Emerald Fennell

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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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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Olivia Colman in The Crown

Review: The Crown, season 3

The Crown, season 3, has an all new cast but the same royal family we enjoyed getting to know in previous seasons. The switch to older actors in the royal roles is hardly an awareness blip as the new cast

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Sandra Oh in Killing Eve

Killing Eve: Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?

Season Two of Killing Eve opened with “Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?” The episode began 30 seconds after the stabbing at end of season 1. While there are spoilers ahead, I will mainly talk about how

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