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 […]
Tag: Jim Broadbent
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 […]
King of Thieves Review
In 2015 the world was shocked when a group of elderly criminals committed the largest burglary in English legal history. This remarkable story has been given the cinematic treatment thanks to Working Title Films and Studiocanal. Brian Reader (Michael Caine) is a retired criminal whose wife passes away. Despite his promise he re-enters the criminal world – […]