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 [...]

Adam Sandler has certainly had a successful career; only a handful of box office failures over almost 20 years is an achievement for any actor. Even when the quality of his films started to drop his loyal fans still turned out to see his movies. However, his current run of work has seen new lows [...]

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 [...]

This week I had been playing catch up, no matter how many hours in the day there are you just can’t get it all done. I narrowly made this week’ entry in the Christmas Movie Challenge and watched a film so easy going you barely knew it was there. I just didn’t have it in [...]

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 [...]