It’s questionable if filmmaker Lea Pool’s investigation into the breast cancer movement suffers from the lack of an indignant Michael Moore type expose but it does raise some very pertinent issues about this unwieldy juggernaut of a crusade that some think may now be out of control. Pool does however overload us somewhat with a … Continue reading
Werner Boote’s revealing documentary is one of those movies that you know you must watch, and then are so depressed afterwards that you wished you hadn’t. There’s probably no startling new facts that he has gathered as he traipsed around the world trying to find out the real truth about plastic, but all lumped together … Continue reading
If you are a frequent air traveller, then you may want to think twice about wanting to see this movie. I don’t think any of us are enamored with the pantomime we have to endure with before we can board a plane these days, particularly as few of us are convinced that they effectively make … Continue reading
Martin Scorcese’s profile on Fran Lebowitz is no ordinary documentary. After 90 minutes of essentially listening to this quick-witted brilliant observationist with her razor sharp tongue spend forth on some of her favorite bugbears, we actually learn very little about the woman behind all these rapidly fired opinions. By filming her in conversation in her … 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