Damian Lewis
Actor, Musician, Dad, Redhead and Ping-Pong Champion
– strolling player and fun-time troubadour –
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– Slapstick Parody and Shenanigans – by Patrick Ryan | USA Today | December 5, 2025 There’s nothing particularly funny about “Downton Abbey.” That’s precisely what makes it so rife for parody in “Fackham Hall” (in theaters Dec. 5), a…
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Fackham Hall: One of the Funniest Comedies of the Year
– Score 9/10 Amazing! – by Tyler Nichols | JoBlo | December 4, 2025 PLOT: A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady…
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Roger Ebert Review: Fackham Hall
– Score and Costumes Perfectly Suitable – by Nell Minow | Roger Ebert | December 5, 2025 You’d think it would be easy to parody beloved period British dramas because they have so many guilty pleasure repeated tropes: huge historic…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…