Mutiny on the Bounty: Battling Bligh

Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Photo: MGM 1935 was a great year in Hollywood, so perhaps there’s no wonder that Mutiny on the Bounty only ended up winning one of…

Henry V: Branagh and the Bard

Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…

Den of Thieves 

An armored-truck robbery that ends in several deaths attracts the attention of Los Angeles cop Nick O’Brien (Gerard Butler) who has unconventional ways of hunting down violent criminals. After making…

The Cloverfield Paradox 

In the future, astronauts are working on new energy solutions for Earth aboard a space station, but a sudden power surge hurls them into danger. The third Cloverfield movie connects…

Annabelle: Creation 

In 1955, Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and six homeless girls arrive at a shelter in the countryside; the house belongs to a doll-maker (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife who are…

Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…

Insidious: The Last Key 

In 2010, Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) is contacted by a man who’s living in the house where she grew up; he says it is haunted, and Elise has no reason…

Christmas Inheritance 

The wealthy owner of a gift business sends his spoilt daughter (Eliza Taylor) to a small town called Snow Falls where she must deliver a special Christmas card to her…

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 

Four teenagers are sucked into a mysterious video game that transports them to a jungle where they are physically transformed into the avatars they chose; now they have a mission…

A Christmas Prince 

Young journalist Amber Moore (Rose McIver) finally gets a chance to cover something real – a press conference in the country of Aldovia where Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) is set…