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Eat The Rich, Movies About Class Conflict
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, during the French Revolution, cryptically warned, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” To coincide with last week’s review of The Menu, I have a look at some of the best ‘Eat The Rich’ movies. Those movies that satirically dig at the class conflict using…
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Chronicles In Film Now Twitter!
It’s taken us nearly 7 years to catch up, but we’ve done it. Chronicles In Film is now finally on social media! Since day one of the blog we have been sharing The Peoples Movies social media to share new posts, info . We will still use those one but now we have twitter and…
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Great Use Of Elvis Songs In Films
You don’t need myself to tell you what Elvis Presley songs are great, I thought I would have a look at the best use of Elvis songs in films. These films may not be critically great, it’s how they used them in the film. A lot of songs maybe used in other films and sometimes…
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Best Punk Films
With the recent release of Danny Boyle’s Pistol mini series on Disney, the following list is a selection of some of the so called best Punk films ever made. These will either be about the music and culture, some other may be the characters in the film might be punk. As ever this list is…
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Films To Watch If You Enjoyed Operation Mincemeat
Currently in UK and Irish cinemas (out now on Netflix in USA & Canada) is war drama Operation Mincemeat starring Colin Firth, Matthew MacFadyen,Kelly Macdonald. If you enjoy this film, below is a list of similar or great war films to watch… Darkest Hour (2017) The Oscar winning film that earned Gary Oldman an award…
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Mads Mikkelsen Best Performances
With mads mikkelsen now firmly part of Harry Potter world, I decided to have a look at some of the Danish actors best performances. Did you know he’s now in 4 major franchises Harry Potter, Star Wars, James Bond and Marvel (Dr Strange villain Kaecilius )? Once again these choices are personal and not in…
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Happy New Year! 2022 !
I should do this more often, 15th December 2016 I started Chronicles In Film. The sole purpose for the site was to archive my reviews and writings from The People’s Movies, as well as Cinehouse. It was also a chance to review films and shows with no restrictions. The first 4 years or so have…
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Great Films To Let Your Dad Watch On BBC iPlayer On Fathers Day
Happy Fathers Day to all the great dads around the world that today Sunday 20th June, like here in the UK. If your father is a big film buff and may not have those streaming channels such as Netflix, Prime Video we have some free choices for your viewing pleasure today. Part of the Freeview…
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Cinemas In China – Guangzhou Style (Part 2)
All those little (large) things you hate about the cinema happen here in China. Playing with mobile phones, texting there friends and family every minute, bad ringtones, talking loudly i experienced them all in the first movie. I have to say the other movies there wasn’t really much of the mobile phone use happening but…
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Cinemas In China – Guangzhou Style (Part 1)
Most of us are used to going to cinema’s in UK to those big American Style multiplex out of town cinema with 10 or more screens with all the latest big blockbusters, everything in big scale including the ticket price. Some people are fortunate to been in a town which still has the old style…
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