BBC First British Film Festival 2015 Competition
BBC First British Film Festival returns for its third year with a standout selection of Festival favourites and box office hits from the British Isles.
The 2015 program will open nationally with the highly anticipated YOUTH. Fresh from its premiere at Cannes Film Festival and starring veteran British actor Michael Caine, it is director Paolo Sorrentino's second English-language film and the follow-up to his Academy Award-winning film The Great Beauty (2013).
For more than 20 years, ...
The King’s Speech Movie Review
The film tells the tale of King George the VI (Colin Firth), the British royal who took over the crown under the most amazing of circumstances. It followed his brother David (Guy Pierce) and his abdication of the throne so he could marry the divorced woman Wallis Simpson and is set amidst the beginnings of World War Two. Poor George has a very bad stammer and must overcome this if he is to properly lead his people during these tumultuous times. He soon comes under the tutorship of speech ...
