Big Stone Gap
Big Stone Gap is the sort of old-fashioned homespun middle America town that represents a gentler and kinder world where time literally stands still. It’s actually a real blue-collar mining town in a corner of Virginia where the movie’s writer and director Adriana Trigiani grew up, and this is not only based on her own … Continue reading
Black Butterflies
It’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age. Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later … Continue reading
Black Really Suits You aka Le Noir (Te) Vous Va Si Bien
The first words we hear in the movie’s opening scene are “I should never have left my country!‘ They are uttered slowly with great sadness by Moncef a 60 year man of Middle-Eastern origin. He and his family have ended up as immigrants in Paris far from home and he is desperate to insure that … Continue reading
Bobbi Jene
For Bobbi Jene Smth a Principal Dancer with the acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, her impending 30th Birthday was going to be the time for big life changes. Most of which were of her own choosing, but very few of them she was about to undertake were going to be executed with a … Continue reading
Boom Bust Boom
At first glance the whole concept of a movie that seeks to look at the rather complicated practices of the global financial markets that keep leading us in and out of crisis being written and directed by Terry Jones a member of Monty Python, seems somewhat insane. It is however anything but, as Jones has … Continue reading