The opening scenes of this new documentary …. with its perfectly wonderful title …. reels off a whole list of extraordinary facts about the small town of Branson in Missouri that you are almost tempted to book a flight there immediately. With a local population of just over 10000 all year round, they get a … Continue reading
Filmmaker Andrew Horn’s overly long paean to the 1970’s/1980’s outrageous heavy metal band Twisted Sister will be welcomed with open arms from all their hoards of fans who stuck by them religiously through the group’s very rocky musical career. It has less appeal to people who never warmed to their unorthodox style, for in the … Continue reading
Benjamin Mee a 40 yr. old journalist dealing with the recent death of his wife and struggling to bring up his two young children in the city, decides that his teenage son’s expulsion from school is a wake up call to re-think how they should move forward as a family. He goes house hunting and after … Continue reading
At the start of Nanni Moretti’s wonderful rich and glorious new movie the College of Cardinals are shuttered away in the Vatican to go through the traditional ritual of choosing a new Pope in great secrecy now that the last one has shuffled off his mortal coil. As the camera scans down the long line … Continue reading
As the film opens it shows Eva living a squalid life on her own as a total social outcast where strangers assault her in the street. Life has not always been like that and through a whole series of flashbacks interchanged with the present, we learn how she ended up like this. Once happily married … Continue reading