BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Morris Stars: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Casper Knopf, Mila Jankovic, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Isla Fisher, Jim Broadbent, Shirley Henderson, Celia Imrie, James Callis, Gemma Jones, Sally Phillips, Jeff Mirza. I was not expecting much from this fourth instalment in the Bridget Jones series which has …
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sophie Hyde Stars: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack. Recently widowed, middle aged retired religious instruction schoolteacher Nancy (Emma Thompson) has never really experienced the joys of sex. She seems unsatisfied by her life. Her husband, as she puts it, “would roll on top, do the business, roll off, put his pyjamas back on and go to sleep”. To experience pleasure, she …
THE CHILDREN ACT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Richard Eyre Stars: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ben Chaplin, Eileen Walsh. Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) is a high court judge who specialises in family law cases and whose responsibility it is under 1989 British law to protect the welfare of minors. It is a duty the workaholic judge takes very seriously, and she has earned a reputation as one of the most …
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Kerr Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Emma Thompson, Olga Kurylenko, Jake Lacy, Charles Dance, Michael Gambon. It has been fifteen years since rubbery faced comic Rowan Atkinson (of Mr Bean and Blackadder fame) donned his licence to kill as bumbling and clueless secret agent Johnny English, a cross between James Bond, Maxwell Smart, Inspector Clouseau and Inspector …
ALONE IN BERLIN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Vincent Perez Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Bruhl, Uwe Preuss, Mikael Persbrandt, Louis Hofmann, Katrin Pollitt. This WWII drama is set in Berlin in the early 1940s and is based on the novel Every Man Dies Alone, which was written by Hans Fallada in 1947 but not translated into English for another six decades. The book told the story of Otto and Elise …
BRIDGET JONES’S BABY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sharon Maguire Stars: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson, Sarah Solemani, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Shirley Henderson, Neil Pearson, Sally Phillips, Patrick Malahide, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ed Sheeran, Enzo Cilenti, Celia Imrie. In 1995 author Helen Fielding created the character of Bridget Jones, a thirty something single professional woman living in …
