Tag: Ben Whishaw
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REVIEW: Passages (EIFF 2023)
(spoiler free) German actor Franz Rogowski is currently in the midst of an exciting rise to fame. In the last number of years he’s starred and impressed in, among others, festival favourite, Undine (2020) and Austria’s 2022 Oscars entry for Best International Feature, Great Freedom (2021). He’s got plenty in the pipeline too, with upcoming…
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REVIEW: Women Talking
(spoiler free) Based on Miriam Towers’ novel of the same name, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking tells the story of a group of women in an isolated Mennonite colony. The group meet to discuss what action they should take in response to the violence they have been, and are continually, subjected to by the men who…
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REVIEW: Little Joe
(spoiler free) An ambitious, sometimes tense, slow-burner that tries its best to fill you with dread. Little Joe is the latest offering from Austrian director Jessica Hausner. A film steeped in themes of climate change, human ignorance to the natural world and our innate desire to play God. Single mother Alice (Emily Beecham) is a…
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Mary Poppins Returns
(spoiler free) ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ sees everyones favourite nanny make her way back to Cherry Lane thirty years after her first visit in the original ‘Mary Poppins’. She’s back to lend a hand to Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw), who’s all grown up and now has a family of his own. However, family life brings with…
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Paddington 2
(spoiler free) ‘Paddington’ was one of, if not, the best family film of 2014 so it’s no surprise that everyone’s favourite immigrant is back again for another adventure! ‘Paddington 2’ sees the young bear in search of the perfect gift for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday. He eventually settles on a unique pop-up book of…
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A Hologram For The King
(spoiler free) It doesn’t take a film expert to know that Tom Hanks has a great track record in Hollywood. He has starred in so many of our much loved classics meaning that any film he stars in is guaranteed to muster up a good level of intrigue in the film community. His most recent…
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The Danish Girl
(spoiler free) With 2015 done and dusted we are now in the midst of the Oscar favourite January releases. With a release date of New Years Day ‘The Danish Girl’ is the first film I saw in 2016. Starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander the film focuses on the lives of married couple Einar Wegener…
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Spectre (Cinema Screening)
(spoiler free) James Bond is without a doubt my favourite franchise in film history, I’ve enjoyed it since I was a young boy. Like most Bond fans I have my preferences to certain Bonds and styles however I have loved every film since the 2006 reboot Casino Royale (and yes that does include Quantum of…
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The Lobster (Cinema Screening)
(spoiler free) The Lobster has caused a stir amongst the film festivals and once you hear the synopsis you can begin to understand why. If you don’t know what the film is about, in a nutshell the plot is this, single people are given 45 days to find a partner and if they are unsuccessful…
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Suffragette (Cinema Screening)
(spoiler free) I’ll admit that my knowledge of suffragettes and women getting the vote probably only goes as far as my memories of watching Mary Poppins as a child. This is an important part of history so I suppose I needed to see this film however if I’m honest I didn’t really have much desire…
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