Showing Type: Film

The Old Man & the Gun is a well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast and is a ‘must see’ for anyone with a serious interest in Redford’s long and remarkable career.

Glen Close is superb as Joan, a long-suffering literary spouse whose marriage reaches crisis point when her husband wins a Nobel Prize. Glen Close just missed out on an Oscar for playing this role but it is her outstanding and remarkable performance that makes this drama shine.

Winner of 4 Oscars including ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role’ for Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid in 1985.

The new dark comedy from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig centres on the friendship that grows between super-mum Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) and the glamorous mother of her son’s new friend, Emily (Blake Lively). This friendship is upended, however, when Emily fails to pick up her son from Stephanie’s home and vanishes.

It’s the improbable but apparently true story of a young black police detective, Ron Stallworth (played ­brilliantly by John David Washington), who, in the late Seventies, infiltrated the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

It took Rupert Everett 10 years to make his film about Oscar Wilde’s final years and you can feel that burning passion in his brilliant performance as the writer and famous wit.

For brilliantly executed slapstick comedy, wildly inventive car chases, unforgettable lines and a stonking blues soundtrack, you just can’t beat The Blues Brothers.

Some Like It Hot is highlighted by a wit that is surprisingly prescient of modern times. The script mines gender humour with a sophisticated modernity that still seems remarkably fresh even today. It is a spry, quick-witted farce that never drags.