Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth
The sequel to 2017’s La Belle Sauvage, and the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust ‘equel’ trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth is set nearly two decades later, and […]
Monthly Archives: October 2019
The Haunting
Guilt-ridden Eleanor (Julie Harris) is summoned to a haunted house by a paranormal investigator and serial mansplainer (Richard Johnson) in this 1963 adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill […]
The Farewell
Lula Wang’s The Farewell concerns a Chinese-American family keeping its matriarch’s terminal illness a secret from her, like Goodbye Lenin but set in the real world. “Based on an actual […]
Jason X
Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) goes to space in the 10th Friday the 13th movie, which they should have called Jason and the Astronauts. Sending your characters into space is a […]
The Day Shall Come
Last time Chris Morris directed a film he took satirical aim at a Sheffield-based terrorist cell in the brilliant Four Lions. Now, almost a decade later, he turns his fire […]
Joker
An origins story for Batman’s most iconic and frequently portrayed villain, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a disturbed stand-up comedian who seeks an outlet for his psychosis after […]
Ian McKellan On Stage
Ian McKellen shares readings from his most popular works and anecdotes from his long career in this show to mark his 80th birthday. McKellen begins with a reading from The […]
True Lies
Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a double life as a dull husband and super spy in 1994’s True Lies, which turned out to be truer than anyone knew in light […]
Ready or Not
This new horror movie is the third film called Ready or Not in the last 10 years – although in parts of Canada it has the scarier title of Prêt […]
The Milk System
Documentarian Andreas Pichler, who grew up on a dairy farm, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades. Through interviews with farmers and industry experts he looks at […]
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