My experience with a packed audience was not exactly as I expected.
Timothy Spall – was a radical departure from a national hero, grunting and ruminating his way thru this performance. The first half was engaging and the cameo scenes were really watchable but after a while the episodic nature of the film with …More»
Away for the weekend, and as we arrived at a London hotel we noted a cavalcade of vehicles and a galley of actors in costume sitting on the pavement smoking and drinking, waiting to be called to set.
Luckily enough a kind hearted steward allowed us access to view more closely the chosen location, a …More»
My favourite film is a grand old 40 this year, Peter Hall’s 1974 free form adaptation of Suffolk born Ronald Blythe’s portrait of the vanishing English village culture, Akenfield (1969).
It is a masterpiece of rural social commentary, an improvised folkscape of a county long gone from the turn of the century …More»
So, is there any substance in a yarn about an FBI agent and two con-artists trying to pull off a bigger con on bigger fish who live on Capitol Hill?
Well yes.
The narrative is based very loosely on ‘a sting op’ that took place in the late 1970’s, but at the start …More»
