. When married gay couple Marc (Tom Bateman) and Fred (Sean Teale) travel from London to a remote B &B in Wales for the weekend, their prime purpose is to taunt Josh (Paul McGann)t he homophobic owner. The year before he had refused to allocate the couple a room with a double bed, so they successfully … Continue reading
The only thing in the way of an essential Wall Street merger is the agreement and signature of the company’s CEO, but the trouble is he has upped and taken himself off to a mysterious Swiss Wellness Center from which he is refusing to leave. The frustrated Board of Directors who desperately need the deal … Continue reading
Jessica Chastain gives a powerful career-best performance in the title role of the excellent Miss Sloane which is unquestionably the most compelling political thriller of the year and which will certainly captivate audiences everywhere …. particularly ones that include feminists …. and may finally give Miss Chastain the Best Actress Oscar that she has been nominated … Continue reading
The fact that Allied is a decidedly old fashioned World War 2 espionage thriller/romance from director Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump & Back To The Future) doesn’t necessarily guarantee that this new movie will prove to be a big crowd pleaser. In fact it wouldn’t be giving too much away at this point to say that … Continue reading
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that … Continue reading