Drama

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VOD Review – Wiseau and Sestero are blandly back together in ‘Best F(r)iends: Volume 1’

23/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Best F(r)iends, Best F(r)iends: Volume 1, Certificate: 15, Drama, Greg Sestero, Justin MacGregor, Kristen StephensonPino, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Tommy Wiseau, VOD

15 years after The Room, Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are playing slightly twisted best buddies again in this strange drama.

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Review – Frank humour and romantic chemistry abides in ‘Anchor and Hope’

21/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anchor and Hope, Carlos Marques-Marcet, Certificate: 15, David Verdaguer, Drama, Geraldine Chaplin, Lara Rossi, Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, Rating: Pop, September 2018

Game of Thrones alumni Natalia Tena and Oona Chaplin shine as a couple living on a houseboat in this frank, refreshing drama.

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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – Chloë Grace Moretz finds a prime role in ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’

20/09/201821/09/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 15, Chloe Grace Moretz, Desiree Akhavan, Drama, Forrest Goodluck, Jennifer Ehle, John Gallagher Jr, Marin Ireland, Owen Campbell, Rating: Pop, Sasha Lane, September 2018, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

The insidious methods of gay conversion therapy camps provide the focus for The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

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Review – Kelly Macdonald shines amid the weirdness of ‘Puzzle’

18/09/201821/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Austin Abrams, Bubba Weiler, Certificate: 15, David Denman, Drama, Irrfan Khan, Kelly Macdonald, Liv Hewson, Marc Turtletaub, Puzzle, Rating: Pop, September 2018

A great performance by Kelly Macdonald rescues this oddball character study from its own weird excesses.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

DVD Review – ‘Entebbe’ is important politically, but drab as a movie

13/09/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Ben Schnetzer, Certificate: 12, Daniel Brühl, Drama, DVD, Eddie Marsan, Entebbe, José Padilha, Lior Ashkenazi, Nonso Anozie, Rating: Poop, Rosamund Pike, September 2018, Thriller

Political resonance cannot save the historical hostage thriller Entebbe from its own lack of tension and lacklustre cinematic style.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ marries Wilder and Christie for courtroom thrills

11/09/201813/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Agatha Christie, Billy Wilder, Blu-ray, Certificate: U, Charles Laughton, Drama, Elsa Lanchester, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Varden, September 2018, Thriller, Torin Thatcher, Tyrone Power, Witness for the Prosecution

Billy Wilder adapts Agatha Christie in the classic courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution, creating a dream team for the ages.

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Review – ‘Lucky’ is the perfect send-off for Harry Dean Stanton

10/09/201810/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Beth Grant, Certificate: 15, David Lynch, Drama, Harry Dean Stanton, James Darren, John Carroll Lynch, Lucky, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Tom Skerritt, Yvonne Huff

Movie legend Harry Dean Stanton appears in the perfect final role, as a man struggling with the notion of his own death.

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Review – Idris Elba’s ‘Yardie’ is a swaggering, if muddled, directorial debut

09/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Aml Ameen, August 2018, Certificate: 15, Crime, Drama, Idris Elba, Naomi Ackie, Rating: Pop, Shantol Jackson, Sheldon Shepherd, Stephen Graham, Yardie

Idris Elba makes his debut behind the camera as the director of Yardie – a British crime drama set in 1980s London.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – Olivier Assayas’s autobiographical teen tale ‘Cold Water’ still hits hard

09/09/201818/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Cold Water, Cyprien Fouquet, Dominique Faysse, Drama, Jackie Berroyer, László Szabó, Olivier Assayas, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Smaïl Mekki, Virginie Ledoyen

Olivier Assayas mines his own teenage years for a bracing portrayal of teenage love in Cold Water.

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Review – McEwan adaptation ‘The Children Act’ never reaches the dramatic heights of its courtroom segments

08/09/201809/09/2018 Tom Beasley 2018, August 2018, Ben Chaplin, Certificate: 12, Drama, Eileen Walsh, Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Ian McEwan, Jason Watkins, Rating: Pop, Stanley Tucci, The Children Act

Emma Thompson delivers one of her best performances in The Children Act, but the narrative around her crumbles.

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Review – Spike Lee delivers a powerful, rambling polemic on race in ‘BlacKkKlansman’

07/09/201807/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adam Driver, August 2018, BlackKklansman, Certificate: 15, Drama, Jasper Pääkkönen, John David Washington, Laura Harrier, Paul Walter Hauser, Rating: Pop, Ryan Eggold, Spike Lee, Thriller, Topher Grace

A black cop infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan as Spike Lee uses a true story from the 70s in order to illuminate today’s racial tensions.

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