Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s, and then his father and mother in the late 90s. Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs his alcoholic father Ray; his mother Liz; and his younger brother Jason with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of find out more...
A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years. This is not a movie about a rock star with their music simply part of the facts of the story. It is a musical in the truest sense, that uses his own music to show his tribulations through the eyes of a man during the troubled years of his life. The movie is not always chronological and i find out more...
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
Nat Jester says: "Based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel, this film was rather disappointing, despite the strong cast featuring Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart. Frankly, not much happens in this film, and the dialogue is not strong enough to carry it, although Depp is fairly enjoyable in a drunken, Jack Sparrow sort of way (but not nearly as good). The most interesting character in the film is Moberg, played by Giovanni Ribisi, a drunken reporter whom no one seems able to fire. 1/5"