Bridget Jones returns for a fourth film with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. This time the romcom icon deals with motherhood and widowhood after the loss of her beloved Mr. Darcy. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) has been a widow for four years after her husband (Colin Firth) died on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. She […]
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Britflix: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones is a rom-com icon and a piece of British pop culture. She has appeared in a series of novels and seeing that a fourth film is out, now is a good time to check out the film that started it all. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is a 32-year-old singleton living in London. After […]
Paddington in Peru Review
It has been a long seven-year wait for Paddington’s cinematic return. The third film in the Paddington series sees the lovable bear return to his ancestral home for a big family adventure. Paddington (Ben Whishaw) has become a British citizen. He gets the opportunity to use his British passport when The Reverend Mother of the Home […]
Britflix: Paddington 2
The first Paddington film was a delightful surprise, and the sequel has arguably a better repetition. With Paddington in Peru now out, it is worth looking at why Paddington 2 is so beloved. Paddington (Ben Whishaw) has settled into life in London with the Brown family. He has become a popular resident in Windsor Gardens […]
Britflix: Paddington
Paddington Bear is one of the most popular bears in children’s fiction, a status propelled by the live-action film series that started in 2014. In deepest, darkest Peru, a British explorer (Tim Downie) meets and befriends two bears, Pastuzo (Michael Gambon) and Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton). He teaches them English and the wonders of London. […]
Indiana Jones Retrospective: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
After a 19-year break, Indiana Jones returned with Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It’s a film where the fan reaction can charitably be called mixed. In 1957 Indiana Jones has been abducted by Soviet agents and forced to infiltrate a secret American government base in Nevada. This leads to Indy getting accused of […]
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Review
Rachel Joyce adapts her own novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry for a British version of a road movie. Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) is a retiree who lives in South Devon. When Harold receives a letter from an old work colleague staying in a hospice, dying from cancer, he decides to walk the length and breadth of […]
The Duke Review
The Duke is a comedy-drama about how one man used the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a way to enact social change in 1960s Britain. Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent) is a taxi driver in Newcastle and a political campaigner with a confrontational personality. Kempton’s campaigning ways lead to him getting imprisoned for not […]
Black Narcissus (2020) Review
The 2020 version of Black Narcissus was a lavish three-part miniseries for FX and BBC One and aimed to bring Rumer Godden’s story to a new generation. Sister Clodagh (Gemma Arterton) is an Irish nun in India who gets offered the Sister Superior role for a new mission in the Himalayans. Sister Clodagh takes four nuns with […]
Britflix: Hot Fuzz
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost were a comedic dream team, making some excellent films and TV shows. Their 2007 action-comedy Hot Fuzz is arguably their best work and loved by a generation of males. Nicolas Angel (Pegg) is the best police officer in the Met. Angel’s so good that he makes the rest of the […]