At what price power? At what cost family loyalty? And how strong the bonds of sisterly love? These are the questions at the heart of the 16th century soap opera The Other Boleyn Girl, heavily based on ...

Anthony Powell, in wise-facetious mood, once quoted an English publisher on how to write “a good Jewish novel”: write a good novel, then change all the names to Jewish ones. The joke came to mind ...

If MSNBC’s David Shuster is shocked at the Clintons’ “pimping out” of Chelsea on the campaign trail, he should get a load of what Sir Thomas Boleyn (Mark Rylance) does to his daughters in Justin ...

Few British families have had the grasping ambition of the Boleyns. Not only did they rise from merchants to members of the extended Royal Family in just three generations, they also changed the ...

Follow Anne's journey as she becomes queen and changes the course of British history. Follow Anne's journey as she becomes queen and changes the course of British history. This is a dangerous game and ...

Playing less fast and loose with history than Philippa Gregory’s novel, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is a sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.

Justin Chadwick’s “The Other Boleyn Girl” should have everything going for it: Based on Philippa Gregory’s novel about ambition, betrayal and sibling rivalry in the court of Henry VIII, it was adapted ...

Genevieve Bujold presented a much more sympathetic portrait of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 Anne of a Thousand Days (to Richard Burton’s Henry VIII). By contrast Philippa Gregory’s book delivers an Anne ...

BERLIN -- Anne Boleyn was the one who managed to stay alive while married to England's King Henry VIII for 1,000 days, but her sister Mary in "The Other Boleyn Girl" would have been his queen if only ...

Dir: Justin Chadwick. US/UK. 2008. 118 mins. Philippa Gregory’s riveting novel of sexual intrigue in the court of Henry VIII gets a two-studio, star-studded film treatment here from first-time feature ...

Remember when Henry VIII was ugly? You needn't be 500 years old to recall a zaftig Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII - or the plump pink cheeks and weaselly eyes that stare with ...