Showing posts with label Year: 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 2017. Show all posts

Darkest Hour (2017)

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Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill during his early days as UK Prime Minister during World War II. It’s brilliantly acted but poorly filmed...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

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A remarkable drama written, directed and co-produced by Martin McDonagh.  Frances McDormand portrays Mildred Hayes, a grieving woman drawn t...

Back to Burgundy (2017)

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Refreshingly different French drama directed by Cédric Klapisch.  Three siblings (Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot and François Civil) inherit a Fre...

Lady Bird (2017)

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Greta Gerwig ’s sweet and compassionate drama about a teenage girl’s coming of age in Sacramento, California.  Saoirse Ronan plays Christine...

Custody (2017)

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Award-winning French drama about the fallout of marital separation on an 11-year-old child (Thomas Gioria). It's brilliant but thoroughl...

Viceroy's House (2017)

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A not especially compelling historical drama, set at the time of India’s handover from Britain, and the partitioning of India and Pakistan. ...

The Mercy (2017)

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Directed by James Marsh and based on the true story, this is an account of the amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who entered the 1968 Sunday ...

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 ...

My Cousin Rachel (2017)

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Superb historical drama adapted from the novel by Daphne du Maurier.  A young man in Cornwall (Sam Claflin) meets his older cousin’s widow (...

Geostorm (2017)

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Disaster film.  The world has been saved from environmental disaster by a hi-tech space station (the actual science isn’t explained), but wh...

The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)

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When Warsaw Zoo is attacked by the Nazis at the start of World War II, zookeeper Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh) and his wife Antonina (Jes...

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

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Semi-biopic of Billie Jean King (played by Emma Stone ), who campaigns for equal rights for women in tennis while juggling her own messy lo...

The Greatest Showman (2017)

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This film is so different to anything I have seen before. Superficially it’s a musical biopic of the circus impresario P.T. Barnum. However ...

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

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Biographical drama detailing an unlikely romance between American actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) and a Liverpudlian half her age ( ...

Life (2017)

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Horror sci-fi directed by Daniel Espinosa.  A crew of six aboard the International Space Station intercept samples from Mars that turn out ...

The Post (2017)

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I’m not much of a Spielberg fan, as documented elsewhere , but I bought this without realising he was involved.  It tells the story of how t...

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

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The third and final film in the reboot series significantly escalates the drama of the first two ( Rise of... and Dawn of... ), ramping it...

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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A sequel to the 1982 masterpiece, set 30 years later. Ryan Gosling plays K, the replicant seeking answers about his origins. It transpire...

Dunkirk (2017)

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Stunningly dramatic war film. There’s no let up in the tension, made more extreme by Hans Zimmer’s remarkable music, which – brilliantly –...

Wind River (2017)

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Tense, gripping thriller set in the snowy wastes of Wyoming. A body is found and an inexperienced FBI agent is sent to investigate (Elizabe...