Cavalcade: 20th Century Blues

Herbert Mundin, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook and Una O’Connor. Photo: Fox Film The fact that Cavalcade is one of the lowest rated Best Picture winners on IMDb is not really…

Boiling Point

Welcome to spend an hour and a half at a busy, posh London restaurant where everything is about to reach the boiling point, not least for head chef Andy Jones…

Ordinary People: Absent Mother

Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. Photo: Paramount Judith Guest gave up her teaching job to focus on writing her first novel, the one that would become ”Ordinary People”, trying…

A Very British Scandal

In 1951, socialite Margaret Campbell (Claire Foy) marries the Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany), the beginning of a tumultuous marriage that will end in a historically scandalous divorce 12 years…

Brendon Chase

In 1925, three brothers (Craig McFarlane, Howard Taylor, Paul Erangey) run away from their strict aunt (Rosalie Crutchley) and attempt to survive on their own in a huge forest nearby.…

Spencer

A drama that follows Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) over a Christmas weekend at Sandringham in the 1990s, as she’s haunted by her illness, a desperate desire to get away from…

The Many Saints of Newark 

After the 1967 riots in Newark, the DiMeo crime family is challenged by a Black rival. This prequel to The Sopranos (1999-2007), set decades before the TV show and focusing…

Oliver Twist: Surviving the Streets

John Howard Davies and Robert Newton. Photo: General Film Distributors There are stories about David O. Selznick attacking Alec Guinness at a party over his portrayal of Fagin in this…

Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

The Underground Railroad

Two slaves, Cora and Caesar (Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre), escape from their Georgia owner via the mysterious Underground Railroad, pursued by a slave catcher (Joel Edgerton) and his assistant, a…