Kat Graham plays Julie, a lifelong Romeo and Juliet story fan. She and her fiance were off to Verona where she expects a proposal, but he dumps her the night before the flight. Julie carries on and lands in a villa carefully chosen to overlook Juliet’s Balcony, which she realises is a tourist trap built in the 30s; still Julie’s… View Post
Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power is reportedly the most expensive show in history at a staggering $1B, the first in the series without Peter Jackson, with an all-new cast of characters and it launches Friday. Hint – the series is staggeringly terrific. Meet stars Markella Kavenaugh, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Ema Horvath and Owain Arthur. What… View Post
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies “all the stories in human history”. She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a strangely out-of-focus small man in robes attempts to grab her luggage and… View Post
By Anne Brodie The chemistry is dense between Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, co-stars of George Miller’s romantic fantasy Three Thousand Years of Longing. Swinton is Alithea, a narrologist, a scholar of stories who has chosen a life of intellect over love and is suddenly confronted by a Djinn – a genie from a bottle- while in Istanbul. He asks… View Post
Partner Track, Netflix’ series foray into the workplace, a law firm where twenty-somethings battle it out for every square inch of clout reveals a lot about discrimination, inequality, and sexism – in 2022. We think we’ve come a long way but maybe not, as star Arden Cho tells What She Said’ Anne Brodie. Partner Track on Netflix August 26
By Anne Brodie According to the shocking documentary The Territory, Brazil turns a blind eye to the genocide of its previously uncontacted Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau People. The tribe has lived in the Amazon rainforest for millennia and numbered in the thousands, but today only 180 remain. Over the course of making this documentary, one was murdered by “landgrabbers” and “settlers” determined… View Post