Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 out of 5 stars) Adapted from Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story The Wicker Husband, directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson bring a distinct, folkloric oddity to the screen. Wicker transports audiences to an indeterminate, storybook past—presumably a medieval era where conformity is law and isolation is a crime punishable by public ridicule. In this timeless, rustic settlement, nobody possesses a proper given name. Instead, the inhabitants are defined

The first time I heard of Patrick Stewart, or heard that amazing voice was in 1988 when the VHS tapes of Star Trek: The Next Generation went on sale, the series having started airing in 1987. The first words spoken were Picard's monologue, the famous "Captain's Log" as he introduced himself to us and his crew as he familiarised himself with his new command, the USS Enterprise (NCC 1701-D). Growing up, I recall him being in 'I, Claudius' on the BBC but that was the "kind of st

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5/5 Sixteen years ago, Portland-based animation studio LAIKA optioned Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’s beloved fantasy novel Wildwood, setting in motion a creative odyssey that has finally culminated in a staggering cinematic triumph. In an era where mainstream animation often defaults to slick, computer-generated uniformity and the looming specter of artificial intelligence threatens the very concept of handmade art, director Travis Knight and his army of artisans h