Posts by Ashley Clark

A Fiennes Mess – Why the casting of a new Michael Jackson TV show has ruffled feathers

By Ashley Clark

The news that Joseph Fiennes, a white British actor, will play the King of Pop is as perplexing as it is insulting.

Creed

By Ashley Clark

A franchise is reborn in sensational fashion courtesy of director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B Jordan.

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Steve Jobs

By Ashley Clark

This triple-pronged character study of the Apple godhead is bogged down in reams of self-satisfied Sorkinese.

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Second Coming

By Ashley Clark

An extremely intriguing and morally ambiguous south London psychodrama from Debbie Tucker Green.

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An interview with Cop and a Half’s Norman D Golden II

By Ashley Clark

A random exchange helped us to catch up with the star of 1993’s underrated cross-generational buddy comedy.

12 Years a Slave

By Ashley Clark

One of Britain’s greatest living filmmakers offers an outraged, intense and artful examination of American slavery.

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Blackfish

By Ashley Clark

When Orcas attack! Gabriela Cowperthwaite reveals the seamy underside of family water parks.

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No

By Ashley Clark

Gael García Bernal takes down a dictator with glossy TV advertising in this brilliant Chilean satire.

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Margaret

By Ashley Clark

Anna Paquin is on career-best form in this important post-9/11 movie with its own troubled mythology.

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The Thing

By Ashley Clark

While the characterisation is thin and delivered in broad strokes, by the time havoc breaks loose it’s unlikely you’ll care too much.

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