Tag: Colin Firth

Film Review: ‘Empire of Light’: Celluloid as a Spiritual Salve

R | 1h 55min | Drama, Romance, Mystery | 9 December 2022 (USA) One of the smallest of all sub-genres, “movies about movies” are usually packed to the rafters with loads of inside baseball industry jargon (which is not necessarily a bad thing if you’re a film junkie) and generally don’t fare well with the masses. Some of the few standouts in…


Film Review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’: Director John Madden’s Engrossing World War II Spy Thriller

PG-13 | 2h 8min | Drama, War, History, Thriller | 11 May 2022 (USA) Englishman John Madden is known mostly as the director of the Best Picture-winning “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Most Exotic Marigold Hotel” franchise, yet his resume includes other titles (“Proof,” “The Debt,” “Miss Sloane”) that indicate there’s more to his talents than churning out mildly pleasant and innocuous…