Crazy Diamond is the fourth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, although it was originally scheduled to be the fifth, as it’s swapped places with next week’s Real Life. Not quite sure why as, while it’s stars Steve Buscemi and Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen, it’s not as good as those we’ve had already. That […]
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No Comments »The Death of Stalin seemed an odd idea for a movie, but then I saw the name Armando Iannucci (The Thick Of It, In The Loop) and was sold on it immediately! The only plot details known so far are… well, it’s a comedy, so you don’t need to know a great deal, but it […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers, News Tags: Adrian McLoughlin, Andrea Riseborough, Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Dermot Crowley, Fabien Nury, Ian Martin, Jason Isaacs, Jeffrey Tambor, Jonathan Aris, Justin Edwards, Michael Palin, Olga Kurylenko, Paddy Considine, Paul Whitehouse, Peter Fellows, RUPERT FRIEND, Simon Russell Beale, Steve Buscemi, The Death of Stalin No Comments »Norman, or to give it its full title – Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer – is Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere), a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman’s […]
Hotel Transylvania 2 is the sequel to… Hotel Transylvania. Just in case you weren’t sure. I’ve still to get round to seeing that, but it does look like one of the few CGI animated movies worth watching, but I’d best get round to that before this one comes out, and now there’s a new trailer […]
Hotel Transylvania 2 is the sequel to… Hotel Transylvania. Just in case you weren’t sure. I’ve still to get round to seeing that, but it does look like one of the few CGI animated movies worth watching. When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in […]
The Cobbler stars Adam Sandler as… a cobbler. For those not familiar with a term which dates back many centuries, a cobbler is a person who mends shoes. Yes, that’s something which is no longer required in our disposable culture because, unless you’re the type of person to spend £100 on Nike trainers, you can […]
Rampart is the movie that Training Day should’ve been… It’s Los Angeles, 1999 and Woody Harrelson plays Dave Brown, a simple name for a very complex and angry man. As Rampart begins, we see he’s a maverick cop working at the LAPD Rampart Division, teaching a rookie cop about how the gangs rule the streets […]
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