Trauma News

Colin Firth is a superb actor who is far too often labelled as Mr Darcy and other such costumed and comic roles, and yet if you see something like Trauma you'll see just how good he is when he's playing a complex character who isn't all laid out in a single sentance.

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There's a new film about a British King, King George VI in fact, and it's set to star the regular British period actor Colin Firth.

As I was typing up some notes on Rob Zombie 's Halloween II , this CNN headline flitted through my newsreader: ' Victims of repeated abuse suffer complex trauma .' It's a truth that might jokingly apply to fans of the Halloween series, as the years since John Carpenter's standard-setting original film have seen so many pointless, insipid sequels.