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Sheltered in my Los Angeles bubble, I can't believe that this crime movie had an accurate measure of the true pulse of the country. Texan outlaws rob banks to fight what appears to be a rigged system; the Texas Ranger who tracks them realizes that much of the population feels the same exact way. Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster lead a crime spree through a depressed, forgotten America. Hell or High Water Blu-ray + DVD Lionsgate 2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 122 min. / Street Date November 8, 2016 / 19.96 Starring Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Alberto Parker, Katy Mixon, Kevin Rankin, Marin Ireland, John-Paul Howard, Melanie Papalia. Cinematography Giles Nuttgens Film Editor Jake Roberts Original Music Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Written by Taylor Sheridan Produced by Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Julie Yorn Directed by David Mackenzie

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Someone nominate actor/screenwriter Taylor Sheridan for public office: between this movie...

Cast your minds back to 2002 - a time when Pop Idols didn't need to have The X Factor, Fifty Shades of Grey were just colours on a paint sampler chart and David Beckham was a mere international superstar rather than global megastar.

Bend It Like Beckham, with a modest estimated budget of £3.7 million, opened that same year and became a critical and commercial success - breaking box office records and scoring BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as making household names of many of its stars.

As the cast continues preparing for the West End stage adaptation of Gurinder Chadha's screen hit ahead of previews on May 15, find out what the movie's ensemble cast went on to achieve - including who is coming back for the musical...

Parminder Nagra (Jess Bhamra)

Nominated for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards on the back of the movie's success, Parminder went...

Actress Sally Farmiloe has died of cancer at the age of 60.

Born in South Africa, she was best known for her role of barmaid Dawn in BBC series Howards' Way.

She also hit the headlines in 1999 when details of an affair with Jeffrey Archer became public.

Novelist Archer said in a statement: "After Sally's brave struggle against this terrible disease, I was saddened to hear the news of her death."

In later years, Farmiloe raised money for cancer charities, while her book My Left Boob detailed her experiences with the disease.

Farmiloe also had roles in Steptoe and Son and Bergerac on TV, and Absent Friends and When the Lilac Blooms on stage.

British actress Kate O'Mara, best known for her role on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty, died Sunday at the age of 74, her agent said. Phil Belfield said O'Mara died in a nursing home in southern England after a short illness. The actress, who began her television career in the 1960s, became a household name for playing Cassandra "Caress" Morrell, sister to Joan Collins' Alexis Colby, on Dynasty. In Britain she is often remembered for her role in Triangle - a soap opera set aboard a North Sea ferry that is often cited as the worst piece of British television.

Nigel Davenport, veteran British character actor and father of actor Jack, has died. He was 85.In a career that spanned half of a century, the imposing Davenport was perhaps best known for his work in Fred Zinnemann’s A Man for All Seasons and as aristocratic Olympic official Lord Birkenhead in the Oscar-triumphing Chariots Of Fire. He was a stalwart on the small screen, too, with appearances in shows as diverse as The Saint, The Avengers, Howards' Way, South Riding and, more recently, Midsomer Murders.An Oxford graduate, he earned his spurs on the West End stage. He understudied in a Savoy Theatre run of Noel Coward's Relative Values before joining the English Stage Company and appearing in plays on both sides of the Atlantic.Davenport started small on the big screen with a walk-on in Tony Richardson's new wave classic Look Back In Anger and a cameo as...

Film and radio star of the 1940s who later found TV fame in the soap Howards' Way

Although as an actor in films of the 1940s she was best known in ladylike and thoroughly English rose types of role, Dulcie Gray, who has died aged 95, had a background and overall career that was more cosmopolitan and interesting than that might suggest. She was in some ways the more complex half of the successful marital and professional stage and film partnership of Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray.

In The Glass Mountain (1949), in which a married composer loves an Italian girl who saved his life during the second world war, Gray, then one of the great stars of the British film industry, almost inevitably played the wronged but agonisingly understanding English wife. It was the sort of role for which she was most often chosen: the inconspicuous, quietly adoring woman able and...

Veteran British actress Dulcie Gray has passed away at the age of 92.

The star, most famous for her role in U.K. TV series Howards' Way, died at actors' residential home Denville Hall in London on Tuesday after a battle with bronchial pneumonia.

Gray started her career in 1940s melodramas for Britain's Gainsborough Pictures studio and often appeared alongside her husband, Michael Denison, on TV and in theatre productions.

The couple even made their Broadway debut together playing Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1996.

However, Gray will be best remembered in Britain for her turn as Kate Harvey in BBC series Howards' Way between 1985 and 1990.

She returned to the stage after her husband's death in 1998 to appear in adaptations of The Ladykillers and The Lady Vanishes.

Her last TV appearance was in 2000 on British soap opera Doctors.

Gray also had a second career as an author, writing 24 books.

Peggy Mitchell's final EastEnders episode will feature a new alternative version of the soap's theme tune, Digital Spy can confirm. The special track is a reworking of the BBC show's long-standing alternative tune 'Julia's Theme', which traditionally airs at the end of episodes featuring intense emotion or drama. 'Peggy's Theme' has been created by Simon May, who composed the original EastEnders theme in 1984 and is also known for creating the theme tunes for several other shows, including Howards' Way and Eldorado. The extent to which the new tune will differ from 'Julia's Theme' - recognisable for a (more)...

Two alumni of the classic series of Doctor Who have recently died.

Hubert Rees had three roles in the series working with two different Doctors.

He first appeared in the 1968 story Fury from the Deep, working alongside Patrick Troughton. He played the Chief Engineer, the head of engineering at a Euro Sea Gas refinery who assisted the Doctor in his efforts to defeat the Weed Creature. Rees returned to the series the following year in Troughton's swan song, The War Games, in which he played Captain Ransom, an officer in the British Army. His final appearance was in the 1976 Tom Baker story The Seeds of Doom, playing John Stevenson, a botanist at a scientific expedition in Antarctic.

Outside of Doctor Who he had roles in many well-known dramas, including Paul Temple, The Sweeney, The Duchess of Duke Street, By the Sword Divided and Howards' Way.

Max Faulkner, born in 1931, was...