It’s 1991 and Charlie a nervous and melancholic teenager is praying to make it through his first year in High School in one piece. He’s a really bright kid but such a loner and when he encounters an eccentric live-wire Patrick, a Senior who has been sent down to re-take his junior year, he gravitates … Continue reading
Just as Maggie is about to fill her mouth with enough pills to ensure she shakes off her mortal coil. she gets a telephone call from a Nurse in a Hospital E.R. room telling her that Milo her twin brother has just attempted suicide. The news means that she puts her own plans on hold … Continue reading
The title of this charming coming-of-age bittersweet comedy refers to the rear facing third seat in a massive old station where put-upon young Duncan is sat for the journey to the beach house for the summer vacations. The other passengers …. his mother, and a teenage girl are asleep, so Trent his mother’s new boyfriend … Continue reading
This sentimental old-fashioned French melodrama oozing with charm is a faithful remake of the 1940 original movie penned and directed by novelist turned playwright Marcel Pagnol. This time it is helmed by veteran award winning actor Daniel Auteuil making his directing debut and taking the starring role too. There are no CGI, (computer generated imagery) … Continue reading
How could I possibly miss dipping into a DVD with a title like this. All my serious criteria for movie watching just had to be set aside, even though I knew this had all the possibility of being a piece of silly fluff, but once I knew that it had been blessed by the mighty … Continue reading