Etichetta: drama
TV tonight – Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham star in devastating Covid drama Help
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“Gloria’s got a cough.” On the face of it, innocuous words. But horribly ominous in a care home in early 2020. Initially, this devastating drama by Jack Thorne and Marc Munden zooms in on the sweet, beautifully rende...
Cry Macho review – Clint Eastwood’s dull 70s drama evokes no tears
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Cry Macho, the new 70s-set film from the world’s most prolific nonagenarian director, Clint Eastwood, has endured an almost 50-year journey to the screen, a journey that, after actually watching Cry Macho, is of far m...
The Survivor review – Barry Levinson’s solid postwar boxing drama
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Director Barry Levinson brings the confidence of a professional lifetime to this heartfelt true story of Herschel “Harry” Haft, a tough Polish Jew who boxed as a light heavyweight in the postwar United States, even ta...
Christopher Nolan to make drama about the ‘father of the atomic bomb’
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Christopher Nolan has confirmed that his next film will be a drama about the development of the atomic bomb. In a deviation from his work with Warner Bros, the director will head to Universal Pictures for the drama wh...
GB News may be useless at news – but it’s Britain’s top channel for luvvie drama
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News that Andrew Neil is to leave GB News as lead presenter and chairman was, in typical fashion, broken a while ago and by reporters for outlets other than GB News. It’s a shame the station’s journalists weren’t firs...
Drama school Lamda finds ‘serious relations breakdown’ under ex-head
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An investigation into complaints made against the former head of the UK’s oldest drama school has reported a “serious breakdown of relations” between her and some staff “due to weaknesses in communication, leadership ...
Recensione della benedizione – Il dramma penetrantemente triste di Siegfried Sassoon di Terence Davies
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Il film intransigentemente cupo di Terence Davies su Siegfried Sassoon mi ha ricordato come Enoch Powell, al culmine della sua autocommiserazione politica, gemerebbe a chiunque ascolti: “Vorrei essere stato ucciso nel w...
La recensione di The Humans: trasferimenti magistrali di drammi familiari dal palcoscenico allo schermo
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C'è una sorprendente urgenza nell'adattamento di Stephen Karam della sua opera teatrale vincitrice del Tony The Humans, una vitalità che non ci si potrebbe aspettare da un film che suona come qualcosa che abbiamo visto molte volte prima. Non solo il set-...
The Starling review – toe-curlingly embarrassing Melissa McCarthy drama
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This bizarre sentimental dramedy is fatuous and phoney in every particular: a quite extraordinary festival of gibberish. Every implausible scene, every unconvincing character, every contrived dollop of symbolism, ever...
Ninjababy review – raunchily frank Norwegian pregnancy drama
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Astronaut, beer-taster, comic artist – these are just some of the things Rakel aspires to be. Mother is not on the list, so it’s a shock when the 23-year-old graphic design dropout (Kristine Kujath Thorp) discovers sh...
Encounter review – Riz Ahmed can’t save uneven sci-fi invasion drama
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Michael Pearce is the British director who made a terrific feature debut at Toronto in 2017 with his psychological drama-thriller Beast, but I have to admit I was disappointed with his new film, a starrier, bigger-bud...
Herself review – Irish abuse drama turns into home-build heartwarmer
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Clare Dunne is the young Irish stage and screen performer who takes a commanding role in this heartfelt and engrossing personal movie: she is the star and co-writer with Malcolm Campbell (who scripted Lenny Abrahamson...
Life Is Strange: True Colours review – an earnest drama about a psychic empath
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The idea of moving somewhere picturesque for a fresh start is fast becoming as common a trope in video games as it is in TV, film and books. In this slice-of-life melodrama from Colorado studio Deck Nine, Alex Chen mo...
The War Below review – wartime tunnelling heroes rushed through drama
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‘Gentlemen, tonight we may not make history, but we’ll certainly change the bloody geography.” British army colonel Hellfire Jack (Tom Goodman-Hill) gives sterling quotation (though it was apparently said in real life...
The Collini Case review – Nazi courtroom drama bogged down in cliches
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“We need to know about the evil,” said the German lawyer-turned-bestselling-novelist Ferdinand von Schirach. “That’s the only way we can live with it.” His grandfather was head of the Hitler Youth and his grandmother ...
Judgment day for Afghanistan: the ‘raw’ legal drama trying Britain for war crimes
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Twenty years after the start of the coalition invasion of Afghanistan, the chaos of the withdrawal has prompted calls from cross-party politicians for an independent inquiry to take a cold, strategic look at what went...