The Odyssey — Nolan’s Unifying Epic A director’s greatest journey so far… The early scenes of The Odyssey set a rhythm: a beat thrumming through every scene before a single oar hits the deep blue sea; before Ludwig Göransson’s extraordinary, percussive...
The Secret Agent — A Brilliant Genre-Juggler Matt Goddard But the leg came back... The euphemism of a ‘mischievous time’ appears at the beginning and near the end of The Secret Agent. As the eye-catching symbol of a yellow VW Beetle recurs...
Wuthering Heights — The Quickie And The Dead Third time’s a romance? Taking on Emily Brontë’s gothic romance as a third directorial effort is a big ask. It’s not only the writer’s only novel, but a much-adapted tale that’s been bothering film awards for...
Hamnet — All The Stage’s Their World "The undiscovered country, at whose sight. The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd..." The first thing likely to hit you about Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel is the rawness and...
An Incredibly Satisfying Build — The Brutalist Review All the building blocks of a classic. Brady Corbet’s second feature as a writer, director and producer is a statement as large and daring as the building at the heart of its epic story. Glowing...
