They say that police procedure is 99% slog. This doesn’t usually make for good cinema, but in the hands of director David Fincher and his excellent cast, it becomes an obsessive ride, filling you with moments of chill, moments of hope and long periods of intriguing frustration.
Zodiac is based on the true story of […]
Alan Bennett’s biographically influenced play The History Boys has been the darling of the stage over the past two years, cleaning up awards ceremonies wherever it plays. It comes as no surprise then, that a film version would follow, and the entire original cast including director Nicolas Hytner were engaged for the film, which […]
This is a warm and nostalgic coming of age story set in 1966, the year – as any English person will tell you – that the soccer World Cup finals were staged in England. Bernie Reubens (Gregg Sulkin) is twelve and the younger son of a working class Jewish family in London. Bernie is one […]
I am always slightly suspicious of films that urgently proclaim themselves be ‘a true story’. This is not to say that filmmakers shouldn’t aim for truth in storytelling, but rather that the truth rarely survives intact any artistic process. Provoked: a true story is a film of the events surrounding the trial and imprisonment of […]
At home Robert Hanssen lived a double life. He was a suburban father of six, a strict Catholic and member of Opus Dei, but also a man who secretly filmed his own sex-life and had a bizarre long-term relationship with a stripper. This duplicity extended to his work life: he was a well-respected FBI employee […]
This is a Cinderella-from-the-sea story filmed in Australia that will fill a gap for its intended audience - those ‘tween girls (8-14 year olds), for whom summer holidays still means girlfriends, bikes, and dreaming about boys who seem to be permanently just out of reach.
Claire (Emma Roberts) and Hailey (Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque) are 13-year-olds who […]
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