Hope and Glory
Based on the childhood of director John Boorman, Hope and Glory is a look at the British Home Front during the Blitz. The first half of the film follows the […]
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Jackie Brown
In Quentin Tarantino’s third film, the legendary Pam Grier plays an air hostess who becomes embroiled in an elaborate set-up after she’s arrested by the FBI. Based on a book, […]
Mandy
Red (Nicolas Cage) sees red in this red-filtered revenge horror that opens with King Crimson’s Starless from the album Red. I wish I could tell you there was more than […]
The Favourite
Aptly named for awards season, The Favourite concerns a power struggle between the ailing Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the manipulative Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and new arrival Abigail (Emma Stone), […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tom Waits, Liam Neeson and Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) star in this Western anthology about American mythology. Spurred on perhaps by the episodic nature of Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers […]
Mary Poppins Returns
Twenty-five years after the events of Mary Poppins, Banks children Michael and Jane (Ben Wishaw and Emily Mortimer) are grown up and still living in the old house next to […]
Christian Marclay: The Clock
Should you find yourself stuck near the Tate Cotton (as opposed to the Tate Britton) and you need to know the time but your phone’s died, check out this free installation […]
RSC: Don Quixote
That’s RSC as in Royal Shakespeare Company as opposed to Royal Society of Chemistry, although David Threlfall and Rufus Hound have plenty of that too. Now playing at London’s Garrick Theatre […]
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Martin McDonagh brings his obsession with dwarves, gallows humour and the writing process to London’s Bridge Theatre (until 6 January), starring Jim Broadbent as a hilariously demented version of Hans […]
I’ve Never Seen… Elf
Welcome to a festive edition of the feature where we finally get round to a classic that’s passed us by, like the Marcus Brigstocke programme I’ve Never Seen Star Wars except we […]
