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Review: Lion

Pawar plays Saroo, a little Indian kid who roams the streets with his brother; they get split up at the railway station as night falls; not knowing his way back, Saroo decides to get some sleep on a stationary train. He wakes up to find to his horror the train has started up and is… Read more »

Review: The Olive Tree

Alma is a young girl with emotional problems and a special relationship with her grandfather Ramón, an old country man who stopped talking about 12 years ago after his son, Alma’s father, sold a 2000-years-old olive tree in order to open a restaurant. Dominated by the sadness and the melancholia by the loss of his… Read more »

Review: Lady Macbeth

The film transplants the action from Russia to the English north east of the 19th century. Pugh plays Katherine, a beautiful young woman who has been married off to Alexander, the morose and sexually inadequate son of a wealthy mine owner, Boris. It is Boris who rules the roost and gloweringly insists on Katherine being… Read more »

Review: Hidden Figures

In 1961, mathematician Katherine Goble works as a “computer” in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center. Following a successful Russian satellite launch, pressure to send American astronauts into space increases. White supervisor Vivian Mitchell assigns Katherine to assist the Space Task Group of Al Harrison due to her skills in analytic… Read more »

Review: Toni Erdmann

Winfried Conradi is a divorced music teacher, an old-age hippie of sorts, with a passion for bizarre pranks involving several fake personas. Following the death of his beloved dog, he decides to reconnect with his daughter, Ines, who is pursuing a career in business consulting. She is consumed by her work and seems to have… Read more »

Review: The Salesman

Emad and Rana are a married couple who work in the theatre, currently starring in a production of Death of a Salesman. Emad is also an instructor at a local school. One night, their apartment begins to collapse and they flee the building with the other residents. Desperate to find a place to live, their… Read more »

Review: Love and Friendship

Nantwich Film Festival presents a ‘Film and Food’ evening at Nantwich Bookshop. A delicious buffet prepared by the bookshop coffee lounge will accompany the film ‘Love and Friendship’ (2016) a period drama based on a novella by Jane Austen: Lady Susan Vernon, played by Kate Beckinsale, is a beautiful, scheming widow who goes to stay… Read more »

Review: Bridge of Spies

In Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg once again masterfully goes to the historical drama with a righteous man’s theme (think Schindler and Lincoln for starters). This time lawyer James B. Donovan is asked to defend an accused Soviet spy, Rudolf Able (Mark Rylance, superb), in order to show the world the American justice system is… Read more »

Review: Captain Fantastic

I felt that this film was captivating in all aspects of story-telling. Especially in it’s acting where all characters in the film did a superb job with special mention to Viggo Mortensen (Ben – Father) and George Mackay (Bo – Eldest Son). This film depicts the difficulty of parenting at the highest level as Ben… Read more »

Review: La Famille Bélier

A captivating new star is born in THE BÉLIER FAMILY, Eric Lartigau’s fabulous, heart-felt comedy hit about a young girl whose close bond to her hearing-impaired family is challenged by the discovery of an extraordinary talent for music. In the Bélier family, everyone is deaf, except dutiful sixteen-year-old Paula (beautiful newcomer Louane Emera). She acts… Read more »