Angela Mao became a sensation for Golden Harvest films when the upstart studio opened up against Shaw Brothers in the ’70s. Even before she appeared in Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon, she had been the top star in Hapkido and Lady Whirlwind. Her movie Deadly China Doll was at the top of the US Box … Read more
Warning: contains spoilers for The Mirror and the Light season 2 episode 2. If only Hilary Mantel had lived 10 lifetimes, she might have rehabilitated 10 other historical figures as skilfully as she did Thomas Cromwell. Mantel overwrote history’s shorthand for Cromwell, transforming him from a venal brute into a flesh-and-blood man
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