Hunter Allen
THE INVITE2026Directed by Olivia WildeWritten by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones (based on the movie Sentimental by Cesc Gay)Spoilers: moderateI could be accused—I would welcome the accusation—of being a much bigger-than-average fan of Olivia Wilde's career as a director, which hasn't been the...
Hunter Allen
THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD2026Written and directed by Michael SarnoskiSpoilers: moderateThe Death of Robin Hood would have it—or at least star and executive producer Hugh Jackman would have it, as he's explained it thus in a whole trailer for his film, so it must be a sentiment shared by its writer...
Hunter Allen
MOTHER MARY2026Written and directed by David LowerySpoilers: moderateGoing into this present decade, David Lowery would've been on a sufficiently long list of new filmmakers that I felt genuinely excited about; though in the meantime, his star had fallen somewhat for me. Part of that is just how...
Amateur Reader (Tom)
I have called Thomas Dekker and Henry Chettle hacks, but Thomas Heywood was the greatest hack of the Age of Shakespeare, having “an entire hand or at least the main finger” in “two hundred and twenty” (!) plays (Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies, p. 38). He is more like a television writer. ...