Downton Abbey 2019 – The spin-off movie now has a full trailer, and the King and Queen are coming to tea. Yes, the family that gets it all for free now leeches off everyone else. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Much like the makers of this tripe. The precise plot isn’t […]
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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. […]
How 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 Silver Jubilee, and schoolboys Enn (Alex Sharp), John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (AJ Lewis) stumble upon the weirdest party, which […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: AJ Lewis, Alex Sharp, Alice Sanders, Edward Petherbridge, Elarica Gallacher, Elle Fanning, Eloise Smyth, Emile Sherman, Ethan Lawrence, Hebe Beardsall, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Howard Gertler, Iain Canning, Jamie Stewart, Joanna Scanlan, Joey Ansah, John Cameron Mitchell, Jumayn Hunter, Lara Peake, Matt Lucas, Neil Gaiman, Nico Muhly, Nicole Kidman, Philippa Goslett, Renah Gallagher, Simon Amstell, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Brooke, ruth wilson No Comments »How 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 the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero […]
The Last Post takes place in 1965 in Aden, Yemen, one of the oldest colonies in the British Empire. It’s a place where East meets West and with an oil refinery, it’s advertisted as a place of prosperity. In addition, the Queen calls it “A perfect example of colonial rule”, and out there, it’s so […]
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The Child in Time is a one-off drama based on Ian McEwan‘s novel, presenting a Madeleine McCann-type situation beginning with Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch), in a supermarket, turning his attention from four-year-old daughter Kate away for a second, leaving him completely bereft as he desperately searches for her. She was there one minute, and then […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Adrian Johnston, Andrea Hall, Anna Madeley, Beatrice White, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benjamin Branchett, Chase Collard, Doreene Blackstock, Elliot Levey, Eloise Henwood, Franc Ashman, Gehane Strehler, Geraldine Alexander, Gerard Monaco, Grainne Marmion, Ian McEwan, Jim Creighton, John Hopkins, Julian Farino, Karen Bryson, Kelly Macdonald, Laurence Spellman, Lindy Barrett, Lucy Liemann, Natasha Brown, Richard Durden, Rosa-Marie Lewis, Stephen Butchard, Stephen Campbell Moore, The Child In Time, Tony Walker, saskia reeves No Comments »Goodbye Christopher Robin is centered around the relationship between children’s author AA Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive, the lad and his family are swept up in the international success of the […]
Moonwalkers is a new comedy which tries to get across the apparent fact that the Apollo 11 moon landings never happened and that eccentric movie director Stanley Kubrick filmed those famous images in a film studio whilst working for the US government. Set in London, this conspiracy theory that in a stubborn CIA agent trying […]
The Lady in the Van has a simple premise that states: “A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that’s parked in his driveway.” However, that man is writer extraordinaire Alan Bennett, played brilliantly – based on this trailer – by Alex Jennings, and the woman is Miss Shepherd […]
The Go-Between is set in Norfolk, 1900, but begins in 1950 with the elderly Leo Colston (Jim Broadbent) lamenting in bucketfully. He wails (in his narration), “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” He’s trying to hide the past, but realises he can never shake it off while it still haunts […]
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