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Missing Link 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th April 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“These are dark days. Electricity. Suffrage. Evolution!” So says Lord Piggot-Dunceby, head of the Optimates Club – a London home-from-home for posh, white, male 19th century explorers (is that description tautological?) It’s a club which wealthy explorer Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman) is desperate to join, though Piggot-Dunceby has no intention of allowing anyone who believes… Missing Link Read More

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Lost City Of Z – Video Review Includes Video 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th June 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Click here for the full Lost City Of Z review

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: amazon, explorer, henry costin, james gray, lost city of z review, percy fawcett, video-review

The Lost City of Z 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

1st April 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Primitive behaviour, disease, early death - no wonder Percy couldn't wait to leave Europe and return to the Amazon

“This search for Z – I can no longer bear the cost” explains an emotionally weary Henry Costin, Percy Fawcett’s long time travelling companion on hearing news of Fawcett’s latest exploratory trip. Because by then, after 20 years of travels, for Fawcett no cost is too high. James Gray’s film is beautiful, stately, but overlong;… The Lost City of Z Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: amazon, explorer, henry costin, percy fawcett, royal geographic society

Tom Hardy And The Importance of Playing Ernest

27th October 2016 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Tom Hardy is to play Sir Ernest Shackleton in a new film

I love heroes who look like heroic failures but actually were incredibly successful against the odds, even if they didn’t complete their stated mission. Whether it’s George Mallory attempting to summit Everest in 1924 in hobnail boots and a tweed coat (I like to think he and Irving made it to the top); or Sir… Tom Hardy And The Importance of Playing Ernest Read More

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