A Complete Unknown tells the story of the 4-to-5-year period after Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet – Wonka) arrives in New York in 1961, using this moniker as opposed to his birth name, Robert Zimmerman, and …
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A Complete Unknown tells the story of the 4-to-5-year period after Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet – Wonka) arrives in New York in 1961, using this moniker as opposed to his birth name, Robert Zimmerman, and …
Continue readingThe Great… what? The Great Soprendo? No, it’s Catherine The Great, but they couldn’t call it that because of the 2019 drama with Helen Mirren. Beginning in 1761 and billed as “an occasionally true story”, …
Continue readingMaleficent: Mistress of Evil sees Angelina Jolie return as the evil Maleficent, and this has taken five years to come round, but here it is. This time, the complex relationship of Maleficent and Aurora (Elle …
Continue readingTeen Spirit stars Elle Fanning (Trumbo) as Violet, a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local …
Continue readingGalveston is a noirish crime thriller which centres around New Orleans hitman Roy Cady (Ben Foster), diagnosed with lung cancer at 40. Before the cancer can do him in, however, he has more pressing concerns …
Continue readingHow to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s …
Continue readingMary Shelley (Elle Fanning) wrote the hit horror novel Frankenstein, and this movie tells of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Ms Shelley writing …
Continue readingHow to Talk to Girls at Parties, from John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late 70s. Under …
Continue readingThe Vanishing of Sidney Hall, portrayed by Logan Lerman, centres around the titular author who finds accidental success and unexpected love at an early age, then disappears without a trace. Lots of people smile as …
Continue readingThe Beguiled is a remake of Clint Eastwood’s 1971 western, directed by Don Siegel. While imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s …
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