Matter of Life and Death, A (Stairway to Heaven)
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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A movie about forgiveness is itself a bit hard to forgive
A romantic murder mystery out of Argentina that has a lot to recommend it
An occasionally amusing parable of guilt and forgiveness whose setting in small-town America, like the prejudices of its author, does it no favors
A not-uninteresting first feature from Dylan Kidd is a little too glib about providing its hero with the fixings for a moral makeover, but, all the same, it’s hard not to like him.
Mrs Brown written by Jeremy Brock, directed by John Madden and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and Billy Connolly as her servant, John Brown, is a Masterpiece Theatre costume drama, based fairly faithfully on true events, which has found its way onto the big screen and manages, in spite of all expectations, not to…