Posts Tagged ‘Simon Beaufoy’
Film Review – Battle of the Sexes
Although Battle of the Sexes (2017) takes place in 1973, its themes feel unfortunately modern. That’s a sign telling us how slowly the progress of gender equality has been since. The tennis match that pitted Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs exploded in a spectacle…
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Film Review – Everest
Everest is three-fourths guide through the unrelenting onslaught of nature and one-fourth regretting the tour. For all its breathtaking footage of the mountain in all its caprice and grandeur, you can’t shake the feeling that the thrill-seekers who traverse its walls and crags have paid…
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games was a huge box office success, the only young adult novel adaptation since Twilight to achieve that title. I read the trilogy by Suzanne Collins before seeing the film, and I really enjoyed it. Like many others, I was excited to see…
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Episode 243 – Danny Boyle
In honor of the release of Trance, Spencer and Greg discuss Danny Boyle.
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Interview – Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
When it comes to the whole of his body of work it is apparent that Danny Boyle’s career is one ripe with diversity. Never allowing his self to be pigeonholed as any sort of genre director all the while contributing influential movies to genre filmmaking,…
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