Mark Rylance
Netflix UK film review: Don’t Look Up
January 2, 2022 | James RAdam McKay’s bloated satire still makes an impact with its deceptively dark edge.Read More
Netflix UK film review: The Trial of the Chicago 7
October 16, 2020 | James RAaron Sorkin’s timely political drama turns a show trial into a witty cinematic circus.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Ready Player One
August 12, 2018 | James RSteven Spielberg crafts a thrilling, jaw-dropping piece of pop culture candy where visuals distract from a shallow script.Read More
VOD film review: Dunkirk
December 28, 2017 | James RThis raw, stripped-down war film is a harrowing elegy to British lives lost – and a powerful portrayal of despair in the face of hope.Read More
VOD film review: The BFG (2016)
November 26, 2016 | James RA galumphing warm hug of a film, The BFG completely captures the wide-eyed wonder of childhood.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Bridge of Spies
March 29, 2016 | James RSpielberg’s underplayed war flick boils down to a riveting, thrillingly simple two-hander. Read More
UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 6
March 1, 2015 | James ROh, Anne. We knew you didn’t have the head for the job. The inevitability of history has hung over Wolf Hall from the beginning, giving everything a doomed sense of dramatic irony. Claire Foy has sunk her teeth into it, … Read More
UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 5 (Crows)
February 20, 2015 | James RWhoever said Wolf Hall was boring? The ratings may have dropped for the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels, but the penultimate episode of the season is its busiest yet.
Death comes to Wolf Hall in Episode 5. It might … Read More
UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 2
January 30, 2015 | James R“There’s a conversation I shouldn’t have had.”
That’s Cromwell, after talking to his sister-in-law (Saskia Reeves) in a typically dark room. It’s a key turning point in the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel: after the first, somewhat dizzying, hour … Read More
UK TV review: Wolf Hall Episode 1 (Three Card Trick)
January 23, 2015 | James RYou’ve either read it or you haven’t. Or, perhaps more likely, you’ve started to read it and never quite managed to finish. But now that Wolf Hall has arrived on the BBC, the question isn’t “Have you read it?” but … Read More