It’s awards season and there’s no more important prize than getting a nod in the ‘Built For Speed End of Year Spectacular’. Tonight (Friday 12th Jan) we discuss our favourite and least favourite films of 2023 and play our favourite tunes of the year. Check out ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 8-10pm on 88.3 Southern FM.
Read moreOne Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Helena Bonham Carter and Romola Garai, tells the remarkable and very moving true story of the man often referred to as Britain’s Oscar Schindler, Nicholas Winton. Winton (played as a young man by Johnny Flynn) was a London stockbroker who, in 1938, having learned of the growing refugee crisis in Czechoslovakia, flew to
Read moreWish, which has been released as part of Disney studios 100th birthday is a cute, occasionally charming but underwhelming animated musical fantasy that attempts to pay homage to Disney classics. Like many Disney and other animated features of the last few years, it’s about a feisty but uncertain young woman empowering herself through a fight with a nasty authority figure.
Read moreIn the last decade or so, Woody Allen has attempted to prove wrong Mia Farrow’s character from his film Husbands and Wives and show he can survive off the Island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours by making films in European cities. In his latest effort, Coup de Chance, Woody goes a step further and expunges even more traces
Read moreThe aroma of chocolate filled the air as an eager Sunday morning preview audience filed into the Rivoli cinema for a screening of Wonka a mostly fun, good natured but thinly-plotted musical origin story for the mercurial chocolate maestro Willy Wonka. This is not an adaptation of any specific work by author Roald Dahl whose 1964 novel Charlie and the
Read moreKen Loach is one of contemporary cinema’s most important auteurs. Now, four years after his emotionally gruelling depiction of the gig economy’s impact on working class Britain in Sorry We Missed You, he returns with the immigration drama, The Old Oak. In a career that stretches back to the 1960’s, Loach has carved a distinctive niche in left wing humanist
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