Author Archives: Michelle Thomas

Driving Lessons

September 8th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

Seventeen year old Ben (Grint) has a pretty miserable existence. His massively, neurotically overprotective and domineering mother Laura (Linney) barely


Right At Your Door

September 8th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

Newly-ish weds Brad (Cochrane) and Lexi (McCormack) have just moved into their new home in Los Angeles; they haven’t finished


Snow Cake

September 8th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

Alex Hughes (Rickman) just wants to be left alone. Newly released from prison, he has travelled to Canada to meet


Adrift

September 1st, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

You can imagine the pitch for Adrift; its Open Water, but *without* the sharks! We open with a prologue –


Volver

August 25th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

Raimunda (Cruz) is a hard-working young woman, with an unemployed husband and a teenage daughter Paula (Cobo), living in the


Harsh Times

August 18th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

It was a nice sunny evening when I went to see Harsh Times, and I was a bit disgruntled that


Tideland

August 11th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

Ten year old Jeliza-Rose’s (Ferland) parents are junkies. When her mother (Tilly) dies, her father Noah (Bridges) decides to take


Lady In The Water

August 11th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

The improbably named Cleveland Heep (Giamatti), a widowed doctor, has, since the murder of his family, been working rather mundanely


The Notorious Bettie Page

August 4th, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas

Bettie Page (Mol) was, of course, a real person and a world famous pin-up. Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol,



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