The situation is a powerful, near future one. The opening of the film is effective and dramatic. The climate disaster we have been expecting is happening.
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The setting is the financial world of Hong Kong in the seventies and eighties, Leung plays Ching Yat Yin, who smuggles himself into capitalist Hong Kong from communist China.
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One Life is the story of Nicholas Winton, a London stockbroker, who managed to rescue 669 Jewish children from Prague in 1939 and bring them to Britain. It’s a well made and very moving film.
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When 14 year old Priscilla became the girl friend of 24 year old rock superstar Elvis Presley in 1959, she must have been the envy of teenage girls all over the world.
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We first meet fifty something Sue necking a bottle of red wine alone in a restaurant, where she’s just been dumped – by phone, would you believe? – by her boyfriend.
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Every Body adds an interesting element to the transgender debate and, In contrast to the furore and emotion often evoked by the issue of transgender people.
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Wonka is a big chocolate Christmas cake of a film, stuffed with sugar, covered in icing and cream with a touch of rum.
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Several years ago the Polish husband and wife team of DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman made a beautiful film called Loving Vincent, in which they wove a story around the characters and locations in the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh.
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The story is set in Boston in 1964. Eileen is a mousy young woman, who works as a secretary in a juvenile detention centre, where she’s pretty much ignored by her colleagues.
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Like Leonard Bernstein, the maestro of the title, Bradley Cooper must have phenomenal energy. He co-wrote the script, co-produced the film, starred in it and directed it
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