Signed, sealed and delivered, Book Club: The Next Chapter is an unabashed love letter to four great movie stars. As a vehicle for their talents, it’s less of a sure thing. If you can see past the clunky plot contrivances, strained hijinks and one-liners that don’t land, and focus on the Italy-set comedy’s Mediterranean glow and the dazzling quartet of go-getters at its center, the movie might fit the bill as a celebratory pairing with Mother’s Day brunch.
The tagline on the key art encapsulates the sequel’s problems: “Slightly Scandalous. Totally Fabulous.” That qualifying “slightly” signals the softer cadence of this reunion. In the 2018 hit, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen transcended the often tepid humor with their rat-a-tat delivery; here, returning director Bill Holderman, again working from a screenplay he wrote with Erin Simms, struggles to find a rhythm, and flat...
The tagline on the key art encapsulates the sequel’s problems: “Slightly Scandalous. Totally Fabulous.” That qualifying “slightly” signals the softer cadence of this reunion. In the 2018 hit, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen transcended the often tepid humor with their rat-a-tat delivery; here, returning director Bill Holderman, again working from a screenplay he wrote with Erin Simms, struggles to find a rhythm, and flat...
- 5/8/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It may be this year’s ‘comfort food’ film but Julian Fellowes’ second theatrical sequel to his revered long-running TV show is quality goods — and may be better than the first one. Almost every actor is back, seemingly pleased as plum puddings to repeat their roles as either landed nobility or downstairs staff. The storyline ties a final bow on some characters and plot lines, and in a far more pleasing way than we thought possible. Even casual fans of the franchise ought to be charmed.
Downton Abbey A New Era
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
2022 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 125 min. / Street Date July 5, 2022 / Available from / 44.98
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Allen Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Penelope Wilton, Douglas Reith, Phyllis Logan, Jim Carter, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Michael Fox,...
Downton Abbey A New Era
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
2022 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 125 min. / Street Date July 5, 2022 / Available from / 44.98
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Allen Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Penelope Wilton, Douglas Reith, Phyllis Logan, Jim Carter, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Michael Fox,...
- 7/9/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Arriving on Hulu in the wake of “MLK/FBI” and “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” provides yet another angle on J. Edgar Hoover’s war against Black America. And while director Lee Daniels packs in as much righteous anger as those other films, he does so with his trademark love of melodrama and disdain for subtlety.
In her first major acting role, singer Andra Day gives an emphatic and multi-shaded performance as the legendary Lady Day, but she and her talented co-stars are subject to an often-clunky screenplay by the esteemed playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, not to mention Daniels’ signature sensibility of putting too fine a point on anything and everything.
The goal is to correct the conventional take on Holiday, one of the 20th century’s greatest singers, breaking from received ideas about her drug addiction and exploring the facts about her relentless harassment by the FBI,...
In her first major acting role, singer Andra Day gives an emphatic and multi-shaded performance as the legendary Lady Day, but she and her talented co-stars are subject to an often-clunky screenplay by the esteemed playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, not to mention Daniels’ signature sensibility of putting too fine a point on anything and everything.
The goal is to correct the conventional take on Holiday, one of the 20th century’s greatest singers, breaking from received ideas about her drug addiction and exploring the facts about her relentless harassment by the FBI,...
- 2/19/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Stars: Kurtis Lowe, Andrew Dunn, Andy Abrahams, Dominic Brunt, Charlie Chuck, Kate Coogan, Simon Corble, Samantha Daniels, Sally Dexter, Howard Ellis, Nicky Evans, Thalia Zucchi, Joanne Mitchell, Mica Proctor, Laurence R. Harvey | Written by Joanne Mitchell, Paul Shrimpton | Directed by Dominic Brunt
George (Andrew Dunn) is playing a board game at home with his family, when they are disrupted by two armed Russian gangsters who invade their home. Taking George as a hostage they give instructions to his wife Sandra (Kate Coogan) her son Tim (Kurtis Lowe) and step daughter Kim (Mica Proctor) to break into a remote country manor to steal several secret documents. The ultimatum if they refuse to participate or fail to obtain the documents, George will be killed. They make their way to the mansion as instructed, but once they arrive it is not unoccupied and the events inside anything but normal. Behind the closed doors...
George (Andrew Dunn) is playing a board game at home with his family, when they are disrupted by two armed Russian gangsters who invade their home. Taking George as a hostage they give instructions to his wife Sandra (Kate Coogan) her son Tim (Kurtis Lowe) and step daughter Kim (Mica Proctor) to break into a remote country manor to steal several secret documents. The ultimatum if they refuse to participate or fail to obtain the documents, George will be killed. They make their way to the mansion as instructed, but once they arrive it is not unoccupied and the events inside anything but normal. Behind the closed doors...
