A petulant young boy is given a life-changing opportunity in this passable music drama. Newcomer Garrett Wareing plays an 11-year-old troublemaker gifted with an angelic singing voice, who winds up at America’s National Boychoir Academy after his mother dies. The Academy functions as a prestigious boarding school for talented singers, and it’s there that Wareing… Read more »
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Review: 45 Years. Nantwich Civic Hall, Mon 8th Feb
There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s forty-fifth wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon… Read more »
Review: Ida – Jan 11th
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes IDA, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. 18-year old Anna , a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing… Read more »
Review: Human Capital
HUMAN CAPITAL begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their comfortable middle-class… Read more »
Movie: Night Train to Lisbon (Nov 9th)
Jeremy Irons plays Raimundo, a bespectacled teacher in Bern, who saves a young woman from taking her own life: she runs away, leaving behind her coat, in which there is a fascinating book by a PortuguesedoctorandarailtickettoLisbon.Entrancedbythe mystery, he jumps aboard the train and tracks down the author’s surviving relatives and associates: a stately range of… Read more »
