Fighting With My Family looks like the perfect example of a film where once you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the entire film. Nick Frost is former wrestler Ricky Knight who, together with his family, make a living performing at small venues around the country, while his children dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment. However, […]
The Long Song is set during the slaves’ Christmas rebellion of 1831, and while I’m not usually one for period dramas, if they can somehow make it engaging, then they still do have a chance. The story centres around headstrong slave July (Tamara Lawrance), as she’s putting arrogant mistress Caroline (Hayley Atwell) into her tight […]
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Mary Queen of Scots explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird). Queen of France at 16, and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry, but iInstead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. Alas, Scotland and England fall under the rule of the […]
Dunkirk tells the story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which was code-named Operation Dynamo – although that wasn’t named in this film, and showed the extrication of our soldiers from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour in Northern France, in an operation which took place in 1940 from May 26th to June 4th. Personally, I wasn’t too […]
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England Is Mine takes the period in Steven Patrick Morrissey’s life from first constructing thoughts about poetry, whether reading or writing, and up to the time when he would embark upon a career with Johnny Marr, in 1982. “Life, in its humdrum sense, is worth avoiding… and through it all, a sense that things are […]
Posted in DVD, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adam Lawrence, Baldwin Li, England Is Mine, Finney Cassidy, Graeme Hawley, Jack Lowden, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jodie Comer, Joseph Carter, Katherine Pearce, Laurie Kynaston, Marc Graham, Mark Gill, Nicola-Jayne Wells, Orian Williams, Peter McDonald, Rosanna, Simone Kirby, William Thacker No Comments » Dunkirk tells the story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, which was code-named Operation Dynamo – although that wasn’t named in this film, and showed the extrication of our soldiers from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour in Northern France, in an operation which took place in 1940 from May 26th to June 4th. Personally, I wasn’t too […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, Brian Vernel, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, Elliott Tittensor, Emma Thomas, Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Jack Lowden, James D'Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Guthrie, Mark Rylance, Matthew Marsh, Tom Glynn Carney, Tom Hardy, hans zimmer No Comments »Dunkirk is coming to UK cinemas on July 21st, and it looks great, but I don’t want too many spoilers before I watch it, but there’s something a bit special compared to a trailer which has been released today… This latest video is a candid roundtable conversation between young stars Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Tom […]
