Good-bye June

 

Good-bye June 2025

• Director: Kate Winslet
• Cast: Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Fisayo Akinade·       
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 3 January 2026      

       June (Mirren) is dying of cancer. Her husband (Spall), children (Winslet, Collette, Flynn, and Riseborough) and grandchildren gather in her hospital room.

       Typical family conflicts and forgiveness and hugs and all that. It hovers very close to the banal but there are moments of real emotion. What else can one expect from this cast?

       The best part is the snow. 

3* of 5

 PS But if anyone performs a nativity play for me as I lay dying, I promise I will haunt them horribly forever.

 

 

 

Nine

 

Nine 2009

• Director: Rob Marshall
• Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard
  Why? The cast.
• Seen: Once before. Now 29 December 2025      

       Brilliant, star-studded cast. What in the world are they doing in this dreadful film?

       Famous Italian film director (Day-Lewis) (couldn’t they find an Italian actor?) and his many women, all of whom he treats abominably.

       The whole film is degrading to women and the songs (it’s a musical) are insipid at best.

       Kidman, Dench and Cotillard have moments of integrity so not 0* but 

1* of 5