Andrea Riseborough

It should come as no surprise that Madonna would be fascinated by the story of Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced socialite for whom King Edward VIII (David, as his familiars called him) abdicated the British throne in order to marry. Simpson, the subject of Madonna’s new film W.E., was a survivor: outspoken, calculating, popular yet unpopular in the media, and sexual and ambitious at a time when ...[Read More]

It’s the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe’s glossy update of Graham Greene’s canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock. Transposing the setting from pre-war England to the era of “teddy boys” on scooters, director Joffe graduates from BBC television movies to his first feature—an assured effort masking a lack of suspenseful drive and only scratching the surface of Greene’s ponderings on...[Read More]