Boss Level | Dir: Joe Carnahan | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ This breath-taking film opens with a computer game selection of Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) against Mr Good Morning. That is the name the flesh-and-blood Roy has given to his opponent that greets him every morning by wanting to hack him up with a machete. Former […]
Penguin Bloom | Dir: Glendyn Ivin | ★ ★ ★ ★ In 2013, Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts), her husband Cameron (The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln) had a family holiday Thailand, even though the kids wanted to go to Disneyland. While admiring the views from the rooftop of their accommodation, a rotten railing gives way and Sam falls, […]
Susan Sarandon, Naomi Watts and Elle Fanning shine in the trailer for an upcoming family drama that brings rainbow families to the big screen. Maggie (Watts) and her lesbian mother Maggie (Sarandon) support Ray (Fanning) as he adjusts to life as a young transgender man in 3 Generations. Directed by newcomer Gaby Dellal, the film […]
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 […]
Two well-known actors have recently been announced as playing transgender characters in separate films. Eddie Redmayne, known for playing Marius in the 2012 screen adaptation of ‘Les Miserables’, will be playing a transgender women in the screen adaptation of the novel ‘The Danish Girl’. ‘The Danish Girl’ is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of […]
