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Maybe Baby boasts a stellar cast of veteran British actors including Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson as Sam and Lucy in the lead roles. The basic premise is about a married couple who are trying to get pregnant and come to the conclusion that they are infertile. Doesn’t that sound funny? Not really but it [...] Continue reading more about Maybe Baby? A few years before the Russian Revolution Mr. Tolstoy was still alive. Christopher Plummer plays the lead next to the impeccable Helen Mirren. Real life couple Ann-Marie Duff and James McAvoy round out this extraordinary cast to make a movie that is well worth your time. Continue reading more about The Last Station This is a quirky little English movie where we meet a young girl who is working in a sandwich shop in London. Her life seems quite isolated and also quite boring with the exception of the occasional rude customer. One day she arrives for work but they are not opening due to a family [...] Continue reading more about In a Day Just about every face in this movie is recognizable and the soundtrack is fabulous! Continue reading more about Pirate Radio The screenplay for this movie was written by Nick Hornby who is one of the my favourite authors – he of the ‘About a Boy’ and ‘High Fidelity’ fame. This is a movie ultimately about the coming of age of an extremely bright 16 year old girl, Jenny, in a suburb of London in the [...] Continue reading more about An Education This movie is the heart wrenching tale of the borderline forbidden relationship between the poet John Keats and his muse Fanny Brawne in 19th Century England. It is beautifully written and directed by Jane Campion. Every finite expression is captured by the principal actors in this slow moving and gorgeous story. Fanny makes all her [...] Continue reading more about Bright Star This is an adorable little twist on Pride and Prejudice. Modern girl in London is completely enamoured by Mr. Darcy and is holding her boyfriend up to his standards. Obviously that isn’t working very well for her. A weird twist of fate has her switching places with Elizabeth Bennett who is all but ready for [...] Continue reading more about Lost in Austen |
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