Lizzie Borden comes in and out of fashion whenever feminism or unsolved murders do. While it’s not particularly feminist to bash in the heads of two defenseless people with an axe, director Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie is …
Donatella du Plessis
Donatella du Plessis
Donatella lives above a garage in Johannesburg, South Africa with a laptop and 2500 books. When she's not reading, writing or teaching French and English, she's wishing for a cat, a steampunk coffee maker and a time machine to the Victorian era.
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There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it, and any more than a whisper, and it would vanish; it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive …
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The Return of the King turns fifteen later this year. In celebration of this great occasion, let’s imagine eleven new Oscar categories, both serious and irreverent, that could have been created for the glorious final chapter …
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The new The Girl in the Spider’s Web trailer has dropped. It’s sloppy, unschooled and throws into sharp relief every weakness that the impeccable first trailer succeeded in concealing. Here are the most immediate problems. Point …
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Breathtaking cinematography and fine acting cannot save Woman Walks Ahead from a silly, underdeveloped script. It turns what could have been a great film into an average one. The following review will be spoiler free. Synopsis Directed …
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Anthony Hopkins is King Lear in this stylish and invigorating adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic. Produced by Amazon Prime and directed by Richard Eyre, King Lear is a highly original film with a brilliant cast, but never quite succeeds …