Welcome dear readers to the warm and cosy jumper of The Sunday Afternoon Movie, wear your elasticated trousers, open that packet of biscuits you told yourself would last the whole week and pop your feet up for 95 minutes of nostalgic adventure. Briefly setting the scene in 1869 we see a couple of children burying [...]
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year is this classic Carl Reiner’s parody/homage to film noir. The first time I saw this on TV I was far too young to understand the technical brilliance that went into it. I had seen Steve Martin in a few things, but was confused as to how he was in [...]
Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkenson, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Maggie Smith. Sadly that’s not the confirmed cast for Expendables 3 (that would be called The Lovables), but these marvelous British thespians are all brought together for John Madden’s Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I”m not ashamed to admit that I wanted to see this [...]
The Olympic Games have finally arrived in our fair city of London, the weather has been surprisingly lovely so far and no major transport delays just yet. For months us Londoners have been bombarded with messages to change our traveling times, use alternative routes, work from home or become a full-blown shut in for the [...]
The tragic news of Filmmaker and author Nora Ephron’s passing early this week was a sad day in Hollywood. The celebrated writer/director had been battling acute myeloid leukaemia for some time. The three time Oscar nomine wrote classic romantic comedies such as When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle as well as 2009’s Julie and [...]
