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Malcolm & Marie centers on the eponymous couple, played admirably by John David Washington and Zendaya respectively, who return home after the premiere of Malcolm’s latest directorial effort, to yell at and manipulate each other for 106 straight minutes. This is a deeply troubled, toxic relationship where neither party says what they really mean, preferring […]
The late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was beloved for many reasons – her stellar legal acumen that helped bring about greater constitutional protections for gender equality (as immortalized in the film On the Basis of Sex), her often scathing (yet exquisitely worded) dissents that laid the groundwork for future courts should they […]
Up until it reached its (frankly, inevitable) ending, I absolutely loved The World to Come. It’s an utterly gorgeous film, shot with a keen eye by Mona Fastvold, and containing some remarkably still and nuanced performances. But then the ending comes and well, let’s just say that, as a queer woman, I could have told […]
Songbird was a film that was written and filmed during the Pandemic and subsequent lockdown. It was a cynical attempt to capitalise on the crisis we are living in. In 2024 the COVID-19 virus has mutated into COVID-23, a more deadly variant. America has experienced a four-year lockdown, millions of deaths, and anyone who is found […]
It’s a far trickier thing than one might assume to adapt a stage play to film. After all, a play is written to be performed in the intimate medium of the theatre, with an audience sitting mere feet from the performers and the actors feeding off the energy through the immediate feedback provided by their […]
Sound of Metal, a film from Darius Marder (co-written with Abraham Marder) is a film that knows what story it wants to tell and then sets out to tell it. Now, that might seem like an odd description of a film, but think about it for a moment. How often do you find yourself watching […]
On the night of February 25, 1964, Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay), Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and football super star Jim Brown had dinner together in a hotel in Miami. What they discussed together that night has been lost to time. But, within the span of a year, Cooke and Malcolm X […]
Make Up was released as a part of the BBC’s New Films From New Voices Season. Make Up was Claire Oakley’s directional debut and it was made as a part of the iFeatures scheme. Ruth (Molly Windsor) is a young woman who goes to a holiday park in Cornwall where her boyfriend, Tom (Joseph Quinn), is working. She […]
Promising Young Woman, the sensational film from writer/director Emerald Fennell, is not a story of a woman’s triumph over the callous, toxic men that surround her. So, if you are planning on watching this film to see its leading lady Cassie (the incredible Carey Mulligan, proving herself to be one of the best actresses in […]
A few years ago, back when live theatre was a thing we could experience in person with other people around us, I heard about illusionist Derek DelGaudio’s smash hit show “In & Of Itself” and I was crushed that I wouldn’t be able to snag a ticket and head out to New York to catch […]