RUPERT EVERETT Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. United Kingdom/Belgium/Italy/Germany, 2018. Maze Pictures, Entre Chien et Loup, Palomar, Cine Plus Filmproduktion, Robert Fox Limited, BBC Films, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Daryl Prince Productions, Heimatfilm, Raindog Films. Screenplay by Rupert Everett. Cinematography by John Conroy. Produced by Sebastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer, Jörg Schulze. Music by Gabriel…
Tag: Colin Firth
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
ROB MARSHALL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 2018. Lucamar Productions, Marc Platt Productions, Walt Disney Pictures. Screen story by David Magee, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Screenplay by David Magee, based on the Mary Poppins stories by P.L. Travers. Cinematography by Dion Beebe. Produced by John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Marc Platt. Music by Marc Shaiman. Production Design by John Myhre. Costume…
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
OL PARKER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. United Kingdom/USA, 2018. Legendary Entertainment, Universal. Story by Richard Curtis, Ol Parker, Catherine Johnson, Screenplay by Ol Parker, based on a conception by Judy Craymer from the stage musical by Catherine Johnson. Cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman. Produced by Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman. Music by Benny Andersson, Anne Dudley, Bjorn Ulvaeus. Production Design by…
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
MATTHEW VAUGHN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. United Kingdom/USA, 2017. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Marv Films, Shangri-La Entertainment, TSG Entertainment. Screenplay by Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic book The Secret Service by Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons. Cinematography by George Richmond. Produced by Adam Bohling, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn. Music by Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson. Production Design by Darren Gilford. Costume Design…
Loving
BBBB (out of 5) Mildred Jeter (Ruth Negga) tells her boyfriend Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) that she’s pregnant; he is pleased with the news and immediately buys a plot, begins building a house in their rural Virginia community and, most important, asks her to marry him. They are not together for long after their Washington, D.C. wedding before the…
Bridget Jones’s Baby
BBBB (out of 5) Fifteen years after she first charmed us, and twelve years after she disappointed us with a sequel, the adorable London singleton is back and, despite not having been in a major film in a while, Renee Zellweger still has all the breezy, perfectly timed appeal that she brought to the role the first time…
Genius
BB.5 (out of 5) Diligent Scribner editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) has been the hand behind some of the most influential literature of the early twentieth century, with the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald to his credit, spending his days perusing manuscripts at his desk and going home to his loving wife (Laura Linney) and five devoted…
The Railway Man
BBB (out of 5) After meeting on a train, former nurse Nicole Kidman falls madly in love with train enthusiast and World War II veteran Colin Firth and feels no hesitation when he asks for her hand in marriage. After the nuptials, Firth’s behavior exhibits signs of past trauma that turns out to be the residual…
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
MATTHEW VAUGHN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. United Kingdom, 2014. Twentieth Century Fox, Marv Films, Cloudy Productions, TSG Entertainment. Screenplay by Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic book The Secret Service by Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons. Cinematography by George Richmond. Produced by Adam Bohling, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn. Music by Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson. Production Design by Paul Kirby. Costume Design by Arianne…
St. Trinian’s
B (out of 5) Ronald Searle’s darkly funny comic panels, which inspired a slew of films in the sixties, have been resurrected in the form of this empty comedy. It is set at a girls’ boarding school beleaguered by bad management and even worse students, where young Talulah Riley is taken to live by her irresponsible…
Before I Go To Sleep
BB (out of 5) Nicole Kidman wakes up beside Colin Firth and has no idea where she is. He explains to her that, thanks to an accident years earlier, she has brain damage that causes her to wake up every morning with a clean mental slate, which we know from Memento means that solving mysteries requires organizational…
Magic In The Moonlight (2014)
WOODY ALLEN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. USA, 2014. Gravier Productions, Dippermouth Productions, Perdido Productions, Ske-Dat-De-Dat Productions, Cinéfrance 1888. Screenplay by Woody Allen. Cinematography by Darius Khondji. Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Edward Walson. Production Design by Anne Seibel. Costume Design by Sonia Grande. Film Editing by Alisa Lepselter. Woody Allen has such a good time lazing in the bright sunshine of the…
