Living is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 drama Ikiru. This remake changes the setting to 1950s London and has Bill Nighy in the lead role. Mr. Williams (Nighy) is a senior bureaucrat at London County Council. His world gets shattered when he gets diagnosed with a terminal illness. With only a limited amount of time to […]
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Prey for the Devil Review
Prey for the Devil is an exorcism from the director of The Last Exorcism, and one of the writers of Halloween: H20.  With credits that, Prey for the Devil had an uphill challenge to prove itself. Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) is a nun who’s transferred to a special exorcism hospital and school in Boston. She acts as a nurse and even […]
Fall Review
Fall is a small-scale survival-thriller that is about the perils of climbing and heights. Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) has been in a year-long depression after the death of her husband during a climbing accident. Her friend, Hunter (Virginia Gardner), believes Becky needs closure and suggests climbing an abandoned TV tower in the middle of the desert. However, things go […]
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Review
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a character-driven comedy-drama that earned a cinematic release in the UK and was released on Hulu in the USA. Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson) is a widow and a former schoolteacher. She books meetings with Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack), a male escort. Over the course of their four meetings, Nancy […]
The Courier Review
The Courier is a Cold War spy thriller about how a British businessman became an asset for Western intelligence in the early ‘60s. Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) is a GRU officer who sends a message to the CIA and MI6 that he fears that nuclear war is imminent. The CIA and MI6 have to find a […]
The Father Review
Based on an acclaimed play by Florian Zeller, The Father is a Franco-British production and was one of the big winners of the 2021 awards season. Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is an elderly man who is suffering from dementia. His daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman) struggles to care for him. Anne has to prepare her father that she’s moving to […]
A Christmas Gift From Bob Review
A Street Cat Named Bob was a big hit in the UK. It was a touching story about how a man saved a stray cat and that cat helped him overcome his drug addiction. The pair return for a Christmas themed sequel. Following the events of the first film James Bowen (Luke Treadaway) still busks […]
Military Wives Review
Within the UK there is a lucrative subgenre of films that appeals to middle-class, middle-England audiences. The film story about the Military Wives choir easily fits in that category. At a military base, the soldiers are deployed to Afghanistan for a six-month tour. Whilst their families at home the wives have to find things to […]
The Personal History of David Copperfield Review
From the man who created The Thick of It and Veep, Armando Iannucci returns to the world of filmmaking with his comedic take of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is a man with yo-yoing fortunes. Born to a widow, David suffers at the hands of a crude stepfather (Darren Boyd) – forced to work in a […]
Bombshell Review
Bombshell is a retelling of the 2016 sexual harassment scandal that rocked Fox News, one of the most powerful media organisations in the United States. Bombshell follows three women as face off against the powerful head of Fox News Roger Ailes (John Lithgow). There was Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron), the anchor of one the most popular show […]