Mommie Dearest
Faye Dunaway takes the limelight as screen legend Joan Crawford in this tale of child abuse against her daughter Christina (Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid). An adaptation of Christina’s memoirs, […]
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Moonlight
Not to be confused with the Cher movie Moonstruck, this is an Oscarnated drama about a young black man in three stages of his life. I’ve seen this film compared […]
Fences
Denzel Washington stars and directs in this story of a man in his fifties who feels that he’s missed out on life by working as a refuse collector to support […]
Loving
Loving is based on the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving (Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton), a mixed-race couple whose marriage was overturned by Virginia state leading them to […]
Manchester by the Sea
The next big Oscar contender is Manchester by the Sea, even though Manchester is nowhere near the sea. Everyone knows that. Manchester in this case is in Massachusetts, hometown of brothers Lee and […]
The Client
The Client is about an 11-year-old boy from a deprived family who witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer. He in turn becomes a target of the mob as a […]
I’ve never seen…Breakfast at Tiffany’s
To give you an idea of how far my prior ignorance of this film went, before watching I thought it was about Audrey Hepburn playing a character called Tiffany who […]
Son of Saul
This is a harrowing drama about a Jewish man enslaved in a death camp – forced to help dispose of the massacred bodies. When he witnesses the murder of a […]
On iPlayer: The Other Man
When his wife dies, Peter (Liam Neeson), a wealthy executive, discovers she was having an affair and decides to hunt down her lover. Liam Neeson is without a doubt an expert at […]
Anomalisa
This is the story of Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis), a middle aged business guru travelling to speak at a conference. But he feels disconnected from the world – […]
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