Tag: Period

• Phantom Thread Review – Grace and delicacy

  

  It’s immaculate. Always is, always was going to be.

  E Warren

  February 13, 2018

  Film, Review

  Annapurna Pictures, Cinema, Daniel Day-Lewis, Drama, Film, Films, Five Stars, Focus Features, Ghoulardi Film Company, Lesley Manville, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Paul Thomas Anderson, Period, Phantom Thread, Review, Universal Pictures, Vicky Krieps

• The Post Review – StreepHanksThePost

  

  The story of The Post is that Spielberg first read the script under a year ago. While working postproduction on Ready Player One he somehow got permission from Warner to go make the thing.

  E Warren

  February 1, 2018

  Film, Review

  20th Century Fox, Bob Odenkirk, Cinema, Drama, Dreamworks, Film, Films, Five Stars, Meryl Streep, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Participant Media, Period, Review, Sarah Paulson, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Tom Hanks

• Darkest Hour Review – 21st century greasepaint

  

  Get this right, Gary Oldman ain’t actually a really fat dude, but in this film right here he is. Mind blowing right? That someone can just do that and make it a film. He’s not fat in real life. Wow.

  E Warren

  January 17, 2018

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Darkest Hour, Drama, English, Film, Films, Focus Features, Gary Oldman, Joe Wright, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Perfect World, Period, Review, Three Stars, Universal Pictures, War, Working Title

• The Limehouse Golem Review – Queens, Victorians

  

  Look, going in I had no idea how gay The Limehouse Golem was going to be. I always love it when that happens.

  E Warren

  September 5, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Bill Nighy, Cinema, Douglas Booth, Film, Films, Juan Carlos Medina, Lionsgate, Movie, Movies, Number 9 Films, Olivia Cooke, Opinion, Period, Review, The Limehouse Golem, Thriller, Two Stars

• The Promise: Declawed horror

  

  If there was any promise evident in Terry George and Robin Swicord’s often clunking screenplay before production started, it is not apparent in the final film. It has been stolen away, in these flat, overlit scenes edited with a clear mandate to keep the running time low and accompanied by this overwrought score.

  E Warren

  May 4, 2017

  Film, Review

  Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, Cinema, Drama, Film, Films, Historical, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Oscar Isaac, Period, Review, Reviews, Terry George, The Promise, Two Star

• 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