Film Friday

In the film Hamnet, the alternative name for Hamlet, William Shakespeare meets Agnus and they fall in love and get married. Before long they have a family and Will is …

The film Marty Supreme is set in the 1950s, and is about shoe salesman Marty Mauser, who has one dream, to win the British Table Tennis Championship. Marty is a …

In the film Eternity, Larry chokes on a pretzel and finds himself on a train heading for the afterlife. He arrives in a  place called the Junction, a huge building …

The film Nuremberg tells the true story of the trials of 22 Nazi war criminals, held in Germany in 1946. Psychiatrist Douglas Kelley is sent to assess the mentality of …

Wake Up Dead Man In the first moments of this film young Father Jud lets his temper get the better of him, and so he is called before a board …

In the Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life George Bailey feels like he’s lost everything. He’s made a terrible mistake and has nothing left. Then he gets the surprise of …

After the success of his album The River, Bruce Springsteen’s record company want another record full of hits. But Bruce is washed out and lost. He takes time out, escapes …

With many of the regular singers away fighting in World War 1, the choral society’s choirmaster decides to start recruiting lots of the young working class people, and soldiers who …

Robert is a logger and railroad worker in the early twentieth century. He seems to have little direction in his life until he meets Gladys and they fall in love, …

When Jeffrey Manchester can’t afford a bike for his daughter’s birthday he makes a disastrous decision and decides to start breaking into McDonald’s restaurants. Smashing his way in through the …

Wrestler Mark Kerr has never lost a fight, and when he is asked in an interview how he would cope with losing he cannot comprehend the question. The idea of …

David and Sarah are strangers that meet at a wedding. Neither are looking for any commitment. After bantering a little at the wedding they both set off back home, having …

Barb is travelling to a frozen lake through Minnesota when she becomes lost and so stops at a cabin in the snowy woods. She soon discovers that the couple living …

When journalist Laura joins a luxury cruise she bumps into a woman in the cabin next to hers. However, when she asks the other guests about her no one else …

In the third Downton Abbey film The Grand Finale times are hard after the stock market crash, and this threatens to affect the future wellbeing of the Granthams. So Lady Mary suggests selling their …

Elizabeth, Ron, Ibrahim and Joyce are – yes – The Thursday Murder Club! Four intrepid detectives who investigate cold cases and are dead set on a search for the truth …

Bill is a coal merchant in a small town in 1980s Ireland. He is married to Eileen, and they have five lovely daughters. At Christmas the girls sing in the …

Early in this film Isabel is sent away to a convent school to be taught by the nuns there. However the nuns she meets seem harsh and foreboding, they are …