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This Week's Movie News From Talking Pictures including an interview with Brooklyn star Saoirse Ronan

This week’s Talking Pictures comes over all nostalgic!  There’s sweeping 1950s drama, Brooklyn, and its star, Saoirse Ronan, is in the hot seat for this week’s Big Interview.  And there’s the re-issue of classic romance Brief Encounter to mark the film’s 70th anniversary. Also in the spotlight is documentary, He Named Me Malala, about equal rights campaigner Malala…
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Film Review: Brooklyn

November looks like being nostalgia month.  There’s re-issues of weepies Brief Encounter and Doctor Zhivago, as well as new arrivals The Dressmaker and Bridge Of Spies, but ahead of them all comes the adaptation of Colm Toibin’s best seller, Brooklyn.  London Mums’ resident film critic, Freda Cooper, took the journey to see how well it made the leap from page to screen. The story In the…
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Film Review: Spectre

Breathe a sigh of relief.  After all the build-up, Spectre is at last out in cinemas.  It’s the 24th outing for 007 and one of the biggest cinema events this year. But once you’ve got past the hype, what can you expect?  The latest mission for London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, was to find out. The story As James Bond storylines go, this is probably one of the more…
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Film Review - Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape

Ever noticed that some films are only released through one cinema chain?  It’s not uncommon for smaller, independent films but when a big group is involved, it’s more unusual – and often a bad sign.  Released in time for half term, Animal Kingdom: Let’s Go Ape is only being screened in Vue cinemas.  A bad omen?  London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, finds out. The…
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Film Review: The Lady In The Van

Alan Bennett’s career is remarkable.  An academic who was an overnight success after appearing in Beyond The Fringe, he became a playwright, screenwriter, author and actor.  And a national treasure.  His plays, The History Boys and The Madness of George III, both made it to the big screen, and now comes the third, The Lady In The Van.   London Mums’ film critic Freda Cooper had an early…
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Film Review: Beasts Of No Nation

Some of this year’s London Film Festival’s line-up made a quick sprint from the red carpet to cinemas nationwide.  Suffragette, The Program and The Lobster have all been released.  But Beasts Of No Nation took a different path: the first original feature film from Netflix, subscribers can watch it now.  London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, checked out what could prove to be a ground…
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Meryl Streep talks equality at Suffragette press conference

Before Suffragette officially opened the London Film Festival on Wednesday night  – and demonstrators invaded the red carpet in a move that would probably have had the original suffragettes cheering – London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, raced across town from the official media screening to the film’s press conference.  All to be in the presence of a screen legend. L…
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This Week's Movie News From Talking Pictures

The countdown is over because the latest edition of Talking Pictures, your essential guide to the movies, is here!  And two of this week’s new releases at the cinema are real epics.  There’s The Martian, the latest from legendary director, Ridley Scott, with Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on the Red Planet.  And Scott is also in the hot seat for The Big…
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Film Review: Macbeth

October looks like being Fassbender Month.  His bio-pic of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, closes the London Film Festival in a few weeks’ time but, before then, he stars in the latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.  The original play has a reputation for being unlucky, so how does this film version fare?  London Mums film critic, Freda Cooper, finds out if “something wicked…
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