Ladies First (2026) | REVIEW

Sacha Baron Cohen as Damian Sachs in Netflix’s LADIES FIRST — PHOTO: Netflix (Still image from trailers).

Directed by Thea Sharrock — Screenplay by Natalie Krinsky, Cinco Paul, and Katie Silberman.

Thea Sharrock’s Ladies First is an English-language remake of Netflix’s 2018 French romantic-comedy Je ne suis pas un homme facile (international title: I Am Not An Easy Man) from director Éléonore Pourriat. The film follows Damien Sachs (played by Sacha Baron Cohen), a chauvinist high-ranking executive at an advertising agency, who gets recently promoted creative director Alex Fox (played by Rosamund Pike) to quit her job. She decides to leave when it becomes clear to her that he doesn’t care at all what she thinks and only promoted her for show. As Damien follows her out of their place of employment, he knocks himself out. He then wakes up in a world where positions of power have shifted into some kind of matriarchal society. To get back to his own world, Damien is told that he must rise through the ranks at the advertising agency, all the while overcoming the workplace and societal discrimination that women endure in the patriarchal society from which he originates.

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REVIEW: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Kathryn Hunter in Joel Coen’s THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, now streaming on Apple TV+ — PHOTO: Apple TV+.

Directed by Joel Coen — Screenplay by Joel Coen.

The Coen brothers are obviously one of the most influential and acclaimed filmmaking duos of the late 20th and early 21st Century. I have had the great pleasure of watching and enjoying several of their films, and I think all cinephiles wait eagerly every time one of their projects is announced. The Tragedy of Macbeth is, however, a special entry in their filmography since it is the first solo effort from Joel Coen. Even though his brother did not work on this film, Joel Coen didn’t lose a step. The Tragedy of Macbeth, obviously an adaptation of an oft-adapted Shakespeare play that needs no introduction, is one of the best-looking films of 2021.

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