Housefull 3

Three suitors beg one papa for permission to marry his daughters in this Hindi-language comedy

"...for permission to marry his three daughters in this London-based, Hindi-language comedy...."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dough

A Jewish baker and his Muslim trainee douse their bread with marijuana

"...reviewed at press time. An aging Jewish baker in London hires a young black Muslim immigrant to help bake..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Victor Frankenstein

This version of the Frankenstein tale is told from Igor's perspective

"...the theft of various mammalian body parts from the London Zoo, and also the recent demise of a circus..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Legend

Tom Hardy pulls double duty playing both the criminal Kray twins

"...Road) and plays both here, pulling double duty as London’s infamous Kray twins, Reggie and Ronald. Two Tom Hardys..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Miss You Already

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette co-star as best friends facing crises

"...In this London-based comedic drama, best friends Milly (Collette) and Jess (Barrymore,..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Twinsters

Separated at birth, reunited online

"...Bordier, a French woman going to design school in London. He forwards the video to Anaïs, who’s startled by..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Queen and Country

John Boorman's follow-up to Hope and Glory observes the same boy who's now a young man

"...Award-nominated Hope and Glory (1987), John Boorman filmed the London Blitz from the excitable (and autobiographical) lens of a..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mortdecai

Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.

"...The plot jets Mortdecai between London, Moscow, and Los Angeles on the trail of a..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

The eeriness is palpable but the suspense is not.

"...events of the first film, the German Blitz engulfs London in nightly firestorms. Among the evacuees to the relative..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Untold Verve Rules Empire Control Room

Londoner sifts decades of UK bass culture for Chaos in Tejas

"...few samples, and walked offstage. Such an entrance epitomizes London’s post-rave bass scene...."

June 2, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Locke

In this bravura movie, Tom Hardy plays a man who tries to mend the unraveling threads of his life while behind the wheel of a car for 85 minutes.

"...his boss to his wife to a hospital in London. But kick out the legs of the plot engine..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Resident Evil: Retribution

In the fifth installment of this horror franchise, Milla Jovovich again stars as the saga's heroine Alice, who fights the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

"...the Umbrella Corporation's underground network of real-world mock-ups (Tokyo, London, etc.) – shooting, slashing, and gyrating around the evil..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Alison Klayman's doc is as much a rallying cry for freedom of expression as it is a portrait in progress of an artist whose career is ongoing.

"...assemble. Major exhibitions of his art in Munich and London further solidified Ai’s worldwide reputation, while a popular blog..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Olympic Flamers

Carryin' the torch for LGBTQ

"...There are upwards of 20 out athletes at the London 2012 Olympic games. Here's my top two picks to..."

July 27, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Liz Williams

deEP end

Burgess Meredith, East Cameron Folkcore, Grace London, Nouns, and Chinaski

"...Rocketship Girl, you'd never know former Residual Kid Grace London is 12. London's indie-folk tunes bounce from whimsical ("Eloise")..."

July 13, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Hysteria

Good vibrations flow from this fictional story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England; Maggie Gyllenhaal stars.

"...finds his hands full with dissatisfied housewives in 1880s London. Having newly joined the practice of Dr. Robert Dalrymple..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Robert Downey Jr. inhabits the role of Sherlock Holmes to a near-molecular level in this rushing whoosh of a follow-up to 2009's blockbuster.

"...gorgeous shambles. The whole film, which caroms from 1891 London to Paris, Vienna, and the inevitable Reichenbach Falls of..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Like Crazy

This is a love story love story about people of a certain age – which is not to be confused with a love story for the ages.

"...Jacob flying back and forth between Los Angeles and London for fitful reunions and visa appeals, broken by scenes..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Le Havre

Aki Kaurismäki's distinctive blend of deadpan humor and quotidian melodrama comes through in this new film.

"...the boy with his mother, who is waiting in London. At every turn, it seems the trenchcoat-wearing Detective Monet..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bellflower

Hellaciously original, this low-budget, post-apocalyptic film looks like no other in recent memory.

"...As I write this, London is burning, Japan is irradiated, and Rick Perry is..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Attack the Block

Smart, quick, funny, and economical, Attack the Block is an alien-invasion movie that's a breed apart.

"...that is a breed apart. Set largely within a London housing project, the film turns on the idea that..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Trip

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon co-star as best friends on a road trip in Michael Winterbottom's colicky, melancholy, and very amusing comedy.

"...all. The trip in question is orchestrated by the London newspaper The Observer, which commissions Manchester native Coogan to..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Patiala House

This Hindi drama is a cross-generational story about a second-generation Sikh in London and his father.

"...is a cross-generational story about a second-generation Sikh in London and his desire to uphold his father's reputation...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Made in Dagenham

This film dramatizes a historic labor strike for equal pay that was conducted by the women of a British auto plant in 1968.

"...Rupert Graves and Richard Schiff. A residential/industrial suburb of London, Dagenham is the location of a Ford Motor Company..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Four Lions

This very black comedy about a group of bumbling jihadists is farce that ain't foolin' from the mind of British satirist Chris Morris.

"...Sleeper Cell!") Set in Sheffield, 150 miles north of London, Four Lions details the bumbling efforts of a group..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Get Him to the Greek

Jonah Hill and Russell Brand make a well-matched odd couple, and their path to Hollywood is littered with the excesses of drugs and rock & roll.

"...has been deputized by Roma to fetch Snow in London, fly him to New York to tape The Today..."

June 4, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sherlock Holmes

This movie reinvents the chilly, brainiac sleuth as a tortured genius and occasional backroom brawler, and Robert Downey Jr. almost makes the character work.

"...his more florid directorial flourishes while creating a CGI London so benighted and soot-heavy you can practically smell it...."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An Education

Everything about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on.

"...about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on. The film..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Loop

In the Loop is a scabrous and funny study of how an offhand remark by a career politician can metastasize into an international conflict and, ultimately, war.

"...of power (Washington, D.C.) and the hallways of powerlessness (London) during the lead-up to an unspecified Middle East conflict,..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love Aaj Kal

This Bollywood musical romance is the story of a young couple in London that discovers a laissez-faire attitude toward marriage and romance won't suffice.

"...Bollywood musical romance focuses on a young couple in London that discovers a laissez-faire attitude toward marriage and romance..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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