It is far too easy to reject Wuthering Heights by virtue of it being a bad adaptation. However, a bad adaptation by itself is no death knell. Additionally, as somebody that doesn’t like the book very much, I’m certainly not looking for gospel. In fact, a transformative adaptation could really bring out what still makes the book fascinating to me, regardless of whether I think it is good or not. There are interesting dynamics and conflicts; there’s a great atmosphere.…

Though I’m fully on board with the plan of sending Earth’s most annoying man to space, I’d rather they didn’t send the camera.

The best thing of Project Hail Mary is the promise that the Whedonesque protagonist — an ‘underdog’ king of the nerds with intuitive capability for any plot need that talks in quips and recognisable pop culture references — is being sent light years away from the rest of humanity. Alas, the movie sticks with him. It even…

On a surface level, this can be equated to Leigh’s other two period dramas — Topsy Turvy and the later Peterloo. Yet, Mr Turner stands out as not only singular in his filmography but singular in its cinematic genre, a unique picture that is the biopic by way of slow cinema. 

Later life if a great artist, a renowned, canonical figure at that, doesn’t seem quite rote for Leigh. However, his take on this conceit avoids all the pitfalls and…

There is stuff to like here for the already Mortal Kombat inclined. Fight scenes go out of their way to display moves from the games, the plot actually focuses around a tournament, it fronts notable characters from the roster and Ed Boon had a genuinely fun cameo. 

It is just a shame the movie sucks. 

One could argue that the level of storytelling is actually on par with a lot of the Mortal Kombat games. However, the games impress in…

Soren Kierkegaard wrote that 'life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards'. Aftersun is an impressionistic portrait of this truism, an intricate web of framing devices that comes across as effortless.

In fact, describing Aftersun makes it sound so much more complicated than it is. The film presents three narrative perspectives, all adopting the lens of Sophie (Frankie Corio), the daughter of Calum (Paul Mescal) (the father and daughter relationship that the film entirely revolves around).…

I like to think that if this was released now, it would be torn apart by audiences, rather than just a few critics. I like to think it would be roundly rejected and would inspire frequent think pieces that were also full of recommendations of what you should watch instead.

But then I remember Green Book won best picture and that this film’s overt popularity is because it gives the people what they want. It gives them the stereotype of…