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Entebbe [7 Days in Entebbe] * (2018, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Lior Ashkenazi) – Movie Review
Entebbe (aka 7 Days in Entebbe) recounts the story of Operation Entebbe, the Israeli commandos’ daring 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation in Uganda, after the terrorists hijack an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to […]
Molly’s Game **** (2017, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Chris O’Dowd, Jeremy Strong) – Movie Review
Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s truly epic biopic of ‘Poker Princess’ Molly Bloom is a knockout. It is 140 mesmerising screen minutes. Both Sorkin’s screenplay and his star Jessica Chastain as Bloom are nothing short of sensational. Kevin […]
The Greatest Showman *** (2017, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson) – Movie Review
Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron bring much style and charm to debut director Michael Gracey’s cheesy but pleasant and appealing musical based on the life of the American showmen Phineas Barnum and Phillip Carlyle. Those who like […]
A Quiet Passion **** (2016, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Joanna Bacon, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Duncan Duff) – Movie Review
Cynthia Nixon is astonishing as the American poet Emily Dickinson in writer-director Terence Davies’s 2016 biographical drama film A Quiet Passion. Emily Dickinson: ‘Clarity is one thing; obviousness is quite another.’ Cynthia Nixon is tremendous, […]
Hail, Caesar! *** (2016, Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jonah Hill) – Movie Review
Josh Brolin stars as Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the Fifties, who solves problems for big Tinseltown names. George Clooney co-stars as studio star Baird Whitlock, who disappears, kidnapped from the […]
Joy **** (2015, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen) – Movie Review
An exceptional cast is assembled for Joy, the story of an Italian-American family across four generations and Joy Mangano, the young woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. But Jennifer […]