Posts Tagged ‘London Film Festival’
Film Review: Beasts Of No Nation
Oct 19 2015- Freda Cooper
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Some of this year’s London Film Festival’s line-up made a quick sprint from the red carpet to cinemas nationwide. Suffragette, The Program and The Lobster have all been released. But Beasts Of No Nation took a different path: the first original feature film from Netflix, subscribers can watch it now. London Mums’ film critic, Freda Cooper, checked out what could prove to be a ground breaker.
This Week’s Movie News On Talking Pictures
Sep 04 2015- Freda Cooper
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Owen Wilson’s in the hot seat for The Big Interview on this week’s Talking Pictures, from London Mums’ very own film critic, Freda Cooper. And his action hero credentials in new release No Escape are under scrutiny as well. Also in cinemas is the Brazilian comedy/drama, The Second Mother, and one of the up-coming trio of films about the notorious Kray twins, The Krays:Kill Order.
Future Films Heads Up: London Film Festival Preview
Sep 02 2015- Freda Cooper
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238 feature films, including 16 world premieres and 8 international premieres, another 182 shorts, interviews, Qs and As, red carpets, flashing cameras …… it all adds up to one thing. The 59th BFI London Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday, 7th to Sunday, 18th October 2015. But with so many films, how do you choose what to see? Easy! London Mums’ resident film critic, Freda Cooper, does it for you!
Future Films Heads Up: London Film Festival for families
Sep 17 2014- Freda Cooper
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Red carpets, camera crews, photographers, celebs …… they’re all on their way to London for this year’s London Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday, 8th to Sunday, 19th October 2014. The big films have been announced – The Imitation Game, Mr Turner, Fury and Foxcatcher among them – and the likes of Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Steve Carrel are all expected to tread that red carpet.
So film fans will be in their element. But what if you’re looking for something more family orientated?
The good news is that the London Film Festival has a special strand dedicated to family movies, completed with a Family Gala screening.