One can safely say that Alan Rickman’s floral fiasco A Little Chaos is anything but chaotic. It is an uncharismatic romance with the occasional flare of costume drama silliness, making the film so stiflingly rigid it would go perfectly with high tea on daytime television. Opening in the bedroom of Louis XIV, there is a…
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Screenplay: Kelly Marcel Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Jennifer Ehle Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama/Romance Opening with a rather crude montage of grey Seattle cityscape, a clumsy reference to the title, we meet Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) as they prepare for an interview at his towering silver office block. Anastasia is…
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) Andy’s (Mimsy Farmer) sinister trip in the rarely seen Hippie exploitation film Riot on Sunset Strip cleverly reflects the sense of building paranoia present in 60s America. Having had a LSD laced sugar cube dissolved in her drink by one of the hippies at a party, Andy, an innocent young…
LICENSE TO THRILL Coming out in 1962 to a backdrop of cold wars and hot Beatles tunes, the film Dr No was a slick, cheeky spy thriller based on a book series by Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. The books were popular, but not as popular as the film series which is currently the longest…
Director: James Kent Writer: Juliette Towhidi Starring: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Dominic West Runtime: 129mins Genre: Biography/Drama Testament of Youth is a stunning yet devastatingly sorrowful biographic drama from director James Kent about the experiences of Vera Brittain, a young woman whose aspirations for an Oxford education are halted by the outbreak of the First…
Director Stanley Kubrick Writers Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester Runtime 160 mins Sci-Fi Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey still stands as the archetypal science-fiction movie, marking the genre’s coming of age with a philosophical meditation on space, time and the nature of mankind….