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Richard Burton is one of Wales’ most famous actors, and the relationship with his adopted father serves as the centre of his biopic. Richard Jenkins (Harry Lawtey) is a schoolboy from a working-class family in Port Talbot. Richard’s English teacher, P.H. Burton (Toby Jones), notices his potential, and the pair become close when Richard decides […]
Queer is the second film made by Luca Guadagnino to be released in 2024. This second offering is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel of the same name. William Lee (Daniel Craig) is an American expat living in Mexico City in the 1950s. He spends his time meeting younger men for casual sex. William […]
Amy Winehouse joins the likes of Johnny Cash, Freddie Mercury, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston as a member of the musical biopic club. Back to Black looks at her artistic process, troubled relationship, and addiction issues. Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) is an emerging artist who is signed up by 19 Management and Island Records. When her […]
When discussing the final batch of episodes in The Crown’s sixth and final season with a friend, he mentioned something that got me thinking about how the series slowly, over the course of the last four seasons, fell apart. He lamented that the latter seasons of the series couldn’t manage to capture the heart and […]
The first half of The Crown’s sixth and final season covers, as you might expect based on where the series left things at the end of season five, the final weeks of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s life before their tragic death in Paris as well as the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Alas, it […]
Before its screeners even hit our email inboxes, Amazon’s new massive spy-thriller series Citadel was a known entity. Unfortunately for the series – and for Prime Video – it was known for budget overruns (reports have the first, six-episode season clocking in at around $300 million), serious conflicts behind the scenes with co-creators being fired […]
Season five of The Crown, the penultimate season of Netflix’s look into the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II (and her family and close associates) was released last week on the streaming service. And while the wait for this season was longer than in the past – thanks to filming delays due to the […]
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a comedy-drama that’s based on a novel by Paul Gallico. Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) is a cleaner in London. She lives alone in Battersea and harbours hopes of her husband returning home despite going missing during the Second World War. Mrs. Harris becomes obsessed with a Christian Dior dress owned […]