Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joe Wright Stars: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane, Samuel West, Adrian Rawlings, David Strathairn. Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour is the second high profile film this year to explore the controversial war time record of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who has been regarded as one of the greatest Britons ever in history. We first saw Brian Cox play him in Churchill, which was set around the lead up to the D-Day invasion of France, in which Churchill was consumed by Continue reading
DARKEST HOUR
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Filed Under: biopic, Drama, Film Review Tagged With: Adrian Rawlings, anthony mccarten, ben mendelsohn, bruno delbonnel, churchill biopic, darkest hour, darkest hour film review, david strathairn, gary oldman, greg king, joe wright, kazuhiro tsuji, kristin scott thomas, lily james, Ronald Pickup, Samuel West, sarah greenwood, Stephen Dillane, winston churchill
SUFFRAGETTE
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sarah Gavron Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai, Finbar Lynch, Meryl Streep, Samuel West, Adrian Schiller, Natalie Press. Sisters are certainly doing it for themselves in this earnest drama about the early suffragette movement. Part earnest historical drama, part political drama and part character driven historical drama Suffragette looks at the struggle of British women to gain universal suffrage in the early part of the twentieth century. London in 1912 became the Continue reading
Filed Under: Drama, Film Review, S Tagged With: abi morgan, Adrian Schiller, alice normington, Anne-Maree Duff, ben whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, carey mulligan, edmund grau, emmeline pankhurst, feminist movement, Finbar Lynch, greg king, helena bonham carter, jane petrie, meryl streep, Natalie Press, Romola Garai, Samuel West, sarah gavron, suffragette, suffragette film review, suffragette movement
