With the UK General Election taking place today, the forthcoming film SUFFRAGETTE could not be more relevant. After more than 9 million women failed to vote in the 2010 election, there is hope for a greater participation today. We cannot fail to remember that women were not allowed to vote in Great Britain until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Both before and after…
Remember Spooks? If so, you’re in good company: some 9 million people tuned in to it during its heyday, so the team behind Spooks: The Greater Good, which is released on Friday, certificate 15, must feel they’re on to a winner.
Some familiar faces from the series are back – most importantly Peter Firth as Harry Pearce – but adapting a TV show for the big screen is notoriously full of…
It takes a brave director to make a film based on a much-loved novel – and an even braver one when the original movie adaptation is still something of a favourite.
The director in question is Thomas Vinterberg and the film is Far From The Madding Crowd, released around the UK this Friday, certificate 12A. It’s based on the Thomas Hardy classic, a regular GCSE and O Level text, and the…
I started loving Audrey Hepburn almost by chance, and I’ve never thought I would be so amazed by this beautiful human being. I also never thought I could love her movies. Surprises of life.
It was Summer 2010, during FIFA World Cup in South Africa. I remember I was really tired to see my team Italy, former world champion, beaten and outclassed by everybody. One evening I was reading the TV…
Robert Downey Jnr’s Avengers:Age Of Ultron interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy might have hit the headlines this week, but little did he know that an even more challenging encounter was on the cards.
Mini Thor – complete with an English accent – swooped into town to ask Iron Man the questions on everybody’s lips. And the grown-up superhero was only too happy to answer every single one…
A new futuristic film from Disney called Tomorrowland will throw us into a completely new dimension, or at least this is what it looks like from the trailer, where everything is possible. Mums will enjoy the presence of George Clooney while kids will love the cool technology driving the new world.
The story
From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure…
Superheroes stories in comics and on the big screen have always fascinated me. You may remember my passionate feature Famous Superheroes in books and films. Now I am very pleased to see that the best storytelling streaming media (no need to say that I mean Netflix), released 13 episodes of the first superhero series Daredevil on Friday 10th April 2015. It is an interesting choice and not an easy…
Blockbusters will rule at the cinema this summer. I’ll be previewing them for London Mums in a few weeks’ time but, in the meantime, warm up acts don’t come much bigger than this – Avengers: Age Of Ultron. It opens this Thursday, 23 April 2015, certificate 12A.
After being at the helm for both this and the first film in the Marvel series, Avengers Assemble (2012), director and writer…
Rockwork Grove, a garden in one of the most famous Palaces in the world, Versailles, is taking centre stage in Alan Rickman’s upcoming film A Little Chaos. Taking inspiration from the enchanting gardens in the film we look back at the gardens which have made an impression on screen.
A Little Chaos
Kate Winslet stars as landscape architect Madame Sabine De Barra who is tasked with creating the…
WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS has recently announced the release of a new movie called Zootropolis due to hit UK cinemas on 25th March 2016. The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what…