Film Reviews by IanF

This is a really great film. Perhaps a bit bloody for some, but an exciting narrative that really portrays both sides of the conflict between the native red Indians and the white settlers.

A nice idea for a thriller with two innocents abroad meeting, and mostly getting the better of, terrible gangsters. Rather slow until the massive shoot out at the end. Bit dated now.

A very exciting movie, with great interaction between Christian Bale and Matt Damon. A riveting story, featuring committed racers overcoming corporate bureaucracy within Ford.

Great start and closing battle scenes, but the 'human drama' does not ring true that fills up the middle. Guess I've been spoilt by 'Band of Brothers', which Speilburg made following the success of this film. He cut out all the false histrionics you would not get in a platoon of elite soldiers - even in the US army - which does not ring true at all.

Worth seeing for Marlon Brando's SS Officer alone. A great war movie, big in scale and drama. Black and white, but outstanding cinematography.

Borrowed this again to show a friend. He was blown away by it too. Sean Connery a worthy Oscar winner!

Some very moving, often real action pictures taken with an early 35mm that could be hidden under his GI uniform. Amazing that they have just come to light. Some touching reunions with people he had not seen since the liberation, when he travelled back to Europe half a lifetime later. No wonder the photographer became a top fashion photographer in New York, long after the war ended. He never did 'news photographs' again.

Fisherman's Friends feels similar in tone to 4 weddings and a funeral, and deserves to be as big a hit!

A really lovely drama imagining the pressures the literary superstar Charles Dickens was under following two novels that failed to sell by the truck load. Gives a touching picture of how difficult life was in the early Victorian era. Dickens really was born in the workhouse to a spendthrift father.

Peterloo gives you a powerful impression of it's time in history - 1819 - a strange, long ago time when we do not really understand how hard and different things were. This is a powerful, big scale film of a little known story. Well acted, well filmed, long but engrossing. They should show it in history lessons in secondary schools. It was a time when demanding one man/ one vote could get you locked up, shot, or as in this film, run through with a sabre by a charging cavalryman.

I agree with the previous reviewers. I have never fast forwarded so much, could not believe how little happened. Think it was made by a bunch of weekend re-enactors - most unprofessional. Cinema Paradiso - do you vet the films you release? This was far below a standard worth distributing.

Much enjoyed this film. Not gung ho, gave a realistic portrayal of life was like for those guys, and their wives. The procedural space rocket stuff was well done, walking on the moon felt heart stopping and realistic, but what stayed with me was the relational scenes.

Enjoyed this film very much, felt authentic to me. The facts at the end strongly suggested a strong basis in truth. If you like a good war / special forces feature - see it!

Series 2 is at least as great as series 1. Perhaps better - the story line with Princess Margaret embracing the spirit of the 60s in meeting Tony Armstrong-Jones is particularly well portrayed. Clair Foy and Matt Smith will be an extremely hard act to follow in series 3, when it comes.

I was aware of the lovely Winnie - the - Pooh poems and stories. The moving story was a surprise, but not a bad one. The stories proved an incredibly popular antidote to WW1 trauma, but are still a world worth visiting today. A lovely film!