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 »Mary Shelley (Elle Fanning) wrote the hit horror novel Frankenstein, and this movie tells of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Ms Shelley writing the story. However, don’t expect any horror in this as it just looks like a bog-standard period, romantic drama. Mary […]
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. […]
Remainder stars Tom Sturridge as Tom, a man from London. Have you had a trip or fall, recently? Well, he’s certainly had an accident, as debris from above crashes down and puts him in a coma in hospital, to the extent that he has to learn everything from scratch including how to eat and walk. […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adrian Schiller, Agnes Thi-Mai, Alex Harries, Andrew Havill, Ann Queensberry, Arsher Ali, Attila G Kerekes, Benjamin Davies, Bill Thomas, Caroline Bartleet, Cassie Bancroft, Cush Jumbo, Danny Webb, David Bonnick Jr, Dermot Keaney, Ed Speleers, Finlay Norman, Jacqueline Macaulay, Joseph Drake, Julian Bleach, Jumayn Hunter, Katie Razzall, Lanre Malaolu, Laurence Spellman, Malte Grunert, Natasha Dack, Nicholas Farrell, Omer Fast, Rebecca Deren, Remainder, Rocky Marshall, Sasha Frost, Schneider TM, Shaun Prendergast, Tim Bruce, Tim Plester, Tim Wallers, Tom Cox, Tom McCarthy, Tom Sturridge No Comments »Far from the Madding Crowd tells the tale of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This […]
Effie Gray completes the trilogy first started by Howard’s End and The Remains of The Day, so it’s taken a while to get to this one, but anyhoo… Dakota Fanning (right) plays the title role, born in Scotland, and then who married Victorian art critic and historian John Ruskin (Greg Wise) when she was 19 […]
