All posts tagged "British"
-
WIDOW CLICQUOT – Review
If you celebrate by drinking champagne, you have a French widow in the Napoleonic age to thank. And...
-
BACK TO BLACK – Review
Talented singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse’s tragic life was already the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, AMY in 2015, made...
-
ONE LIFE – Review
The moving ONE LIFE throws a spotlight on a British man, Nicholas Winton, who has been called the...
-
THE PIGEON TUNNEL – Review
If it is true that to be a great writer, you need an unusual childhood, then the great...
-
GOLDA – Review
Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir, Israel’s first women prime minister, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in GOLDA....
-
THE LESSON – Review
They say never meet your heroes, and the literary thriller THE LESSON offers a case in point, where...
-
MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS – Review
Mid-century high fashion and an irresistibly charming Lesley Manville add sparkle to the sweet, light-as-air MRS HARRIS GOES...
-
PHANTOM OF THE OPEN – Review
In the charming true-story comedy PHANTOM OF THE OPEN, Mark Rylance plays the worst golfer in British Open...
-
BENEDICTION – Review
A haunting biopic about a haunted man, BENEDICTION is a masterful, visually dynamic film about a complex man...
-
DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA – Review
The saga of the aristocratic Crawley family continues with DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA, the second movie inspired...
-
OPERATION MINCEMEAT – Review
“Truth is stranger than fiction” stories are often the best, and the true story behind the British WWII...
-
THE DUKE – Review
In this delightful, true story-based, quirky comic tale, Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren costar as a bickering couple...
-
MOTHERING SUNDAY – Review
What looks at first like period drama, a steamy “Downton Abbey,” set in England in the wake of...
-
THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN – Review
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a charming, bittersweet true story of an eccentric late-Victorian British artist whose whimsical drawings...
-
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAIMIE (2021) – Review
Well, just about all the public schools should be back in operation, or at least still mixing “in-person”...
-
MARTYRS LANE – Review
A sullen 10-year-old girl named Leah (played by Kiera Thompson) is living in a rambling, creepy old house...
-
LIMBO – Review
A young Syrian musician and a motley collection of other refugees wait on a remote Scottish island while...
-
SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT – Review
A Nazi-run boarding school for girls on the British coast? Sound preposterous but in fact there really was...
