Only a prolific actor/filmmaker like James Franco who races through a multitude of projects faster than the speed of light would have ever dreamt of making a movie like The Disaster Artist. Most of Franco’s cinematic ideas always look much better on paper than on the screen, and for someone who has more failures than successes, he … Continue reading
When one usually thinks of Switzerland from a political viewpoint, it’s the countries centuries old neutrality that has seen it sit out Wars that comes to mind. The idea then of any Swiss citizen being any sort of political firebrand would seem such an unlikely occurrence, but this entertaining feel-good drama is about one Swiss … Continue reading
This wonderful new crime thriller written by Denis Lehane (‘Mystic River’,’Gone Baby Gone’) set in Boston his hometown, is the story of Bob a solitary loner who is a bartender is his cousin Marv’s bar. Well the name over the door is still Marv’s but after he got heavily into debt gambling, he was forced to … Continue reading
40-something-year old Hanoch is rather a morose man of few words, He runs a scruffy bike repair store in a small desert town in Israel and wiles most of his day away playing chess on the street with his elderly friend Vogel. When his wife gets pregnant Hanoch tells her he is not ready to … Continue reading
Does the end ever justify the means? If agitprop is acceptable, where do we draw the fine line when it melds into environmental terrorism? This gripping new thriller which pitches us all against the inequities of large industrial conglomerates who are poisoning and polluting both us and our planet raises these questions, although the network of … Continue reading