Mary Poppins Returns – Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) is now grown with children of his own: John (Nathanael Saleh), Anabel (Pixie Davies), Georgie (Joel Dawson). Their family home is about to be foreclosed by greedy banker Wilkins (Colin Firth). Sister Jane (Emily Mortimer) offers her help. Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) appears. Lamplighter Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda) […]
April 29, 2016
A Hologram For The King – The reason you probably haven’t heard much about this Tom Hanks’ movie is that it’s not very good. Hanks plays Alan Clay, an IT salesman sent to Saudi Arabia to sell a holographic teleconference system. He’s given a major runaround and ends up staying a lot longer than expected. […]
December 28, 2015
The Danish Girl – At first, it’s just an in love, young, married couple trying to start a family. Both are artists. Gerda (Alicia Vikander) asks Einar (Eddie Redmayne) to pose as her subject, wearing women’s clothes. It awakens a long repressed feeling in him and his alter ego Lily begins to emerge. Gerda stands […]
November 8, 2015
Suffragette – London, 1912 – In an age when husbands were expected to speak for and control their wives, a 24-year-old laundry worker is accidentally brought into the Suffrage movement. Having worked full-time since she was 12, Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) is now a wife and mother. After seeing her employer trying to force himself […]
December 23, 2018
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