Hillbilly Elegy. The Most Overwrought Film of 2020.

Occasionally a film starts building up infamy in critical circles from the second it is released. Initially, Ron Howard’s latest project for Netflix looked like it was gunning for a major award season slot. Then critics started seeing it in earnest. The news that it was a potentially embarrassing disaster came down the pipeline. This

Lockdown Streaming Reviews #18. Artemis Fowl, (Disney +)

This adaptation of the much-loved book series was already looking shaky quality wise when it was announced as being booted from cinemas and going directly to Disney + as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Then the review embargo lifted and it became clear that high fantasy story of an antihero child genius was looking like another