Tag Archives: Stephen Fry

Review: Missing Link (2019)

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Sam S-P

By Laika’s incredibly high standards, MISSING LINK isn’t quite up there. Saying that, even bottom-drawer Laika is still top-drawer animation, so there’s still plenty to recommend here. In an effort to prove himself to a stuck-up explorers’ society, noted man … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Animation, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hugh Jackman, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Laika, Missing Link, Stephen Fry, Timothy Olyphant, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana | Leave a comment

Review: Love & Friendship (2016)

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Sam S-P

It’s Jane Austen, but not quite as we know it. Whit Stillman’s LOVE & FRIENDSHIP adapts one of the titanically influential novelist’s lesser-known and unfinished stories (originally titled LADY SUSAN) and the result is a film that is both delicate … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Chloë Sevigny, Comedy, Film, Historical Drama, James Fleet, Jane Austen, Jemma Redgrave, Justin Edwards, Kate Beckinsale, Lady Susan, Love & Friendship, Morfydd Clark, Movies, Romance, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry, Tom Bennett, Total Recall, Underworld, Whit Stillman | 2 Comments

Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Sam S-P

It’s at an end. Peter Jackson has left Middle-Earth behind. For real this time. Probably. THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES gives the lengthiest chapter in Jackson’s career so far an appropriately grand ending, but wisely he doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Aiden Turner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, Blockbuster, Cate Blanchett, Evangeline Lilly, Fantasy, Film, Graham McTavish, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Ken Stott, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Mikael Persbrandt, Monty Python, Movies, Oliver!, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Richard Armitage, Ryan Gage, Stephen Fry, Stephen Hunter, Sylvester McCoy, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, Tolkien, Weta Workshop | 1 Comment

Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition (2014)

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Sam S-P

I’ve been a massive fan of Peter Jackson’s Extended Editions since that chunky, green FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING box set first appeared on my DVD shelf over a decade ago. It was followed by a chunky burgundy TWO TOWERS and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Adam Brown, Benedict Cumberbatch, Carry On, Fantasy, Film, Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, Martin Freeman, Michael Mizrahi, Mikael Persbrandt, Movies, Peter Jackson, Richard Armitage, Stephen Fry, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Two Towers | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Stephen Fry

Review: Missing Link (2019)

Review: Love & Friendship (2016)

Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition (2014)

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