Red Joan stars Judi Dench as Joan Stanley, in a film which tells her story as the woman who was exposed as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy… It sounds completely mad, but it’s a true story inspired by the life of British civil servant Melita Norwood. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. […]
Artemis Fowl II (Ferdia Shaw) is a young Irish criminal mastermind, who kidnaps the fairy LEPrecon officer Holly Short (Lara McDonnell) for ransom to fund the search for his missing father in order to restore the family fortune. I thought this was a period drama based purely on the thumbnail, but it’s clearly not, and […]
Murder on the Orient Express – Listen very carefully; I shall review this only once! The flim centres around… yes, a murder, on the train known as the Orient Express. Bet that surprised you, eh? Someone has died, and someone is going to be fingered for the crime. And who better to do the fingering […]
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No Comments »Murder on the Orient Express retells Agatha Christie‘s many-told tale with plenty of dodgy cod-French accents, as shown by the trailer, on a lavish train ride, on which unfolds a stylish & suspenseful mystery, it says here, and all in a race for thirteen stranded strangers and one man’s race to solve the puzzle before […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers, News Tags: Adam Garcia, Agatha Christie, Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Miranda Raison, Murder on the Orient Express, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, olivia colman Comments Off on Murder on the Orient Express (2017) – Trailer 2Murder on the Orient Express retells Agatha Christie‘s many-told tale with plenty of dodgy cod-French accents, as shown by the trailer, on a lavish train ride, on which unfolds a stylish & suspenseful mystery, it says here, and all in a race for thirteen stranded strangers and one man’s race to solve the puzzle before […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Adam Garcia, Agatha Christie, Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Miranda Raison, Murder on the Orient Express, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, olivia colman Comments Off on Murder on the Orient Express (2017) – Trailer 1Victoria and Abdul tells the tale I’ve never heard of before, where Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal). Directed by Stephen Frears, and based on the novel by Shrabani Basu, it also stars Olivia Williams, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Eddie Izzard, Tim […]
Tulip Fever stars Christoph Waltz (Spectre) as artist Cornelis Sandvoort, who falls for young, married Sophia (Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander, right, with Waltz) while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom), with a screenplay by […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, David Harewood, Deborah Moggach, Holliday Grainger, Jack O'Connell, Judi Dench, Justin Chadwick, Kevin McKidd, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander, Tom Stoppard, Tulip Fever, Zach Galifianakis No Comments »
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children begins with a preamble where Jake (Asa Butterfield) dotes on his elderly grandfather, Abe (Terence Stamp), who – after being attacked – he tells him to get away to the island, plus a load of nonsensical gibberish, concluding, “I know you think I’m crazy, but the bird will explain […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Aiden Flowers, Allison Janney, Andrew Fibkins, Asa Butterfield, Brooke Jaye Taylor, Cameron Greco, Cameron King, Chris O’Dowd, Ella Purnell, Ella Wahlestedt, Eva Green, Finlay MacMillan, George Vricos, Georgia Pemberton, Hayden Keeler-Stone, Helen Day, Ioan Hefin, Jack Brady, Jack Fibkins, Jane Goldman, Jennifer Jarackas, Jenno Topping, Joseph Odwell, Judi Dench, Justin Davies, Kim Dickens, Lauren McCrostie, Louis Davison, Matthew Margeson, Michael Higham, Milo Parker, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Nicholas Amer, Nicholas Oteri, O-Lan Jones, Peter Chernin, Philip Philmar, Pixie Davies, Raffiella Chapman, Ransom Riggs, Rupert Everett, Samuel L. Jackson, Scott Handy, Shaun Thomas, Terence Stamp, Thomas Odwell, Tim Burton No Comments »Tulip Fever stars Christoph Waltz (Spectre) as artist Cornelis Sandvoort, who falls for young, married Sophia (Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander, right, with Waltz) while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom), with a screenplay by […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, David Harewood, Deborah Moggach, Holliday Grainger, Jack O'Connell, Judi Dench, Justin Chadwick, Kevin McKidd, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander, Tom Stoppard, Tulip Fever, Zach Galifianakis No Comments »Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children brings us Tim Burton with another madcap world, this time featuring a lot who were obviously too cutesy for the mutant world of the X-Men, with Sin City: A Dame To Kill For‘s Eva Green as the titular Miss Peregrine. When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery […]
