British actor Rupert Everett is making a career comeback with "The Happy Prince," a provocative new movie now playing in Chicago. Most people remember Everett from romantic comedies such as "My Best ...

THE HAPPY PRINCE is not a happy story, neither the children’s tale by Oscar Wilde nor this biopic about Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was one of the world’s literary greats, the author of “The Importance ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the back of the launch of Disney+’s Rivals, Dominic Treadwell-Collins‘ Happy Prince has optioned another 1980s-written novel, Philippa Gregory‘s Wideacre. Gregory, who will EP ...

Few literary final acts are as sad as that of Oscar Wilde. Released after two years of harsh incarceration in 1897 – for the then-crime of “gross indecency,” i.e. consensual gay sex – he fled London, ...

Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett’s account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone who would have disdained the movie: the younger Oscar Wilde ...

There's nothing that an ink-stained wretch like this reviewer can add to the poignancy and lyrical beauty of Oscar Wilde's stories. Fortunately, there's plenty that legendary artist P. Craig Russell ...

Dramatizations of the life of playwright Oscar Wilde usually dwell on his sentence to prison with hard labor for homosexuality. The films “Oscar Wilde” and “The Trials of Oscar Wilde,” both of which ...

Rupert Everett turns his fascination with Oscar Wilde, the 19th-century Irish poet and playwright who was persecuted and jailed for “gross indecency with men” (the word homosexual was never uttered), ...

The penniless, broken final years of Oscar Wilde’s life are examined in “The Happy Prince,” an honest-but-shapeless portrait that is more than warts-and-all. It’s all warts. Rupert Everett writes, ...

Legendary Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde has been the focus of many films and TV movies, perhaps most notably 1997’s well-regarded feature “Wilde” with Stephen Fry. But Wilde’s current ...