Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer : an excellent telling of a dispiriting tale

  Mark Landsman’s excellent documentary makes for depressing viewing . As he details the rise and fall of the scandal rag The National Enquirer he reminds us how the obnoxious self-serving Trump was one of the main instigators of the whole ‘fake news’ syndrome decades before he squirmed his way into The White House. The … Continue reading

SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S

Bergdorf Goodman has been a New York institution for the past 111 years.  Stretching a whole block of Fifth Avenue between 57th & 58th Streets it is the high temple of fashion’s elite that has the very best for the very well-heeled Manhattans. Right from day one the Store has only carried the cream of … Continue reading

Scenes From A Gay Marriage

Darren’s been dumped by his boyfriend. It’s not totally surprising as though he is a rather  handsome and congenial young man in his 20’s he doesnt work, has no intentions of getting a job, and is a little too obsessed with himself.  He is even more fixated with a couple of his neighbors who live … Continue reading

SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE

I came across this delightful quintessentially English movie from 2006 that is a series of vignettes of some gentle romantic encounters that is a perfect alternative to the overblown commercialism of ‘THE Wedding’ today.  Set on one sunny day on glorious Hampstead Heath (London’s ‘Central Park’) it follows the minute detail of seven very different … Continue reading

School Life

Headfort the delightful rambling boarding school in the heart of the countryside 50 miles outside of Dublin, is the sort of educational establishment most of us would have given our right arms to spend our childhoods in. The cameras spend a year there for this affectionate portrait by Irish documentarian Nease Ni Chianain which for … Continue reading

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