The Hollow Crown Henry IV Part 2 and Henry IV Part 1 films are Eyre’s masterpiece: the visuals are stunning and visceral and the interpretation of the text is solid.
The Hollow Crown: ‘Henry IV Part 1’: Fathers and sons reign in Richard Eyre’s terrific film
Adaptor-Director Richard Eyre has condensed Henry IV Part 1 and 2 into a gripping four hours of TV without losing any of the nuances.
The Hollow Crown: “Richard II” is a great beginning to a near perfect screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henriad tetralogy
Ben Whishaw gives an unparalleled performance as Richard II in the first episode of the Hollow Crown, directed by Rupert Goold. Read our review of Rupert Goold’s Richard III on stage, and our interview with Goold on directing film vs. theatre. You can also read our reviews of the next installments: Henry IV Part 1, […]
TIFF 2013 Review: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her tells both subjective sides of the dissolution of a relationship
The modern relationship movie has more and more become an attempt to acknowledge that any relationship story has two subjective sides, which must be told. In Hans Canosa’s Conversations with Other Women, the film finds objectivity through a split screen that ensures a camera is on both its characters at all times: it’s a different […]
Characters drive plot in the terrific new drama comedy series "Please Like Me" by Australian comedian Josh Thomas
In the first episode of the terrific “Please Like Me”, season one, twenty-year-old Josh (Josh Thomas, playing a younger version of himself) orders an eighteen dollar sundae, only to have his girlfriend Claire (Caitlin Stasey) break up with him before the first bite. She explains that it’s because he’s probably gay. Minutes later he meets […]