Wild Rose is about realising that to find your own dream you first have to find your own voice. Director Tom Harper gets us to that dream via a cracking script from Nicole Taylor and a barnstorming and profoundly moving performance from Jessie Buckley as the fresh-out-of-jail country singer Rose-Lynn. With two children by the time… Wild Rose Read More
The Old Man And The Gun 3 stars
“This story, also, is mostly true”, says the title card at the beginning of David Lowery’s stylish and witty film, presumably referring not just to facts but also because it is clearly Forrest’s truth, that myth of a smart and courteous gentleman thief who still threatens his victims, terribly politely, with a gun. The Old Man… The Old Man And The Gun Read More
Paddington 2 5 stars
“What’s the worst that can happen?” says the eponymous bear in Paddington 2, recently jailed for 10 years for robbery and “grievous bobbly harm”, and now working in the prison laundry where he has accidentally thrown a red sock in with the whites. At this point just about every mum and granny in the cinema… Paddington 2 Read More