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The Secret Garden 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

25th October 2020 by Sarah

An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle’s estate. I was underwhelmed by The Secret Garden but not the secret garden. The film feels soulless, its magic and reality uneasy (flower)bedfellows; while the garden is a gorgeously tangled, artfully curated wilderness housing everything a child, kept captive by an adult world… The Secret Garden Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1940s, country house, Frances Hodgson Burnett, grief, horticulture, india, partition, yorkshire

Hexing 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

8th May 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

This is really a story about friendships: the unexpectedly strong and the poisonously clingy. Though here the toxic relationship in question comes not from another person, but from a board with supernatural powers, that simply wants to be friends. And when it doesn’t get its way all hell breaks loose. A young woman is waiting… Hexing Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: india, ireland, ouija, supernatural, yantra

Victoria And Abdul 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

19th September 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

One of the downsides of being a rich, powerful monarch who is a figurehead for billions is a lack of privacy, and In Victoria And Abdul one of our most famous queens has to give regular updates to her physician, while surrounded by servants and courtiers, of her bowel movements. Sadly the film, like Victoria herself, could… Victoria And Abdul Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: british empire, british raj, india, queen victoria, racism, raj, windsor castle

Viceroy’s House 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

6th March 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

"Darling to save time we've cut your speech from three days to an hour by taking out all the times you say 'terribly' "

Gillian Anderson as Lady Mountbatten, last Vicereine of India, does that peculiar shoulder-slouching thing all through Viceroy’s House in the manner of members of the British upper classes who are rather embarrassed by their extreme privilege. This is not a criticism by the way – Anderson is brilliant as the terribly clipped, terribly rich Edwina who nonetheless genuinely tries… Viceroy’s House Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: aalia, dickie mountbatten, edwina mountbatten, gandhi, Gurinder Chadha, india, jeet, jinnah, lady mountbatten, last viceroy of india, lord mountbatten, migration, nehru, pakistan, partition, viceroy, viceroys house, viceroys house review

Lion 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

21st January 2017 by Sarah 1 Comment

Google Earth was pretty much obsolete now that 99% of the planet was covered by lakes of cinema goers' tears

“Did you REALLY look for my mum?” asks little Saroo, in an orphanage in Calcutta, sitting opposite Mrs Sood, a kind but firm woman charged with finding new homes overseas for unclaimed children. “I looked everywhere”, she replies. And with that, Saroo has to move on to a new family far away in Tasmania, while acknowledging that his mum… Lion Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: a long way home, adoption, australia, dev patel, divian ladwa, film review, garth davis, india, lion, lion movie, lion review, lost children, movie review, nicole kidman, rooney mara, saroo brierley, sunny pawar, trains, true story

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Reviews

Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

See How They Run 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Maneater 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

The Reef: Stalked 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Persuasion 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Jurassic World: Dominion 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Senior Year 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Operation Mincemeat 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Reed’s Point 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Let The Wrong One In 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Death On The Nile 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Deep Water 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Moonfall 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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