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Digital and disc Monday It's no surprise Glenn Close won the Golden Globe best actress award and has been Oscarnominated for her performance in this otherwise stuffy and stagey drama.

THE WIFE (15) HHH HH THIS stuffy and stagey drama set in the privileged world of literary publishing isn't much of a page-turner despite some great performances.

'It's like Stagey Bank Fair in here!' A more obscure one from bygone decades.

It's based on a novel by Dutch writer Herman Koch and turned into an insular, stagey, dull and muddled affair.

Other prizes include a dressing-up outfit from Monsoon, jewellery from Lille Perle and Fabulous, a family meal at Basement Browns, gifts from Berylune, Hamesha and Stagey Fox, hampers from Aubrey Allen and the Meat Room, and gift cards from Craft Works, Costa and Wilko.

GREG Kinnear plays struggling actor Brian in this sincere but stagey snapshot of awkward adolescence.

How is a "spongy and stagey" striker-fired pistol better than only the first shot on a DA/SA being less than perfect?

It is, they say, more genuine and less strident, more conversational and less stagey. It will reach the audience more directly, they claim.

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There's magic and not a little mysticism in Matthew's tale, but it takes a good while to get into its groove, and there are times particularly in the first half when it feels as if it's trying too hard and the dialogue - particularly Jodie's speeches - rather stagey.

Finally he stressed the importance of Gulf Air to the Kingdom and economy of Bahrain and wished the airline every success in the implementation of the new stagey. AHN

The dialogue is stagey, the soundtrack old fashioned.