In The King’s Speech, Colin Firth plays King George VI who unexpectedly became the king of England after his father’s death and his brother’s abdication.
Tag: English cinema
Film review – Harry Brown (2009)
Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is an elderly ex-marine living in a dingy English housing estate apartment. The escalating crime and violence has made Harry so
DVD review – Absolute Beginners (1986), Region 4, Umbrella Entertainment
While filmmaker Julien Temple is best known today for his punk music documentaries The Filth and the Fury and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten,
Film review – In the Loop (2009)
Barely disguising its intentions to ridicule the circumstances that lead to the 2002 Iraq Invasion, In the Loop examines the fictitious machinations of UK and
DVD review – Bent (1997), Region 4, Love Films
Martin Sherman’s 1979 stage play Bent, which originally starred Ian McKellen in the West-End and Richard Gere in Broadway, is about a homosexual man sent
Film review – Genova (2008)
Prior to playing the role of a grieving husband in Genova, Colin Firth gave what had been his strongest performance to date in Anand Tucker’s
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