Shoplifters
Shoplifters is a Japanese drama that lost the Foreign Language Oscar to Netflix’s Roma, which Steven Spielberg thinks is a TV movie – bit rich coming from the director of […]
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The Breaker Upperers
This New Zealand comedy follows a pair of women (Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami) running a company that breaks up couples – essentially Hitch but, like the way toilets […]
Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
On the Basis of Sex
Felicity Jones deals out gender justice as future Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, AKA The Notorious RBG. The film starts with a breakneck journey through Ruth’s Harvard days, as […]
The Kid Who Would Be King
When a bullied schoolboy (Louis Ashbourne Serkis, son of Andy) finds Excalibur on an abandoned building site, it’s up to him and a ragtag group of classmates to thwart the […]
ENO: Akhnaten
This is Philip Glass’s third biographical opera following Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha (about Gandhi). This time the subject is Akhnaten, the Egyptian pharaoh noted for replacing Egypt’s traditional […]
The Crow
The Crow is a comic book adaptation in which a vengeful rockstar (Brandon Lee) gets resurrected, Rolling Stones style. Released in 1994, The Crow is dedicated to its star Brandon […]
Stir Crazy
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor play Flip and Harry, a pair of friends from New York who get fired on the same day and decide to head to California. But […]
Home, I’m Darling
Home I’m Darling is a new play about a husband and wife (Richard Harrington and Katherine Parkinson) living in modern-day Welwyn Garden City as if it’s the 1950s; a couple […]
A Fish Called Wanda
A diamond heist goes wrong in this comedy menagerie of fish, dogs and Pythons. I loved A Fish Called Wanda as a child, so it pains me that this rewatch left […]
