MOVIES
BERMUDA DOCS REVIEW / THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
A refreshing look at a highly controversial time in Ali's life
The Trials of Muhammad Ali explores, with wonderful archive footage and current-day interviews, why after Elijah Mohammad, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, he was as influential a black figure as there was in the 1960s.
Lucinda Spurling film wins award
In the Hour of Victory, Bermudian filmmaker Lucinda Spurling's film based on the book by Jonathan Smith, won Best Documentary at the Southampton International Film Festival this week.
Captain Phillips director has talent for tension
This week: Gravity and Captain Phillips at Speciality Theatre, Baggage Claim at Liberty Theatre, Runner Runner at Neptune Theatre.
REVIEW / BERMUDA DOCS, SWEET DREAMS
Sweet Dreams brings ray of hope after genocide
Sweet Dreams is a documentary that will warm your heart and tear it apart at the same time, screening on October 20 as part of Bermuda Docs.
A space story with real Gravity
This week: Gravity and Insidious: Chapter 2 at Speciality Theatre, Baggage Claim at Liberty Theatre, Runner Runner at Neptune Theatre and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 at Southside Theatre.
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You’ll relish Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2
This week: Prisoners and The Conjuring at Speciality Theatre, Battle of the Year at Liberty Theatre, Baggage Claim at Neptune Theatre and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 at Southside Theatre.
A touching tale of love, war and murder
A documentary about the young English surgeon Karen Woo is being shown on the anniversary of her murder.
Film screening to celebrate anniversary of ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
The U.S. Consulate and the Bermuda National Library invite the public to a special showing of The March at the adult library on Queen Street on August 28 from 6-7pm.
Showing from June 14: The Internship ***
The Internship is a movie that skates by on the sheer likability of its stars - there are genuine laughs in the script co-written by Vaughn.
Showing from June 14: After Earth **
A disappointingly generic film, After Earth strands a father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation.
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Showing from June 14: Fast & Furious 6 ***
If Fast and Furious 6 was any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon... but in terms of sheer action adrenaline, it may be the best film of the franchise.
Showing from June 14: Man of Steel ****
Man of Steel serves up as much spectacle and action - minute-by-minute, frame-by-frame - as any movie anyone could think of... it's hard not to give in to it's size and strength.
Showing from May 17: Star Trek Into Darkness ****
His second voyage as director of the franchise, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness is the best work since Gene Roddenberry brought the series to life in the 1960s.
Showing from May 17: The Great Gatsby ***
No filmmaker has created the "definitive" version of The Great Gatsby. Baz Luhrmann, the fourth to try, hasn't either - but his is easily the most entertaining "Gatsby" yet.
Showing from May 17: Tyler Perry’s Peeples ***
Peeples is an African-American Meet the Parents that slips funnyman Craig Robinson into the Ben Stiller role. A lowdown, broad farce that's never too low or broad.
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