Historical

Featured Reviews 

Review – Mike Leigh delivers a violent history lesson with ‘Peterloo’

26/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: PG, Danny Kirrane, Drama, Historical, Karl Johnson, Maxine Peake, Mike Leigh, Nico Mirallegro, November 2018, Peterloo, Rating: Pop, Robert Wilfort, Rory Kinnear, Sam Troughton, Tim McInnerny

Mike Leigh shines a light on a shocking and horrific event in British history with his epic drama Peterloo.

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Review – ‘First Man’ is a sophisticated masterpiece about a human triumph

26/10/201826/10/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Biopic, Certificate: 12, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Damien Chazelle, Drama, First Man, Historical, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Lukas Haas, October 2018, Pablo Schreiber, Rating: Pop, Ryan Gosling

Damien Chazelle directs Ryan Gosling to a terrific take on Neil Armstrong and the journey to the moon in historical biopic First Man.

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Review – ‘Mary Magdalene’ is Biblical blandness, with a Jesus no one would want to follow

02/04/201802/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 12, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Drama, Garth Davis, Historical, Joaquin Phoenix, March 2018, Mary Magdalene, Rating: Poop, Rooney Mara, Tahar Rahim

This supposedly revisionist take on the story of Jesus’s only female apostle is actually just Bible greatest hits.

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Review – Battle of the Sexes

06/12/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Andrea Riseborough, Austin Stowell, Battle of the Sexes, Bill Pullman, Certificate: 12, Drama, Elisabeth Shue, Emma Stone, Historical, Jessica McNamee, Jonathan Dayton, November 2017, Rating: Pop, Sarah Silverman, Sport, Steve Carell, Valerie Faris

Emma Stone and Steve Carell excel as warring tennis players in this stirring tale of the fight against 70s misogyny in sport.

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Review – Breathe

09/11/201714/11/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Andrew Garfield, Andy Serkis, Breathe, Certificate: 12, Claire Foy, Dean-Charles Chapman, Drama, Historical, Hugh Bonneville, October 2017, Rating: Pop, Romance, Stephen Mangan, Tom Hollander

Andrew Garfield plays a real-life polio sufferer in Andy Serkis’s directorial debut Breathe.

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Review – The Death of Stalin

31/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Andrea Riseborough, Armando Iannucci, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Historical, Jason Isaacs, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, October 2017, Olga Kurylenko, Paul Whitehouse, Rating: Pop, Rupert Friend, Simon Russell Beale, Steve Buscemi, The Death of Stalin

Armando Iannucci swaps Westminster for the Kremlin in dark-edged Soviet satire The Death of Stalin.

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Review – Victoria & Abdul

07/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Adeel Akhtar, Ali Fazal, Certificate: PG, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Eddie Izzard, Historical, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Paul Higgins, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Stephen Frears, Tim Pigott-Smith, Victoria & Abdul

Judi Dench makes for a wonderfully curmudgeonly Queen Victoria in the quaint, sweet-natured drama Victoria & Abdul.

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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.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – Neruda (2016)

06/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Alfredo Castro, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Drama, Gael Garcia Bernal, Historical, July 2017, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Michael Silva, Neruda, Pablo Larraín, Rating: Pop

Pablo Larraín delivers a visually rich and thematically adventurous historical drama about a Communist poet forced into hiding.

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Review – Churchill

28/06/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Brian Cox, Certificate: PG, Churchill, Drama, Ella Purnell, Historical, James Purefoy, John Slattery, Jonathan Teplitzky, Julian Wadham, June 2017, Miranda Richardson, Rating: Poop

Brian Cox gives a towering performance as Britain’s most iconic Prime Minister in the ultimately disappointing historical drama Churchill.

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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

05/06/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Action, Aidan Gillen, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Certificate: 12, Charlie Hunnam, Craig McGinlay, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bana, Fantasy, Guy Ritchie, Historical, Jude Law, King Arthur, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Kingsley Ben-Adir, May 2017, Neil Maskell, Rating: Poop

Guy Ritchie takes Arthurian legend to the streets, with added Cockney slang and baffling accents. Cor blimey, guvnor!

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