Glass

(May contain mild spoilers for Glass. Definitely contains spoilers for Split (2017)). We thought we had M. Night Shyamalan’s number.…

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A couple of things I chose to ignore, or more accurately had selective recall over, when enjoying Robert Zemeckis’ latest…

Mary Queen of Scots presents the Tudor tale of Elizabeth I of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Cousins biologically, but…

Keira Knightly has recently spoken about the possibility period films offer for story-telling about women’s lives. In Wash Westmoreland’s new film,…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ effervescent new film The Favourite is set in the early eighteenth-century, in the court of the beleaguered Queen Anne.…

Mary Poppins Returns is a cynical and masterfully put together spectacle, promising complete immersion in period (fiction) London. It looks perfect;…

Creed II continues the saga of the Rocky films, which have now expanded sideways to encompass the life and times…

The latest film from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen is the Netflix-released The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. It’s an anthology piece,…

I have a lot to say about A Star is Born. My initial reaction was that it wasn’t necessarily what I…

Music biopics are a tricky beast. Walking the line between playing the hits, and genuinely getting under the skin of…