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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This Christmas’ movie A Christmas Star is a modern fairy tale with traditional family values and positive ending released by Belfast-based children’s charity Cinemagic and Signature Entertainment in UK cinemas nationwide from 13th November 2015 and on DVD, Blu-Ray, EST and VOD from 23rd November, 2015.
The Story
Starring film and TV’s elite, A Christmas Star tells the story of Noel, a…
If you and your kids are fans of the Ice Age trilogy you will love this trailer teaser that Twentieth Century Fox has just presented for ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE, arriving in cinemas Summer 2016. It is a proper well made animated short film. Enjoy!
The Story and Cast
Scrat’s epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic…
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…
Alice Through the Looking Glass is the sequel to Tim Burton’s movie Alice in Wonderland (2010) and reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall.
2015 celebrated the 150th anniversary (1865-2015) of Alice in…
Here is London Mums’ list of the Best Book Adaptations. My favourite book adaptation of all times has to be Gone with the Wind. What’s your favourite one?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a moving love story from the best-selling novel by Colm Tobin, adapted by the successful screenwriter and novelist Nick Hornby, best known for his novel High Fidelity. Set in the 1950s the story follows Eilis…
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…
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…
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…
After a break last week, Talking Pictures is most definitely back – as is a certain secret agent, James Bond, in his latest outing, Spectre. And his new M, played by Ralph Fiennes, is in the hot seat for a grilling in The Big Interview.
There’s also a review of Australian family movie, Paper Planes, while on DVD there’s the blockbusting Jurassic World and Ian…