Tag: Richard E. Grant
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The Thursday Murder Club with elders for the win
The Thursday Murder Club is a delight. The only hashtag I love more than #DirectedbyWomen is #Eldersrock. This movie has elders rocking the scene in so many ways. It’s a cozy whodunnit set in a retirement home.
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Death of a Unicorn is silly, campy, fantasy, terror. Yeah.
Death of a Unicorn is funny. Put a bunch of great actors in a fantasy about running into a real live unicorn, give them a ridiculous plot about the perils of capitalism, and let them play. That’s what happens here.
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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 to be kind and helpful to befriend Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), and Felix buys into…
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Persuasion, modern sense and sensibility applied to Austen
Persuasion, based on the 1818 novel by Jane Austen, is a treatment of this tale made modern with techniques such as Bridgerton style characters of color, Fleabag style breaking of the fourth wall, and dialog straight out of pop culture.
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Review: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a musical fantasy based on a true story. It was first a stage play, now adapted for film. The story is about a young English lad who dreamed of becoming a drag queen. It’s streaming on Prime Video.
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The Crimson Petal and the White shows the horrors of 1870s London
The Crimson Petal and the White is a four part mini series from 2011, now streaming on Acorn TV. It’s set in 1870s London at a time when women, whether prostitutes or well-married ladies, had few options and fewer freedoms.