There are few films worthy of a second visit to the Sunday Afternoon Movie but this is no ordinary film as this year marks it’s 25th anniversary release. This ultimate Sunday movie is given a blu ray makeover befitting royalty and fully loaded with brand new special features. Rob Reiner’s Princess Bride is a cheeky [...]
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 a little gem from Joe Dante (Gremlins) that went by unnoticed at the time, and continues to do so to this day. Ironically Matinee is a love letter to the era of Saturday afternoon cinema in the 1950s, but watching it on a Sunday won’t diminish any of the [...]
This week’s choice might go against all the rules of the Sunday Afternoon Movie, but after the sad passing of Michael Clarke Duncan last week it only felt right to honour the big guy with what was his finest cinematic hour. After The Shawshank Redemption, Director Frank Darabont once again works from a novel by [...]
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 [...]
