Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always entertaining, and they’re pretty brief. This latest one, which was shown at the London Film Festival and now is only […]
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Collateral is a new four-part drama which begins with one situation, but then moves on quite neatly bringing in a slew of other characters, which is a little dizzying but still highly engaging. After pizza delivery guy Abdul (The State‘s Sam Otto) is picked at the last minute to take out some food to single […]
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The Miniaturist is set in Amsterdam, 1686, where Petronella, aka Nella (Split‘s Anya Taylor-Joy) is marrying sugar trader Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell), and feels very much a fish out of water, even though she’s quite close to the water in that city… Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor […]
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The Commuter is the third episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set in an era that feels like a mixture of ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, with decor jumping between all three. Having worked in a dank railway ticket office or 20 years, Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall) knows every stop on each train […]
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Away is where everyone wants to get to, once in a while, but here, it’s the mismatched pairing of widower Joseph (Timothy Spall) and ex-junkie Ria (Juno Temple), as they meet in a film which drew me in and I found to be very enchanting. Meeting in Blackpool, fate brings them together as Joseph has […]
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I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when he just wants to discuss the heart attack that’s led to his doctor signing him off from work until he […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Briana Shann, Bryn Jones, Colin Coombs, Daniel Blake, Dave Johns, David Murray, Dylan McKiernan, Gavin Webster, George Fenton, Harriet Ghost, Hayley Squires, Helen Dixon, I Daniel Blake, James Hepworth, John Sumner, Julie Nicholson, Kahleen Crawford, Kema Sikazwe, Ken Loach, Kwasi Kwarteng, Laura Jane Barnes-Martin, Mark Burns, Mick Laffey, Micky McGregor, Natalie Ann Jamieson, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O'Brien, Rob Kirtley, Sharon Percy, Stephen Halliday, Viktoria Kay No Comments »The winners were: Diana Semionova, George Worboys Wright & Louise Lumsden. DVDfever.co.uk and Entertainment One have teamed up to give you a chance to win a copy of the critically acclaimed film I, Daniel Blake on DVD, starring Dave Johns, Hayley Squires and directed by Ken Loach. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes […]
Posted in Competitions Tags: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, I Daniel Blake, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty No Comments »The BAFTA 2017 Awards will take place on Sunday February 12th 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: Arrival I, Daniel Blake La La Land Manchester by the Sea […]
Posted in Features Tags: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, American Honey, Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Anya Taylor-Joy, Arrival, BAFTA 2017, Captain Fantastic, Casey Affleck, Damien Chazelle, Denial, Denis Villeneuve, Dev Patel, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fences, Florence Foster Jenkins, Hacksaw Ridge, Hayley Squires, Hell Or High Water, Hugh Grant, I Daniel Blake, Jackie, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ken Loach, Kenneth Lonergan, La La Land, Laia Costa, Lion, Lucas Hedges, Mahershala Ali, Manchester By The Sea, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Moonlight, Naomie Harris, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Nocturnal Animals, Notes on Blindness, Ruth Negga, Ryan Gosling, The Girl on the Train, Tom Ford, Tom Holland, Under the Shadow, Viggo Mortensen, Viola Davis, jeff bridges No Comments » I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when he just wants to discuss the heart attack that’s led to his doctor signing him off from work until he […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Briana Shann, Bryn Jones, Colin Coombs, Daniel Blake, Dave Johns, David Murray, Dylan McKiernan, Gavin Webster, George Fenton, Harriet Ghost, Hayley Squires, Helen Dixon, I Daniel Blake, James Hepworth, John Sumner, Julie Nicholson, Kema Sikazwe, Ken Loach, Kwasi Kwarteng, Laura Jane Barnes-Martin, Mark Burns, Mick Laffey, Micky McGregor, Natalie Ann Jamieson, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O'Brien, Rob Kirtley, Sharon Percy, Stephen Halliday, Viktoria Kay No Comments »I, Daniel Blake is the latest film from veteran director Ken Loach (Kes, Looking For Eric), and is also his second film to win the Palme D’Or at Cannes, the other being 2006’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley, also written by the same screenwriter, Paul Laverty. Starring comedian Dave Johns in the lead role, […]
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