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Movie Review-Wuthering Heights (2026)
“Wuthering Heights” (2026) Running time: 2 hours, 7 minutes “Whatever our souls are made of … his and mine are the same… Why did you leave me… Why did you betray your own heart?” Director/Screenwriter: Emerald Fennell Principal Cast: Margot Robbie (Catherine Earnshaw), Jacob Elordi (Heathcliff), Hong Chau (Nelly Dean), Shazad Latif (Edgar Linton), Alison Oliver (Isabella Linton), Martin Clunes (Mr. Earnshaw) Review Those speech marks around the title may be the most important and savvy piece of punctuation action in Hollywood since the famous * used in Thunderbolts! It effectively lets writer and director Emerald Fennell off the hook with…
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Dog Day Afternoon: Fifty Years of Heat, Tension, and Heartbreak
During a blistering New York summer, a desperate man walks into a Brooklyn bank and tries to rob it. But this isn’t just any heist—it’s the beginning of a standoff that grips the city, exposes the media’s voyeuristic hunger, and reveals the unexpected humanity of a criminal who, despite everything, wants to be loved. Fifty years on, Dog Day Afternoon still burns with raw emotional intensity and relevance. Released in 1975, just a year after Chinatown and The Godfather Part II, Sidney Lumet’s film struck a nerve with a public already disillusioned by Watergate, Vietnam, and political corruption. America had entered what novelist Joan Didion described as “the era of…
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Raffles & Bunny – The Hyde Park Hullabaloo
Characters – Raffles regulars (and the Dublin Amateur Players* who keep breaking through- they have issues. All have strong Dublin brogue) A.J. Raffles (mid 30’s) – Suave, confident & charming, clipped British public-school accent. The OG Amateur Cracksman, gentleman thief with a flair for drama, nonchalance of a poet ,cunning of a thief. Quotes poetry & cricket stats in equal measure, elegantly dressed (ALSO is , Flann O Cobbler , most experienced actor of the DAP *, suspicious of Brien’s intentions regarding his girlfriend Shelia, see below) Harry “Bunny” Manders (mid 30s) – Loyal, naive, the ideal comic foil and narrator, British public-school accent ,devoted companion, eager to please but…
