The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. Meet The Browns Movie Watch Online. Jimmy Kimmel opened his ABC late show talking about Trump's news conference where "he opened his mouth and all matter of stupid came out.".

Victoria and Abdul review: An true story that feels like a cop- out Films Entertainment. If this was the screenwriter’s attempt to steal a march on his critics, he needn’t have bothered. By now, it is glaringly obvious that Victoria And Abdul is replaying the beats of Judi Dench and Billy Connolly’s 1. Dame Judi won a Bafta for her flinty portrayal of a depressed Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown. Here she’s at it again, glowering magnificently at her scandalised advisers as she cosies up to a bearded underling. Connolly’s Scottish commoner was a steely, straight- talking rebel who faced down public ridicule to guide his widowed queen out of a debilitating depression. Sadly, Abdul (Ali Fazal) isn’t nearly as interesting.

Not only is he disappointingly servile but this time the stakes are considerably lower. When we catch up with Dench’s Victoria, the big threats to the throne are boredom and constipation. Related articles.

It’s 1. 88. 7 and the Queen is worn out after half a century of service. In her first scene she barely looks up from her plate as she races through a royal banquet, flickering to life only when two Indian servants arrive to present her with a ceremonial trinket.“I thought the tall one was rather handsome,” she later tells her courtiers. As his height was why Abdul was plucked from his duties as a clerk at an Indian jail, they feel rather pleased with themselves. But when she quickly promotes him to “Munshi” – spiritual adviser, Urdu teacher and authority on all things Indian – worried looks begin to dart across the court. But cheery Abdul has a miraculous effect. Watch Price Check Online Metacritic.

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Soon she’s trilling her favourite Gilbert and Sullivan number and, we learn, there has been “movement” in the royal bowels. This is all decent material for a knockabout farce. And for the first hour there are some hearty laughs as the stuffy courtiers are scandalised by the sudden rise of an uneducated Muslim. Dench is predictably brilliant, while Eddie Izzard puts in a suitably slimy turn as her outraged son and heir Bertie.

But once Abdul is ensconced in a cottage with his wife and mother- in- law (the harrumphing goes up a notch when they arrive wearing burkas), director Stephen Frears (The Queen) keeps aiming for the same broad laughs. As this is such an interesting true story (or a “mostly” true story as an opening caption reveals), this feels like a cop- out. At times, I was convinced I could see the ghost of a grittier early draft. PRDame Judi Dench and Ali Fazal star in Victoria and Abdul. There’s a jarring moment when Prince Edward – Bertie – tries to get Adbul’s pal Mohammed to “dish the dirty” on the interloper.

After denouncing the Empire in a surprisingly rousing speech, he turns the tables on the plotters. He’s climbing the same greasy pole you are and he’s beating you at it,” Mohammed spits.

Later their friendship hits a minor bump when Victoria learns Abdul lied to her about Muslims’ role in the Indian Mutiny. It’s a potentially explosive moment. Suddenly, the Queen seems dangerously out of touch and our hero has become a Rasputin- like figure. With the slightest prod Frears could have turned the plot on his head. Yes, we’ve had great fun laughing at the pompous fuddyduddies but could they have a point?

But Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall seems strangely uninterested in his leading man. We learn nothing about his politics, his motives or even his feelings. Dench’s Victoria is more or less how we left her – a spiky but lovable grandmother and an unlikely champion of diversity.“A brown John Brown” is a clever line but “a bland John Brown” might be more accurate. There were boos and cheers when mother! premiered at the Venice Film Festival. I suspect its provocative writer/ director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Noah) wouldn’t have had it any other way. If I’d seen this unhinged, art- house horror on TV I would have probably turned it off after the preposterous opening half an hour. But by the end it had completely won me over.

The turning point came when I abandoned all hope of encountering a coherent plot or a believable character. Once I realised I was watching someone’s else’s nightmare, it started to make sense. Javier Bardem is a poet and Jennifer Lawrence is some sort of DIY genius who has just rebuilt the place after a fire.

She’s putting the finishing touches to the plastering and plumbing (the tiling and the woodwork are faultless) when a rude, chain- smoking stranger (Ed Harris) knocks on the door claiming to be looking for a hotel. PRmother! was met with boos and cheers at the Venice Film Festival. NCMy Pure Land is British- Pakistani director Sarmad Masud’s debut feature.

Bardem asks him to stay the night and the next day he is joined by his vile wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and his horrible sons. Lawrence experiences surreal visions: a human heart is found in a toilet, walls dissolve and blood burns a hole in the floor. Then she falls pregnant and things really go off the rails.

