In the same week that the independent movie industry gathers for this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah, a refugee from the 2014 festival arrives on DVD in the UK. A film that was also shown at the Toronto Film Festival in the same year, was released in the US last year and even earned its star a Golden Globe nomination this year. Yet it never saw the light of day in British cinemas.
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It’s business as usual on the latest edition of Talking Pictures, after all those awards announcements last week. Comedy The Big Short, which is in the running for this year’s Oscars and BAFTAs, is the new release to watch out for and one of its stars, Christian Bale, talks about his role in the movie. And there’s another comedy out this week, the smaller British offering, Lost In…
London Mums bedtime story this week is The Queen’s Handbag by writer & illustrator Steve Antony published by Hodder Children’s books (1st Oct 2015).
Steve Antony is a very popular author at the London Mums’ Kids Club for his other masterpieces, The Queen’s Hat and Please Mr Panda. He is certainly child reporter Diego’s favourite writer, who keeps picking…
You don’t need lots of words to tell a good story. The proof of this is certainly included in a new picture by Giuliano Ferri called The Snowball. Following another snow-themed book Rabbit and Bear : Rabbit’s Bad Habits I can speak on behalf of London Mums and express the wish to have some snow in London sometime this Winter to be able to finally make a decent snowman. It’s been…
The forthcoming Spring issue of the London Mums magazine (out early March) will include an exclusive interview with adventurer TV star and London Dad Ben Fogle. My bedside book this week has to be his latest book Labrador – The Story of the World’s Favourite Dog which is a social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world’s most beloved dogs.
What I love about it, is the…
In a week packed with big new releases at the cinema – The Revenant and Creed among them – one of the smaller ones is making a big impression. Just arrived in cinemas, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, certificate 15, has already won a Golden Globe for its star, Brie Larson, and is nominated in several BAFTA and Oscar categories. All for a film that’s set in a 10 foot by 10 foot world.
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There’s a double helping this week of Talking Pictures, your essential guide to the movies from London Mums’ resident film critic, Freda Cooper.
The latest edition of the show is packed with the week’s big releases at the cinema, including The Revenant. And the film’s star, Leonardo Di Caprio, escapes the wilderness to take up the hot seat for The Big Interview. Also in the spotlight are…
From this week I will suggest and review a new bedtime story every week, one that you can read to or with your child. For this first week I have chosen one of the quirkiest yet sweetest children’s story ever, Rabbit and Bear : Rabbit’s Bad Habits by Julian Gough (Author), Jim Field (Illustrator).
When a new children’s picture book lands on my desk for a review I cannot…
It’s the awards season at the movies and our very own film critic Freda Cooper is in the running for an award of her own!
As well as being one of our most popular contributors, Freda runs her own movie blog, The Coops Review, which is a contender in the UK Blog Awards. And she needs your help to get her through to the final.
The first stage in the awards is a public vote. This link…
2015 was the year I interviewed chick-lit literature Queen Sophie Kinsella. Driven by the enthusiasm for this genre I found another London author to keep me company for a few weeks with her hilarious novels: Lucy Holliday. The first time I saw A night in with Audrey Hepburn was at Bologna airport in Italy last October and that thought that for a novel to be famous abroad it must be good and worth…
