Spotlight
Spotlight is essentially All the President’s Men transposed for the Catholic child abuse scandal at the turn of the millennium. Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev […]
Tag Archives: drama
His Girl Friday
Billed on Netflix as a romantic comedy where two men fight over a woman, this is actually a scathing satire of the newspaper industry. It is to printed news what […]
Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta plays an Italian-American called Tony in New York in the late 70s. He faces the drudgery of day-to-day life working in a hardware store, going nowhere, until Saturday […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This classic follows a dysfunctional couple – a history professor (Richard Burton) and the daughter of the university president (Elizabeth Taylor) – on a drunken night of arguing, as a […]
Timbuktu
Don’t worry if you’ve not seen Timbuk-one; this is an original drama from Mauritania, about a West African community under the control of Islamic extremists. Based on the brief occupation […]
Danny Collins
Al Pacino plays the titular character, an ageing musician who has a mid-life crisis about 30 years too late when he realises he’s just singing the same songs over and […]
All About Eve
Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, the most successful stage actor in America and an egomaniac who surrounds herself with admirers. And no-one admires her more than Eve (Anne Baxter), a […]
Girlhood
This is a French drama about a teenage girl named Marieme (Karidja Touré), who lives in a deprived Parisian neighbourhood. With a difficult home life and no real opportunities, she […]
Downfall
Today marks 70 years since Nazi Germany admitted defeat in World War Two and surrendered unconditionally to the allies. Downfall documents the final days of the Third Reich inside Hitler’s […]
The Good Lie
This is the story of a group of children whose tribe in Sudan is torn apart by war. With the village adults murdered by soldiers, the children are forced to walk […]
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