Argylle – Thinking about the best things
In the film Argylle, Elly is an author who has written a series of successful and popular novels around her super spy Argylle. However, little by little the actions she has …
In the film Argylle, Elly is an author who has written a series of successful and popular novels around her super spy Argylle. However, little by little the actions she has …
Based on a true story set in the 1920s, Wicked Little Letters is about Edith who starts receiving anonymous, highly-offensive letters, and so she accuses her sweary next door neighbour …
The film One Love is a biopic about Jamaican singer Bob Marley, and in one scene, when Bob is thinking about returning to Jamaica to play a concert to inspire peace …
There is a significant moment in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones is trying to get hold of the Ark of the Covenant, but is unable …
The musical film of Alice Walker’s book tells the story of a group of young, black women in the early 20th century in rural Georgia in the American south. They …
In the classic film Roman Holiday Princess Ann is bored, and so she escapes from her guardians in the palace. She slips out wearing ordinary clothes, into the city of …
Based on a true story, this is a movie which in some ways celebrates losers. But in a wonderful way. Back in the 2001 world cup qualifiers the American Samoan …
This deeply moving film tells the true story of Nicholas Winton, who with his mother and others, set up the kinder train in 1939 to rescue refugee children as the …
In one scene in the movie Ferrari, racing entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari is giving his drivers a pep talk. He tells them to imagine coming to a bend in one of …
We’re now in the movie awards season and it’s twenty years since the third Lord of the Rings film – The Return of the King – won eleven Oscars, including …
‘Every good thing starts with a dream.’ This is the strapline on the poster for the film Wonka. In this colourful tale the young Willy Wonka has a dream as …
At one point in this cinematic spectacle, one of the British challenges Napoleon with this comment, ‘You fight for money, we fight for honour.’ To which Napoleon replies, ‘We each …
This year’s big Christmas release is out – Wonka, the story of how Willy Wonka came to be chocolate mad. It’s the latest in a line of origin stories about …
In this classic Christmas film George Bailey gets a glimpse of his town if he had never been around, seeing just how different things would be and he not been …
Professor Paul Matthews is a regular quiet guy who goes into his class to discover that many of his students have started having dreams about him. This goes on for …
The film Killers of the Flower Moon is about the appalling murders of members of the Osage nation for their land which, though initially undesirable, is now clearly rich with …
In the film Fireflies in the Garden Charles is a harsh and domineering father. When teenage relative Jane comes to stay one summer he tells his young son Michael to …
The Great Escaper is Michael Caine’s very last film, and is based on the story of Bernie Jordan, a D-Day veteran. Bernie misses his chance to book a place on the …
In the film The Miracle Club, Lily, Chrissie, Eileen and Dolly head off to Lourdes looking for, as you might expect, a miracle or two. Dolly’s son Daniel has never spoken and …
Elemental is tale of fire and water, a sort of Romeo and Juliet story. Ember is a fire elemental who helps her immigrant parents run Firebrand, the local store and hangout in …