PADDINGTON IN PERU Reviewed by GREG KING.Director: Dougal WilsonStars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris, Imelda Staunton, Carla Tous, Hayley Atwell, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant. This is the third film in the series following the adventures of everybody’s favourite marmalade loving bear, and it is full of the …
MARY POPPINS RETURNS
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Rob MarshallStars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Colin Firth, Meryle Streep, Julie Walters, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Jeremy Swift, Kobna Holbrook-Smith, David Warner, Jim Norton, voices of Chris O'Dowd, Mark Addy.It's been fifty years since Disney released their endearing and enduring live …
THE BOOKSHOP
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Isabel CoixetStars: Emily Mortimer, Bill Night, Patricia Clarkson, Honor Kneafsey, James Lance, Reg Wilson, Hunter Tremayne, Frances Barber, Julie Christie.The Bookshop is set in the sleepy small coastal village of Hardborough in 1959. Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) is a war widow who relocates to this small town with the aim of …
THE PARTY
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Sally PotterStars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Cherry Jones, Bruno Ganz.Not to be confused with Blake Edwards’ hilarious slapstick Tatiesque comedy from 1968 that starred Peter Sellers as an accident prone Indian actor who ruins a swank Hollywood party, this black comedy and social satire comes from director …
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Ritesh BatraStars: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Joe Alwyn, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Freya Mayo.Based on the 2011 novel written by British author Julian Barnes, The Sense Of An Ending is a meditation on memory, guilt, regret, secrets and repressed emotions and the dark unreliability of nostalgia. The drama was driven by an …
OUR IDIOT BROTHER
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Jesse PeretzStars: Paul Rudd, Kathryn Hahn, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Shirley Knight, Hugh Dancy, T J Miller.The rather politically incorrectly titled Our Idiot Brother is a mildly amusing and quirky character driven comedy about a well-meaning slacker who accidentally creates chaos for his three self-absorbed, highly-strung, selfish …
