Insta Critic

Sam Mendes, the director who has an Oscar to his credit has announced his plans of making the first movie on the George Eliot novel Middlemarch. The director, who is the husband of Titanic fame Kate Winslet, is famous for directing US blockbuster...

...the movie, in spite of occasional concessions to melodrama, never produces much insight into or sympathetic connection with its characters. Mr. Swofford's memoir, which has a churning, abrasive immediacy, has been subjected to the aloof aestheticism...