Allelujah is a dramedy based on a play by Alan Bennett. This film focuses on the staff and patients in a small hospital in Yorkshire. The Bethlehem, or as it is known to the locals, “The Beth”, is a small geriatric hospital in Wakefield. It’s loved by the patients and the community but is under threat […]
Tag: Judi Dench
Belfast Review
Belfast, writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical story about a snippet of his childhood in the capital city of Northern Ireland is, for my money, his best film since Much Ado About Nothing all the way back in the early ‘90s. For a filmmaker who has a tendency to get a bit too wrapped up in the […]
Bondathon: Skyfall
Skyfall was the film that marked the Bond film franchise’s 50th Anniversary. The result was one of the best Bond films ever and the most financially successful. A mission in Istanbul goes wrong. A terrorist has escaped with a hard drive containing a list of all undercover NATO agents and Bond has been presumably killed in action. Three months […]
Bondathon: Quantum of Solace
Following on from the success of Casino Royale (2006), EON Productions rushed through the follow-up, Quantum of Solace. Quantum of Solace picks up where Casino Royale left off, with Bond capturing Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) and taking him to be questioned by M. Mr. White was able to escape because his organisation has people everywhere. Bond must investigate this mysterious organisation […]
Bondathon: Casino Royale (2006)
Following on from the big sci-fi spectacle that was Die Another Day, Casino Royale (2006) was proof the franchise has the ability to reinvent itself. The franchise went from one of the worst films to one of the best. James Bond has been promoted to a Double-0. On his first mission Bond is tasked with capturing a bombmaker […]
Bondathon: Die Another Day
Die Another Day was the 20th Bond film that came out on the film franchise’s 40th anniversary. It aimed to be one of the biggest spectacles that the franchise has ever produced. James Bond has been captured during a mission in North Korea. He gets traded 14 months later because MI6 believed he broke under torture. He has been […]
Bondathon: The World is Not Enough
The World is Not Enough was a film was that aimed to give the Bond franchise a grounded story and be a character-focused film after the action-packed Tomorrow Never Dies. MI6 has been attacked, a close friend of M has been killed and Bond has been injured. The suspect is Victor “Renard” Zokas (Robert Carlyle), a […]
Bondathon: Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies was a film rushed to capitalise on the success of Goldeneye. It seemed like it could have suffered from the issues that affected The Man with the Golden Gun with it being a notoriously troubled production. A British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. The British and Chinese dispute the events and look set […]
Bondathon: Goldeneye
The Bond franchise is one of the most resilient around. It’s able to adapt and when some critics have written the franchise off Bond comes back stronger than ever. 1995’s Goldeneye was proof of this and is often seen as one of the best films the franchise has ever produced. The Iron Curtain has been lifted and the Soviet […]
Cats Review
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats was one of the longest-running musicals on the West End and Broadway. But the film adaptation was in development hell for years until now. What we got is the most ill-conceived big-budget films in a long time when adapting it. One-night Victoria the White Cat (Francesca Hayward) gets dumped in a bin bag […]