The Canterville Ghost (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kim Burdon | Robert Chandler
Starring: Freddie Highmore | Hugh Laurie | Imelda Staunton | Stephen Fry | Toby Jones
Pride (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Matthew Warchus
Starring: Andrew Scott | Ben Schnetzer | Bill Nighy | Dominic West | Faye Marsay | George MacKay | Imelda Staunton | Paddy Considine
Vicki says: “Based on true events, PRIDE tells the story of the improbable cooperation between striking Welsh miners and a group of London gay rights activists. At first the miners want nothing to do with the help being offered by
Read the review...Downton Abbey (2019)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Imelda Staunton | Lesley Nicol | Maggie Smith | Michael Fox | Michelle Dockery | Stephen Campbell Moore
Thom says: “This is an absurdly easy film to review because it’s nearly impossible to believe that anyone who loved the mega-successful television series from 2010 wouldn’t also praise this highly entertaining affair. Director Engler has done only one other
Read the review...Amulet (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Romola Garai
Starring: Alec Secareanu | Anah Ruddin | Carla Juri | Imelda Staunton
Vera Drake (2004)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.4
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Imelda Staunton | Phil Davis | Richard Graham
Bruce says: “When Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is instructed by a jail matron to take off her wedding ring, she wrinkles her face in pain and says ‘I can’t. It’s never been off in twenty seven years.’ She does manage
Read the review...Bright Young Things (2004)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Stephen Fry
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Imelda Staunton | Jim Broadbent | Peter O'Toole | Richard E. Grant | Stephen Campbell Moore | Stockard Channing
Janet says: “Stephen Fry draws on his experience as Wodehouse’s Jeeves in adapting this busy story of male and female Bertie Woosters. Lots of fun to watch, with some superb acting (Fenella Woolgar is a millefeuille pastry of irony layered
Read the review...Crush (2002)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: John McKay
Starring: Andie MacDowell | Anna Chancellor | Bill Paterson | Imelda Staunton | Kenny Doughty
Laura says: “Were it not for MacDowell’s honest performance, the genuine heat between her and Doughty, and an imaginative use of musical themes, CRUSH would be pure Lifetime television fare. While jealousy among female friends is a true enough phenomenon,
Read the review...Rat (2001)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Andrew Lovern | David Wilmot | Frank Kelly | Imelda Staunton | Kerry Condon | Pete Postlethwaite | Veronica Duffy
Diane says: “Ya gotta love Pete Postlethwaite, but RAT was a disappointment, especially after being billed as ‘Kafkaesque.’ In this Irish comedy about a man who turns into a rat after a trip to the pub one night, members of
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