Three episodes in, and Jekyll and Hyde finally found its groove … for five minutes. Like when Jekyll tries to restrain his … More
Author: Carl Wilson
Exploring the Morality of Romance within ‘Brief Encounter’, 70 Years On
Despite being released 70 years ago in 1945, Brief Encounter — director David Lean’s tale of two star-crossed lovers desperately … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episode 2 – “Mr Hyde”
Between Ofcom and ITV, last week’s episode amassed more than 800 complaints, and despite starting half-an-hour later this week as originally … More
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episode 1 – “Harbinger”
Adapted and presented as a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, … More
‘An Inspector Calls’ Indicts the Ruling Class in BBC’s Latest Literary Drama
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “An unfaithful rich man walks into a bar and picks up a … More
Rooting for Harry Lime: ‘The Third Man’ As Morally Ambiguous Heterotopia
With 2015 the centenary of Orson Welles’ birth year (1915), cinemas everywhere have been celebrating, commemorating, and exhibiting classic movies … More
Women Screenwriters: Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003)
Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, or Leni Riefenstahl, was a German film director, producer, editor, actress and dancer whose career spanned … More
Women Screenwriters: Anna Melikyan (b. 1976) and the New Post-Soviet Person
Anna Melikyan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and raised in Armenia. In 2002, Melikyan graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of … More
Women Screenwriters: Armenia
After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, the centralized government formed the Armenian Film Foundation in 1923. … More
Taoism, Shintoism, and the Ethics of Technology: An Ecocritical Review of ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’
Building on the continuing tropes that director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli often reflect upon in the cores of their … More
‘The Gamechangers’ Changes Nothing But the Actual Events
Constructed from court documents and interviews with unnamed persons, the BBC’s new factual drama, The Gamechangers professes to go behind … More
‘The Scandalous Lady W’ Is Scandalously Derivative of Better Dramas
Figuratively speaking, I imagine that somewhere in the underground vaults of the BBC there must have been a creative team … More
Carl Wilson 