Postcards from the Edge
Meryl Streep stars as Susanne, an actor approaching middle age and recently out of rehab, trying to navigate her way through the turbulent waters of the Hollywood film industry under […]
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Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! is clearly a film made by people who love ABBA. This is evidenced by their absolute conviction that ABBA songs, even ABBA songs sung and staged horribly, require […]
Suffragette
Set around the turn of the century, Suffragette is the story of a young laundry worker Maud (Carey Mulligan), who gets drawn into women’s activism after joining a group of […]
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish immigrant to New York in a volatile romance with biologist Nathan (Kevin Kline). When they meet young writer Stingo (Peter MacNicol) the three grow […]
Blog: The Oscar Grouch
As the statuettes line up like a golden terracotta army preparing to wage war on the soul of cinema it can only mean on thing: the Academy Awards; the annual […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 2: Woody’s Revenge
Here are two more Woody Allen films – like last time, one of his best and one of his worst. Manhattan (1979) Shot in beautiful black and white and set […]
ExpendaBelle Watch: 10 Actors We’d Love to See
With the buzz around Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables films it’s unsurprising studio bosses have been eyeing up a female answer to the sausage-heavy meat fest. I’m imagining something like Michael Bay does Sex […]
Blog: We Saw Them Here First
There are lots of great actors out there who aren’t always in great films. Robert De Niro’s most successful film isn’t The Godfather 2, Taxi Driver or Raging Bull but Meet […]
Doubt
At a solemn, grey Catholic school in 1960s America, the feared principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the parish priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), of behaving inappropriately towards a student, […]
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