The Review at the End of the Universe
Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl delivers a fictionalised story based on the real life Danish artists Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) surrounding Lili’s quest to change gender. This particular story will rise or fall on the strength of the lead performances and this is a point where this film excels. Eddie…
Saul Dibb’s Suite Française adapts the bestselling unfinished novel by Irène Némirovsky for the big screen to tell the extraordinary story of the forbidden romance between French Villager Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams) and German soldier Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts). I’m completely unfamiliar with the novel this film is based on but I know from…
The Drop is a mob thriller where Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) and his cousin Marv (James Gandolfini) work in a bar where money drops are used to discretely give cash to local gangsters. They find themselves at the center of a robbery investigation that stands to uncover some truths about the neighbourhood that people want…
