The trip to Italy opens in Sydney on the 29th of May 2014 Not being familiar with the previous incarnations of the Coogan/Brydon/Winterbottom food porn series, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I walked into the cinema to see The Trip To Italy, though I was pleasantly surprised to find it was an enjoyable […]
Tag Archives: Steve Coogan
December
17
Philomena – Stephen Frears and Steve Coogan give us the chance to feel extremly comfortable. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Stephen Frears is hit and miss when it comes to female characters but Judi Dench isn’t – she was the female M for chrissakes – so to come at us with the strangely written, safely stereotyped Philomena Lee at the end of a career that saw her totally own female characters like Lady Catherine deBurgh, […]
August
25
What Maisie Knew – Scott McGehee and David Siegel take on Henry James. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Please note, this review is a discussion on the film that includes spoilers if you are not familiar with the book. What Maisie Knew is a novel written by Henry James in 1897 that is meant to be a harsh criticism on a British society that had no child welfare policies, and used children, just […]
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