Chris – my esteemed We Love Movies compatriot and the usual author of the Sunday Afternoon Movie column – and I have different ideas about what makes a good Sunday Afternoon Movie. Where – for him – a Sunday afternoon is a specific time that requires a specific type of movie, I find that the [...]
Taking my own advice after recently indulging in Hocus Pocus, this week’s Sunday Afternoon Movie sticks with the supernatural theme with the loving adaptation of Christianna Brand’s Nurse Matilda stories with Nanny McPhee. Widower Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) is having trouble finding a nanny to look after his seven children, they have already managed to [...]
This week’s Sunday Afternoon Movie is also a long time member of the Unwatched DVD Pile of Shame, Based on the book “Derby Girl’ by Shauna Cross (who also wrote the screenplay), Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with roller derby coming of age drama Whip It. Ellen Page stars as Bliss Cavendar a directionless [...]
Animation doesn’t often make it onto the pages of the Sunday Afternoon Movie, but I simply couldn’t resist the charms of Wes Anderson’s take of the beloved Roald Dahl classic. The books of Roald Dahl had a big impact on my young life, and chances are you have read and loved one of his many [...]
The summer of 1999 holds a special place in my heart, I had started working at a cinema, everybody was highly anticipating the release of The Matrix, Notting Hill had been a huge success, Cruel Intentions reworked a classic for the modern world and George Lucas opted to destroy his legacy with the first of [...]
