Brooklyn (5/10)
Brooklyn has three oscar nominations under its belt: Best Motion Picture, Best Lead Actress, and Best Writing. I can understand why it didn't win, but…
Genres: Drama
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Hail Caesar! (6/10)
I have been a fan of the Coen Brothers ever since seeing "Blood Simple" at a run-down London cinema in 1984. Joel & Ethan Cohen…
06
March
The Lady in the Van (5/10)
Based on true events, the story of The Lady in the Van was first captured in writer Alan Bennett's memoirs and later in his West…
02
March
The Big Short (7/10)
We are still living (the aftermath of...?) the global financial crisis that took the economy into recession starting in 2008. But it didn't start in…
01
March
Pawn Sacrifice (6/10)
The life of chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has rich potential for drama. He was a poor kid from Brooklyn who taught himself chess and became…
16
February
Creed (5/10)
Full disclosure: I have never been a fan of any of the Rocky movies. So now we have instalment 7 of the Greatest Boxing Legend…
15
February
Spotlight (7/10)
'Spotlight' is the section of the Boston Globe's paper that looks beyond and delves deeper - work done by the paper's investigative journalism team led…
14
February
A Bigger Splash (7/10)
In this film Tilda Swinton plays Marianne, a major rock star who has had to have a throat operation and is convalescing in a villa…
10
February
Last Cab to Darwin (7/10)
Based on a stage play, which in turn was based on a true story, this movie tells the story of Rex (Michael Caton), a taxi…
06
February
Room (9/10)
The premise of Room does not sound promising. A young woman is bringing up her young child, both confined to a small shed that she…