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The following contains spoilers from Chicago P.D.’s Season 11 premiere. Proceed accordingly.

Chicago P.D.‘s roster is looking a little thin these days.

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With Upton (played by Tracy Spiridakos) poised to leave at season’s end, and Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) on the bench after catching a bullet in the gut, the Dick Wolf...

The Intelligence Unit is back, baby!

It feels like a lifetime since Chicago Pd went off the air, but after a long hiatus, the countdown is almost over until we're back in business fighting crime with our favorite first responders.

And in the wake of the news that Hailey Upton is departing, there's a lot of excitement and curiosity about Chicago Pd Season 11 Episode 1.

With her pending departure and a truncated season, fans can't wait to delve into the series and see what's to come.

But one of the more exciting aspects of the season is the promo still.

Typically, you expect a promotional still featuring the entire cast, but this one is slightly different.

It only focuses on three of the primary characters and boasts a tagline of "Welcome Home."

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We can take that literally as we gear...

Chicago P.D. fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 11 Episode 1 episode titled Unpacking!

Find out everything you need to know about the Unpacking episode of Chicago P.D., including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Chicago P.D. Unpacking Season 11 Episode 1 Preview

In the upcoming episode of “Chicago P.D.,” entitled “Unpacking,” slated to air on NBC at 10:00 Pm on January 17, 2024, viewers are in for a compelling exploration of the intersection between policing and mental health. The episode follows Detective Upton, portrayed by the talented Tracy Spiridakos, as she is assigned to shadow a crisis prevention team. However, her policing approach comes into conflict with the team’s mental health clinician, setting the stage for a thought-provoking narrative that delves into the complexities of the job.

As Upton grapples with the challenges of her new assignment, viewers can...

“Chicago P.D.” kicks off Season 11 with a compelling episode titled “Unpacking,” set to air on NBC at 10:00 Pm on Wednesday, January 17, 2024. The Intelligence Unit faces a new challenge as Upton is assigned to shadow a crisis prevention team, but her policing approach clashes with the team’s mental health clinician.

As the narrative unfolds, viewers will witness the complexities of policing in the modern age, where different methodologies collide in the pursuit of justice. Upton, a strong and determined detective, finds herself navigating uncharted waters, and her struggles extend beyond the professional realm, delving into her personal life.

Commander Voight, a steadfast leader, stands by Upton amidst her personal and professional challenges. The episode promises to offer a thought-provoking exploration of mental health and policing dynamics while delivering the high-stakes and emotionally charged storytelling that “Chicago P.D.” is known for. Fans can expect a riveting start to the season,...

The heart of London, small-town Wales, or beautiful Florence— the world is your oyster with BritBox! The best-of-British media streamer has announced its August 2023 slate with plenty of diverse titles to choose from— from the classic satirical comedy series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” the critically acclaimed Welsh drama “The Museum,” the beloved 1980s romantic drama “A Room with a View,” and more.

Here are the top five titles coming to the platform we are most excited about at The Streamable!

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New to BritBox this month, the beloved British drama “A Room with a View” stars Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman touring Italy with her older cousin (Maggie Smith). While at a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming, free-spirited George Emerson...

The voice of Prince Charming in Shrek 2 is provided by one of Britain’s most acclaimed actors. Released in 2004, Shrek 2 was one of the best-received sequels ever made, with universal critical acclaim to match its predecessor and even more success at the box office. The Shrek sequel also continued to subvert the expectations of fairy tale traditions: after Prince Charming embarked on a daring quest to free the princess from the tower, he was shocked to learn she’d already been rescued by and married her savior – an ogre. Whereas Prince Charming is typically depicted as a hero, he's one of the villains of the Shrek franchise.

The Shrek movies have one of the most star-studded voice casts of any animated franchise. It’s headlined by a trio of A-list icons – Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, and Cameron Diaz as Fiona – with just as much...

Actors to be feted at in-person awards gala on September 11.

The cast of upcoming TIFF world premiere My Policeman – Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett – are the first film ensemble to receive the festival’s TIFF Tribute Award for Performance.

Now in its fourth year, the award will return to an in-person gala fundraiser during the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11 at Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

Michael Grandage directed for Prime Video from Ron Nyswaner’s adapted screenplay based on Bethan Roberts’ novel of the same name. The...

We’ve heard all about Kingpin and Daredevil returning to the MCU, but what about The Punisher? Jon Bernthal weighs in on Frank Castle’s potential revival.

“It’s been nearly 3 years since Netflix canceled The Punisher, along with its entire Marvel slate of programming. And while some Netflix characters, like Charlie Cox’s Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin, are being reincorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, others are unlikely to join the family-friendly Disney/Marvel brand.”

Read more at The Mary Sue

1917 star George Mackay transforms himself into a wild animal for one of the year’s craziest thrillers called Wolf.

