Category: Review
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Mission Creep Album Review: Daily Mail
Heartfelt Songwriting Detour by Adrian Thrills | Daily Mail | June 15, 2023 Mission Creep ★★★★ Damian Lewis knows exactly what he’s getting into here. ‘It’s just what the world needs… another record by an actor,’ says the film star, drily, of his new career as a singer-songwriter. With fellow thespians Kiefer Sutherland, Hugh Laurie,…
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Live Review: Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Cracking Band by Brian Payne | Jazz Journal | May 11, 2023 In mixed weather, this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival spanned six days from 26 April to 1 May. Most performances took place in Montpellier Gardens, the site of the Big Top and Jazz Arena. Other locations in town included the Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham…
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Critic’s Notebook: Damian Lewis Returns to the World of International Espionage
Damian Lewis is Outstanding as Elliott by Mike Hale | New York Times | May 10, 2023 It has been a quiet season for international television on American screens — nothing has grabbed attention on a Squid Game or Downton Abbey scale. But barely a day goes by, in the streaming age, without an interesting…
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Cheltenham Jazz Festival: Damian Lewis – Live Review
Well Crafted Songs and Strong Vocals by Hannah Compton | Building Our Own Nashville | May 1, 2023 Actor Damian Lewis has always had a passion for playing music and putting out a record of his own. Signed to Decca Records, Damian released his first single ‘Down on the Bowery’ on April 13th 2023. His…
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What to Watch: The 17 Best New Movies and TV Shows From March
Betrayal of Both Colleague and Country by WSJ Arts in Review Staff | Wall Street Journal | March 31, 2023 John Wick and Adonis Creed make bloody returns, Ted Lasso makes a benevolent one, documentaries revisit the disasters of Waco, Texas, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Sally Hawkins finds the remains of Richard III, and…
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I Spy A Spy in ‘A Spy Among Friends’
Mano o Mano by J.P Devine | Morning Sentinel | March 30, 2023 I remember this story because I’m old. If you’re older than 60, you will as well, but at the time, here in America, you probably didn’t care. It was 1963, and the assassination of JFK was enough to deal with, and no…
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A Spy Among Friends Places Damian Lewis in a Heady Spy Game
It’s a Role Lewis Plays Beautifully by Daniel D’Addario | Variety | March 12, 2023 The story of Kim Philby is perhaps too good to make up. The British spy, a double agent for Moscow, operated at the highest levels of the intelligence community; his ability to disseminate information to the Soviet Union, to which…
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VIDEO: Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce on the Friendship at the Center of A Spy Among Friends
Who Would Make the Better Secret Agent? by Kate Hahn | TV Insider | March 10, 2023 Damian Lewis, who won an Emmy for playing Marine double agent Nicholas Brody on Homeland, is back in the spy game as a patriot in MGM+‘s A Spy Among Friends, a tense adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction bestseller.…