THE MEN NEXT DOOR
This is the latest movie from writer/director/producer Rob Williams who is a leading exponent of a genre that I call ‘Boy-Lit’. Light bubbly stories where boy meets boy, boy loses boy, then boy meets (another?) boy again, and lives happily ever after. Nothing heavy to test the brain, or challenge any assumption that love always wins … Continue reading
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Filmmaker Noah Baumbach has very definitely adopted Woody Allen’s mantle in this new ensemble NY dramedy that rambles through the dynamics of of a very disorderly family resulting in what will probably end up being one of his more populist films. The family patriarch Harold (an extraordinarily dry and funny Dustin Hoffman) is a retired … Continue reading
THE MONK
I guess it stands to reason if you write a banned novel back in 1796 that becomes a best-seller and it’s about a devout Catholic Monk who cannot avoid lurid sins of the flesh and has some supernatural elements, then it’s bound to get made into a movie once or twice over the next few … Continue reading
The Monk With A Camera
Life can be extraordinary privileged and full of exceptional opportunities when your grandmother is the fabled tastemaker and legendary fashion Editor Diana Vreeland. So when young Nicholas expressed an interest in photography, his doting Grandmother was able to secure him an immediate apprenticeship under the distinguished snapper Irving Penn and then later fixed him up with … Continue reading
THE MOO MAN
You so know you are at SUNDANCE when you dash from seeing ‘SIGHTSEER’ where a couple on on touring vacation just annihilate anyone who upsets them in the slightest, to straight away catching ‘THE MOO MAN’ a charming documentary about a rather disarming farmer who is completely besotted with his cows who he hopes will … Continue reading