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...
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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...
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

A Man Called Otto is beautiful

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So, another little revisit – but of a film I didn’t review at the time.   A Man Called Ott0  i s a 2022 Hollywood remake of a Norwegian film...
Saturday, 18 January 2025

Kneecap: A craicing political movie about Ireland

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Saturday evening – and what better than catching up with another film? In this case, writer and director   Rich Peppiatt’s 2024  Kneecap , a...
Monday, 13 January 2025

If you only see Heretic for Hugh Grant, that's more than good enough

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I don’t mind a spot of on-screen horror – just not the slasher variety. Give me the likes of Peter Medak’s 1980   The Changeling , Jonathan ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Wicked – wickedly good

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Well, the film year started with a surprise – a BIG surprise!  Wicked   was far, Far, FAR better than I expected. I’m arguably a bit of a   ...