Weeks don’t get much bigger at the cinema! There’s a deluge of great new releases this week and, if you can’t decide what to see, then let Talking Pictures do it for you.
There’s romantic drama, Carol: its star, Cate Blanchett, is the subject of this week’s Big Interview. Johnny Depp abandons Captain Jack Sparrow to play real-life gangster, Whitey Bulger, in Black Mass. The epic…
Remember the days of the epic film? When they were so long they needed an intermission half way through? If you do – and even if you don’t – this week gives you an all-too-rare opportunity to experience it all over again or for the first time. One of the most romantic of large scale films celebrates its half century by returning to the big screen in a newly re-mastered print. David…
The awards season doesn’t fully get under way for another couple of months, but the buzz has already started. One of the films attracting a lot of attention is Todd Haynes’ Carol, released on Friday, certificate 15. A romance between two women set in 1950s America, it’s already scooped a couple of awards at Cannes and looks destined to add to its collection.
London Mums’ film critic…
It’s a Disney-Pixar double bill this week. Inside Out was released on DVD on Monday and Friday sees the arrival in cinemas of the studio’s latest animation, The Good Dinosaur, certificate PG. London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, checks out a film that’s light years from prehistoric.
The story
It all starts with a large “what if?” What if that meteorite that crashed into the…
The Big Interview hot seat turns into a hot sofa this week as Jennifer Lawrence and co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson all talk about the final instalment of the Hunger Games series, Mockingjay Part II.
London Mums’ resident film critic, Freda Cooper, reviews the film, as well as the other big new release this week, The Dressmaker, which stars Kate Winslet. DVDs in the…
When The Hunger Games first appeared on screens in 2012, it set the bar and it set it high. There’s been other post-dystopian young adult adventure stories, but none of them have quite measured up to the series, with its strong but vulnerable heroine, Katniss Everdeen. And now it reaches its climax, as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II arrives in cinemas this week, certificate 12A.
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Another week, another Kate Winslet film. On top of starring alongside Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs, she’s now about to have a second film in cinemas. 1950s comedy The Dressmaker is released this Friday, 20 November and, not surprisingly, Winslet is modelling some fabulous frocks.
London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, finds out if it’ll have you in stitches.
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It’s 1950s…
The stars are out in force for this week’s Talking Pictures, your essential guide to the movies from London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper.
There’s Maggie Smith on her latest film, The Lady In The Van, and Michael Fassbender on playing the title role in Steve Jobs. His co-star, Kate Winslet, answers the questions in The Big Interview and both films are released this week.
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2015’s been quite a year for Michael Fassbender. First came the western Slow West, then Shakespeare’s Macbeth and now it’s the most anticipated of the lot – playing the title role in Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, which is released this Friday.
It’s a biopic with a chequered history: remarkably, Fassbender was third choice for the part. London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper…
At the London Film Festival press conference for Suffragette last month, the panel – including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan – were asked which contemporary women inspired them most. The answer was instantaneous and unanimous: Malala Yousafzai. The remarkable teenager’s life has been made into a documentary, one that was screened at the LFF (London Film Festival) and which arrives in…