Mary Queen of Scots: ...and Elizabeth 1

It's 1869, England and Scotland are going at it like a couple of rivalrous siblings. Mary is the Queen of Scotland. Elizabeth is on the English thrown. Talk about formidable foes.

Their struggles for power are all the more daunting because they are women in a men's world.

Margot Robbie is an excellent Elizabeth. Saoirse Ronan is her upstart nemesis. We all know the off-with-her-head ending. It's getting there that his beautiful costume drama is supposed to unravel. Alas, it doesn't. Maybe if she cracked open a history book, the Movie Slut would have understood all the twists and turns.

But should she really have to do homework before visiting the multiplex?

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

So you think Peter Parker is the one and only Spider-Man.

How quaint.

So you think there's only one universe.

How last millennium.

In the latest Spider-Man flick we learn about the multi-verse and the other Spider-folks. A break in the time/space continuum brings them together to fight the evil Kingpin.

Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teen, and the Spider-Man in the universe The Movie Slut calls home, is our hero.

It's all flying fun (especially when Peter Porker, aka a Spider-creature Miss Piggy would love, is on screen) and the animation is out of this world, er, universe.

The Favourite:

Poor Queen Anne (Olivia Coleman). She's unsound in body and mind. Luckily she has Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) to make governing decisions. Of course, Lady Sarah always has her own best interest and that of her husband in mind.

It's early in the 18th century. Britain is at war with France. No matter, courtiers are having a grand old time while the peasants pay and die.

Enter Abigail (Emma Stone). She ingratiates herself, first to Lady Sarah and then to the Queen, not to improve conditions for those who are suffering, but to elevate herself and replace Sarah. The formidable Sarah doesn't give up easily.

Let the feathers fly.