This year we saw the return of Renee Zellweger as the incredibly British Bridget Jones and of course that meant that I would have to refresh my memory on the previous films before I could watch the new one. The result... another ranking! All four of the Bridget Jones movies are based on books by … Continue reading Bridget Jones Ranked
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is now a widow facing the challenge of being a single mother of two, returning to work and heading back out into the world of dating. It may be twenty-four years since Bridget Jones first graced our screens but she is still facing the same challenges. The pressures on women to … Continue reading Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is now forty-three years old, single again and juggling her usual neuroses with a career and dating. The only major change is that she is now happy with her weight. This instalment finds her pregnant and unsure of which partner is the father. The crux of the plot is that Bridget … Continue reading Bridget Jones’s Baby
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) are only weeks into their relationship when Jones' neuroses and insecurity, along with a nudge from her friends results in her becoming single again. Cue a job opportunity in Thailand where she crosses paths with Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) again. But what does Bridget really want … Continue reading Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
A year in the life of Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) as told through her diary where she keeps tabs on her weight, number of cigarettes smoked and alcohol consumed as she seeks a boyfriend whilst trying to have a successful career. At thirty-two years old Bridget is worried about being a spinster for the rest … Continue reading Bridget Jones’s Diary
Welcome to my review of film in 2024. This is the eighth year that I have spent writing my film reviews online and is by far and away the biggest year as far as viewing numbers have been, which is fantastic. As ever I am going to run through some of my thoughts on my … Continue reading 2024 – Year In Review – Film
Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) receives a letter from the Reverend Mother (Olivia Colman) at the home for retired bears in Peru where his Aunt Lucy (voiced by Imelda Staunton) lives. The letter suggests that Aunt Lucy deeply misses him and needs his company, so he sets off with the Brown family in tow to … Continue reading Paddington In Peru
Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) are missionaries from the Mormon Church who find themselves at the door of the religiously curious Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). But it seems that Mr. Reed’s motivations for requesting further information about the Church are not entirely altruistic. The concept of Heretic is that it is … Continue reading Heretic
Willy Wonka (Timothee Chalamet) dreams of becoming a chocolatier and after years of travelling the globe honing his recipes he arrives in the big city to open his own shop. However he finds himself blocked by the chocolate cartel, a trio of powerful shop owners by the names of Slugworth (Paterson Joseph), Fickelgruber (Matthew Baynton) … Continue reading Wonka
Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) and his team are on a mission to stop an arms dealer selling a dangerous item in Guy Ritchie’s latest. Guy Ritchie is a writer/director with a very particular style that can hit (Lock, Stock…, Snatch, Sherlock, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) as often as he can miss (Revolver, Swept … Continue reading Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
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