Review: Hedda Gabler, A Woman Unrestrained

Review: Hedda Gabler, A Woman Unrestrained

“My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father’s daughter than her husband’s wife.”-Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen, “the father of realism”, is the most performed dramatist in the world after...
Review: Amma Asante’s ‘Belle’

Review: Amma Asante’s ‘Belle’

Amma Asante’s Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, is film perfection. Belle is inspired by the real life story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the beautiful mixed-race illegitimate daughter of Royal Navy Admiral Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode). Belle lived in the 18th century...