A Thousand Blows, the latest British historical drama from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), ostensibly tells the story of the Forty Elephants, an all-female London crime-syndicate who specialize in shoplifting but are aiming for a larger score. I say ostensibly because that is only one portion of the overstuffed story being told, with the other segment […]
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Review
Bridget Jones returns for a fourth film with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. This time the romcom icon deals with motherhood and widowhood after the loss of her beloved Mr. Darcy. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) has been a widow for four years after her husband (Colin Firth) died on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. She […]
Armand Review
With her astounding performance in 2021’s The Worst Person in the World, the cinema world fell in love with Renate Reinsve. Her ability to capture the duality of early adulthood was uncanny, infusing the chaos of self-discovery with the vulnerability of knowing you’re a mess. That kind of virtuosity had cinephiles eager for her next […]
Britflix: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones is a rom-com icon and a piece of British pop culture. She has appeared in a series of novels and seeing that a fourth film is out, now is a good time to check out the film that started it all. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is a 32-year-old singleton living in London. After […]
Heart Eyes Review
Valentine’s Day is a day for romance. It’s also the day a new slasher villain has chosen to go on a killing spree in the romantic-comedy horror hybrid Heart Eyes. Ally (Olivia Holt) is a pitch designer at a luxury jewellery company in Seattle. Her latest campaign is received poorly because the Heart Eyes Killer […]
Yellowjackets – Dislocation Review
This second installment of season three wasn’t a particularly flashy episode. Rather, it was a tablesetting episode, pushing our characters into their main arcs for the season, showing us which characters would be up against one another, who would be teaming up, and who might have secrets about to be exposed. Once again, our central […]
Yellowjackets – It Girl Review
The Yellowjackets writers know what they’re doing – at least when it comes to hinting at the one thing fans seem to want to know about more than anything else in the series: “Pit Girl” and the hunts. Because boy, was this an episode that teased that particular future moment in spades. From the game […]
Yellowjackets Season Three Review
I was mixed on season two of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, which was hit or miss in its sophomore season after a strong debut. In my season two post mortem, I had a couple of hopes for the series’ third season – namely that the “modern” half of the series would tighten things up from a narrative […]
Severance – Trojan’s Horse Review
Well, that was a lot, wasn’t it? If there’s one thing to say about Severance, it’s that it doesn’t simply just rest on its laurels and draw out the reveals and revelations. Rather, we got further confirmation that Mark is reintegrating both of his selves – albeit with a nagging cough that I suspect is […]
Bring Them Down Review
As long as there have been tales of revenge, there have been warnings about its tendency to consume its practitioners. For every satisfying story of vanquishing one’s enemies, a counterpoint exists that focuses on the harm it does to the righteous, complicating their catharsis. But recently, we’ve seen more tales in which it goes so […]