Category Archives: BAFTA’s 2014

Saving Mr Banks

Review by Anthony Pearson posted on March 14th, 2014

Disney brings us this film about the making of its film Mary Poppins. The story, presumably based on anecdotal and early spooled recordings of the early development stages depicted in the film, tells of the hot cold relationship between Walt Disney himself (Tom Hanks) and the writer of Mary Poppins Pamela L Travers (Emma Thompson), Click here to read more…

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Captain Phillips

Review by Anthony Pearson posted on January 31st, 2014

Based on a true story published in the book “A Captain’s Duty:Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS and Dangerous Days At Sea” by Captain Richard Phillips, the film tells the account of how his cargo ship, the US Maersk Alabama was hijacked in 2009 by a handful of Somali pirates and he himself later kidnapped by them Click here to read more…

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