Alex J. Reviews
 

Jolie as Callas. In this haunting, if borderline depressing film Maria (2024), Pablo Larraín completes his trilogy of films focusing on important female figures of the 20th century by taking the famed opera singer Maria Callas as its subject (its predecessors being Spencer and Jackie about Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy/Onassis respectively). Angelina Jolie is given the role of a lifetime as Maria Callas as she plays the singer in the last week of her life, beginning on th

It’s definitely an interview we’ll never forget for those of us who watched Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview in 2019 (which, let’s face it, was most of us). I fear the phrases “Pizza Express in Woking” and “it was just a straightforward shooting weekend” are etched into my brain forever. And five years after it aired, we have been given not one but two dramatizations of this interview a few months apart. The first to be released was the Netflix film Scoop (2024, dir. Phili

I wrote this review of All of Us Strangers several months ago after the film first came out in cinemas, so I thought I'd share it here. Whilst I usually gravitate towards films with female leads, you can never go wrong with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal... ever. A cute little postcard I picked up from the cinema. SPOILERS AHEAD Cinemagoers have undoubtedly been held in an emotional chokehold since the release of All of Us Strangers . With its combination of euphoric highs (qui

Over the years there has been plenty of conversation about creating more female led film/TV projects, whether that be written, directed, produced by or starred in by women. But even now, a show like Daddy Issues  still feels like its filling a void when it comes to these female led projects. It still feels like a breath of fresh air to have a TV show centred entirely on a young woman, which is both a testament to the representation Daddy Issues provides but also a possible w