Very funny rom-com based on the screwball/farces of the 1950s and 60s. It looks at a woman writer who says women don’t need a man and a man who is determined to seduce her to prove her wrong.
9/10
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Month: March 2019
Black and white thriller set during World War 2 about a man and woman who escape from a concentration camp.
3/10
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Dumplin’ (2018)
Willowdean is known as Dumplin’ and is the daughter of a former beauty queen. She wants to enter a beauty contest but people try to dissuade her. She gets together some other misfits to get greater diversity in the competition.
6/10
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Kid like Jake, A (2018)
A couple is trying to pick the best primary school for their 4-year-old son Jake. He likes to experiment with clothes sometimes wearing traditionally girls clothes.
The parents are worried about how their son will cope and how others will react.
6/10
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Oliver Twist (1948)
David Lean’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic story fo an orphan who runs away to London and gets involved with a bunch of pickpockets and criminals. It stars Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Robert Newton, JOhn Howard Davies and Anthony Newley.
6/10
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Tate Modern – Dorothea Tanning
This large exhibition looks at the strange surrealist works from the artists Doretha Tanning.
5/10
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Tate Modern – Pierre Bonnard
This exhibition looks at the colourful impressionist style works of the Franch artist Pierre Bonnard.
5/10
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Tate Modern – Franz West
This exhibition features strange large abstract papier-mache sculptures from the Austrian Franz West.
5/10
Comedy-fantasy Horror film starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. Two love rivals for a man each decide to take a potion to stop them from ageing, but then discover it also makes them immortal despite any serious injury that occurs.
5/10
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Captain Marvel (2019)
This Marvel film introduces Captain Marvel in the first Marvel with a female lead.
Set in the 1990s Carol Dancers is a fighter pilot in the USA but an accident gives her superhuman powers from a spices called the Kree.
We also meet a younger looking Nick Fury and discover why he wears an eye patch.
7/10