Official Secrets | Dir: Gavin Hood | In cinemas now | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Director Gavin Hood brings a very relevant true story of political corruption at the highest levels in several countries to the screen. It was 2003 and Tony Blair and George W Bush were on the news letting the world know that […]
In Steven Soderbergh’s hilarious heist film Logan Lucky (★★★★), it is fun to see actors cast in extremely different roles to what we are used to seeing them. Set at a massive Nascar speedway in West Virginia, a couple of not-so-bright desperados come up with an elaborate hare-brained plan to rob the speedway during the […]
BIG EYES (PG) Directed by Tim Burton I think we’ve forgotten how restrictive it was for women in the middle of last century. When Margaret (Amy Adams) left her abusive first husband in the 1950s, she had to fight to keep her daughter. Marrying the charismatic Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) allowed her to keep her […]
