Cine Shorts
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition: A must-see for music fans, whether you're into heavy metal or not. This film is what biopics seldom are (Looking at you, Michael..) a warts-and-all documentary full of fabulous old footage, interviews with the band and commentators, the blood, sweat and tears years, and the rise, fall and rise again. New respect for a band I've always been ambivalent about. *****
Nuremberg: A powerful psychological drama about the groundbreaking Nuremberg Nazi trials. Russell Crowe is belligerent yet charming as Hermann Goring and Rami Malek falls apart nicely as the pyschiatrist charged with analysing the Nazi evil. Real footage from the concentration camps will shock you, even if you already know the horrors. *****
Reminders of Him: Sappy, predictable romantic fluff about a woman desperate to see the baby that was torn away from her at birth in jail as she served time for the accidental death of her boyfriend. I could spoil the plot by telling you that it all works out beautifully, but you already knew that. ***
Hamnet: Disappointingly dreary drama about the imaginary background that may have provoked Shakespeare to write his tragedy Hamlet. The final 20 minutes are captivating, the rest is a long slog through domestic life. **
