The Brutalist
A Hungarian-Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) emigrates to Philadelphia in 1947, where he is hired by a wealthy industrialist (Guy Pearce) to design the city’s greatest landmark since the Liberty Bell […]
Tag Archives: epic
Napoleon (2023)
Since we had the distinction of watching Napoleon at Waterloo, it joins the ranks of Isle of Dogs (which we saw on the Isle of Dogs), Threads (which we saw […]
Barry Lyndon
After receiving death threats in the wake of A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick headed to Ireland to adapt Thackeray’s The Luck of Barry Lyndon only to be threatened by the IRA […]
Troy
Das Boot director Wolfgang Petersen swaps the boots for sandals in this 2004 epic based on Homer’s Iliad but closer in quality to that Carol Ann Duffy poem about David Beckham. […]
Interview with the Vampire
A San Francisco journalist (Christian Slater) meets with Louis (Brad Pitt), a man claiming to be a centuries old vampire. Louis recounts the remarkable tale of how he was created […]
Memoirs of a Geisha
A young girl, Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), is sold to a Kyoto geisha school by her struggling parents where she’s kept as a slave, eventually becoming a top geisha, threatening the […]
Clash of the Titans
In ancient Greece, Zeus (Liam Neeson) and his fellow gods are dependent on the prayers of humans to survive, so when their creations rebel, a huge conflict isn’t far behind. […]
Waterloo
This is the first and last instalment in our review series covering films named after tube stations (because I’m not watching Paddington). It focuses on irritable French Emperor Napoleon and […]
Confucius
Chow Yun Fat stars as the legendary thinker of ancient China, charting his rise to a senior member of the royal court, followed by his years in exile. A great […]
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Set a couple of hundred years after Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Exodus follows Moses, the adoptive son of the Pharaoh of Egypt, where the Jews are enslaved. But Moses has an […]
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