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Saw this yesterday at the Mayfair Curzon at a special screening plus Q&A with the director, Roger Michell. I am familiar with the story, having (many years ago) read the book and have also seen a TV adaptation. As I adore costume dramas, I really liked this film. The locations were stunning, althoug...

Saw this at Wimbledon Odeon. A charming film about six-year-old Mary (McKenna Grace), a maths prodigy who was caught up in a tug-of-war between her Uncle Frank (Chris Evans), who wanted her to have a normal childhood and her grandmother (Lindsay Duncan) who wanted to hothouse her. It reminded me a b...

Saw this in a packed Kingston Odeon. I knew as soon as the film started with the mechanical elephants bearing down on us, that this wasn’t the film for me and I was absolutely right – a dire screenplay, ridiculous costumes and appalling acting by some of the cameos (e.g. Golden Balls). It was overly...

Saw this at Wandsworth Cineworld. A harrowing film about the Armenian genocide (something that, even though it happened over 100 years ago, the Turkish authorities still don’t admit to). We follow the fate of Mikael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), an Armenian pharmacist who wishes to become a doctor and wh...

Saw this is the newly refurbished Wandsworth Cineworld. Haven’t been there for over a year and was very impressed with the cinema. The film, however, was a bit of a let-down. I had seen the trailer, which featured a lot of Bill Nighy and this really made me want to go and see it. However most of the...

Saw this in Kingston Odeon. It was a sweet film, about three old codgers wanting to rob a bank in order to steal back their pensions, which the bank, as company administrator, had seized in order to p*y off company debts. Michael Caine’s character stood to lose his house if he didn’t get his pension...

Saw this at the Odeon Covent Garden. It starred Riz Ahmed (of the Night of) as the unconventional private detective Tommy Akhtar, who was trying to find a missing prostitute. As the story unfolded we realised that the film wasn’t just about the missing prostitute, but also about something that happe...

Saw this at Clapham Picturehouse. Having purposely not read anything about the film beforehand, but having seen one trailer, I was expecting an Indiana Jones type of escapade. Thus I was disappointed that the film seemed to be interminably long and really dragged in the middle. I caught myself looki...

Saw this yesterday at Wimbledon Odeon. With two big names like Joan Collins and Pauline Collins (no relation), I was really looking forward to this, thinking it would be on the lines of Ab Fab or Thelma and Louise. I must admit that I was disappointed. I thought Joan Collins was great, as the ageing...

Saw this yesterday afternoon at Piccadilly Vue. I found the film fascinating – it really enhanced my very limited knowledge of Indian partition. I never knew it was such a contentious issue. Hugh Bonneville was excellent as the bemused Viceroy trying to handle the situation as fairly as possible – n...