Category: Film Reviews

The Aeronauts — Mini British Film Festival — Palace Cinemas — October–November 2019
Inspired, it seems, by the scientific adventures of the real-life James Glaisher and an avid balloonist named Henry Tracey Coxwell, ...

Fisherman’s Friends — Mini British Film Festival 2019 — Palace Cinemas — October–November 2019
Fisherman's Friends is based on a true story about a group of Cornish fishermen whose shared histories and love of ...

The Professor and the Madman — Mini British Film Festival — Palace Cinemas — October–November 2019
A record of the creation of The Oxford English Dictionary may sound as though it would be dry stuff. But ...

Charlie’s Angels — Palace Cinemas — November 2019
If you’ve seen the 2000 movie version of Charlie’s Angels or its 2003 sequel, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, both of ...

Military Wives — Mini British Film Festival 2019 — Palace Cinemas — October–November 2019
Military Wives is a glimpse into the largely unrecognised complexities of the lives of partners of combatants in the armed ...

Official Secrets — Mini British Film Festival — Palace Cinemas — October–November 2019
With the benefit of a factual basis in a sequence of official deceits of the public by three western national ...

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman sips from the fountain of youth for its looks; but can the story hold its liquor?
By Cam Williams In Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman characters are not defined by how they live but how they die ...
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Don’t Stop Me Now [Ma Cosa Ci Dice Il Cervello] — Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 — Palace Cinemas, September–October
Paola Cortellesi has taken starring roles of all kinds, and this single movie demonstrates her versatility. In Don’t Stop Me ...
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10 Days Without Mamma [10 Giorni Senza Mamma] — Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 — Palace Cinemas, September–October
After 13 years of unbroken parenting while her husband, Antonio (Fabio De Luigi — Tiramisù; It’s All About Karma) takes ...

The Great Spirit (Il Grande Spirito) — Lavazza Italian Film Festival — Palace Cinemas, September–October 2019
Tonino (Sergio Rubini), provocatively nicknamed Barboncino (poodle), is a dishevelled-looking thief whose accomplices consider him unreliable and past it but ...