Film Friday

The hapless bear comes from Peru to London looking for a home. His uncle and aunt once met an explorer who assured them there would always be a warm welcome …

When Louis Zamperini’s WW2 B-24 bomber develops engine failure, and the crew have to bail out, only three of them survive, and for forty seven days they find themselves drifting …

When Margaret Ulbrich marries the entrepreneurial Walter Keane it appears to be a partnership made in heaven. She paints the unique ‘big eye’ waif pictures and her husband sells them …

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My wife and daughter were really looking forward to this epic musical fantasy… but sadly they came out not much short of bitterly disappointed with the way it all ended. …

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Calvary is a hard edged, foul-mouthed movie, a tough tale of a priest in a cynical community. A good man struggling to be godly in a seemingly godless place. This …

The Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing and those involved with cracking the unbreakable cypher machine known as Enigma. Lives are being lost day after day as warships …

This film tells the sad tale of the marriage of art historian and critic John Ruskin to the young and innocent Effie Grey. Ruskin refused to consummate the marriage because …

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There is a moment in this film when the artist JMW Turner is offered £100,000 for every last piece of his work. A tempting offer you might think, but the …

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Hank Palmer returns home for his mother’s funeral. But he receives no prodigal’s welcome, no new clothes or fattened calf waiting for him. He and his father have history and …

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Fleeing tragic violence in their home country of India, the Kadam family arrive in rural France and decide to open a restaurant – right opposite Madame Mallory’s high class, haute …

There is a moment in WWDOOH when young Mickey says something like, ‘I can’t wait to get back to school and write about “what I did on my half term”…’ And to …

Magician Stanley is expert at exposing fake mediums. When he hears about Sophie he is determined to expose her. However, the more time he spends with her the more uncertain …

The Jam once sang ‘To be someone must be a wonderful thing…’ In reality we’re all someone, but – who? And how do we know? In Before I Go To …

There is a moment in Captain Phillips when Tom Hanks falls apart. And there’s a striking realism about the scene, the nurse in the room makes no attempts to offer …