Euan Franklin

Euan Franklin

wobbly writer. formerly the tv/cinema editor at Culture Whisper. other words: The Quietus, HeyUGuys, The Upcoming, UK Film Review.

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Tree of Life
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Eraserhead

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  • Whisper of the Heart

    ★★★★½

  • Kiki's Delivery Service

    ★★★★½

  • The Day of the Jackal

    ★★★

  • The Intern

    ★★½

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  • Whisper of the Heart

    Whisper of the Heart

    ★★★★½

    I love that movies can keep surprising me like this. I wanted more and the ending felt abrupt, but god, it's such a warm and cosy coming of age tale that grows with the character's creative discovery. Honestly, I think this could be a future five-star rating...

  • Kiki's Delivery Service

    Kiki's Delivery Service

    ★★★★½

    Nursing a cold and another existential crisis, so I really needed this

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  • Emma.

    Emma.

    ★★★★★

    In her debut feature film Emma. (full-stop intended), director Autumn de Wilde examines some deeply romantic and sexual attractions while maintaining a U-rating. This new and gorgeously shot adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel feels ruder, raunchier, and more mature than other recent period pieces suitable for families (Little Women, The Personal History of David Copperfield), but de Wilde and screenwriter Eleanor Catton still entice with strong innuendo. One scene, heavily advertised, has the titular hero Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) biting…

  • The Essex Serpent

    The Essex Serpent

    ★★★½

    It’s a pleasure to see Tom Hiddleston outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the doomed conversations about The Next James Bond. Wedged inside the hit-or-miss comic book factory, you occasionally forget he’s a strong, Shakesperean marvel on his own.

    And yet, his introduction in Anna Symon's new period drama The Essex Serpent – adapted from Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel – is perhaps as theatrical as the two franchises mentioned above. In a display of rustic masculinity, he wrestles a…