Film and Television

I loved the first one. Loved it enough that when a sequel was announced, twenty years after Andy first walked into Runway with the wrong shoes, I was equal parts thrilled and …

Darkest Hour came out in 2017, with Gary Oldman under layers of prosthetic makeup as Winston Churchill in the last weeks of May 1940. Joe Wright directed, and Oldman won the Academy …

I love The King’s Speech. I have gone back to it more than once, for the plot, for the cast, and above all for Colin Firth as George VI, the performance that …

I love The Young Victoria. The 2009 film, with Emily Blunt as Victoria and Rupert Friend as Albert, tells the story of a teenage queen finding her feet and falling in love, …

There are films that you watch, and there are films that seem to linger in the places where they were made. The Sound of Music belongs firmly to the second category. Even …

There are places in the world that feel almost too perfect to be real, places where the landscape, the architecture, and the atmosphere come together in a way that feels almost cinematic. …