If there is a lesson of its own to take away from the thriller that is The Lesson, directed by Alice Troughton and written by Alex MacKeith, it is that less can often be more. Some of the most ...

In Alice Troughton’s tense literary drama “The Lesson,” Richard E. Grant plays one of Britain’s most noted authors, J.M. Sinclair, who hasn’t put out a book in years. He decides to mentor aspiring ...

There once was a general who fought a war to protect slavery. That’s not how he would have described it. He would have said he was fighting to protect his way of life from a foreign invader. Whatever ...

Who is in the cast of ‘The Lesson’? ‘The Lesson’ stars Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant (‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?,’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’) as J.M. Sinclair, Academy Award nominee ...

Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack star as writers with similar source material in a feature tracing the limits of literary authorship. By Carlos Aguilar In “The Lesson,” an amusingly taut British ...

Richard E. Grant, who received an Oscar nomination for his caddish Jack Hock in “Can You Ever Forgive Me,” will forever be associated with another feckless character, his breakout role of Withnail, ...

“Average writers attempt originality,” declares Richard E. Grant’s fictional acclaimed author J.M. Sinclair — more than a bit smugly — in the prologue to “The Lesson.” “Good writers have the sense to ...