In the face of the current world financial crisis, is an urbane adaptation of a mid-20s Noel Coward comedy of manners hopelessly out-of-step, or an appropriate cinematic tonic for troubled times? The ...

Between-the-wars England has been glimpsed extensively on film. But the snooty Brits molding in their dusty country estates have never quite encountered the effervescent force of a champagne cocktail ...

Jessica Biel has been cast as the lead in the romantic comedy "Easy Virtue," based on the Noel Coward play, for London-based Ealing Studios. By Leslie SImmons, The Associated Press Jessica Biel has ...

ROME (Reuters Life!) - "Easy Virtue," a bubbly comedy based on Noel Coward's play about English high society in the 1920s, has emerged as a hot favorite to win the best film award at the Rome festival ...

This is basically a "Meet the Parents" period piece set in the 1920s. A woman marries a man and subsequently travels to his parents' estate to try and get chummy with them. The mother turns out to be ...

A wealthy young Englishman (Ben Barnes) marries an American widow he meets in France (Jessica Biel) and brings her back to his family estate, causing various kinds of havoc. Noel Coward’s drawing-room ...

It gladdens both the heart and the aging libido to see beautiful actresses ease into their forties and beyond with heightened skills and faces that have escaped the plastic surgeon. It helps if they ...