Wicked Little Letters. 2024 Written and Directed by Thea Sharrock. Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, Timothy Spall, Hugh Skinner, Paul Chahidi, Alisha Weir, Grant Crookes, Adam Treasure, Jonny Sweet, Tim Key, Jason Watkins, Richard Goulding, Cyril Nri, and Tim McMullan. SYNOPSIS: When people […]
Movie Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Watkins, Joana Ribeiro, Jordi Mollà and Sergi López. SYNOPSIS: An advertising director returns to the Spanish village where he made a student film adaptation of Don Quixote, only to find his star now believes […]
Movie Review – The Children Act (2018)
The Children Act, 2018. Directed by Richard Eyre. Starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ben Chaplin, Rosie Cavaliero, Jason Watkins, Anthony Calf, Honey Holmes, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Vansittart, Andrew Havill, Eileen Walsh, and Nicholas Jones. SYNOPSIS: As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a […]
Movie Review – The Children Act (2018)
The Children Act, 2018. Directed by Richard Eyre. Starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ben Chaplin, Eileen Walsh, Anthony Calf, Jason Watkins, Dominic Carter, Dwayne Thomas, Radhika Aggarwal, and Rosie Cavaliero. SYNOPSIS: A high court judge presides over the most ethically complex cases. Her recent case involves a young 17-year-old who refuses a life-saving blood […]
Movie Review – Hampstead (2017)
Hampstead, 2017. Directed by Joel Hopkins. Starring Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, James Norton, Lesley Manville, Jason Watkins and Phil Davis. SYNOPSIS: Widow Alice (Diane Keaton) lives in a mansion flat opposite Hampstead Heath when property developers announce their intention to build new apartments. She discovers that, smack bang in the middle of the land they […]
Movie Review – The Take (2016)
The Take (a.k.a. Bastille Day), 2016. Directed by James Watkins Starring Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly, Charlotte le Bon SYNOPSIS: Michael Mason, an American conman in Paris, is embroiled in a terrorist plot which leads him into the path of hard-edged CIA officer Sean Briar… On the evidence of movies such as The Take, […]
