Film

Unusually, we have not one movie with the horses, but two to review for you: War Horse, and Buck. And it is not like horses are a usual topic for film making either. So for those of us who love them, it is a real treat this month…

I for one was worried it would all get too slick. I really needn’t have worried. Director James Bobin (Not the Nine O’clock News, Ali G, Borat and Flight of the Concords) has done a stellar job of the Muppet relaunch…

Albert Nobbs (played by Glenn Close) is a woman stuck in a man’s role, living and working in a man’s world as a hotel butler. This is not a feel-good movie. Nor is it terribly though-provoking or moving…

Perhaps best described as a cross between Juno, Napoleon Dynamite and The Inbetweeners, Submarine is both murky and inspired, which helps kept my eyes and ears tuned to the story as it unfolded…

In Time, starring Justin Timberlake, is a sci-fi with societal commentary that is fortuitously timed to coincide with the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement where protestors are chanting that they are the 99%…

Evangeline Lilly and Hugh Jackman star in Real Steel, a boxing film about an underdog, just like Rocky. But in 2020 it is a robot named Atom rather than a club fighter in 1976 called Rocky Balboa…

Norwegian Wood – an adaption of Haruki Murakami’s bestseller written in 1987 and only now realised on film – completely embodies The Beatles’ lyrics by the song of the same title, ‘I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me’…

You really can’t go too far wrong with a rom com set in Paris – even if the idea of Woody Allen directing a film makes me a tad nervous. More com than rom, but so littered with fabulous actors that it would have taken real effort to ruin it…

In the end, there is only so long that one can sit and watch trendy French folk sit, smoke, quibble, and drink wine in paradise…

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since I last reviewed the Italian Film Festival but September will see the start of the 16th annual Italian Film Festival, this time backed by iconic Italian brand, Alfa Romeo…