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By Anne Brodie Mary Harron's Daliland on Salvador Dali's later years in New York and Spain isn't a great movie - but it's great fun. It's 1974, a happening time in Manhattan's elite arts and social circles. Dali (Sr Ben Kingsley) and his tempestuous muse/wife Gala (Barbara Sukowa) are ensconced …
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By Anne Brodie Comic Sebastian Maniscalco handles what could have been underwhelming material well in this standard family dysfunction comedy About My Father pretty well. He doesn't go broad or for the caricature as Sebastian, a man who has moved up the social ladder through his fiancée Ellie …
By Anne Brodie History will be made tomorrow and we are its witnesses. Few of us have seen the coronation of a British monarch. The last, Queen Elizabeth II, was 70 years ago. She served longer than any Monarch since Britain's organisation as a kingdom in early medieval times and was widely …
By Anne Brodie Kyra Sedgwick directs her husband Kevin Bacon and an engaging cast of young actors in the unique romance Space Oddity; it's a bold twist on the standard romance, with some comedic, heartwarming elements, set against a major life-changing conundrum. Kyle Allen's Alex is dominated by …
By Anne Brodie Steve Coogan has written a fact-based, non-tongue-in-cheek film. If you can imagine. Director Stephen Frears' The Lost King stars Sally Hawkins as amateur historian Philippa Langley whose instincts and apparently ghostly bond with "son of York, last Plantagenet King of England …
