drama
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Darkest Hour
The American Academy of Motion Pictures may want to think about adding another category for the Oscars this year for best prosthetics. Following hot on the heels of Woody Harrelson’s latex face as LBJ, we now have Gary Oldman’s face totally submerged under Kazuhiro Tsuji’s masterful make up as Winston Churchill. Whatever happened to the…
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Lord Dismiss Us
‘Welcome to Weatherhill!’ is how we are greeted at the start of this wonderful play written and directed by BAFTA award winner Glenn Chandler who adapted if from the book of the same name by Michael Campbell, the late Lord Glenavy. Set in a typical English boarding school in the 1967 – Parliament is in…
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Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino’s latest, and best movie has been the subject of a stealth marketing campaign which revealed little of substance about the movie but somehow hyped expectations to a dizzy height. Thankfully for once they proved extremely accurate as this near-faultless film about an intergenerational summer love affair is a sublimely perfect coming-of-age story that is…
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Forgotten Man
This intriguing wee drama is the feature film debut of Canadian writer/director Arran Shearing and its main attribute is that it is a wonderful visual look at London’s East End. It’s a drama about a drama that gets a little messy along the way but still has enough fine points to recommend it. It’s…
