Month: January 2017
Kedi
Turkish filmmaker Ceyda Torun and her cinematographer Charlie Wuppermann must have the patience of saints to make this enchanting new documentary of theirs, as they stalked and trailed what seemed like thousands of cats that roam the streets of Istanbul for the best part of two months. What had originally enticed Torun, a native of…
Australian Christians protest Naked Models
The Australian Christian Lobby in Queensland have ……..how can we put it nicely? …..kind of gone ape-sh-t over a new television advertisement by Dunlop’s Volley Sneakers for their new Grass Roots campaign which features both scantily clad and naked models of both sexes. However the part that really infuriates the Group, who incidentally are one…
What A Joke : laughing on inauguration day
Trust comedians to know how to respond to the inauguration of the worst President that this country will ever have to suffer under, as a group of some of country’s brightest talents are putting on a Show. Well, 50 in fact, in cities all across the country (and even one in the UK) and all…
Conor McGregor Rides Bareback
Horse Racing has always been known as the sport of Kings, but we know a few queens who may be more interested if all the riders were bareback like the Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor. In a new ad for the Pegasus World Cup (an annual horse race in Florida on January 28th, where the…
Starless Dreams
Mehrdad Oskouei’s unflinching and extremely personal documentary shot in a rehabilitation center for female juvenile delinquents in Tehran for 20 days leading up to New Year, will unquestionably be one of the saddest stories to hit our screens this year. It took the filmmaker seven years to persuade the Iranian authorities to allow him to film an imprisoned…
