Drama

Featured Reviews 

Review – Psychedelic drama ‘The Butterfly Tree’ embraces oddball magical realism

17/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Drama, Ed Oxenbould, Ewen Leslie, July 2018, Melissa George, Priscilla Cameron, Rating: Pop, Sophie Lowe, The Butterfly Tree

Flourishes of fantasy and strange visual motifs merge with a drama of obsession in Australian movie The Butterfly Tree.

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Review – ‘The Bookshop’ is a quaint drama, with a weird tone

14/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bill Nighy, Certificate: PG, Drama, Emily Mortimer, Harvey Bennett, Honor Kneafsey, Isabel Coixet, James Lance, June 2018, Patricia Clarkson, Rating: Pop, The Bookshop

Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy star as defenders of literature in the bizarre British drama The Bookshop, which is tough to describe.

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Review – ‘Leave No Trace’ buries its themes under slow-burn storytelling

11/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alyssa Lynn, Ben Foster, Certificate: PG, Dale Dickey, Dana Millican, Debra Granik, Drama, Jeff Kober, June 2018, Leave No Trace, Rating: Pop, Ryan Joiner, Thomasin McKenzie

Debra Granik follows a father and daughter from their wilderness home into the modern world in Leave No Trace.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

DVD Review – ‘Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House’ is only slightly less dull than its title

10/07/201810/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Bruce Greenwood, Certificate: 12, Diane Lane, Drama, DVD, Ike Barinholtz, Julian Morris, July 2018, Liam Neeson, Maika Monroe, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, Marton Csokas, Michael C Hall, Peter Landesman, Rating: Poop, Tony Goldwyn

Liam Neeson shelves the action in order to pace around darkened rooms as the FBI veteran who turned into a notorious whistleblower.

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Review – ‘Sicario 2: Soldado’ lacks subtlety, but packs in hard-edged thrills

09/07/201809/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Benicio del Toro, Catherine Keener, Certificate: 15, Drama, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Brolin, June 2018, Matthew Modine, Rating: Pop, Sicario, Sicario 2, Stefano Sollima, Taylor Sheridan, Thriller

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return as the morally ambiguous figures taking on the drug cartels in Sicario 2: Soldado.

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Review – ‘Adrift’ is a shipwreck saga with an emotional heart

29/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adrift, Adventure, Baltasar Kormákur, Certificate: 12, Drama, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Grace Palmer, Jeffrey Thomas, June 2018, Rating: Pop, Sam Claflin, Shailene Woodley

Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin battle for survival at sea in Baltasar Kormákur’s latest visually stunning adventure movie.

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Review – Wilde biopic ‘The Happy Prince’ features a great performance, and little else

28/06/201828/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Drama, Edwin Thomas, Emily Watson, June 2018, Rating: Poop, Rupert Everett, The Happy Prince, Tom Wilkinson

Rupert Everett shines in Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince, but it’s a film that lacks much in the way of dramatic energy.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – ‘The Addiction’ turns vampirism into a compelling philosophical treatise

27/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Abel Ferrara, Annabella Sciorra, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Christopher Walken, Drama, Edie Falco, Fredro Starr, Horror, June 2018, Kathryn Erbe, Lili Taylor, Rating: Pop, The Addiction

Abel Ferrara takes vampirism in a very different direction, through the lens of Lili Taylor’s terrific performance, in The Addiction.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou’ is Wes Anderson under the sea

27/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Blu-ray, Cate Blanchett, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Drama, Henry Selick, Jeff Goldblum, June 2018, Michael Gambon, Noah Baumbach, Owen Wilson, Rating: Pop, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe

Wes Anderson goes underwater, with Henry Selick in tow, for The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, which has a new Criterion Blu-ray.

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Review – ‘Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms’ is a bloated anime epic

26/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ai Kayano, Anime, Certificate: 15, Drama, June 2018, Manaka Iwami, Maquia, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, Mari Okada, Miyu Irino, Miyuki Sawashiro, Rating: Poop, Rina Satō, Romance, Yoshimasa Hosoya

Breath-taking anime spectacle meets stunningly bland storytelling in the anime epic Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.

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Reviews VOD 

VOD Review – ‘Family Games’ reveals secrets, but makes it difficult to care

12/06/201816/06/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alison Fraser, Certificate: 12, Derek Cecil, Drama, Family Games, June 2018, Larry Bryggman, Margaret Anne Florence, Megan Boone, Rating: Poop, Suzuya Bobo, VOD

Difficult revelations come tumbling out over a boozy dinner in Family Games, which is an inelegant mess of drab characters.

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