Holocaust Memorial Day : How Can Life Go On?

To mark the annual Holocaust Memorial Day this year on January 27th, the HMD Trust in the UK have just released this extremely moving video to mark the occasion, and sadly remind us that the world is still not free from all different levels of hatred. It tells the story of Bea Green and her … Continue reading

HOLY LANDS : When Harry Met Piggy

  If it wasn’t for the cast full of very well-known and celebrated actors, one could easily have mistaken that this sentimental melodrama was a Lifetime TV movie.  Written and directed by French filmmaker Amanda Sthers and adapted from her own novel,  its the preposterous story or retired Jewish American Cardiologist Harry Rosenmerck (James Caan) … Continue reading

HOLY MOTORS

There is always a trigger point as to why I select the movies that I go see. Either a favorite actor, or its the work of a revered auteur, or simply a recommendation from another cinephile.  When it comes to Leo Carax’s latest movie it was simply a critic’s review in the final clip of … Continue reading

HOLY ROLLERS

Once in a while even movies can dispense with its usual stereotypes and can tell us an old story with a fresh set of characters.  This debut feature from filmmaker Kevin Asche is a drug smuggling story where the baddies are neither African Americans or Italian Mafia but actually Hassidic Jews, and evidently its all … Continue reading

HOLY ROLLERS : THE TRUE STORY OF CARD COUNTING CHRISTIANS

Over the years I have come across countless instances of questionably, immoral and downright dangerous practices that were justified by the perpetrators with four simple words : I am a Christian.  But this it is the first time I have ever heard it to justify the actions of a organised gambling syndicate. Actually they themselves never … Continue reading

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