Arafat is a 30 year-old struggling actor who is still living at home in Brooklyn with his conservative Arab parents. They are determined for him to get married but he is just desperate to get laid. They drag him around to all their Palestinian friends who are trying to palm their singularly unattractive daughters off … Continue reading
Gangly geek Jarvis Cocker is the most unlikely looking rock-star ever, but seeing the front man of the British indie-pop group PULP ignite frenzied crowds of a packed stadium, you realize that he is in fact one of the very best. His quintessentially English band enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success in the late 1990’s before … Continue reading
This rather tense drama opens with Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari been awoken by Investigators in his mother’s house in Tehran and subsequently hauled off to jail. Then in a flashback, we see Bahari in London 11 days previously with his heavily pregnant English wife discussing his assignment from Newsweek Magazine to cover the impending Presidential Elections in … Continue reading
‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ wrote the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who took his own words literally as he drank himself to death aged just 39. Despite acquiring a reputation, which he encouraged, as a ‘roistering, drunken and doomed poet’ he was still invited by a young literary critic and aspiring … Continue reading
Swiss Oscar-Nominated Director Christian Frei’s new documentary is his well-meaning attempt to investigate the power of love and how to survive once you lose it. With the involvement of Dr Helen Fisher PhD a Biological Anthropologist and Professor at Rutgers (and the author of 5 books on ‘romantic love’) Frei follows three love-lorn people as they … Continue reading