Thriller/Suspense/Film Noir
The Wrong Man (1956). Film review of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller
1950’s
On Chesil Beach (2017). Film review of the drama starring Saoirse Ronan
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018). This magic fantasy casts a decent spell
Film review, by Jason Day, of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the fantasy movie about a young orphan who moves in with his uncle, who turns out be a Warlock with a terrible secret. Starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.
Action/adventure/fantasy
Fences (2016). Film review – 3/5 stars for this grandly acted stage to screen adaptation.
Film review by Jason Day of the drama Fences starring Denzel Washington as an African American working class man in the 1950’s. Co-starring Viola Davis in an Oscar winning role.
Drama
A United Kingdom (2016). Naive? Or innocent? This race-relations/big government drama is worth watching.
Film review of A United Kingdom about an interracial love affair in the 1950’s starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. Directed by Amma Asante.
Drama
The Dressmaker (2015)
Film review by Claire Durrant of the black comedy starring Kate Winslet as the title dressmaker in 1950’s Australia, Liam Hemsworth as her lover and Judy Davis as her estranged mother.
Comedy
New movies out in the UK this weekend
A list of the new films being released across the UK, from Friday 27 November 2015. Use the Find Any Film website for details of which cinema nearest you will show these films.
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Black Mass
Our reviewer Maysa Moncao saw an early screening of this film at the recent TIFF15 and had nothing but good things to say about it in her review. Johnny Depp leads in this 1970’s Boston gangster thriller, with Joel Egerton and Benedict Cumberbatch. See the official Warners website. Showing all over the UK, after preview screenings this weekend. Find Any Film should help locate where.
Trumbo (2015) and the conclusion of the London Film Festival 2015
Our reviewer in…Maysa Moncao has been at the London Film Festival this week and reports back on the highlights of the event. Her review of the Hollywood/McCarthy witchhunts drama Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren is underneath.
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