Film Reviews by Pete W

If you have an interest and some background knowledge of the French revolution, then you will be interested in this film. If, like me, your prior knowledge is sketchy, you might struggle to retain your interest as the film doesn't explain the historical background and it is assumed that you know who the main characters are and what they stand for. When it was released, the film had relevance to the existing political situation east of the Iron Curtain but that has faded now. Good performances by Depardieu in the role which I think bought him to international knowledge and by Pszoniak as a creepy Robespierre.

A film worth seeing - it explores the political situation in Ireland in the 1920s with a war of independence against the British turning into a civil war. The film has a very definite political bias towards the non-Treaty IRA and against the English and the Free Staters. A more even handed approach might have made for a more gripping drama.

Classic BBC adaptation of two Trollope books. Some very fine acting from Donald Pleasance (who can be quite disturbing even when playing a saintly clergyman) Geraldine McEwan as a battleaxe par excellence and stealing the show is Alan Rickman, outstanding as the slimy Mr Slope. Nigel Hawthorne plays Sir Humphrey Appleby in clerical garb.