Set amid the post-war Irish immigration to America, Brooklyn sees shy, naive young Irish woman Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronin) leave her mother and sister in the small Irish town of Enniscorthy in the early 1950’s to take up a job in a snooty department store in Brooklyn. Although, miserable and homesick at first, Eilis soon finds love with young Italian
Read moreIn 2001 Stephen Spielberg, picking up an incomplete Stanley Kubrick project, made the flawed but often very moving film AI: Artificial Intelligence. That film explored, within a modern-day Pinocchio story, the possibilities of artificial intelligence and of cyborgs who could think and feel. Alex Garland’s (writer on 28 Days Later) fascinating directorial debut Ex Machina takes the idea of artificial
Read moreFollowing the disappointment of his last film, the plot-free and mostly laugh-free comedy The Boat that Rocked, Richard Curtis, who also wrote and directed the very fine Love Actually, returns to what he does best: charming, witty rom-coms with sensitive, floppy-haired Englishman. As with all Richard Curtis’ films, his latest effort, About Time is set in an alternate universe where
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