When I first saw the Aussie crime comedy Gettin Square the one thing that stuck in my memory was David […]
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‘Despite its sometimes sombre mood, Conclave is a gripping and suspenseful movie, brilliantly written an acted and never predictable. Five stars from me. ‘
This is a retelling of the terrible events which occurred over two days in 1972 when the entire Israeli team of athletes and coaches at the Munich summer Olympics was taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. A botched rescue attempt resulted in the deaths of 17 people – eleven Israelis, five Palestinians and one German police officer.
You don’t have to be a Dylan fan to enjoy this terrific biopic that takes us through the early years of Bob Dylan’s career from his arrival in New York City in January 1961 as a penniless 19-year-old to the Newport Folk Festival of 1965 where he notoriously went electric.
It’s hard to know how to classify Anora. It starts out looking like an updated, grittier version of Pretty Woman, but it’s no wish-fulfilment fairytale…..It’s very entertaining, it’s not overly violent….and best of all, the ending is not predictable.
‘All the buzz has been around Kieran Culkin’s performance as the hyperactive pain in the ass Benji, and Culkin has already won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, but to my mind Jesse Eisenberg is the one who deserves most of the plaudits for this movie. He wrote and directed as well as taking on one of the two lead roles. ‘
‘Hugh Grant is very good as the deranged, religion-obsessed psychopath, and I liked the slow pace at which the filmmakers allowed suspense to build and the atmosphere of claustrophobic menace to intensify….[but] over the course of the story [it] loses subtlety and degenerates into what I would have to call a slasher flick’
Ben Hur meets Spartacus meets I Claudius meets The Hunger Games, part 2, with Paul Mescal the worthy successor to Russell Crowe.
‘This movie does us a service in bringing this brave woman’s story to the attention of a new generation. Due justice is done to the awful gravity of the events that prompted her most important work, but it’s a pity that so much time is wasted on awkward melodrama which at times swamps her personal story.
Despite the sometimes harrowing sadness there is compassion, humour and hope in Memoir of a Snail. Do go and see it. It’s ultimately uplifting and I bet it wins lots of awards. I think it’s a minor masterpiece.