2017 Phoenix Film Festival: April 6 – 13
Year: 2017
‘Tommy’s Honour’ birdies, pars and bogeys
“Tommy’s Honour” – “I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.” – Tom Watson Many, many fans rightfully consider Tom Watson as golf-royalty, but “Tommy’s Honour” is a biopic about another athlete of the links, Tommy Morris (Jack Lowden), a 19th Century prodigy from Scotland. He is also known as Young Tom, because his father – naturally – is nicknamed Old Tom (Peter Mullan), a masterful greenskeeper at the legendary St Andrews golf course. Director Jason Connery chronicles Tommy’s rise as…
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ is an insightful war story, told from a female perspective
“The Zookeeper’s Wife” – “You can never tell who your enemies are or who to trust. Maybe that’s why I love animals so much. You look in their eyes, and you know exactly what’s in their hearts. They aren’t like people.” – Antonina Zabinski (Jessica Chastain) Antonina (Chastain) and Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh) run a zoo in Warsaw, and life couldn’t be better for them during the summer of 1939. A place of beauty and wonder, and on any typical morning, one might see Antonina ride her bike through the…