Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is set in the Scouse city in 1981, and it wasn’t until after I saw this that I discovered it was based on a true story. I hadn’t heard of her before and so that’s how I approached watching this which, at the start, finds actress Gloria Grahame (Annette […]
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No Comments »Life Itself is a forthcoming Amazon movie, and as soon as it said it’s from the creators of This Is Us, I wanted to cave my head in – typical sickly-swee crap for women, a la anything from Kay Mellor… I live in hope that she will one day write something amazing and unique, but […]
The Seagull centres around aging actress Irina Arkadina (Annette Bening), who pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin (Brian Dennehy) and her son Konstantin (Billy Howle) on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), a successful novelist, with her. Nina (Saoirse Ronan), a free and innocent girl on […]
The BAFTA 2018 Awards will take place on Sunday February 18th and will be broadcast on BBC1 that evening. The nominations are as follows and, as usual, they include a stack of films which haven’t even been released yet in the UK. Best Film: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Shape Of […]
Posted in Features Tags: All the Money in the World, Allison Janney, Annette Bening, BAFTA 2018, Blade Runner 2049, Call Me by Your Name, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Plummer, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Darkest Hour, Denis Villeneuve, Dunkirk, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Florence Pugh, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, God's Own Country, Guillermo del Toro, Hugh Grant, I Am Not a Witch, I Tonya, Jamie Bell, Jawbone, Josh O’Connor, Kingdom Of Us, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lady Bird, Lady Macbeth, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville, Luca Guadagnino, Margot Robbie, Martin McDonagh, Octavia Spencer, Paddington 2, Phantom Thread, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Tessa Thompson, The Death of Stalin, The Florida Project, The Ghoul, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson No Comments »Rules Don’t Apply tells the unconventional love story of aspiring actress Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), her determined driver, Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), and the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty), for whom they work. Set in 1958 Hollywood, 1958, small town beauty queen and devout Baptist Marla is under contract to the latter and arrives […]
Danny Collins stars Al Pacino in the titular role as as aging 1970s rocker who can’t give up his hard-living ways, that is until he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon, and brought to him by his manager (Christopher Plummer). At that point, he decides to change course and embarks on […]
The Search is a new drama about a woman who works for a non-governmental organization, and who forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. And that’s about it for the plot. What follows isn’t the most intriguing-looking drama out there but maybe it’ll work for some. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, The […]
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