Hoodwinks

Succession is back, sweeping portentously over New York’s skyline, reeking of money and menace. Like the very best seasons of The Real Housewives, it has everything: fabulous couture, looming mansions, smashing mini-breaks and the generous invitation to pity or despise almost all the characters in it.Succession led the way, but since we last left the Roys in late 2021 there has been an explosion of “eat the rich” on screen. The rich have been skewered figuratively in The White Lotus and literally in The Menu. In Triangle…

via Lionsgate When done right, the breezy heist comedy is always worth checking out when you want to kick back and relax to something that’s equal parts undemanding and entertaining, but when it goes horrendously wrong, though, you end up with something like 2018’s The Con Is On. There was plenty of talent in front of the camera, but director James Oakley ended up going zero-for-two behind it. The filmmaker’s first feature The Devil You Know was shot in 2005 but didn’t release for another eight years, while his…