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In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]
Tim Burton’s sweet and nice 2010 Disney movie is a pleasant plod through English literature, aimed particularly at teenaged girls and their mothers. It is pleasing and lovely to look at but disappointingly mild, bland […]
A whole film about stuttering? Well, put that way, maybe not, thank you. The King’s Speech is, well, rotten. But not the movie, his actual speech. The movie’s astounding. So absolutely, yes please! It’s the […]
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 […]
The deliciously entertaining 2005 animated fantasy musical feature film Corpse Bride comes from quirky genius Tim Burton. The deliciously entertaining 2005 animated fantasy musical feature film Corpse Bride comes from quirky genius Tim Burton. It’s […]
Director Charles Sturridge, maker of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (the 1981 mini-series) and A Handful of Dust (1988), challenges the Ismail Merchant- James Ivory team head on here with an E M Forster adaptation in […]
Disney remakes its classic 1950 animated feature as director Kenneth Branagh’s very likeable, traditional and romantic if rather dull and old-fashioned live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale about Cinderella, the orphaned servant step-daughter of the Wicked Stepmother, […]