Film & Books
In Review: Lion is on the big screen this weekend. It won't make you roar, but it will make you cry, says our critic
'The questions posed here of course have no easy answers, but the film does have a neatly diplomatic ending that mixes the drama with the actual story, for those who have no more crying in them....'...
Exploring the growing divide between rich and poor with Community Action: MK
Community Action: MK presents a film that explores a major issue faced by society today; the growing divide between rich & poor....
In Review: Gosling and Stone make a smashing team in toe-tapping delight La La Land
Having hit UK cinema screens this weekend, armed with superlative-rich reviews from critics almost across the board, Whiplash director Damien Chazelle's modern day musical is the talk of the country. Something only a few great films that are not over-marketed blockbusters ever achieve....
In Review: Manchester by the Sea comes together winningly...
Through minutely observed and occasionally very funny scenes of the tiny details of an emotionally barren life, Affleck and writer/director Lonergan conspire to make moving and interesting what, on paper, sounds like the most torpid of dramas....
In Review: Fantasy drama A Monster Calls has some 'seriously affecting moments'
Continuing what seems to be a run of tear-grabbing, emotionally overwrought 'blub-fest' movies, comes this fantasy drama from the director of the acclaimed Boxing Day Tsunami ordeal-porn The Impossible (2012) J.A. Bayona....
Total MK's Pick of the Christmas films: INSIDE OUT
It's not often films are made that can entertain audiences of all ages and also distil complex elements of cognitive psychology with clarity, imagination and wit...but this one does...
