Film & Books
In Review: Fantasy drama A Monster Calls has some 'seriously affecting moments'
Continuing what seems to be a run of tear-grabbing, emotionally overwrought 'blub-fest' movies, comes this fantasy drama from the director of the acclaimed Boxing Day Tsunami ordeal-porn The Impossible (2012) J.A. Bayona....
Total MK's Pick of the Christmas films: INSIDE OUT
It's not often films are made that can entertain audiences of all ages and also distil complex elements of cognitive psychology with clarity, imagination and wit...but this one does...
Total MKs pick of the Christmas films: PRIDE
On paper, this isn't the most Christmassy choice for a top 5 films on TV over the festive season list. But, thinking again, if the broad Judeo-Christian yuletide themes are about tolerance, respect and thinking and giving charitably to others, this kind-hearted comedy drama should fit right in to movies about Santa Clause or family get togethers....
Total MKs pick of the Christmas films: THE DANISH GIRL
Director Hooper, who hit the jackpot with The King's Speech (2010) sticks to the same generation with this period piece, a dramatisation about the events and people surrounding the world's first sex-change operation....
Total MK's pick of the Christmas films: THE ARTIST
For those uninitiated with the simple pleasure of letting the images in a film speak for themselves, settle down and let them wash over you with The Artist, this Christmas Day afternoon...
Total MK's pick of the Christmas films part one: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Showing at 5am, this is definitely one for the early bird, non-hangover, no work crowd, but definitely one to see......
