The British love a plucky loser. “Eddie the Eagle” tells the astonishing but true story of everyman plasterer Eddie Edwards who qualified for, and then competed in, the Calgary Olympics in 1988 (probably most famous for those other plucky losers – the Jamaican bobsleigh team of Disney’s “Cool Runnings” fame). I have absolutely no idea how … Read more
When you see vagrants sleeping rough in doorways it is grimly fascinating to wonder how they got there. Was it a gradual descent due to drink or drugs? Or was it an ‘explosive decompression’ – an event so dramatic it capsized an otherwise stable existence? In a gripping pre-title sequence, it is the latter that sets … Read more
Brooklyn tells the riches to riches story of a pampered child growing up in the care of his famous Premier League footballing father (Joe Pasquale) and his undernourished pop-star mother (Keira Knightley)…….. (No, I’m only kidding. But the biopic of Beckham Jnr at would make a cracking screenplay wouldn’t it?) More seriously, when the … Read more