Journey’s End takes place towards the conclusion of World War I, for a few days from Monday, 18th March 1918 onwards, in St Quentin, Northern France. There’s a stalemate, and the Germans want to break this. It’ll mean an attack from their side, but as each company of soldiers must spend 6 days, out of […]
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No Comments »Adrift is where my attention was going when I watched this trailer for an “inspiring true story of two free spirits whose chance encounter leads them first to love, and then to the adventure of a lifetime”, starring dystopian movie stars Shailene Woodley (Allegiant) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2). Tami and […]
Journey’s End is the seminal British play about World War I, set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918. It tells the tale of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope (Sam Claflin), variously awaiting their fate. Possibly entertainming, but doesn’t look wildly different from anything we’ve seen before. […]
Their Finest – based on the novel, Their Finest Hour And A Half – in case you wondered why the title didn’t make a huge heap of sense and was wildly ambiguous – centres around a film company trying to make morale-boosting movies during World War II, where everyone’s overacting… in this movie, not the […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Amanda Posey, Bill Nighy, Claudia Jessie, Clive Russell, Eddie Marsan, Finola Dwyer, Francesca Knight, Gaby Chiappe, Gemma Arterton, Gordon Brown, Helen McCrory, Henry Goodman, Hubert Burton, Jack Huston, Jake Lacy, Jeremy Irons, Julia Lewis, Lily Knight, Lissa Evans, Lone Scherfig, Michael Marcus, Patrick Gibson, Paul Ritter, Rachael Stirling, Rachel Portman, Richard E. Grant, Sam Claflin, Stephanie Hyam, Stephen Woolley, Their Finest, Their Finest Hour And A Half No Comments »My Cousin Rachel looks like a tedious period drama where a young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, Rachel (Rachel Weisz), believing that she murdered his guardian. However, his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. Directed by Roger Michell, who also wrote the screenplay […]
Me Before You – Beware: spoilers in this review (although you can guess them, anyway)
The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 picks up right from where Part 1 left off, without any opening credits, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) still in the infirmary while on the ‘Pat and Mick’, her voice still squeaking like Beaker from The Muppets, with Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) still in a foul mood that’s considered a ‘conditioned […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Bear Lawrence, Danny Strong, Donald Sutherland, Elden Henson, Elizabeth Banks, Eugenie Bondurant, Evan Ross, Francis Lawrence, Gwendoline Christie, James Newton Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, Jennifer Lawrence, Joe Chrest, Jon Kilik, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Kim Ormiston, Liam Hemsworth, Mahershala Ali, Meta Golding, Michelle Forbes, Misty Ormiston, Mockingjay Part 2, Natalie Dormer, Nina Jacobson, Omid Abtahi, Patina Miller, Paula Malcomson, Peter Craig, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Phillip Troy Linger, Robert Knepper, Sam Claflin, Sarita Choudhury, Stanley Tucci, Stef Dawson, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2, Theodore Lawrence, Wes Chatham, Willow Shields, Woody Harrelson No Comments »The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a spin-off-cum-prequel to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, this time without Kristen Stewart’s Snow White, but instead with Emily Blunt‘s Ice Queen. No sentient plot details are known at the moment, but the film is written by Frank Darabont, David Koepp, Craig Mazin and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and the cast […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Colin Morgan, Craig Mazin, David Koepp, Emily Blunt, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Frank Darabont, Jessica Chastain, Nick Frost, Rob Brydon, Sam Claflin, Sheridan Smith, Snow White and the Huntsman, Sophie Cookson, The Huntsman, Winter's War No Comments »Me Before You confirms, yet again, that every few months comes a film about a terminal disease, or alternatively someone who wants to top themselves, that is only an affliction on those who are living and healthy. Stop giving Hollywood money to produce mawkish trash like this, The Fault In Our Stars and Missing You […]
The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a spin-off-cum-prequel to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, this time without Kristen Stewart’s Snow White, but instead with Emily Blunt‘s Ice Queen. No sentient plot details are known at the moment, but the film is written by Frank Darabont, David Koepp, Craig Mazin and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and the cast […]
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