Tag: Drama

Szabolcs Thuróczy stars in Hungarian thriller Kills on Wheels

Review – Kills on Wheels

14/09/201715/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Ádám Fekete, Attila Till, Certificate: 15, Drama, Dusan Vitanovics, Kills on Wheels, Lidia Danis, Mónika Balsai, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Thriller, Zoltán Fenyvesi

A disabled cast makes the most of a rare opportunity to take centre stage in this violent thriller from Hungary.

Siddharth Dhananjay and Danielle Macdonald on stage in Patti Cake$

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Review – Patti Cake$

12/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Bridget Everett, Cathy Moriarty, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Danielle Macdonald, Drama, Geremy Jasper, Mamoudou Athie, Musical, Patti Cake$, Patti Cakes, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Siddharth Dhananjay

Danielle Macdonald and Bridget Everett are the mother-daughter team at the centre of dreamer dramedy Patti Cake$.

Alec Secareanu and Josh O'Connor in God's Own Country

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Review – God’s Own Country

11/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Alec Secareanu, Certificate: 15, Drama, Francis Lee, Gemma Jones, God's Own Country, Ian Hart, Josh O'Connor, Rating: Pop, Romance, September 2017

Francis Lee helms a British romance with subtle layers and impressive nuance, set against the stunning Yorkshire countryside.

Will Poulter plays a terrifying racist cop in Kathryn Bigelow drama Detroit

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Review – Detroit

06/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, August 2017, Ben O'Toole, Certificate: 15, Detroit, Drama, Hannah Murray, Jack Reynor, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, John Boyega, Kathryn Bigelow, Rating: Pop, Thriller, Will Poulter

A complex tale of American police brutality gets a sophisticated, but flawed big screen depiction in Kathryn Bigelow’s intense drama Detroit.

Amandla Stenberg leads young adult romance Everything, Everything

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Review – Everything, Everything

26/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Amandla Stenberg, Ana de la Reguera, Anika Noni Rose, August 2017, Certificate: 12, Drama, Everything Everything, Nick Robinson, Rating: Pop, Romance, Stella Meghie, Taylor Hickson, Young Adult

Young adult weepie Everything, Everything follows a young woman confined to her home as a result of a severe illness that compromises her immune system.

Rooney Mara in existential drama A Ghost Story

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Review – A Ghost Story

22/08/201729/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, A Ghost Story, August 2017, Casey Affleck, Certificate: 12, David Lowery, Drama, Rating: Pop, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham

Director David Lowery takes an Oscar winner and puts them under a sheet for 90 minutes in this strange, existential drama.

Mélodie Richard stars in fantasy drama Metamorphoses

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Review – Métamorphoses

18/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Amira Akili, August 2017, Certificate: 15, Christophe Honoré, Damien Chapelle, Drama, Fantasy, George Babluani, Mélodie Richard, Métamorphoses, Rating: Poop, Sébastien Hirel

French fantasy drama Métamorphoses is a baffling and infuriating slice of pretentious fantasy, which seems more interested in nudity than nuance.

Bernhard Goetze as Death in Der müde Tod

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Blu-ray Review – Der müde Tod (1921)

24/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1921, 2017, Bernhard Goetze, Certificate: PG, Der müde Tod, Drama, Eduard von Winterstein, Fantasy, Fritz Lang, July 2017, Karl Platen, Lil Dagover, Paul Biensteldt, Rating: Pop, Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Walter Janssen

Fritz Lang crafts a masterful slice of Expressionist cinema with Der müde Tod, in which a lovelorn young woman challenges Death himself.

Nicole Kidman in Civil War drama The Beguiled

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Review – The Beguiled

19/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Angourie Rice, Certificate: 15, Colin Farrell, Drama, Elle Fanning, Historical, July 2017, Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Oona Laurence, Rating: Pop, Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola remakes an old Clint Eastwood movie with a dark, feminist edge in American Civil War drama The Beguiled.

Demetrius Shipp Jr as hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur in biopic All Eyez On Me

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Review – All Eyez On Me

09/07/201713/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, All Eyez On Me, Annie Ilonzeh, Benny Boom, Biopic, Certificate: 15, Danai Gurira, Demetrius Shipp Jr, Dominic L Santana, Drama, Hill Harper, Jamal Woolard, Jarrett Ellis, June 2017, Kat Graham, Music, Rating: Poop

Tupac Shakur gets the biopic treatment courtesy of an uncanny performance from Demetrius Shipp Jr in the epic drama All Eyez On Me.

Amanda Seyfried, AnnJewel Lee Dixon, Shirley MacLaine in The Last Word

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Review – The Last Word

09/07/201710/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Heche, AnnJewel Lee Dixon, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, July 2017, Mark Pellington, Rating: Poop, Shirley MacLaine, The Last Word, Thomas Sadoski, Tom Everett Scott

Shirley MacLaine writes her own obituary, with the help of Amanda Seyfried’s young reporter, in this bizarre and misjudged indie dramedy.

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