The King’s Speech
Film review by: Witney Seibold
The triumph’s of Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” are subtle. The film starts as a quiet and clever comedy about King George VI secretly seeking an Australian speech therapist named Lionel Logue, and, even though based on fact, could be forgiven for feeling like a a cutesy revisionist-history comedy along the lines of the insufferably twee “Shakespeare in Love,” or the portentous “The Last Station.” (more…)