Veteran funny man Bill Murray is so good at playing miserable old curmudgeons who turn out to be really warm human beings before the final credits roll, that he’s making quite a career out of it these days. Following on the heels of last years ‘St Vincent’, Murray now swaps Brooklyn for Afghanistan but once again … Continue reading
The editors of a Seattle magazine are desperately clutching at straws to find enough stories to fill their next issue. Jeff, one of the journalists, mentions an anonymous advert that he has spotted asking for a time-travelling companion. It reads ‘must bring your own weapons’ and finishes with ‘safety not guaranteed’. Given the go-ahead to … Continue reading
There is no surprise as to what this new rom-com is about as the title says it all. Literally. Based on Paul Today’s best selling novel the movie comes across as Hollywood’s patronizing way of saying that some Arabs are really quite nice people, even in they waste their new found wealth of silly harmless things. … Continue reading
This bittersweet comedy from Italian writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregio is almost a sequel of his sleeper hit of 2008, the truly delightful ‘MID AUGUST LUNCH’. In that film Gianni was a 60-year-old man living alone with his demanding octogenarian tiny mother who finds himself the custodian of several other old ladies who are dumped upon … Continue reading
Based very loosely on a true story, this is the tale about all the shenanigans behind the making of the multi-Oscar winner smash hit movie ‘Mary Poppins’ in 1964. Walt Disney had been pursuing the book’s author P.L. Travers (Pamela) for the past 20 years to get the film rights and now in a last ditch … Continue reading