This rattlingly vibrant film was an early…er, favourite to scoop up many honours in the upcoming film awards season, not least for its leading l...
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You would be hard pressed to find a more quintessentially English film than this. Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name by Penelope F...
Read MoreFILM: Not unputdownable but a quite riveting watch
Oscar Wilde wrote: “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Whichever way way round you want to view this one, the news that t...
Read MoreFILM: Movie monster – the horrible ways of Harvey Weinstein
Gary Oldman has apparently said he smoked 12 cigars a day for three months in order to achieve the right rasping sound of Winston Churchill’s vo...
Read MoreFILM: Churchill – a story of awe and war
A million years ago, Clive James (in my humble opinion perhaps the best television critic of my lifetime), admitted to his infatuation with the Ameri...
Read MoreFILM: Not much of a party but quite animalistic
Just like a London bus, you wait ages for a new tennis film and then two come along almost at once. At the end of November there’ll be the Batt...
Read MoreFILM: Nothing really to love in this tennis movie
Welcome to Dunkirk. Just look at it on the screen. Glorious blue skies. Magnificent white beaches. A lot of men hanging around waiting for boats to ar...
Read MoreFILM: Fighting spirit brings victory to Nolan’s vision of Dunkirk
In reviewing The Sense of an Ending, one critic – OK, it was Camilla Long in the Sunday Times – wrote: “It’s a story about loo...
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