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
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” 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