The Imitation Game

This drama tells the tale of real life mathematicians/cryptographers, led by Alan Turing (played by…

Get on Up

Chadwick Boseman is excellent as the imitable musician James Brown.  The tale takes us from…

Foxcatcher

I’m glad I did not read the reviews, or search out the true story on…

Citizenfour

A very impressive documentary focussing on the eight days that the filmmaker and a few…

American Sniper

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Based on a true story, Bradley Cooper is fine (both as an actor and, I’m…

Selma

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An important story, well-told and filmed, about Rev Martin Luther King’s (very well acted by…

Big Eyes

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Based on the true story of the American painter Margaret Keane who, in the 1950s,…

Wild

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Reese Witherspoon is believable and very good as a woman who takes on a solo…

Interstellar

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Ok, so I’m not so clear on just how certain cosmological concepts – such as…

Fury

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Brad Pitt is, of course, well suited to play the heroic type and he performs…

Winter Sleep

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Yes, I know this film won the Palm D’Or at Cannes last year, and yes,…

Zero Motivation

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Some good laughs and knowing moments in this story of female Israeli soldiers serving at…

The Calling

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Susan Sarandon is impressive as a detective in small town Ontario who is faced with…

Life of Crime

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Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and Isla Fisher are all entertaining in this story of a…

Dear White People

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A very cleverly written story about race (and gender and sexual orientation) battles – both…

The Theory of Everything

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Based on a book by the first wife of famous physicist Stephen Hawking of their…

Rosewater

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Jon Stewart (of The Daily Show fame) directorial (and screenwriter) debut, this is an important…

Inherent Vice

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Having not read any of Thomas Pynchon’s novels, I cannot compare this film version to…

Maps to the Stars

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By about the half-way mark in David Cronenberg’s new  film I was fed up with…

Jersey Boys

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A big disappointment for me as I am a fan of Clint Eastwood’s other directorial…

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