you in Phoenix.

I have not seen either of these and cannot tell you if they are good. However with the cast for each of them it looks very promising. Also remember that these are Masterpiece Contemporary shows so do not expect men in breeches.


None of these =====>>>>

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