★★★
We’re all leisure seekers when it comes to cinema but those seeking pleasure will find their patience tested somewhat with Paolo Virzì’s English-language debut feature: The Leisure Seeker.
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Nothing Like a Dame | Review
★★★★
It’s a brilliantly wry title that riffs on Rogers and Hammerstein. In this new conversation-documentary by Notting Hill director Robert Michell, Dames Eileen Atkins, Judy Dench, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright simply gather for a natter. There is nothing like a dame but this quartet are – pricelessly – nothing like as stately as a dame themselves. They’re a riot.
Sherlock Gnomes | Review
★
It’s been seven years since Elton John’s vanity-animation Gnomeo and Juliet reduced William Shakespeare to porcelain puns. In Sherlock Gnomes, it is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle under attack as the gang relocate to London for a tedious detective romp. As it transpires, the Bard got off lightly.
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