The Dead Don’t Hurt – Review
The first Western movie is said to date back to 1894, a single reel silent film that pre-dates the “golden era of Western” by almost fifty years. When you think of the genre, you think of the geograp...
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The Wonder – Review
Ireland, 1862. The spectre of the Famine looms large over the island. People are starved of hope and haunted by loss. This is the backdrop of Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, based on Emma Donoghue’s bo...
My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel is all dressed up as a mystery-romance but it is really, like Rachel herself, a story of rebellion. Rachel Weisz plays Rachel, the devastatingly beautiful widower who may run around ...
Far from the Madding Crowd
In Dorset, South of England in 1870 Gabriel Oak comes across a sight that will change the course of his life: the wildly beautiful Bathsheba Everdene laying on her back astride a horse. The lives of ...