- 7/12/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
Stars: Kurtis Lowe, Andrew Dunn, Andy Abrahams, Dominic Brunt, Charlie Chuck, Kate Coogan, Simon Corble, Samantha Daniels, Sally Dexter, Howard Ellis, Nicky Evans, Thalia Zucchi, Joanne Mitchell, Mica Proctor, Laurence R. Harvey | Written by Joanne Mitchell, Paul Shrimpton | Directed by Dominic Brunt
Attack of the Adult Babies. What a title! It’s enough on its own to make me want to watch it but the movie has plenty more to offer than the crazy-sounding title. Director Dominic Brunt is best known to many as Paddy in U.K. soap Emmerdale but genre fans should know him better for his directorial work. His first movie was the excellent, gritty, slow burn zombie film Before Dawn and he followed it up with the sometimes-hard-to-watch but great revenge thriller Bait. With his third feature he has chose something very very different…
After watching Attack of the Adult Babies you’ll realise that the...
Attack of the Adult Babies. What a title! It’s enough on its own to make me want to watch it but the movie has plenty more to offer than the crazy-sounding title. Director Dominic Brunt is best known to many as Paddy in U.K. soap Emmerdale but genre fans should know him better for his directorial work. His first movie was the excellent, gritty, slow burn zombie film Before Dawn and he followed it up with the sometimes-hard-to-watch but great revenge thriller Bait. With his third feature he has chose something very very different…
After watching Attack of the Adult Babies you’ll realise that the...
- 7/9/2018
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Dominic Brunt’s outrageous horror satire Attack of the Adult Babies is to get a UK release, as Nucleus Films to unleash cult feature on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital on June 11th 2018. Plus, the first 1000 blu-rays in Collectors Numbered Limited Edition will have slip case designed by film artist Graham Humphreys. The film had its world premiere at FrightFest; and this release marks Nucleus Films’ first foray into distributing new films to market across all formats and co-founder Jake West commented:
We’re very excited to be handling the World Premiere release of Aotab and working with the brilliant British director producer team Dominic Brunt & Joanne Mitchell Brunt & International Sales agent Amp. We’re aiming to bring to this, and future releases, the quality we’re know for in all of our cult re-issue titles.
Shot entirely on location at Broughton Hall in Skipton, West Yorkshire (just down the road from...
We’re very excited to be handling the World Premiere release of Aotab and working with the brilliant British director producer team Dominic Brunt & Joanne Mitchell Brunt & International Sales agent Amp. We’re aiming to bring to this, and future releases, the quality we’re know for in all of our cult re-issue titles.
Shot entirely on location at Broughton Hall in Skipton, West Yorkshire (just down the road from...
- 3/29/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Hey kids! Learn about the great time we’ll be having if the world powers plunge us into a nuclear winter! This post-atomic horror show traumatized England in 1984, and thanks to the liberal media magnate Ted Turner, even saw some airings in the U.S.. The most extreme prime-time response to Ronald Reagan’s heating up of the Cold War standoff, it remains an honest look at a possible grim future, that rubs our noses in the full consequences of a nuclear exchange.
Threads
Blu-ray
1984 / Color / 1:33 flat 16mm /
117 (112) min. / Street Date February 13, 2018 / 19.99
Starring: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierley, Rita May, Nicholas Lane, Jane Hazelgrove, Henry Moxon, June Broughton, Harry Beety, Ruth Holden, Patrick Allen (voice).
Cinematography: Andrew Dunn, Paul Morris
Film Editors: Donna Bickerstaff, Jim Latham
Visual Effects: Graham Brown, Peter Wragg
Written by Barry Hines
Produced and Directed by Mick Jackson
1965’s The War Game by Peter Watkins...
Threads
Blu-ray
1984 / Color / 1:33 flat 16mm /
117 (112) min. / Street Date February 13, 2018 / 19.99
Starring: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierley, Rita May, Nicholas Lane, Jane Hazelgrove, Henry Moxon, June Broughton, Harry Beety, Ruth Holden, Patrick Allen (voice).
Cinematography: Andrew Dunn, Paul Morris
Film Editors: Donna Bickerstaff, Jim Latham
Visual Effects: Graham Brown, Peter Wragg
Written by Barry Hines
Produced and Directed by Mick Jackson
1965’s The War Game by Peter Watkins...
- 2/13/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Former Coronation Street actor Andrew Dunn has revealed that his time with the soap was "frustrating". The 51-year-old was written out of the show in October last year when his character - plumber Roger Stiles - learned of his girlfriend Janice Battersby's (Vicky Entwhistle) lottery scam. Reflecting on his time with the programme, he claims that he 'didn't feel part of it' as the storylines were heavily focused on a certain set of characters. "I started off on contract, but then they used me when they wanted me - eight episodes and then I wasn't needed for six (more)...
- 3/25/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
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