Category: Film
Film Review: Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
“You must bear up against sorrow my dear” Douglas McGrath’s adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby manages the not-unimpressive…
Weekend #4 – Mike Leigh’s films of the 2000s
One of the main reasons for starting this series of Weekend posts was the set of…
Film Review: All or Nothing (2002)
“Love, it’s like a dripping tap” First up was 2002’s All or Nothing, though it was a…
Film Review: Vera Drake (2004)
“She’s gonna get herself in trouble one of these days” I’m pretty sure that Vera Drake was…
Film Review: Happy Go Lucky (2008)
“En-ra-ha, EN-RA-HA!” This was actually the first Mike Leigh film I saw at the cinema and I…
Film Review: Another Year (2010)
“On a scale of one to ten, how happy would you say you were” Mike Leigh’s most…
18th Screen Actors Guild Awards winners
Film Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Jean Dujardin – The Artist as…
Weekend #3 – Philip Pullman
I love it when you stumble on greatness unexpectedly and so it was with Philip Pullman’s…
DVD Review: The Golden Compass
“There are worlds beyond our own” Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials are amongst my favourite novels ever,…
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