EMILY MOVIE REVIEW

Actress Frances O’Connor makes her writer/director debut with Emily, the story of the introverted and brilliant author Emily Brontë. After the death of her mother, young Emily (Emma Mackey) is living her own gothic story.  This reclusive and shy poet shut off from the world is to go to school for higher education. Her sister Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) wishes she would conform to some degree of normalcy so the rumors of her strange behaviour will stop troubling their family, but her brother Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) believes she should share all of her darkness with the world and embrace the freedom only opium can bring. Meanwhile William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), the young eligible bachelor and man of god in town, has been tasked by her father to teach her french. Perhaps she’ll teach him some french right back, if you know what I’m saying. Friends, family, lovers, and self discovery will shape the person that picked up the quill and wrote the timeless gothic classic Wuthering Heights. Bradly, Frank, Rose, and Melina hold their own book club and ponder the pages of the woman in comparison to the reels of the character, discuss the 1840’s in all its trappings and triumphs, and deliver some lessons in conjugation and pronunciation that Bradly so desperately needs.

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DIRECTED BY: Frances O’Connor

STARRING: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething, Adrian Dunbar, Gemma Jones

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)

Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the brood. If trends continue, Scientists predict that .2% of Canada (where Bradly and family reside) will be populated by Bradly’s children by the year 2029. You can hear him leading and listening to his favorite critics on the Screener Squad and Eye on the prize and maybe even provide some comments of his own.

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

 

 

Rose Mattox (Screener Squad)

Originally hailing from Austin then Houston, Rose has been an avid movie and TV fanatic pretty much since birth. She spends spending her days watching Star Trek reruns, 60’s spy fiction, and Audrey Hepburn movies with her beloved minion (see: dog Riley). She also occasionally dabbles in comedy, screenwriting,