Review – Official Secrets
Official Secrets delivers a moralistic tale for our time, and sees a powerful performance by Keira Knightley
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Review – Knives Out
Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc gives us a hugely enjoyable performance in a film that is an excellent celebration of the whodunnit genre
Read moreReview – Green Book
2018’s Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book, is a thoroughly enjoyable and affirming tale of friendship and humanity.
Read moreReview – American Woman
Sienna Miller is outstanding in this gritty drama about the disappearance of her daughter, and the impacts that play out
Read moreReview – The Good Liar
Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen remind us why they are considered acting royalty with this rollercoaster of a thriller that may not be as clever as it thinks, but is entirely enjoyable all the same.
Read moreReview – Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach’s latest film is a remarkably powerful exploration about working in the gig economy that should be required viewing
Read moreReview – Darkest Hour
One of the most famous individuals of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, is the focus for the new historical drama Darkest Hour – with director Joe Wright. Set in a 3 week period during 1940, we see Churchill coming to power and near immediately facing the pressures from his own party to seek a potential compromise with the German army,
Read moreReview – The Founder
The latest film by director John Lee Hancock (previously directed Saving Mr Banks and The Blind Side) is the 2016 biopic drama The Founder. The film is written by Robert D. Siegel whose most known work was 2008’s The Wrestler. The tells the story of Ray Kroc played by Michael Keaton, a middle aged milkshake machine salesman in 1950’s USA,
Read moreReview – Vertigo
The second film by Alfred Hitchcock in the Alphabet Challenge is for V and ‘Vertigo’ from 1958. One of the four films that James Stewart would make with Hitchock, and only two that were not overtly a more theatre setting, Vertigo is a dark pyschological thriller. Stewart plays John “Scottie” Ferguson a police detective in San Francisco, who has retired following
Read moreReview -Unbroken
Unbroken, the wartime drama story of the harrowing experience of Louis Zamperini at the hands of the Japanese during the second World War, is the film for U in the Alphabet challenge this year. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie with a screenplay partly written by the Coen Brothers. Zamperini, a talented runner pre war who had participated in
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