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After nearly five decades of recording music, singer songwriter Bob Dylan has reinvented himself numerous times, metamorphosing from folk troubadour to protest singer to electric rocker to born again Christian and beyond. Yet for all […]
Director Tom Hooper’s 2015 drama is an excellent, beautifully crafted movie with two brilliant, award-worthy performances by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and something important to say. It has four Oscar nominations. It’s based on a true […]
‘The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.’ Ben Whishaw plays the author Herman Melville, who in the 1850s turns up at the home of Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who […]
Daniel Craig is back for his fourth Bond movie in director Sam Mendes‘s sequel to his smash-hit Skyfall (2012). It’s hard to follow the most successful 007 movie, but they’ve done a pretty bang-up job, […]
Co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos satirises modern romance in an impeccably crafted old-style art movie, recalling some Seventies art house classics, that is catnip for film festivals. With the art movie and the art house apparently things of […]
It’s taken 100 years for a film about the Suffragette movement to reach the cinema screen. So, better make the most of it, now it’s here. We might have hoped for a biopic of the main […]
Director Julian Jarrold’s conscientious, sumptuous and costly ($20 million) remake for the cinema of Brideshead Revisited in 2008 of the much loved 1981 classic of British TV drama Brideshead Revisited is an effective adaptation of […]