It’s infuriating, self- indulgent, witty and wildly inventive. Three cheers (and three boos) for Mr Aronofsky. Before he spent millions in the transfer window, Everton chairman Bill Kenwright found time to produce British- Pakistani director Sarmad Masud’s debut feature.

The main action of My Pure Land plays out over a day in rural Pakistan as two girls, an elderly woman and a young man fend off heavily armed insurgents who are desperate to take over their house. As the bullets fly, we keep flashing back to the build- up. It turns out the attackers are led by the girls’ corrupt uncle who believes that he should have been left the house in their grandfather’s will. The ending (where we learn this is based on a true story) is a tad abrupt but the action scenes are thrillingly staged.

It looks like Masud is going to be one hell of a player. VICTORIA AND ABDUL(PG, 1. Director: Stephen Frears VERDICT 2/5. MOTHER!(1. 8, 1. 21 mins). Director: Darren Aronofsky VERDICT 4/5.

MY PURE LAND (1. 5, 9. Director: Sarmad Masud VERDICT 3/5.

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WATCH] Jimmy Kimmel: President Donald Trump Is Completely Unhinged. Jimmy Kimmel opened his ABC late night show on Tuesday talking about President Donald Trump’s astonishing news conference hours earlier, at which “he opened his mouth and all matter of stupid came out.

I wouldn’t be lying if I said I would feel more comfortable if Cersei Lannister was running this country.”What started as a presser about infrastructure” ended with our President making an angry and passionate defense of white supremacists. It was like if your book club meeting turned into a cockfight. It really was remarkable,” he said, adding, “I feel like I can say this with reasonable certainty: the president is completely unhinged.”“First of all – I want to say I get it. I actually do. You were unhappy with the way things were going.

You wanted someone to come in and shake things up. You didn’t want business as usual. Nothing ever seems to get done, it’s always the same,  these candidates make a lot of promises that go nowhere. It happens over and over again…and you’re sick of it. And so this guy shows up riding down a golden escalator. He’s not a part of the political establishment; in fact, he’s the opposite of that.

He’s a billionaire – maybe – he’s written books, he’s not politically correct, or even correct usually. He talks tough, he wants to drain the swamp, sometimes he can be funny. He rips into his opponents in a way politicians never do. And, you thought, ‘You know what? This guy is different! And that’s what I want.

Different. Let’s roll the dice. Let him get in there, and run the country like a business. Cut the dead weight, toughen everyone up. Let’s shake this Etch- a- Sketch hard, and start over. So you vote for him. You pick him over Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz and John Kasich and a dozen other Republicans whose names we forgot.  And ultimately, he beats them!

And then he beats the ultimate political insider: Hillary Clinton! And it’s exciting. This was your guy. You picked a horse – at 3. So now he is the president. And it starts off okay. He meets with President Obama, they seem to have a nice conversation. But then he moves into the White House and, right off the bat he’s angry at the media for reporting that his crowd at the inauguration was smaller than he thought it was.

Which was weird. And then he claimed it stopped raining when he was speaking at his inaugural address, when everyone could see it raining. He hires his daughter, he hires his son- in- law, demands an investigation into voter fraud, even though he won the election. He calls the Prime Minister of Australia and hangs up on him, He won’t shake Angela Merkel’s hand. He doesn’t know Frederick Douglass isn’t alive. He claims he can’t release his tax returns because they’re under audit, then says he wont release them at all. He signs a ban on Muslims that he claims isn’t a ban on Muslims.

He compliments the President of the Philippines for murdering drug addicts. Hours after a terror attack in London, he starts a fight with their mayor. After criticizing Obama for playing golf, he plays golf every weekend. He accidentally shares classified intelligence with the Russians. He tweets a typo at midnight, wakes up and claims it was a secret message. He bans the transgendered from the military without telling anyone in the military he’s doing it.

He plays chicken with Kim Jong Un! And that’s just some of the list. If i went through all of it it would be longer than the menu at the Cheesecake factory. But you’ve been trying to ignore it – because you don’t want to admit that these smug, annoying liberals were right. It’s the last thing you want to do But the truth is, deep down inside you know you made a mistake. So you can do one of two things.

You can dig in like Chris Christie at a Hometown Buffet, or you can treat this situation like you would if you put Star Wars wallpaper up in the kitchen: ‘Alright, I got caught up. I was excited and I made a mistake.’And you can say, ‘Hey, you know what? He needs to go.’So – please – think about that.”.