The Hunger Games: Catching Fire sees Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) a little on edge after winning the 74th Hunger Games alongside Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) in the first film. Not difficult to see why when …
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire sees Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) a little on edge after winning the 74th Hunger Games alongside Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) in the first film. Not difficult to see why when …
Continue readingLike all right-thinking people, I saw Cinema Paradiso back in the day and absolutely loved it. Who can’t fail to be charmed by the tale of the love of cinema bringing together projectionist Alfredo (Philippe …
Continue readingThe Grand Budapest Hotel centers around an elderly Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), in 1985,recounting tales about his life at the hotel to a young writer (Jude Law), starting from the moment he started as …
Continue readingThe Monuments Men is a film that can be summed up in one sentence, and really should be meant to play out equally succinctly but, unfortunately, is allowed by its director and lead actor, George …
Continue readingEnder’s Game takes place in the near future and sets the scene that 50 years ago, an alien race called the Formics attacked the Earth and were only defeated by the big commander, Mazer Rackham …
Continue readingStalingrad, as you’d expect, is a film which looks at the famous battle which mostly took place in late 1942, during World War II, and is a Russian-made film which surprised me in managing to …
Continue readingLe Weekend is so-called, not because the film is in French, but because Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan) are on a romantic weekend away to Paris for their wedding anniversary. Having travelled via …
Continue readingDallas Buyers Club doesn’t beat about the bush when it comes to introducing the protagonist. Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is a sexist, homophobic mysoginist and when we first see him, having sex with with a …
Continue readingNot Another Happy Ending is Karen Gillan‘s first movie since finishing Doctor Who, which brought her to the fore as Amy Pond. Here, she plays struggling author Jane Lockhart, and finally, after squillions of rejection …
Continue readingFilth, from Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, has taken a lot longer to come to the screen and I had high hopes for it since Trainspotting is an incredible movie from start to finish. Oh, by …
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