Showing posts with label Starring: Kate Winslet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Kate Winslet. Show all posts

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

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Superb historical drama adapted by Ang Lee from Jane Austen ’s classic 1811 novel. Sisters Elinor and Marianne are played wonderfully by Emm...

Finding Neverland (2004)

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Intriguing (partial) biopic of the writer J.M. Barrie.  Barrie is played unexpectedly well by Johnny Depp. Kate Winslet plays Sylvia Llewely...

The Mountain Between Us (2017)

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Disaster/survival story that’s also a romance.  A surgeon (Idris Elba) and Guardian journalist (Kate Winslet) survive a plane crash in the ...

Jude (1996)

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Michael Winterbottom’s skilful adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure is a powerful and moving saga.  Christopher Eccleston plays Ju...

The Life of David Gale (2003)

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Thriller/drama directed by Alan Parker.  David Gale (Kevin Spacey) plays a university professor and anti-capital punishment campaigner who f...

Contagion (2011)

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A pandemic thriller made fascinating by the real-world events in the era of Covid 19.  Matt Damon ’s wife (played by Gwyneth Paltrow ) contr...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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A man and woman undergo special treatment to have their painful memories of each other erased so that they can forget the suffering they end...

Hideous Kinky (1998)

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It’s 1972 and Julia ( Kate Winslet ) has gone to live in Morocco with her two young children. She leaves behind her old relationship and ho...

The Reader (2008)

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Intriguing and moving drama. In Berlin in 1958, 15-year-old Michael (David Kross) begins a brief, passionate love affair with 36-year-old t...

Iris (2001)

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A biopic of Iris Murdoch, a love story and a study of the great writer’s decline into Alzheimer’s , this is a gripping and sad drama. Ada...

Carnage (2011)

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Set in one evening in a New York apartment, Carnage features two couples rowing over an incident between their children. Directed by Roma...

Revolutionary Road (2008)

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This faithful adaptation of the 1961 novel by Richard Yates is a fairly bleak study of oppressive suburban conformity in 1950s America, and...

Enigma (2001)

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Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of a Robert Harris World War II thriller set at Bletchley Park in 1943. Dougray Scott plays Tom Jericho, troubled...

Titanic (1997)

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I enjoyed this far more than I expected to. I have always found disaster stories fascinating, and this one is especially well done. The sl...