Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is a Londoner in his 60s. He runs a camera store that sells expensive second-hand Leicas, but this passes the time rather than keeping him fully occupied. His working day allows him time to have leisurely lunches and annoy his ex-wife Margaret (Harriet Walter) over the telephone. She is a QC and still has a busy life which includes their pregnant, single, 37-year-old d...
Baywatch the original television series, ran for from 1989 to 1999. It was, for a time, the most popular television show in the world. Let that sink in. It made star David Hasselhoff– who was already very famous for talking to an intelligent 1982 Pontiac Trans Am in the television series Knight Rider–as famous as a man could be. Hasselhoff (aka The Hoff) played Mitch Buchannon, the head of a dedic...
Emily Middleton (Amy Schumer) is having a bad day. She loses her job and has a break up. Her holiday to Ecuador (booked and non-refundable) is the only bright spot in her life. She finds it difficult to find a friend with the free time to accompany her and ends up going with her judgemental mother played by Goldie Hawn. Linda is a homebody who loves her cats and fears the outside world, so this tr...
Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) are an interracial couple. He is uncomfortable when he discovers that Rose’s parents are unaware that he is black. Chris and Rose are planning to take a trip and stay at the parents’ place over the weekend. The Armitages are somewhat daunting. The father Dean (Bradley Whitford) is a neurosurgeon and mother Missy ...
Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (voice of Bradley Cooper)and baby Groot (voice of Vin Diesel) return as The Guardians of the Galaxy in the sequel GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2. The Guardians successfully complete a job for a golden skinned race of aliens; easily-offended narcissists called The Sovereign. Their success is immediately ruined by Rocket’s...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, US network television cranked out a steady stream of crime dramas. For the most part, these weekly procedurals were predictable as clockwork. Better examples of the form were KOJAK, POLICE WOMAN and THE ROCKFORD FILES. It took shows like Joseph Wambaugh’s POLICE STORY and Bochco and Kozoll’s HILL STREET BLUES to significantly break ground in this gen...
Dance Academy was a popular Australian teen drama that aired over three seasons from 2010 to 2013. It was set in Sydney and co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Germany’s ZDF. The series won two Logies for Outstanding Children’s Drama and was nominated for two international Emmys. DANCE ACADEMY: THE MOVIE is set eighteen months after the events of that third season. Although ...
We revisit the characters of TRAINSPOTTING twenty years later. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns home to Edinburgh after living in Amsterdam since the mid-1990s. He wants to reconnect with his old mates Spud Murphy (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy (Johnny Lee Miller). When they were in their twenties they were heroin users who saw numerous friends and lovers die due to the addiction. Now they’re in t...
In the fictional Western Australian town of Corrigan, in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, 1969, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin becomes involved in a town scandal. Fouteen-year-old Jasper Jones, knocks on Charlie’s bedroom window. Jasper is in serious trouble. The boys go to school together but they are not friends. Jasper is an outsider; a boy of mixed race, who has few friends. H...
Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is a loner who works as a handyman in several apartment blocks in Quincy Massachusetts. After his brother dies, he is called back to his home, to the seaside town of Manchester.He discovers he has been named the legal guardian of Patrick, his 16-year-old nephew. Kenneth Lonergan has written and directed a slow burning drama that deals with more than one family tragedy....
Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey), follows his father into the mining business. He believes his destiny is to build upon the family legacy. Unfortunately, Kenny has no gift for business or mining and as the years pass, he loses money and credibility, eventually becoming a poor risk that others won’t invest in. However, he has great tenacity and he hangs in there waiting for the right opportunity. ...
It is the future. Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), a passenger on the spaceship Avalon, wakes up from his sleep pod. The ship is on a 120 year journey to a colonisation planet called Homestead 2. The Avalon is a state-of-the-art sleep ship with 5000 passengers in a state of suspended animation. Jim’s pod has malfunctioned and he has woken 90 years early. The pod is constructed to keep Jim asleep, but no...
