What I told my friend about Macbeth
This isn’t a remotely Halloweeny post, but I went to see Macbeth on Friday and wanted to keep it timely. I went to the beautiful Duke of York’s in Brighton. […]
Category Archives: Drama
Cider and Cinema Beer Special: In Bruges
I went to Belgium last week and really enjoyed looking at all the old buildings and that. These ones were in Brussels… Now, I love cider as you might already […]
Cider and Cinema: The Most Dangerous Game
Welcome, dear friends, to what I hope will be the first of many Cider and Cinema posts here at filnnerdblog. Cider is often my drink of choice, so it makes […]
Whiplash
So, then. That was good. I’m not sure how. But it was. In a nutshell, this is a film about the abusive relationship between a boy who wants to be […]
Fury
I was quite looking forward to this one. A gritty looking WWII film starring Brad Pitt sounded quite promising. And it’s not bad. I just didn’t think it was that […]
In The Mood For Love
This is an impossibly beautiful, and deeply sorrowful story of forbidden love in Hong Kong in 1962. Its rich and sumptuous colours, almost tangible textures and haunting soundtrack combine to […]
Real Steel
In the near future boxing, as we know it, will be a thing of the past. Instead we’ll have robot boxing. Yep. Robot. Boxing. Hugh Jackman (ah, lovely Hugh) stars […]
Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as the titular Nightcrawler, Louis Bloom, a desperate man who blags his way into the world of TV crime scene journalism. Armed only with a cheap camera, […]
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
If you were to disagree with my theory that children are scary, I could point you to any number of films…and this, is definitely one of them. The Little Girl […]
Gone Girl
I watched Gone Girl last weekend. It’s quite good, isn’t it? I’m not going to outline the plot because there are virtually hundreds of reviews on my Reader right now […]
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