Passionate sparring, deliciously delivered lines, an inspiring female lead, blood on the screen. It all spells obvious sequel potential. But enough about Sam Raimi’s Send Help. This weekend brings the release of “Wuthering Heights”, as the title is styled, and, with months of enjoyably derision-tinged chatter about the Emily Brontë adaptation all but guaranteeing a … Read more
“Wuthering Heights” production designer Suzie Davies was excited to get a call from Emerald Fennell, since she’d worked on period dramas from this era before — not to mention on Fennell’s lavish “Saltburn.” “I thought it’d be fun,” Davies says. But Fennell had a different vision for adapting the Emily Bronte classic. Not only did … Read more
Alison Oliver leaps up from the couch and merrily yells out my name. We had both, apparently, been wondering if, four years ago, I was the first journalist ever to interview her. So it seems. “Your name just popped up and I thought, yeah, I think that was the first one,” she says, bubbling. I … Read more
Wuthering Heights Artist: Charli XCX Label: Sony If there was a moment when the sun finally went down on Charli XCX’s Brat summer, it was at Malahide Castle in Dublin last June, when the newly crowned pop superstar delivered an underwhelming and bloodless performance. Brat’s official colour scheme was a … Read more
“Wuthering Heights” Director: Emerald Fennell Cert: 15A Starring: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, Ewan Mitchell Running Time: 2 hrs 16 mins By the time we learned that Warner Bros was to render the title of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” within quotation marks, the … Read more
We are, for the foreseeable future, stuck with right and left yelling about racially controversial casting on TV and in films. The “perfect harmony” promised by that famous Coke commercial from 1971 will not be with us anytime soon. When a person of colour is cast in a role normally allotted to a white person, … Read more