MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Directed by Josie Rourke
Cert 15. 124 mins
If you like history don’t see this film, it will irritate you beyond words. Very loosely based on the turbulent events of the late 1500s, it is a postmodern, diversity-obsessed muddle.
Even the casting and costumes are an eclectic mix of Game of Thrones and Star Wars, with black and half-Chinese courtiers and a bisexual Lord Darnley thrown in for good measure, his cronies dressed in hi-tech polished leather from Milan.
