& Sons Review: TIFF 2025
Thanks to a talented cast and a pointed script, & Sons makes a good, but not quite remarkable, addition to the pantheon of family dramas (with a twist).
Dominic West
The Crown Review: Season 6, Part 1
In its final stretch, The Crown fails both Princess Diana and its audience.
The Crown Season 5 Review
Netflix's hit drama has absolutely no idea what story it's trying to tell, more obviously now than ever before.
Downton Abbey: A New Era Trailer Is Here!
The latest Downton Abbey: A New Era trailer is here, with its delightful GOWNS and that theme song we all know by heart.
Spoiled Rotten 125: Revisiting 300
Ben and Daniel revisit 300!
You Should Be Watching: New TV Picks (Part 1)
Navigating the waters of new TV can be a tad daunting. To help you, here's the first part of our new TV recommendations series, featuring Elena's top picks.
Pride Review
Pride is a mash of odd couples and triumphs over oppression that satisfies, but predictable archetypes and glossed-over challenges are a drawback.
Interview: Andrew Scott and Ben Schnetzer
We talk to actors Andrew Scott and Ben Schnetzer about their roles in the British historical ensemble comedy-drama Pride.
The Awakening Review
While far from the best film of the year like Ridley Scott said last year upon the film's UK release, The Awakening is an efficient and slow burning chiller does offer some genuinely good scares, some interesting thematic material, and a strong leading heroine before a muddled ending sours things slightly.
John Carter Review
On top of making back a gargantuan, near quarter of a billion dollar budget, John Carter isn't exactly the easiest sell in the world even by mega-blockbuster standards. It's extremely literate to the point where it just might alienate audiences looking for average escapist fare.
TADFF 2010
Centurion Review
When British director Neil Marshall isn’t making excellent horror films like Dog Soldiers and The Descent, he is making action movies. Fairly mediocre action movies. His last attempt at the action genre, the post-apocalyptic Doomsday, was both a critical and financial failure. Which was why I was skeptical about Marshall’s next crack at the action […]
