A Faustian pact that goes pear-shaped. Throw in McKellen’s masterful performance and fabulous art deco sets and you’ve got your money’s worth.
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I read a review of this movie which said the only regrettable thing about it was the terrible […]
‘There’s a lot of pleasure to be had in watching the hero of a story struggling upwards against the odds towards a glorious outcome no one knows about yet except us, the audience. ‘
Drug-fuelled punk hip-hop meets virulent Irish nationalism in this origin story of the Belfast band Kneecap. It’s so weird and wild and transgressive it’s hard to believe it’s essentially true.
In French Version ‘Bernadette’ Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve plays Bernadette Chirac, wife of Jacques Chirac in this […]
“Like so many children of Holocaust survivors, Lily Brett was haunted by her parent’s suffering, and by the ghosts of the family she would never know – the ones who had perished in the ghettoes or the death camps. She was consumed by a desire to visit the places her parents had lived and to share and perhaps understand what they had endured.”
This movie was made by an Aussie man called Bill Bennett who did the Camino de Santiago in […]
This biographical documentary is one minute under three and a half hours long. I had already ordered an […]
Ripley is a masterpiece of noir vérité. Some have complained about the excruciatingly detailed and pedestrian pace at which Ripley’s crimes and their aftermath are depicted, but that is the whole point. We are made to witness all the trouble Ripley goes to and to endure the tensions and uncertainties he experiences. We are drawn into his cunning high-stakes game to the extent that we almost can’t help hoping he gets away with it!
‘This feature-length biographical documentary, made last year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, charts his progress from child performer in the pre-screen days to becoming, by the age of thirty, the highest-paid writer in the world and a star, as they say, of stage and screen. ‘