Tom Bateman

Hedda / Amazon MGM Studios (2025)

Hedda (Movie Review)

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (first performed in 1891) is a classic tale about power, control, and the suffocating banality of privilege. In Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, in select theaters on October 22nd, and premiering globally on Prime Video on October 29th, the writer/director honors the source text, ... Read More

Death on the Nile (Movie Review)

If anyone thought 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express was the last people would see of Kenneth Branagh (Wild Wild West 1999, Thor 2011) as Hercule Poirot, then, uh, woops? Just like in the 1970s, Death on the Nile follows its train-based predecessor, shifting the ... Read More

B&B (Movie Review)

The gays have long been fighting for equal rights, a pursuit which has led to many of them also having to fight for their lives. Religion has waged war on sexuality since the beginning of time, often condemning and sometimes even killing and/or torturing those ... Read More