Tag Archives: Carey Mulligan

Review in Brief: Promising Young Woman (2020)

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

With PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN writer-director Emerald Fennell has crafted one of the most challenging and keen-edged debut films in years, and it’s making just the right kinds of people mad. Cassie (Carey Mulligan) spends her evenings pretending to be blackout … Continue reading →

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Review: Wildlife (2018)

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I’m not yet 30 but WILDLIFE makes me feel old. Paul Dano was the stroppy teenager in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, now he’s directing movies. The ever-youthful looking Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal are now old enough to be playing the … Continue reading →

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Review: Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

In the latest adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s groundbreaking period romance, Thomas Vinterberg directs, David Nicholls adapts the novel, and Carey Mulligan is our Bathsheba. Bathsheba Everdene’s (Mulligan) fortunes change when she inherits a relative’s manor house and farmland, and she … Continue reading →

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Radio 1 Rescores Drive: Spoiling Through Experimentation

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

DRIVE is, at this moment in time, my favourite film of the last ten years. Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir completely and utterly blew me away, and its superlative, moody electro soundtrack was a big part of why it worked so … Continue reading →

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Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Some critics have compared the Coen Brothers’ latest film, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS to their previous downbeat allegory for life and its essential rubbishness, A SERIOUS MAN. There are similarities, but in some ways I see it as more akin to … Continue reading →

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