“It’s a Sunday afternoon, and the acclaimed British actor is hunched over in his seat, modeling the stance of a wolf crouched down to lap water from a stream — or at least giving it his best effort. Elbows back, wrists curled, fingers bent, back arched, head lowered,...

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“A Beautiful Mess”

By Raymond Benson

Filmmaker Stanley Donen had substantial success with his comedy-thriller, Charade (1963), which starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It was hyped and critiqued as “Hitchcockian” in tone and style, especially the light-hearted and glitzy To Catch a Thief (1955). (There are many who mistakenly believe that Charade is a Hitchcock film.)

The studio then wanted to repeat that success with a similar picture, Arabesque, also with Cary Grant in the lead role with Donen directing again. However, Grant felt that the script was “terrible” and passed. Donen allegedly wasn’t too thrilled with the script, either, and he wasn’t too keen on making the picture without Grant.

Then Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren expressed interest in the movie, so Donen acquiesced. Sounds like a fairy tale scenario for the greenlighting of a Hollywood movie, right? The two Oscar-winning stars were cast,...

The Kinks were on the verge of collapse when they began 1969’s Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). They’d just parted ways with original bassist Pete Quaife and their previous album, 1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, failed even to chart in their native England despite excellent reviews. Making matters worse, an ongoing feud with the American Federation of Musicians made it impossible for them to tour in the States, a devastating blow at a time when groups like Led Zeppelin and...

Writer Julian Mitchell and actor Kenneth Branagh remember the struggle to mount a risky anti-establishment play, and how Rupert Everett did his best to spice it up

Julian Mitchell, writer

In 1979, when Mrs Thatcher stood up in the Commons and announced that the third man in the Burgess and Maclean spy case was Anthony Blunt, lots of people wrote articles and books saying how easy it must have been for these men to go over to Russia. But their reasoning didn't explain it to me. There's a great difference between betraying your country and wanting to change the world.

What wasn't really mentioned was that almost all the men involved were gay – though I'm not sure we said "gay" back then – and had all been to the same kind of public school. I'd been at Winchester myself. Though I hadn't been rebellious, I knew the oppressive way boarding school can work on people,...

An exploration of the sexualisation of pre-adolescent girls, St Vincent winds up her tour, and Lars von Trier is back

Opening this week

■ Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model

Bryony Kimmings on fine kick-ass form as she explores the sexualised female role models pushed upon pre-adolescent girls and, with the help of her 10-year-old niece, considers whether there might be alternatives. Bristol Old Vic Studio (0117-987 7877), Thursday to Saturday. Then touring.

■ Orlando

Everyone is in love with Orlando, a young boy in the court of Queen Elizabeth, including the old queen herself. But when Orlando wakes up one day as a woman, it is the start of an odyssey across countries and centuries. Virginia Woolf's novel is adapted by Sarah Ruhl. Royal Exchange, Manchester (0161-833 9833), Thursday to 22 March.

■ Birmingham Royal Ballet: Three of a Kind

Triple bill of vintage 20th-century ballets showcasing the wit and style of John Cranko, George Balanchine and Kenneth MacMillan.

Judges reward 'surprising, hilarious and wise' follow-up to British actor's first autobiography Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

Rupert Everett has won this year's Sheridan Morley prize for his second autobiography, Vanished Years.

The memoir, which takes its title from Noël Coward's last poem, picks up the actor's story in the last decade with a generous helping of Proustian flashbacks en route. It's Everett's second memoir, following his 2006 publication Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, which detailed his rise to fame after starring in the film of Julian Mitchell's boarding school-set drama Another Country, at 25.

Everett, currently starring as Oscar Wilde in the West End production of David Hare's The Judas Kiss, has described the latest instalment "a middle-aged book" on account of its romantic nostalgia.

Published in September, Vanished Years was widely and lavishly praised in reviews, with the Guardian critic Talitha Stevenson describing it as "a tragical comical,...

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Rupert Everett (l.) and Colin Firth star in Another Country.

Rupert Everett (Hysteria) and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) star in the 1984 biographical drama-romance Another Country, which marked Firth’s movie debut and one of Everett’s first starring roles.

Set in England in 1932, the film focuses on Guy Bennett (Everett), an upper classman attending an elite British boys’ school. Amid an atmosphere of wealth and privilege, the flamboyant Guy embraces awareness of his gay identity just as his best friend Tommy (Firth) faces a growing preoccupation with Karl Marx. Each rebels in his own way against the demands of social conformity. But it is Guy’s infatuation with an underclassman (Cary Elwes, No Strings Attached) that takes center stage as his contempt for authority clashes with the school’s rigid code of conduct.

The PG-rated Another Country was...

