Carey Mulligan

Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi in Saltburn

Saltburn: another horrible man wins everything

Saltburn is a morality tale, or perhaps a parable. It doesn’t end with a lesson, but a warning. It’s the story of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a scholarship student at Oxford who presents himself as poor and orphaned. He pretends […]

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Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in Maestro

Maestro, the intimate side of Leonard Bernstein

Maestro tells the story of Leonard Bernstein’s marriage and family and of his relationships with men. It’s intimate and inward. It acknowledges his genius and his iconic status in American life. It’s more about relationships than music. The directing and

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Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan in She Said

She Said, going public with charges of sexual abuse

She Said tells the story of the work done at the New York Times to expose the history of Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator. It’s a powerful look at the work and effort that went into preparing the story

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Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman

Promising Young Woman, a revenge story like no other

Promising Young Woman is a brilliant new treatment of the revenge movie. It’s fresh and funny and barbed and full of heart. A masterwork. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, the film is available to rent on Prime Video.

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Carey Mulligan in The Dig

The Dig unearths an Anglo Saxon treasure

The Dig is based on a true story about the excavation of an Anglo Saxon era ship from a mound on an English manor. The site was Sutton Hoo. The story is set in 1938 against the background of impending

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Vondie Curtis-Hall, Britt Robertson, Regé-Jean Page, Ben Rappaport, Wesam Keesh, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Susannah Flood in For the People

Brain Dump: Collateral, Rise, For the People

Welcome to the scattered thoughts swirling around on the way out of my head in what I charmingly call a brain dump. This edition will talk about Collateral, Rise, and For the People.

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Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell in Mudbound

Watch This: Trailer for Mudbound

Mudbound is the latest from director Dee Rees. It’s the story of two families – one black, one white – bound uneasily together on the muddy farmland of the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era.

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Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter in Suffragette

Watch This: New Preview for Suffragette

Suffragette will premier in the U.S. in late October. It’s premiering in early October in the U.K. at the London Film Festival. There’s a new preview available. The film deals with the battle for women’s right to vote in late

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Carey Mulligan in Suffragette

Watch This: Trailer for Suffragette

Suffragette boasts a dream cast including Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson and Romola Garai in a story about the early British suffrage movement. Meryl Streep plays the leader of the Suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst.

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