Baghdad Central is a new 6-part Channel 4 drama which begins in the city, in March 2003, and the residents know the US troops are coming for Saddam Hussein, and as we know from history, it happens on March 20th. Fast-forward to November 2003, and the invasion is still happening. To add to the woes […]
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The Report is a thriller based on actual events and centres around idealistic staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver – Paterson), whois tasked by his boss Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) to lead an investigation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program created in the aftermath of 9/11. Jones’ relentless pursuit of the truth leads […]
First Man is a film which I really wanted to see in 70mm IMAX scenes in full-height (1.44:1), for the lunar scenes, which is normally the preserve of 70mm screenings, such as last year’s Dunkirk. However, Vue Printworks have chosen this dumb time to ‘upgrade’ from 70mm to Laser IMAX, and while the upgrading aspect […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Christopher Abbott, Ciarán Hinds, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Damien Chazelle, Ethan Embry, First Man, Isaac Klausner, James R Hansen, Jason Clarke, Josh Singer, Justin Hurwitz, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Kyle Chandler, Lukas Haas, Marty Bowen, Matthew Glave, Olivia Hamilton, Pablo Schreiber, Patrick Fugit, Ryan Gosling, Shea Whigham, Wyck Godfrey No Comments » First Man has a second trailer out now, and I’ve since learned that some scenes (IMDB confirms it’s the lunar sequences) are shot in 70mm IMAX, where the screen will open up to 1.44:1, so I do hope that the Manchester Printworks are showing this! The film is due for release in the UK on […]
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 […]
Gold! No, not another Spandau Ballet movie, but one starring Matthew McConaughey (Kubo And The Two Strings), where an unlikely pair venture to the Indonesian jungle in search of the stuff that glitters… with a golden colour. This rather daft-looking comedy is directed by Stephen Gaghan and written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman, and […]
Café Society stars Jesse Eisenberg as James, a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s, hoping to work in the film industry. There, he falls in love with Theresa (Kristen Stewart), and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age. Written and directed by the […]
Anesthesia looks like a movie where you will NOT need an injection to knock you out into next week because this dose of 90 minutes will bore you into a coma. Philosophy professor Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterson) is wounded during a mugging. In an effort to escape he rings buzzers indiscriminately, waking Sam (Corey Stoll), […]
Black Mass is a film I was expecting to like a lot more than I did. It’s still good, and it’s worth a watch, but by all accounts I was expecting this to be brilliant. And it isn’t. The best thing about this true story is, undoubtedly, Johnny Depp as James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, whose tale […]
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Ant-Man is another movie in the seemingly never-ending Marvel canon. I’ve said before that I don’t follow the comic books so I only know of what is presented before me in movie form, and I have to say that, from the moment I first heard about this entry in the series, I wasn’t exactly wowed. […]
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