A Dangerous Method whips up a fantasy with a female archetype
David Cronenberg's film about the pioneers of psychoanalysis digs deep into real events, but stretches the truth with its spanking scenes and Hollywood version of Sabina SpielreinA Dangerous Method (2012)Director: David CronenbergEntertainment grade: B...
La Reine Margot: sober dispatch or shameless massacre?
This Dumas adaptation drags French history kicking and screaming into the town squareDirector: Patrice ChéreauEntertainment grade: B+History grade: DMarguerite of Valois, known within her family as Margot, was queen of Navarre from 1572 and of France ...
The Comedians treads a thin line between love and Haiti
Graham Greene's historically reflective story of the terror of 'Papa Doc' loses out to the Burton/Taylor romantic juggernautDirector: Peter GlenvilleEntertainment grade: C+History grade: A–François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected president of Haiti ...
Becoming Jane: a novel take but still lost in Austen | Reel history
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the gaps in this Jane Austen biography were filled in from Pride and Prejudice
Director: Julian Jarrold
Entertainment grade: B–
History grade: C
Jane Austen is remembered for six novels she published in the early 19th century, originally under the pseudonym "A Lady"....
From Hell: a ripping yarn turned into a yawn
Johnny Depp's Jack the Ripper detective uncovers a plot that will 'rip the empire to pieces' in a film that puts history through the shredder
Director: The Hughes brothers
Entertainment grade: D
History grade: Fail
In 1888, a serial killer terrorised Whitechapel in the east end of London. Known in the...
The Libertine loses by a nose