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From the Past

Films on the to-do list

  • Armageddon Time
  • Black Widow
  • Chimes at Midnight
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Last Christmas
  • Remember Sunday
  • Shazam! 2
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
  • Spy Guys

Category: Drama Films

Great Expectations (1998)

Film review: Great Expectations (1998), directed by Alfonso Cuarón Another adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations premieres today, but here’s a modern day version of

Brassed Off (1996)

Film review: Brassed Off (1996), written and directed by Mark Herman The miners of Grimley, somewhere in Yorkshire, have a brass band. It’s the pride

The Truman Show (1998)

Film review: The Truman Show (1998), directed by Peter Weir Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) lives an ordinary life in an ordinary little seaside town. Everything’s

Garden State (2004)

Film review: Garden State (2004), written and directed by Zach Braff Garden State is the sort of film that’s hard to describe, and that’s more

Hallam Foe (2007)

Film review: Hallam Foe (2007), directed by David Mackenzie Hallam (Jamie Bell) is a strange young Scotsman who enjoys spying on people from his treehouse.

The Fountain (2006)

Film review: The Fountain (2006), written and directed by Darren Aronofsky In the real world, Tom Creo (Hugh Jackman) is a doctor (or something?) trying