Tail as old as Kline. With the Disney marketing machine in full swing, its hard to separate the hype from the movie reality in this latest live-action remake of one of their classic animated features from 1991. If you are lucky enough to have children you will know that each child tends to have “their” Disney feature: … Read more
The 80:20 Rule. India, 1947. Churchill’s government has sent Lord Grantham – – Â sorry —Â Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville, “The Monuments Men“) as the new Viceroy. His mission is to make sure he is the last ever Viceroy, for India is to be returned to independence. But racial tensions between the Hindu and … Read more
A Marathon Investigation. While there are predictable social media conspiracy theories that the “whole thing was a hoax”, the two bombs that went off near the finish line of the Boston marathon on April 15th 2013 killed three members of the public and injured more than 250 others. It was a life-changing event for those … Read more
“Sometimes a blind pig finds a truffle”. One of the joys (and stresses) of the run up to the Oscar weekend is to try to catch all the major award films before the big event. As I bitched about in my BAFTA write-up, UK release dates do NOT make this an easy task, with some … Read more
Bob the Movie Man’s Movie Rating: OK, so after some very scenic views of Nadine Velazquez to start with (“Hello boys”!) and a very well staged and much trailed ‘incident’ on the flight in question, this settles down into a rather sordid decent in the Minibar elevator to hell central. Although Den-ZEL Washington was excellent, … Read more