Travels With JB

Steve Carell plays Mark Baum in The Big Short from Paramount Pictures and Regency Enterprises

Movie: The Big Short

The collapse of America’s subprime mortgage market in 2008 resulted in financial ruin for many, but some in the market made a fortune. The Big Short is a fascinating, educational and disturbing movie about these men.

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Movie: Suffragette

Suffragette is an exhausting but engrossing and often moving film which explores the battle of English women to gain their right to vote.

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Nina Hoss (Nelly) and Ronald Zehrfeld ( Johnny).

Movie: Phoenix

There’s much to recommend the German movie Phoenix – but you do have to accept one unlikely premise.

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Hamlet on the Screen

Having never seen a theatrical production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet I wasn’t sure what to expect at the National Theatre Live’s broadcast of the latest London production.

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The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker is one of those movies that is likely to divide audiences just as it has already divided various critics.

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Olivia Vinall in the Hard Problem. Picture by Johan Persson.

The Hard Problem on Film

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard’s new play, The Hard Problem, is the latest offering from National Theatre Live and it’s dividing opinions.

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