REVIEW: The Death of Robin Hood

Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood is the latest attempt to reinvent England’s most enduring outlaw.

We’ve had the iconic swashbuckler, the historical epic, the gritty origin story. Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and Otto Bathurst’s version with Taron Egerton at least preserved the sense that beneath the grime remained a fundamentally heroic figure.…

REVIEW: The Odyssey (2026)

WARNING: Some spoilers for a 3,000-year-old epic poem

Christopher Nolan has spent much of his career telling stories about men trying to find their way home.

Cobb in Inception, Cooper in Interstellar, even Oppenheimer, in a moral rather than geographical sense, are all attempting to return to something they have lost: family, certainty, themselves.…

REVIEW: In the Hand of Dante [Netflix]

Dante begins The Divine Comedy lost in a dark wood. Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante invites us to follow him there.

Adapted from Nick Tosches’ notoriously unfilmable novel, Schnabel’s first feature since At Eternity’s Gate is part literary mystery, part gangster thriller, part historical epic, part theological meditation.…

REVIEW: The Get Out (2026)

Russell Crowe tries to leave an overcrowded party.

Formerly titled Bear Country, Derrick Borte’s The Get Out arrives with a premise that sounds deceptively simple: a nightclub owner decides he has had enough and decides to get out of the business.…

REVIEW: Blue Moon

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon opens on a note so unexpectedly forlorn that it reverberates through everything that follows.

A classic lounge number drifts over a rain-sheened alley. Into this slumps a diminutive man — hat slipping, thinning combover exposed, body folding like a cigarette collapsing in ash.…

Little Grey Celluloid: Some Thoughts on Poirot in Film (and TV)

From Albert Finney to Sir Kenneth Branagh (and, of course, David Suchet), the screen legacy of Hercule Poirot is a storied one.

Of all Christie’s detective novels, Murder on the Orient Express perhaps lends itself best to a blockbuster: it promises grand set-pieces, an opulent train cutting through rugged, snow-capped scenery, and a neatly contained roster of suspects ripe for starry casting.…

REVIEW: The Last Sacrifice

England still likes to remember itself its B&W heyday: BBC newsreels narrated in perfect RP, thatched cottages, fields rolling merrily into eternity.

Rupert Russell’s The Last Sacrifice starts inside that bucolic dream — and then slashes it open.

On Valentine’s Day, 1945, on Meon Hill, Warwickshire, elderly farm labourer Charles Walton was found murdered with his own tools; pinned to the earth with a pitchfork, his neck slashed by a billhook.…