Churchill (2017)
2017-06-20
Think Sunday, think 9 pm, think BBC 1. For that is where director Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) and first-timeContinue Reading
The Founder (2016)
2017-02-21
“U.S. Government Inspected Beef.” No, not the saucy strapline for the gay adult film Shaving Ryan’s Privates. But the cumbersomeContinue Reading
Hidden Figures (2016)
2017-02-12
A photograph during the closing credits of the Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures symbolises the challenges faced not only by the threeContinue Reading
Denial (2016)
2017-02-04
How do we know the holocaust really existed? What are the proofs of the existence of gas chambers? The AmericanContinue Reading
Jackie (2016)
2017-01-24
“I’m sorry for your loss.” Hollow words we mouth to one another in times of grief. And when the handContinue Reading
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
2016-12-12
The year is 1809. The place, Southampton County in the state of Virginia. Though judging by the offensive language andContinue Reading
Snowden (2016)
2016-12-12
Big Brother is watching you. In June 2013, the Georges Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four turned out to join the reality.Continue Reading
Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (2016)
2016-12-06
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Superman. Not quite. But, as Meatloaf heartily sung, two outContinue Reading
A United Kingdom (2016)
2016-11-26
“Four legs good, two legs bad.” The divisive maxim of revolutionary pig Snowball in George Orwell’s 1945 novella Animal FarmContinue Reading
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
2016-05-08
by Peter Callaghan Society hostess empties coffers To play Carnegie in spite of scoffers A syphilitic broad dubbed “the worstContinue Reading
Eddie The Eagle (2016)
2016-03-30
by Peter Callaghan Taron Egerton is Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards. Who would have thought! It’s a bit like saying BrianContinue Reading
Truth (2016)
2016-03-04
by Peter Callaghan In 2006, Dan Rather, the son of a ditch digger from Wharton, Texas who was the firstContinue Reading
Trumbo (2015)
2016-02-13
by Peter Callaghan “I’m in this for the money and the pussy and they’re both falling off the trees.” No,Continue Reading
The Big Short (2015)
2016-02-03
by Peter Callaghan Given that the financial crisis of 2007 mutated into what one character succinctly described as “a monstrosityContinue Reading