Sherwood Week: Validating your prioress

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD

2026

Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski

Spoilers: moderate

This is nothing like Avatar! (Rating: mostly true)

HOPPERS

2026

Directed by Daniel Chong

Written by Jesse Andrews and Daniel Chong

Spoilers: moderate

There are no abominable snowmen; there are no sasquatches; there are no bigfeet!

HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS

1987

Directed by William Dear

Written by William E. Martin, Ezra D. Rappaport, and William Dear

Spoilers: high

The aristocrats!

SALTBURN

2023

Written and directed by Emerald Fennell

Spoilers: moderate

Disinherit the earth

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese (based on the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann)

Spoilers: N/A

American Gothic Week: For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats is a groan

CRY OF THE BANSHEE

1970

Directed by Gordon Hessler

Written by Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Help! I'm being disorientated!

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

1970

Directed by Gordon Hessler

Written by Milton Subotsky and Christopher Wicking (based on the novel The Disorientated Man by Steven V. Francis and W. Howard Baker d/b/a "Peter Saxon")

Spoilers: moderate

O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

OTHELLO

1995

Written and directed by Oliver Parker (based on the play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare)

Spoilers: presumably inapplicable

Middle-age wolf

WOLF

1994

Directed by Mike Nichols

Written by Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick, and Elaine May

Spoilers: moderate

Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! I, the miserable and abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN

1994

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Written by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont (based on the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley) 

Spoilers: inapplicable, right?

Auld acquaintance

PETER'S FRIENDS

1992

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Written by Rita Rudner and Martin Bergman

Spoilers: mild

Doctor Manhattan

OPPENHEIMER

2023

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)

Spoilers: N/A

Kick me in the jimmy

THE STORY OF QIU JU

1992

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Liu Heng (based on the novella "The Wan Family's Lawsuit" by Chen Yuabin)

Spoilers: mild

Steven Spielberg, part XXXIX: Hey, I know a song, it's called "While You Were Singing, I Got Stabbed In the Head By a Puerto Rican"

WEST SIDE STORY

2021

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Written by Tony Kushner (based on the play by Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim)

Spoilers: severe

Transparent allegory

GLASS ONION

2022

Written and directed by Rian Johnson

Spoilers: moderate

The Encyclopedia Brown: There's gold in them thar hills

THE TRAIL OF '98

1928

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Farnham, and Waldemar Young (based on the novel by Robert W. Service)

Spoilers: well, it certainly doesn't last, does it? (moderate)

The fifth famous dan (er, not Zhang Junqiu)

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

1993

Directed by Chen Kaige

Written by Lu Wei and Lilian Lee (based on the novel by Lilian Lee)

Spoilers: moderate, maybe high

I love college. I love everything about it.

DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS

1998

Directed by Alan Cohn

Written by Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder, Michael Traeger, and Mike White

Spoilers: moderate

When blorlds collide

DON'T LOOK UP

2021

Directed by Adam McKay

Written by David Sirota and Adam McKay

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: She's gone with the hula hula boys, she don't care about me

HURRICANE

1979

Directed by Jan Troell

Written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (based on the novel The Hurricane by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordoff)

Spoilers: well, there's a hurricane in it, but moderate, I guess