Tag: Penelope Wilton
Operation Mincemeat | Review
Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage
Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat
An acquisitions friendly title from across the pound with all the production value trimmings that we feel would have normally splashed in the Premieres...
Eternal Beauty | Review
Unhappy-Go-Lucky: Hawkes Shines in Roberts’ Mental Illness Drama
The depiction of mental illness, particularly something like schizophrenia, a real condition often posed as a catch-all...
Summerland | Review
Castles in the Sky: Swale Finds Love During Wartime in Likeable Debut
Although it’s a somewhat simple and ultimately schmaltzy dose of narrative convenience, Jessica...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #150. Operation Mincemeat – John Madden
Operation Mincemeat
Moving into his fourth decade of filmmaking, British director John Madden returns with a major pull the rug WWII drama in Operation Mincemeat....
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #24. Craig Roberts – Eternal Beauty
Not really the dark horse pick selection that was his feature debut, actor Craig Roberts has been to the fest beforehand (Richard Ayoade’s Submarine...
