Film Reviews – Page 29 – Plain, Simple Tom Reviews

Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “A Cure for Wellness” (2016)

Gore Verbinski’s latest film is about swaggering young finance executive Lockhart (Dane Dehaan) who is sent by his superiors to an elite health clinic in the Swiss… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “A Cure for Wellness” (2016)”

Denzel Washington directs this adaptation of August Wilson’s stage play and also stars as Troy Maxon, a Pittsburgh refuse collector who lives with his wife Rose (Viola… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Fences” (2016)”

Young Harold (Bud Cort) lives a lonely, empty life with his aloof, distant, middle class mother, who takes it upon herself to marry him off to an… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Harold and Maude” (1971)”

Having logged a far too generous amount of hours playing the Lego Batman videogames and thinking that The Lego Movie was pretty neat, it’s no wonder that The Lego… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The LEGO Batman Movie ” (2017)”

Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) is the first child born on Mars and for the first sixteen years of his life, he is brought up in a NASA… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Space Between Us” (2017)”

This evening I finally got round to watching Tom McCarthy’s Best Picture winner about the spotlight team at the Boston Globe, whose investigative journalism uncovered a major… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Spotlight” (2015)”

Based on a true story (well, it is Oscar season . . .), Lion is about five year old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) who falls asleep on a train that… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Lion” (2016)”

This is another film that I’m sure we in the UK have been anxiously awaiting; I’ve certainly read my fair share of positive reviews around this here… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Hacksaw Ridge” (2016)”

Set twenty years after the original film, director Danny Boyle brings back Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “T2: Trainspotting” (2017)”