Philomena writer Martin Sixsmith and We Are Lady Parts‘ Raisah Ahmed are forging a TV adaptation of Sixsmith’s novel Ayesha’s Gift. The six-part detective thriller is set in the wake of the untimely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having your life spread-eagled on the bigscreen is not for the fainthearted. You won't get an easy ride, and the movie would be ...

If all you know about the new Judi Dench film "Philomena" is what you've seen in the movie's trailers, do not be deceived. What appears from the ads as a middlebrow, sentimental comedy about a quirky ...

Whenever Catholics are faced with the very human failures of the institutional church, we must answer a difficult question: Why do we stay? The church is our home, the community in which we encounter ...

Over the past weekend I saw “Philomena,” a lovely, gentle movie about a woman’s hunt for the son she was forced to give up for adoption decades earlier. Based on a true story by Martin Sixsmith and ...

It’s no surprise that the Weinstein Co. is releasing “Philomena,” which is one of those movies aimed squarely at the Academy middle. It took a while for writer-producer-star Steve Coogan–who seems to ...

Canal+ owner Vivendi posted slightly improved Q1 revenues of €2.3B ($2.5B) today, which it put down primarily to Canal+ Group growth. The France-headquartered conglomerate increased turnover by 3.3%, ...

Journalist, author, historian, BBC foreign correspondent and British government adviser Sixsmith was at a low point in his career when he met Philomena Lee, an Irish woman searching for the son who ...