Category: Movie review

Magpie Murders

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Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
Starring: Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan Conleth Hill, Michael Maloney, Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Jude Hill, Matthew Beard, Pippa Haywood, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Karen Westwood, Dorothy Atkinson, Lorcan Cranitch, Danielle Ryan, Harry Lawtey, Chu Omambala, Karl Collins, Sutara Gayle, Sanjeev Kohli, Paul Tylak, Nathan Clarke, Kate Gilmore, Nathalie Armin
Where to watch: BBC Player
To watch or not to watch: One of the best book adaptations, infact, better than the book. And what a ride this whodunnit is! It is two timelines woven in one and done so perfectly! Must, must watch.

Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) is the editor for the bestselling author Alan Conway (Conleth Hill) who writes about a 1950s detective Atticus Pund (Tim McMullan).… Read the rest

Tuner

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Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Starring: Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Lior Raz, Tovah Feldshuh, Havana Rose Liu
Where to watch: Theatres
To watch or not to watch: A formulaic heist thriller with a sweet, charming cast

Niki White (Leo Woodall) is an apprentice to Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman) in a piano tuning company. It is implied that Harry and Niki’s father were friends before he passed away and Harry has adopted Niki as his son/nephew. Harry is a bit hard of hearing and Niki has a condition called hyperacusis which makes him particularly sensitive to sounds, making his dream of being a piano virtuoso not come to fruition.… Read the rest

The Skeleton Key

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Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard
Where to watch: This movie was released in 2005. It keeps doing the rounds on the various OTT platforms
To watch or not to watch: The movie succeeds in creating an atmospheric horror, based on voodoo, which is an interesting plot device, and not something common

Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a hospice nurse who is looking for private work after losing a patient at the hospital where she used to work. She comes across a listing in the newspaper (the movie was made in 2005, when people still looked through the newspapers for jobs and such) for a nursing job in Louisiana, paying $1000 per week.… Read the rest