1917 (2019)
1917 takes place in Northern France amid the Great War. Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are two British soldiers commanded to carry orders from their General (Colin Firth) across No...
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The King’s Speech (2010)
An atypical underdog story, The King’s Speech is a well executed piece through and through, featuring very fine performances, good character touches and wit in the script (David Seidler, Tucker), Tom Hooper’s (The Damned United,“John Adams”) consummate direction,...
The Accidental Husband (2008)
Warning: The following review will contain some spoilers, especially the first paragraph. The film is so predictable, this caveat is somewhat debatable, but I still feel the need to offer a fair warning. Read...
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
There is a reason why romantic comedies, even the most successful ones, don’t usually have sequels. Usually, this is because it’s hard to recreate magic twice, particularly when the culmination of a man and...
Fourplay / Londinium / Love Affairs / Life After Sex (2001)
Mike Binder (of HBO’s “The Mind of the Married Man”) writes, directs and stars as Ben Greene, a successful American sitcom writer who is hired in Great Britain to work on a sitcom starring...
Love Actually (2003)
Richard Curtis, writer of the successful romantic comedies, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, takes the director’s chair for the first time with impressive results. After watching many other directors do justice to...
What a Girl Wants (2003)
Whenever I see a film that is wholly intended for an audience of which I am not a part of, I feel the need to put in a disclaimer to let you know, so...
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
Sometimes it takes a first-time director to breathe new life into what might otherwise be a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy. Such is the case with the refreshing comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary, thanks in large part to...