Tag: film preview
Mary Poppins flies into the Corn Hall this Wednesday
8th Apr 2019
Mary Poppins Returns Fans of the original Mary Poppins who approach this belated sequel with some trepidation need not worry. The film has been created with them in mind as much as a family audience… read more
Lady Gaga CAN act - See her in 'A Star is Born'
21st Mar 2019
A Star is Born Bradley Cooper’s version of this much told story is more a reimagining than a remake, with his fading rock star crossing paths with Lady Gaga’s ascendance as an all singing, all… read more
Next Wednesday's film - a master class in screen acting that is as enjoyable as it is compelling
15th Mar 2019
When Joe Castleman wins the Nobel Prize for Literature his wife is delighted for him – who wouldn’t be – and yet there is something niggling away at her that isn’t fully explained by his… read more
Stranger than fiction, Wednesday's film BlacKkKlansman, is probably the best Spike Lee film in 20 years
9th Mar 2019
Probably the best Spike Lee film in 20 years, this stranger than fiction story of a black man infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan mixes absurd comedy with jaw-dropping racism to brilliant effect. Both a social… read more
Hotel Salvation - anyone who has spent time with an ageing parent will find much that is achingly resonant.
2nd Mar 2019
In this story of an ex-schoolteacher who decides to spend his final days in Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s directorial debut presents a world that will be alien to European viewers,… read more
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A stellar cast makes The King of Thieves by far the best and most poignant cinema version of the Hatton Garden heist
7th Feb 2019
The Hatton Garden heist in 2015 has already been repeatedly dramatized, but this is by far the best, and most poignant, with a stellar cast of British heavyweight actors who, much like the characters they… read more
Wednesday film - part comedy, part travelogue, part mystery, part romance - will delight fans of Downton Abbey
19th Sep 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Wednesday 26 Sept, 10.30am & 7.30pm Part comedy, part travelogue, part mystery, part romance, Mike Newell’s adaptation of Annie Barrows’s post-war epistolary novel is a film… read more
Lady Bird - next Wednesday's film - features superb performances
13th Sep 2018
Depending through which end of the telescope you view Lady Bird (nominated for three Academy Awards), teenager Christine McPherson is either a bright young thing struggling against the suffocation of suburbia, or a brattish malcontent,… read more
I, Tonya - An absorbing tale that is both tragic and hilarious
6th Sep 2018
While not exactly America’s answer to the tribulations of Eddie the Eagle (Tonya Harding was a world class athlete) this shaggy dog story is similarly fantastical and contradictory. Director Craig Gillespie busts the fourth wall… read more
Next Wednesday's film - literate, profane and very clever.
31st Aug 2018
What do you do, screenwriter and director Martin McDonagh seems to be asking, when there is nothing to be done? When a mother’s grief, following her daughter’s murder, turns to impotent rage she hits out… read more
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