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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 […]
It struggles to stay consistent. It’s a work in progress. And yet you get a strong feeling it might be considerably better as the season goes on. That accurately described the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their first game of the season last fall. And it also accurately describes the pilot episode of The Equalizer, the […]
The 2020 version of Black Narcissus was a lavish three-part miniseries for FX and BBC One and aimed to bring Rumer Godden’s story to a new generation. Sister Clodagh (Gemma Arterton) is an Irish nun in India who gets offered the Sister Superior role for a new mission in the Himalayans. Sister Clodagh takes four nuns with […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the art of historical adaptations and drama for the screen.
Lots to discuss in this week’s jam-packed episode of WandaVision – the first one that really felt like an episode of the show Marvel likely wanted to make and not a piece of exposition to get us ready for the real story to begin. We have Vision starting to see through the ever widening cracks […]
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 […]
Recently there has been reported that Warner Brothers and HBO Max are in the early stages of developing a TV series based on the Harry Potter franchise. Harry Potter is one of Warner Brothers’ most lucrative franchises – there have been seven novels, spin-off books, video games, studio tours, and theme park attractions. And of course, there’s the […]