The following is an introduction to a new edition of Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" [W.W. Norton, $24.95] written by Andrew Biswell. The piece sheds light on the enduring legacy of the novel, and the various dystopian works that influenced Burgess's writing. Biswell also discusses Burgess's (often clever) responses to the novel's adaptation, and ideas for adaptations that never came to fruition:

In 1994, less than a year after Anthony Burgess had died at the age of seventy-six, BBC Scotland commissioned the novelist William Boyd to write a radio play in celebration of his life and work. This was broadcast during the Edinburgh Festival on 21 August 1994, along with a concert performance of Burgess’s music and a recording of his Glasgow Overture. The programme was called "An Airful of Burgess," with the actor John Sessions playing the parts of both Burgess and his fictional alter ego, the poet F. X. Enderby. On the same day,...

Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to The Five-Year Engagement, The Raven and The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Jason Segel co-stars with Emily Blunt in a comedy he penned with Nicholas Stoller that follows the bumpy journey of one couple from the proposal to the wedding day. Chris Pratt & Alison Brie co-star.

Longing for some R-rated rom-coms:

Then She Found Me (2007) Helen Hunt stars as a woman whose husband (Matthew Broderick) walks out when she decides to adopt. Then she discovers the identity of her biological mother (Bette Midler) and meets the man of her dreams (Colin Firth, major upgrade.) But things get tricky when she discovers she’s pregnant with her husband’s baby.

Frankie and Johnny (1991) Scarface co-stars Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer re-team for this...

Versatile actor and writer often called upon to play toffs and bumbling clerics

The actor Jonathan Cecil, who has died of pneumonia aged 72 after suffering from emphysema, spent much of his career playing upper-class characters. That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Although often typecast as a comic blueblood, there was infinitely more to Jonathan than that. He excelled in Chekhov and Shakespeare, and four times played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, always investing the character with a silvery pathos. In 1998 he had an outstanding season at Shakespeare's Globe, where he appeared in As You Like It and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, in which he played Sir Bounteous Progress – "gazing benignly", as John Gross wrote, "on almost everything, even his own undoing".

I...

Director best known for Georgy Girl, a romantic comedy set in 60s London

The film and TV director Silvio Narizzano, who has died aged 84, handled several genres throughout his career, including black comedies, period pieces, social dramas, action thrillers and horror movies. But one picture, his swinging London romantic comedy Georgy Girl (1966), stands out from the rest of his eclectic filmography.

Georgy Girl was part of the trend in which British cinema shifted the focus from provincial life and back to the metropolis, celebrating new freedoms and social possibilities. Narizzano, influenced by the French New Wave and his chic contemporaries Richard Lester, John Schlesinger and Tony Richardson, explored such "shocking" subjects as abortion, illegitimacy, adultery and sexual promiscuity with a light touch. The film, which took its cue from the jaunty title song by the Seekers, had superb performances from Lynn Redgrave as the virginal and plain Georgina; Charlotte Rampling...

How did this year’s Academy Award nominees begin their acting careers? Find out in The Daily Actor’s “Before The Oscars” special feature.

Colin Firth

Nominated for “Best Actor In A Leading Role”

Film: The King’s Speech

Role: King George VI, the British monarch who seeks help from a speech therapist for his severe stammer.

How he got started: Colin Firth developed an interest in acting when he was a teenager. When he was 18 years old, he began studying drama at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. After performing with the Drama Centre London, he was cast as the lead in a West End production of Julian Mitchell’s Another Country. He appeared in several mini-series and films before catching his big break in the perennially popular BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. His breakthrough performance as “Mr. Darcy” also led to him being...

Rupert Everett first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly gay student at an English public school. Despite starring in Another Country, Everett only came out during a press interview in Paris nine years later and ever since he has defined and re-defined himself for the mass media. His coming out helped in shattering stereotypes and advance public discourse about homosexuality, gay actors, and the film industry. However Everett still to date admits that it has also cost him several roles in Hollywood.

Everett emerged as a film actor in the mid-1990s, first receiving attention for his performances in Nicholas Hytner’s adaptation of Alan Bennet’s The Madness of King George and Robert

His most excellent role: Francesco Dellamorte in Cemetary Man

Altman’s Ready to Wear, but his career really took off...

Hey, MattCanada here with this weeks queer cinema post. I finally got around to watching Another Country. It was not what I expected at all and this did affect how much I liked the film. My expectations going into the movie were of a spy thriller with a hefty dose of gay sex, not PG fondling. What I was confronted with was a drama which explores the British class system through the study of Guy Bennett's (fictionalised Guy Burgess) disenfranchisement from his class because of his homosexuality at an unnamed Boys Public School (read: super posh). The film is beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, and intelligently written - a Merchant Ivory film in everything but name.

Rupert Everett in his star-making role (first on stage, then on screen)

The lead actors are all strong, especially Rupert Everett's flamboyant toff Guy Bennett. Everett does not overplay him which is a...