The VE Day celebrations may have taken place over the weekend, but they start all over again on Friday – on the big screen this time – with the release of A Royal Night Out, certificate 12A.
There’s plenty of archive material of the celebrations on 8 May 1945, one of the most famous being the photograph of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony: King George VI, Queen…
Remember Spooks? If so, you’re in good company: some 9 million people tuned in to it during its heyday, so the team behind Spooks: The Greater Good, which is released on Friday, certificate 15, must feel they’re on to a winner.
Some familiar faces from the series are back – most importantly Peter Firth as Harry Pearce – but adapting a TV show for the big screen is notoriously full of…
It takes a brave director to make a film based on a much-loved novel – and an even braver one when the original movie adaptation is still something of a favourite.
The director in question is Thomas Vinterberg and the film is Far From The Madding Crowd, released around the UK this Friday, certificate 12A. It’s based on the Thomas Hardy classic, a regular GCSE and O Level text, and the…
Robert Downey Jnr’s Avengers:Age Of Ultron interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy might have hit the headlines this week, but little did he know that an even more challenging encounter was on the cards.
Mini Thor – complete with an English accent – swooped into town to ask Iron Man the questions on everybody’s lips. And the grown-up superhero was only too happy to answer every single one…
Blockbusters will rule at the cinema this summer. I’ll be previewing them for London Mums in a few weeks’ time but, in the meantime, warm up acts don’t come much bigger than this – Avengers: Age Of Ultron. It opens this Thursday, 23 April 2015, certificate 12A.
After being at the helm for both this and the first film in the Marvel series, Avengers Assemble (2012), director and writer…
Spoiler alert! It’s almost impossible to review new musical, The Last Five Years, without at least one and that’s because you know the end of the story right from the very start.
But, as long as you can handle that, you’re in for an unashamedly romantic hour and a half, with lots of songs and very little in the way of dialogue. Will it tug at your heart strings? London Mums’ film…
Introducing the romantic leading man for this spring. Matthias Schoenaerts. If the name doesn’t jangle any bells, you may have seen the Belgian actor last month as a musical German officer in World War II romance, Suite Francaise. He’s back again next month as one of Carey Mulligan’s suitors in the re-make of Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd. As of this week, however, he’s a…
Fans of indie films will probably recognise the name Noah Baumbach, the writer/director of slices of pure pleasure like The Squid And The Whale (2005) and, more recently, Frances Ha (2012). Now he’s taken a leaf out of fellow director Wes Anderson’s book (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom) and made the leap from indie cinema to the mainstream.
His first film for the mass market…
2015’s shaping up to be a big year for Disney. It started with box office and Oscar success for Big Hero 6 and Feast. Now the attention turns to live action, with the arrival of Cinderella this coming Friday, 27 March. But it’s not the film alone that’s been attracting attention. When its director, Kenneth Branagh, and star Lily James were in town last week for its press…
Coming of age films are a favourite at the cinema, from this year’s Boyhood to Stand By Me in 1986 and all points in between and before. This Friday sees the arrival of another twist on the same theme, British movie X + Y, certificate 12A. This time, there’s a double twist: maths and autism.
London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, finds out if it all adds up.
The story
Like many…