By Anne BrodieHelen Mirren is somewhere behind the ageing, puffy physicality of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in a time of great crisis, in Guy Nattiv's political fact-based thriller Golda. While the film isn't the finest of its genre, it does shine a spotlight on a woman in power in the 70s …
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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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Oscar Favourites, the Male Gaze Problem, a Plucky Detective, a Lone Wolf and Cocktails, Baby, in The Hammer and Sicily!
By Anne Brodie Seems to me that Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan are Oscar nom shoe-ins for their gut-wrenching performances in The Banshees of Inisherin. They bring to life a deadly episode in a war of wills that can't be won when Colm (Gleeson) suddenly turns on his lifelong …
Chris Messina and Amy Seimetz – Wronged Spouses Caught in Revenge Battle in The Secrets We Keep
When a woman living in Texas notices the Nazi who killed her sister and raped her fifteen years earlier, she springs into action, kidnapping and holding him in her basement to decide what to do with him. The woman's husband played by Chris Messina is horrified and learns her entire backstory is a …