As many of you will know, Mary Shelley was the author of Frankenstein, arguably the […]
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Tag: historical
LBJ – movie review
Rob Reiner directs LBJ, a biopic on the emergence of Lyndon Baines Johnson (played by […]
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Gauguin – movie review
The sad later life of French painter Paul Gauguin is brought into sharp focus in […]
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The Bookshop – movie review
The Bookshop is set in the sleepy small coastal village of Hardborough in 1959. Florence […]
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In Times of Fading Light – home entertainment review
The highly political German drama In Times of Fading Light concerns the end of an […]
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The Exception – movie review
David Leveaux’s The Exception cleverly melds historical fact and smart fiction. This WWII spy thriller […]
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris) – book review
A dark, but extraordinary tale, The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris was confronting, raw and […]
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Chappaquiddick – movie review
On the night of 18 July 1969, a car driven by the last remaining scion […]
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – movie review
The title is quite a mouthful, but The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society […]
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Mike Newell – the interview
“It was great to be able to go off and start making films because, all […]
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