Day 9 – The letter ‘J’ – And this time, to Ireland, for the Ken Loach directed drama ‘Jimmy’s Room’ based on the true story of Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman ever deported from Ireland. Its 1932, and Gralton is returning to village of his birth in Leitrim, Ireland. He is returning having spent a number of years in America.
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For the next day in the Alphabet challenge, we’re off to India and a film from Bollywood… The 2010 indian film ‘Ishqiya’ (Ishqiya means ‘romantic’ I think), is a dark comedy centres around 3 main characters. The first is Krishna Verma who is married to a local gangster that specialises in kidnappings called Vidyadhar Verma. Very early in the film
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The sisters in question here are Maura and Kate Ellis, raised in Orlando and now attempting to live adult lives. Maura (Amy Poehler) is a divorcee, do-gooder nurse who spends time helping the homeless, rescuing animals and penning motivational, quotes. Her older sister, Kate (Tina Fey) is the hot headed, reckless older sister who is a beautician with a daughter in
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For our day of ‘H’ in the Alphabet challenge, it’s off to a ship called the ‘Rosen’ which falls victim to a hijacking by Somali pirates in the 2012 danish film ‘A Hijacking’ (or Kapringen to use it’s original danish title). The ship is a merchant ship with a small crew of 7 men employed by the danish shipping company
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Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a former superstar chef, who has just completed his self imposed penance of shelling 1 million oysters over a 3 year period in a New Orleans restaurant. 3 years ago he was a 2 michelin star chef in Paris until he lost it all through addiction to drink and drugs. Now though he is on
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Day 7 of the Alphabet Challenge, and for ‘G’ its the 2014 drama ‘Good Kill’, written and directed by Andrew Niccol (previously of Lord of War, The Truman Show, Gattaca). The film centres on Major Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) of the 61st attack squadron and his small military team that are based in Las Vegas but responsible for operating military drones
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For the 6th day in the Alphabet challenge, we’re off to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the film 1996 film ‘Fargo’. Directed and written by the Coen brothers, this classic comedy / drama / thriller film is the tale of a a kidnapping and subsequent events that spiral out of control. It went on to reap a number of awards including 2
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It there life on Mars? Or more specifically, on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. And that’s where we are off to for Day ‘E’ of the Alphabet challenge… This 2013 film by director Sebastian Cordero is a fictional tale of 6 astronauts on a mission to reach Europa and conduct tests to answer that very question. Early on in the film, we
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I’m not sure that the UK music industry has gotten over the death of Amy Winehouse in 2011, from alcohol poisoning. It’s that very story that is captured through the 2015 documentary ‘Amy’ directed by Asif Kapadia (whose previous work includes Senna – an equally touching film). There is a significant amount of footage that has been acquired by Kapadia
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Day 4 in the Alphabet Challenge (Alphabet Challenge) and today is…..Draft Day. Sonny Weaver Jnr (Kevin Costner) is about to have a very trying day. He is general manager of the Cleveland Browns NFL team and is going into his biggest day of the year – draft day. The day in which 224 young players are picked by the 36
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