Category: Fackham Hall
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Downton Abbey Gets the Naked Gun Treatment in Fackham Hall
– Fackham Harder? – by Jordan Hoffman | Vanity Fair | December 4, 2025 The team behind this delightfully stupid British import on what makes the upper crust so funny, their encounter with Julian Fellowes, and why the ex-prince Andrew should give it a watch. Fackham Hall looks like a typical period British drama—at least until…
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Fackham Hall: Keep Calm and Chuckle On
– Rated R for All Manners of Crudeness – by Natalia Winkelman | New York Times | December 4, 2025 Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin. “She’s 23 — a dried-up husk of a woman,” Lady Davenport (Katherine Waterston) snipes to…
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Fackham Hall: Absurdly Funny Satire of Downton Abbey Is a Laugh a Second
– Side-Splitting, Absurd Romp – by Gregory Nussen | Screen Rant | December 3, 2025 Welcome back to the big studio comedy. Jim O’Hanlon’s Fackham Hall, a wildly funny, laugh-a-second satire in the vein of this year’s The Naked Gun, is a refreshing return to a style of physical, performance-based comedy woefully lacking in today’s market. Yes, a lot…
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Fackham Hall Review: Downton Abbey Meets Agatha Christie
– Damian Lewis: Memorable and Delightful Performance – by Maggie Lovett | Collider | December 3, 2025 Earlier this year, as summer waned, moviegoers reacquainted themselves with the satire genre as The Naked Gun took critics and audiences by storm, reminding them that it’s perfectly fun to laugh at the genres we love. Now, as winter approaches, Fackham Hall is…
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Julian Fellowes Meets Monty Python in a Period Drama Spoof That Commits to the Bit
– The Film is Bursting With Witticisms – by Elaina Patton | IndieWire | December 3, 2025 The British satirical film about an aristocratic family eager to save their ancestral home succeeds on comedic timing and meticulous design detail. “Committed to the bit” may be the perfect way to describe “Fackham Hall,” the new satirical historical comedy written by brothers Jimmy and…
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Naked Gun-Style Spoof Of Downton Abbey Proves British High Society Is Fertile Ground For Laughs
– Damian Lewis Living It Up as Befuddled Lord Davenport – by Pete Hammond | Deadline | December 3, 2025 When you consider the success of spoof movies like Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Scary Movie and countless others, and then throw in homages to the likes of Monty Python, Mel Brooks, the Carry On movies and other masters of…
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Damian Lewis and Katherine Waterston Lead Disposably Fun Downton Abbey Spoof
– Damian Lewis is a Hoot – by Frank Scheck | Hollywood Reporter | December 3, 2025 The longer it went on, and especially when it transferred to the big screen, Downton Abbey almost seemed to become a parody of itself. This presents a challenge for the creators of Fackham Hall, a loving send-up that attempts to do…
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Fackham Hall Gets New York Premiere
– US Premiere – The premiere of Fackham Hall was held at the Metrograph in New York City on December 2, 2025. Those in attendance included Director Jim O’Hanlon, Tyler Dinapoli, Kent Sanderson, Kris Thykier, Taylor Richardson, Perri Gillon, Sterling Jones, Sarah Cline, Morgan Lily, Keeley Hazell, Angela Trimbur, and leading ladies Emma Laird, Thomasin…