Comedy, Drama, Television
TV: Fleabag (Seasons 1 & 2)
Nobody does darkly comic cringe like the Brits, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is a powerful case in point. It’s…
June 15, 2022-
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Drama, FilmFilm: The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes an impressive directorial debut with The Lost Daughter (2021), a film she also wrote and co-produced.…
January 3, 2022 -
Film, HistoryFilm: The Favourite
He may have shifted from Greek to English and from unknown actors to Hollywood stars, but perverse director Yorgos…
January 16, 2019 -
Film, Science FictionFilm: The Lobster
The peculiar, disturbing sensibility of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, in his provocative films Dogtooth and Alps, left me very…
December 12, 2016 -
Spies, TelevisionTV: The Night Manager
Written in the wake of the Cold War’s end, at a time when the spy novel’s relevance was still…
June 9, 2016