COLIN FIRTH

MOTHERING SUNDAY (2022)
Starring Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Josh O'Connor, Odessa Young, Glenda Jackson, Sope Dirisu, Alfredo Tavares, Emma D'Arcy, Nathan Reeve and Samuel Barlow. Directed by Eva Husson.

Maid Jane Fairchild has the day off, as her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven are attending an event to celebrate the engagement of their neighbours' son, Paul. Jane is an orphan, so has no mother to spend the day with—but she does have Paul, with whom she's been having a years-long secret affair. The story unfolds as they spend their final day together as lovers.

OPERATION MINCEMEAT (2022)
Starring Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, Matthew MacFadyen, Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss, Hattie Morahan, Penelope Wilton, Paul Ritter, Tom Wilkinson and Simon Russell Beale. Directed by John Madden.

During WWII, two intelligence office use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

REVIEWS Operation Mincemeat - A noble dramatisation of an important historical deception

THE KING'S MAN (2022)
Starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Matthew Goode, Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Brühl, Stanley Tucci, Charles Dance and Rhys Ifans. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them. Discover the origins of the very first independent intelligence agency.

REVIEWS The King's Man - A welcome realignment for the unusual franchise

SUPERNOVA (2021)
Starring Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, James Dreyfus, Pippa Haywood and Sarah Woodward. Directed by Harry MacQueen.

Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are travelling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.

REVIEWS Supernova - Colin Firth & Stanley Tucci's comforting yet confronting romance

MARY POPPINS RETURNS (2019)
Starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Emily Mortimer, Ben Whishaw, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Walters and Pixie Davies. Directed by Rob Marshall.

In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.

REVIEWS Mary Poppins Returns - Disney's unexpected triumph dazzles on 4K
Mary Poppins Returns - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ish

THE MERCY (2018)
Starring Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Adrian Schiller, Sebastian Armesto, Genevieve Gaunt, Sam Hoare, Oliver Maltman, Kit Connor and Eleanor Stagg. Directed by James Marsh.

The incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968.

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (2017)
Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Pedro Pascal, Elton John, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges and Sophie Cookson. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.

When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organisation in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy, in order to save the world, something that's becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy...

REVIEWS Kingsman: The Golden Circle - The shocking sequel misfire arrives on Blu-ray
Kingsman: The Golden Circle - An offensively misjudged disappointment

BRIDGET JONES'S BABY (2016)
Starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson. Directed by Sharon Maguire.

After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones’s "happily ever after" hasn’t quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong?

Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack, the suitor who is everything Mr Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch... she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father.

REVIEWS Bridget Jones's Baby - Redemption 12 years in the making
Bridget Jones - Renee, those underpants & the unlikely heroine

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015)
Starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson, Sophie Cookson, Sofia Boutella, Michael Caine, Adrian Quinton, Jonno Davies and Jack Davenport. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.

The story of a super-secret spy organisation that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra- competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

REVIEWS Kingsman: The Secret Service - Spectacular spy caper on Blu-ray
Kingsman: The Secret Service - An unashamedly bonkers spy saga

BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (2014)
Starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong. Directed by Rowan Joffe.

After a traumatic accident, a woman has no recollection of her past, and begins to question the people who surround her.

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (2014)
Starring Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Eileen Atkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Hamish Linklater and Simon McBurney. Directed by Woody Allen.

A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.

REVIEWS Magic In The Moonlight - Delightfully decandent

DEVIL'S KNOT (2014)
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Stephen Moyer and Bruce Greenwood. Directed by Atom Egoyan.

The savage 1994 murder of three young children sparked one of the most controversial trials in modern times. Three teenagers were accused of the heinous crime. Was it part of a satanic ritual? Were the three accused guilty? Was the investigation marred by assumptions and mishandlings? Was justice ever served?

REVIEWS Devil's Knot - The case of the West Memphis Three
Devil's Knot - Horrifyingly true

THE RAILWAY MAN (2013)
Starring Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tanroh Ishida, Michael MacKenzie, Jeffrey Daunton, Tom Stokes and Bryan Probets. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.

An extraordinary true story of heroism, inhumanity and the redeeming power of love based on Eric Lomax’s best-selling account of confronting his WWII torturer 30 years on, starring Academy Award®-winning actors Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman and rising star Jeremy Irvine (War Horse).

REVIEWS The Railway Man - Redemption of the highest order

GAMBIT (2013)
Starring Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci and Alan Rickman. Directed by Michael Hoffman.

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.

DORIAN GRAY (2009)
Starring Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin, Fiona Shaw, Caroline Goodall, Maryam D'Abo, Douglas Henshall and Rachel Hurd-Wood. Directed by Oliver Parker.

A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.

ARTHUR NEWMAN
Starring Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche and Kristin Lehman. Directed by Dante Ariola.

Wallace Avery hates his job. His ex-wife and son hate him, and he’s blown his one shot at living his dream. Not wanting to face all this, he stages his own death and buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman. However, Arthur’s road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Mike, who is also trying to leave her past behind.

EYE IN THE SKY (2016)
Starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Phoebe Fox, Armaan Haggio, Aisha Takow, Monica Dolan and Richard McCabe. Directed by Gavin Hood.

London-based military intelligence officer Colonel Katherine Powell is remotely commanding a top secret drone operation to capture a group of dangerous terrorists from their safehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. The mission suddenly escalates from a "capture" to a "kill" operation when Powell realises that the terrorists are about to embark on a deadly suicide mission. American drone pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is poised to destroy the safehouse when a nine year old girl enters the kill zone just outside the walls of the house. With unforeseen collateral damage now entering the equation, the impossible decision of when to strike gets passed up the "kill chain" of politicians and lawyers as the seconds tick down. An edge-of the-seat thriller set on the cutting edge of modern warfare.

REVIEWS Eye In The Sky - Tense and provoking