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JOSEPHINE BAKER : BLACK DIVA IN A WHITE MAN'S WORLD

Ask anyone today what they know about the great Josephine Baker and they will inevitably trot out the fact that she scandalized tout Paris in the 1920’s by dancing wearing nothing more than a bunch of bananas.  In this (far too short) film on her life we learn there was so much more to this … Continue reading

JOURNAL DE FRANCE

If most of us rummaged through our partner’s storage room to check out what old photos and videos you could dust off, I dare say the novelty would wear thin very quickly.  However if you are the sound engineer Claudine Nougaret and your husband is the legendary veteran French cameraman Raymond Depardon then the years … Continue reading

Joy

There is more than a touch of irony that the heroine of David O Russell’s new movie is called Joy as we can see right from the off, that her rather miserable life is far from joyous.  It is based on the true life story of Joy Mangano a divorced Long Island single mother who … Continue reading

JUDAS KISS

Only a gay sci-fi movie would feature a plot line where the protagonist has sex with himself!  It’s just one of the hard-to-fathom threads of this well-meaning movie that is all about the whole concept of having a second chance to go back and fix one’s own past. Zachary is a failed film director who’s … Continue reading

Julieta

For his latest movie …….his 20th …..Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has done a 360 degree turn from his last film the outrageously camp farce ‘I’m So Excited‘ and eschewed comedy completely to make one of his excellent signature female-centric melodramas. Julieta is loosely based on three short stories from the Canadian Pulitizer-Prize writer Janet Munro and … Continue reading

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