This is ALL we want for Christmas. Kiki and Herb are coming out of retirement (yet again) this Festive season for a mini-tour and we cannot wait. This legendary cabaret duo consists of Kiki DuRane, an aging, alcoholic, female lounge singer with her gay, male piano accompanist, known only as “Herb.“ Now … Continue reading
We are sadly too used to Hollywood making big-budget remakes of successful independent European films which inevitable end up as poor shadows of the original and fail at the box office. e.g. the French ‘Anthony Zimmer‘ that became the big Angelina Jolie dud ‘The Tourist‘. However in the case of the Spanish sex comedy ‘Kiki’ … Continue reading
I was persuaded to go out of my cinematic comfort zone to go see a new indie horror movie: a genre that I really loathe. This British one, the second feature directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he co-wrote with his wife Amy Jump had garnered rave reviews that included ‘The most original, unsettling … Continue reading
This very ambitious dramedy is the sophomore feature film from writer/director/actor Ryan Lonergan who also produced and edited too. It is a very clever American allegory that tells the tale of a charming gay ‘throuple’ who embark on a road journey right across the country when the newest member of their partnership gets a … Continue reading
The cinematic fascination with The Beat Generation continues regardless. Following on the heals of Walter Salles take on Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ which the Critics were quick to dismiss when it recently had a Limited Release in US theaters, we have this new movie which, set in the mid 1940’s is essentially a pre-quel to … Continue reading