Focus / Culture - 2 weeks ago

Witch review – occultist gothic horror takes a swerve into the psychedelic

In a wholly original turn, writer-directors Craig Hinde and Marc Zammit spin out an atmospheric, but orthodox British horror into realms of multiverse-type mind expanding entanglementAfter kicking off with an atmospheric but orthodox piece of hoary B...

Focus / Culture - 3 weeks ago

Jeanne du Barry review – Johnny Depp is a lumpen Louis XV in passionless period drama

Maïwenn directs and stars as an 18th-century French courtesan in this lacklustre tale of scandal and sexual intrigue at VersaillesThe illegitimate daughter of, according to this version of events at least, a cook and a monk, Jeanne (played by Maïwenn...