Film Friday

When Edmond Dantès is wrongly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit he meets a man, a count, who helps him to escape. And on escaping Edmond vows revenge …

This is a sprawling epic from The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola. It’s set in a city called New Rome (a mixture of modern New York and ancient Rome), where …

The movie Lee tells the true story of Lee Miller, who was first off a model before she went on to become a photographer working for Vogue magazine during the …

Years ago, back in the 1980s, the Deetz family  moved into a spooky old house and  – surprise surprise – found it haunted, with as they say in filmland – …

Jimmy Erskine is a fierce film critic, one who pulls no punches in his reviews for the Daily Chronicle. When yet again, he critically assassinates the actress Nina Land for …

When Lily Bloom spots a young homeless man, called Atlas, in a derelict building across her street she packs up some food and a sleeping bag and leaves it outside …

This gritty and brutal World War Two movie tells of a tank crew, fighting their way across Germany in 1945. In it there’s a scene where one of the crew, …

This funny action movie sees 93-year-old Thelma (played by 94-year-old June Squibb) go chasing after justice when she is scammed out of $10,000. She and her old friend Ben board …

NASA is preparing to send its first astronauts to walk on the moon, and so they bring in advertising guru Kelly Jones, to sell the idea to the public. They …

This movie is based on an imagined encounter between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis. Apparently Freud did meet up with a young oxford professor towards the end of his life, …

The film Treasure is about an American journalist, Ruth, and her father Edek who comes from Poland. Together they return to his homeland to visit places of his youth and …

The film Father Stu is about an amateur boxer Stuart Long, who is a tough talking, hard drinking guy who falls in love with a young woman Carmen, and then …

This film tells the fictional tale of young Australian Jim Collins, who goes from the peace and the beauty of the outback of Western Australia to the grim battlefields of …

The third Paddington film is due out in November this year, but you can watch the new trailer for it on YouTube and in it we find Paddington in a …

Heat is a cops and robbers movie, but its most famous for the meeting in a diner of cop Vincent and robber Neil. And this is not so much famous …

This film tells the wonderful and inspiring true story of Neil Baldwin, who, in spite of being diagnosed with learning difficulties at a young age, dedicated himself to becoming a …

Colt Seavers gets blown up, smashed through a windscreen, and hurled off a building. But that’s all in a day’s work for him, he’s a stunt man, and one of …

Bob, a bored and fading movie star is in Tokyo to shoot a commercial. He is overwhelmed by the difference in culture, and before long befriends Charlotte, a young American …

One of the most well-known lines from the film Jaws is this one – ‘You’re going to need a bigger boat’. It’s a great line about not having enough resources. …