Tag: Costume

• Mary Queen of Scots Review — Yaaasss Kween

  

  Mary Queen of Scots wants to be a big feminist picture. A brutal excoriation of the wrongs done to women, powerful before their time, brought down by men who cannot counteance their position. In truth I have little idea how historical a work it is, writer Beau Willimon (of House of Cards, among others) adapted…

  E Warren

  January 24, 2019

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Beau Willimon, Cinema, Costume, David Tennant, Film, Films, Historical, Josie Rourke, Margot Robbie, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Saoirse Ronan, Two Stars

• Lady Macbeth: No, not that one

  

  I caught a preview of Lady Macbeth at the Watershed, Bristol, accompanied by a Q&A by director William Oldroyd. The film releases to UK cinemas on April 28. She’s not that Lady Macbeth. Not the famous one. Not the, ‘Out, damned spot!’ and the ‘Come, you spirits/ that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/…

  E Warren

  April 24, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  British, Cinema, Cosmo Jarvis, Costume, Drama, Film, Films, Florence Pugh, Four Star, Lady Macbeth, Movie, Movies, Naomi Ackie, Period, UK, William Oldroyd