Charles Hubbard

By Charles Hubbard, Film & TV Deputy Editor The announcement that a major movie studio is releasing a dark and gritty reboot of Robin Hood is now greeted with virtually as much frustration and face-palming in film circles as a US president announcing their entry into a new war in the Middle East that will totally be quick and easy and won’t turn into a decades-long quagmire littered with horrific human rights violations and terrible long-term impacts on the global economy.

By Charles Hubbard, Film & TV Deputy Editor Right from the moment Will Gluck’s follow-up to the breakout success of Anyone But You (2023) was announced, it was greeted with aggressive, mocking derision. A rom-com set in a world where people are only legally allowed to have sex on one night of the year? It makes the various oddities in Gluck’s previous films, which also include Easy A (2010) and Friends with Benefits (2011) look practically low-concept by comparison.

By Charles Hubbard, Film & TV Deputy Editor We have come to the beginning of yet another autumn festival season. It feels like only yesterday that Paul Thomas Anderson’s superbly prescient One Battle After Another (2025) swept the above-the-line categories and Michael B. Jordan deservedly took home the acting world’s biggest prize for Sinners (2025) at last year’s Academy Awards.