Sunday, 16 March 2025

A Real Pain – funny and moving with Culkin excellent

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Jesse Eisenberg’s film about mismatched Jewish-American cousins taking an organised Holocaust trip across Poland in honour of their recently...
Sunday, 9 March 2025

Anora – no shock as to why it's won big

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A rom-com that takes a darker turn, director, writer, producer and editor Steve Baker’s mega award-winning  Anora  tells the story of the ti...
Saturday, 8 March 2025

Capote – another grown-up film worth watching

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In November 1959, in Holcomb – a place that apparently even most Kansans don’t know of – the Cutter family (farmer Herb, wife Bonnie and the...
Sunday, 2 March 2025

Doubt is a superbly acted, intelligent, grown-up drama

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Popping up on Netflix as I looked for something to watch this afternoon,  Doubt  is a 2008 film that was written and directed by John Patric...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

The Great Escaper – gentle and powerful

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Back in 2014, the year of the 70 th  anniversary of the D-Day landings, Royal Navy veteran and care home resident Bernard Jordan hit the hea...
Saturday, 15 February 2025

Going on a bear hunt with Paddington in Peru

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The Paddington ‘threequel’ sees the Browns and Paddington travel to Peru to visit Aunt Lucy at the Home for Retired Bears, after the Reveren...
Sunday, 2 February 2025

Philomena – Dench and Coogan in heart-rending, heart-warming drama

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Time for more catch-up cinema – this time,   Philomena , the 2013 adaptation of Martin Sixsmith’s book   The Lost Child of Philomena Lee   f...