Orphaned as a result of a smallpox epidemic, siblings Jack (Levon Hawke) and Lula Parker (Esme Creed-Miles) leave their homestead and, with their grandfather, begin a journey across forbidding territory to their aunt’s place. A run-in with notorious outlaw Cutthroat Bill (Juliette Lewis) ends with grandfather dead, Lula kidnapped and Jack needing to rescue his […]
By Guest Contributor Helen Creighton Game of Thrones has finally ended, and not in a way everyone found entirely satisfactory. This is nothing new in television; there’s a history of beloved, long-running shows dropping final seasons or finales that leave their audiences feeling cheated. Take the long-running 80s hospital drama St. Elsewhere, concluded with the […]
Whilst for many of us post-apocalyptic narratives may be synonymous with zombies and/or marauding biker gangs in extravagant costumes, pare it back and they typically come down to the same key idea: being the last person alive in a world that is no more. From Robert Neville of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, to Max […]
When a new movie arrives in a haze of awards season fever, it can be hard to know what to expect. So many films seem specifically designed to pick up the coveted film industry gongs (Gary Oldman in a fat suit playing Churchill, anyone?) However, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri might have plenty of that […]