Director – Mamoru Hosoda – 2025 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 111m **** Trapped in the Otherworld, a limbo preceding the afterlife, Princess Scarlet seeks revenge on her uncle who has killed her father the King – anime reimagining of Hamlet is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th Walking across a vast desert and dying […]
Director – Chloé Zhao – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 12a – 125m ***** An imagining of the story of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet, whose name gave rise to the play Hamlet – Maggie O’Farrell’s adaptation of her own novel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 9th According to the opening title card, […]
Directed by Chloé ZhaoCertificate 12A125 minutesReleased 9 January Shakespeare’s romantic relationship, family life and the tragedy of bereavement resulted in his writing one of his bestknown plays, Hamlet. In Elizabethan England, we are told at the start of Hamnet, the two names were interchangeable. Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, this film is well-served by the landscape-friendly sensibilities […]
Director – Robert Eggers – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 136m ***** A 10th Century Viking prince vows revenge on his father king’s killer and sees it through to death – out in cinemas on Friday, April 15th Young Viking Prince Amleth (Oscar Novak from The Batman) is thrilled when his warrior father […]
Director – Neil Marshall – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 111m *** A woman accused of witchcraft finds herself pitted in a battle of wills against her witchfinder torturer at the time of the Great Plague – on digital from Friday, April 16th and Shudder UK from Thursday, 13th May On the one […]
Director – Tim Burton – 1999 – US – 15 – 105 mins *** A nineteenth century policeman must solve a series of gruesome murders allegedly by a headless horseman wielding a sword – in cinemas from Friday, January 7th 2000. Tim Burton’s last few movies have been a real treat, but this adaptation of […]