Nick Hamm lets rip with some gonzo Game of Thrones craziness in his retelling of the William Tell myth with a blue-chip cast. Limbs get chopped off in a style I haven’t seen since the days of Monty Python’s Black Knight. Ben Kingsley is the evil Austrian king with a deliriously designed eyepatch and Jonathan Pryce is the correspondingly decent Swiss monarch. Jonah Hauer-King plays the Swiss courtier Rudenz, who is fatefully tempted into making some sort of collaborationist (neutral?) It’s entirely ridiculous, but performed with absolute seriousness and the result is an innocent amusement.

Source: The Guardian January 15, 2025 19:25 UTC