September 7th 2015 (UK) Archives - Big Gay Picture Show

Starring: Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Jack Reynor, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett
Director: Julian Jarrold
Running Time: 97 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: September 7th 2015 (UK)

A Royal Night Out takes a small part of a true story and then spins it off into a fiction. The known truth is that on VE Day in 1945, the young British princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, left Buckingham Palace to mingle with the crowds outside who were rejoicing after years of War.

We know that happened, but I think it’s fair to say the rest of the movie was made up. Having gotten permission to go out incognito, Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and Margaret (Bel Powley) discover their mother (Emily Watson) isn’t going to allow them to have the night of dancing and being normal that they’d hoped. Despite their mother’s desire to keep things dull and stuffy, the princesses give their military chaperones the slip and end up getting separated. [Read more…]

Starring: Courtney Halverson, Matthew Bohrer, Moses Storm, Shelley Hennig, Will Peltz
Director: Leo Gabriadze
Running Time: 82 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: September 7th 2015 (UK)

While the title is enough to make any discerning person cringe and its unusual concept could have gone horribly wrong, Unfriended is actually quite an effective slice of teen horror – as long as you beef up your ability to suspend disbelief (or you already think teenagers are total morons).

The whole thing takes place in real time and for the entire movie you are watching the computer screen of a teenage girl called Blaire. It’s a year after her friend, Laura, killed herself, but Blaire, her boyfriend Mitch, and three of their friends are more interested in video chatting than mourning the loss. [Read more…]

A Royal Night Out (Blu-ray Review)

Unfriended (Blu-ray Review)