Eddie Izzard is a Pip in the new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” which opened Thursday at Off Broadway’s Greenwich House Theater. She’s also a Miss Havisham, a Magwich, an Estella ...
The Oscar winner stars as Miss Havisham alongside Fionn Whitehead as Pip in a gritty version of the Charles Dickens classic from writer Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders'). By Angie Han Television Critic ...
Great Expectations has all the ingredients for a delicious retelling of a Dickens classic but ends up bland on the palate. This was not the outcome we had predicted. In fact our… expectations… were ...
Miss Havisham is one of the most indelible characters in the English-language literary canon. Written by Charles Dickens to be outfitted, each day, in the wedding finery that serves as a decaying ...
FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, ...
You won’t have the best of times, or the worst of times, watching the new, six-part “Great Expectations,” which belches out the problems of literary adaptation with the dyspeptic regularity of a ...