The Great Escaper is a drama based on the true story of Bernard Jordan, a war veteran who made his own way to the 70th Anniversary D-Day ceremony in France. Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) is a 90-year-old man who lives in a nursing home with his wife, Rene (Glenda Jackson). Bernard missed out on going to […]
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Britflix – Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service was the film that Matthew Vaughn choose to do instead of X-Men: Days of Future Past. It was a decision that led to two great comic book films being created and started a kick-ass spy franchise. Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton) is a young man who has had a tough life. His dad […]
Tenet Review
Cinemas around the world are starting to reopen and the big test for theatrical films is the release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. After a mission in Kyiv, an unnamed CIA agent (John David Washington) gets recruited by a secret organisation that gives him two leads, a hand gesture and the word “tenet.” The agent gets […]
Britflix: Children of Men
Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre of fiction that the British excel at. A film that is one of the best in the sub-genre is 2006’s Children of Men. In the year 2027, the world has gone to hell. No child has been born for 18 years, the youngest person in the world has been murdered, […]
Britflix: Zulu
The war film Zulu is an incredibly popular film within the UK and often held up as one of the best war films from the 1960s. In 1879 the British army have been humiliated at the Battle of Isandlwana. Determinate to press their advantage the Zulus plan to attack the mission station at Rorke Drift which 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 – […]