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Matilda the Musical has been a regular fixture on the West End since it premiered in 2011. It has now been adapted into a feature film thanks to Working Title Pictures and TriStar Pictures. Matilda Wormwood (Alisha Weir) is a brilliant, intelligent child who has been ignored by her parents (Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough). Matilda […]
One of the brighter surprises of the 2022 television year was the debut of the British counter-intelligence drama Slow Horses on AppleTV+. Smart, bracing, complex, and unafraid to kill its darlings, the first season of the series – an adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel of the same name – was a critical and commercial success. […]
Based on a novel by Camille DeAngelis, Bones and All is a film that mixed horror, romance, a road movie, and a coming-of-age story. It was a film that attempts to tackle a lot. Marin Yearly (Taylor Russell) is an 18-year-old high schooler who has an overprotective dad (André Holland). One night Marin sneaks out […]
After a brief hiatus the sixth season of Rick and Morty with the self-referential episode “Full Meta Jackrick.” It’s an episode that acts as a sequel to “Never Ricking Morty.” Rick and Morty find they have the target of a space parasite that makes them experience past events that never really happened. When they break free from […]
If you were a fan of the original Knives Out film – you know, the surprise smash-hit whodunit from Rian Johnson that dominated at the box office, scored several Oscar nominations, and gave the world a new appreciation for Daniel Craig’s comedic timing – you’ve likely been waiting with bated breath for its sequel, Glass Onion: […]
Triangle of Sadness is a multi-national production and the winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. It is one of the most politically charged films of 2022. Triangle of Sadness follows a group of people who go on a luxury cruise on a superyacht. This includes Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), […]
The Menu is the second meal theme film to be released this year in the UK. The first was the Welsh film The Feast. Both films have their own take on the class divide. Hawthorne is an exclusive restaurant on an island. The chef is the celebrated Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) and his meals always have […]
Of course Cassian and the inmates on Narkina 5 were helping to build the Death Star. Of course they were. Because, like everything else in this exceptional first season of Andor, each moment – each line of dialogue, each carefully constructed speech, each key character beat – is leading our central characters to their ultimate […]
The murder mystery – or rather, the dark comedy murder mystery – is having a bit of a resurgence on the small screen with the success of Hulu’s Murderer’s in the Building. But now AppleTV+ has gotten into the game with the exceptional, dark, moving, and yes, funny, Bad Sisters, an adaptation of the Flemish […]
The stereotype of British cinema is usually prestigious period dramas and hilarious comedies. 1992’s Split Second offered something different: B-movie schlock. In the far-off year of 2008 Global Warming has flooded London. This has turned London into a rain-soaked, crime-ridden, rat-infected hellhole, so how London has always been. Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) is a police detective […]