Category Archives: Films

We had another double bill this week, and knowing Mo wasn’t keen on the Muppets, chose this one on the night she could make it along. Chronicle is a sc-fi thriller. It starts with a young lad, Andrew [Dane DeHaan] … Continue reading →

The Muppets were top of everyone’s list this week (except Mo). I’d been looking forward to this for ages – it’s already been out in the States for months. The film starts off with a young boy, Walter who looks … Continue reading →

We went to see Young Adult this week, which stars Charlize Theron as a young writer, Mavis, with a few emotional/mental issues. She’s struggling to finish the last book in a series and her publisher is on her case. Meantime, … Continue reading →

The Descendants is a film about Matt King [George Clooney], a successful lawyer in Hawaii, who’s wife, Elizabeth, has been in a boating accident and now lies in a coma in hospital. He vows to spend more time at home … Continue reading →

“Coriolanus “is a film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, which I confess I had never heard of. But we decided a bit of culture for a change would do us no harm The line up includes: Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus, … Continue reading →

It was another double bill this week and the first film we saw was “Haywire” with Gina Carano [Mallory], Antonio Banderas [Rodrigo], Michael Douglas [Coblenz], Ewan McGregor [Kenneth], Channing Tatum [Aaron] and Michael Fassbender [Paul]. The film starts with Mallory, … Continue reading →

The second film I saw this week was “War Horse“, the story of a young boy who trained a young colt to work on a farm, only to see him taken by the Army for service in World War 1. … Continue reading →

Haven’t been to the pics since the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” so managed two this week. The first, “The Iron Lady” is about Maggie Thatcher with Meryl Streep playing the leading lady and Jim Broadbent as her hubbie, Denis. … Continue reading →

I’ve read the books and seen the Swedish film so I wasn’t sure if I should go and see this. I suspected they wouldn’t do it justice. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is set in Sweden [even the English … Continue reading →

I was looking forward to the second Sherlock Holmes film with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, as I really enjoyed the first one. Watson [Jude Law] is about to get married, which means the end of his partnership with … Continue reading →