Emma Dibdin
Emma Dibdin
Articles by Emma Dibdin
DVD: The Artist
Friday, 01 June 2012
What, honestly, is left to say about The Artist? For better or worse, Michel Hazanavicius' warm, wry, subtly audacious love letter to silent cinema dominated conversation, headlines and awards... Read more... |
House, Series Finale, Sky 1
Friday, 25 May 2012
It seems fitting that the final ever episode of a show that has revelled so gleefully in its main character’s willful refusal to change should pivot on the question of whether, finally, he can. This... Read more... |
Homeland, Series Finale, Channel 4
Monday, 07 May 2012
The course of the serialised drama finale never did run smooth, particularly in the case of a show like Homeland, which has structured its entire run around a slow-building sense of queasy, paranoid... Read more... |
Awake, Sky Atlantic
Saturday, 05 May 2012
Try this for high concept. Following a fatal car accident involving his family, LA cop Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) gains access to two parallel realities. Every time he goes to sleep, he crosses... Read more... |
Damsels in Distress
Friday, 27 April 2012
The opening scene of Whit Stillman’s (The Last Days Of Disco) first film in 13 years comprises one of the most immediately familiar scenarios in the American high school genre. A wide-eyed new girl... Read more... |
Playhouse Presents: The Minor Character, Sky Arts
Friday, 13 April 2012
For those who saw David Tennant’s outstanding Hamlet either during the production’s 2008 run at the RSC or in its later television incarnation, there’s likely to be some built-in intrigue to his role... Read more... |
Homeland, Channel 4
Monday, 09 April 2012
The opening credits of US television’s latest watercooler export Homeland have proved to be one of the critically lauded show’s few divisive elements, yet also encapsulate what could be most... Read more... |
This Must Be The Place
Wednesday, 04 April 2012
“There’s something wrong here. I don’t know exactly what it is, but something.” It’s no coincidence that this line bookends Paolo Sorrentino’s much-anticipated English language debut – it's a... Read more... |
Dexter, Series 6, FX
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Now on its third showrunner and entering its sixth season, it’s perhaps not a surprise that this once pitch-black drama, centring on a disturbed forensic analyst who moonlights as a vigilante serial... Read more... |
Mad Men, Series 5, Sky Atlantic
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The most shocking moment in this feature-length episode of Mad Men – for which the phrase “long-awaited” seems an understatement after a 17-month hiatus – is a quiet one. It’s not a moment on... Read more... |
The Hunger Games
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Given the numerous and now pretty tiresome comparisons that pundits and punters alike have drawn between the Hunger Games trilogy and the inexorable Twilight saga, it’s worth taking a moment to... Read more... |
Love Life, ITV1
Friday, 16 March 2012
Following ITV’s resounding victory in the battle of the masters ‘n’ servants period shows – Downton Abbey vs. Upstairs Downstairs, for the uninitiated – the Beeb are overdue for a... Read more... |
White Heat, BBC Two
Friday, 09 March 2012
Everything that’s best about the opening episode of Paula Milne’s White Heat, a decade-straddling saga of seven friends who begin as flatmates in 1960s London, is encapsulated in its Hartley-quoting... Read more... |
The Adopted
Friday, 24 February 2012
Following her nuanced turn last year in Mike Mills’ quietly wrenching Beginners, Mélanie Laurent makes her directorial debut with another dimly idiosyncratic tale of thirtysomethings finding love and... Read more... |
Upstairs Downstairs, Series Two, BBC One
Monday, 20 February 2012
You remember Upstairs Downstairs – the lavish 2010 period drama-cum-soap based around servants and their masters that had the misfortune of not being named Downton Abbey. Making its entrance some... Read more... |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer once described his approach to the writing process as “trying to stop making sense, and create something that just has an effect”. It’s an intention that’s easy to track... Read more... |
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