This intriguing wee drama is the feature film debut of Canadian writer/director Arran Shearing and its main attribute is that it is a wonderful visual look at London’s East End. It’s a drama about a drama that gets a little messy along the way but still has enough fine points to recommend it. It’s … Continue reading
The movie opens with Madelena an elderly peasant woman slowly trundling along a dis-used railway line to deliver the few loaves of bread she has baked to sell in the local store. She’s greeted by an annoyed looking Antonio the store owner who barks at her to stack the bread his way which she totally … Continue reading
This rather wonderfully insane movie is about 5 bumbling idiotic Moslem would-be terrorists, with a combined IQ of about 100, who decide that they want to be martyrs for the ‘Cause.’ They can’t agree as to exactly what that is or indeed how they should go about it, but they are intent on making a … Continue reading
John Eleuthère du Pont the spoilt heir to the vast Dupont chemical fortune was a dangerous paranoid psychopath who ended up destroying lives when he didn’t get his own way. The fact that he was also a deeply disturbed closeted homosexual is also very obvious in this new chilling true crime drama based on his … Continue reading
Frances Ha is a mess. The rather charming thing is that she is the only one who doesn’t see that. She’s a 27 year awkward and gangly young woman living in New York whose headset has never moved on from being a college student. She sails through her disparate life without a steady job, or … Continue reading