British

  • THE KING

    Albert, the Duke of York, was the 2nd son of King George V and as a Naval Officer and husband and father with two young children he enjoyed a calm and privileged life and the freedom that came with not being the Heir to the British Throne.  That all changed suddenly with the unexpected death…

  • SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

    There is no surprise as to what this new rom-com is about as the title says it all. Literally. Based on Paul Today’s best selling novel the movie comes across as  Hollywood’s patronizing way of saying that some Arabs are really quite nice people, even in they waste their new found wealth of silly harmless things.…

  • KILL LIST

    I was persuaded to go out of my cinematic comfort zone to go see a new indie horror movie: a genre that I really loathe.  This British one, the second feature directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he co-wrote with his wife Amy Jump had garnered rave reviews that included ‘The most original, unsettling…

  • TRISHNA

    A new Winterbottom movie is always something that I really look forward too with great anticipation, partly because it’s almost impossible to predict what genre he will choose let alone the subject matter.  After last year’s wonderfully funny ‘The Trip’ Mr Winterbottom, one of the UK‘s most versatile and prolific directors, has gone back to the…