Posts Tagged ‘SaoirseRonan’
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Ammonite
Director and writer Frances Lee carefully and very tenderly tells the life story of pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning with this gentle biopic. Albeit he does take a huge deal of creative licence when it comes to her love s...
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn should act as a textbook case of how cinematic marketing departments are categorically trying to sell you up the river. And not a good river with picturesque views and an open bar. Because the marketing department for ...
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Lost River
Lost River is the debut feature film of Ryan Gosling. Yes, that Ryan Gosling, the same Ryan Gosling who starred in Drive, Crazy Stupid Love and of course The Notebook. The same Ryan Gosling who oozes that effortless Steve McQue...
Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
If the auteur theory is ever to be proven or even debated in modern cinema then those debating would need to look no further than The Grand Budapest Hotel’s director Wes Anderson. Perhaps an acquired taste his work is nonethel...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
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How I Live Now
American teenager Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) has attitude to burn. Her mother died giving birth to her, her dad has sent her away for the summer to live with her aunt and cousins in the English countryside. Defiant and unhappy, city...
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Saoirse Ronan – How I Live Now
She’s only 19 but she’s already played a vampire, teen assassin, and, ahem, a girl whose body is host to an invading alien consciousness. Now fresh-faced Saoirse Ronan, from Carlow, is getting her teeth into a part she’s wanted...
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Kevin Macdonald – How I Live Now
Glasgow-born director Kevin Macdonald, 45, currently working on thriller Black Sea, starring Jude Law, is best known for his Oscar-nominated film The Last King of Scotland about the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and the acclaimed d...
Film
How I Live Now
A few years ago the sub-genre of ‘Young Adult’ had never graced the cinematic lexicon. Now, thanks to the vampires of Twilight, the Battle Royale killing sprees of The Hunger Games and numerous fantasy adventures such as The M...
DVD And Blu-ray
Byzantium
For some Byzantium might be a vampire film too far. After the brooding of Twilight and all the overwrought teenage angst that came with it, do we need more bloodsuckers vamping up our screens? But Byzantium offers something n...
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