5 min movie guide
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THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ @ Sundance 2014
This is the story of a charming and selfless information prodigy that strived to use his talent to make this a freer and better world for which he ended up paying for with his life. Aaron Swartz was born in Chicago, the middle son, of successful middle-class Jewish parents. Inquisitive from birth, he taught himself…
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WEB JUNKIE @ Sundance 2014
China does nothing on a small scale. The Government has established 400 rehabilitation and treatment centers to ‘cure’ what they claim is over 24 million young people of compulsive Internet use … or as they crudely term it ‘electronic heroin’. This eye-opening documentary looks at just one of these military type camps and how it…
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Martin Scorsese’s take on a big time financial crook who swindled money out of a legion of small time people to finance his life of excess and debauchery is a piece of faction. Based on the real life of convicted stockbroker Jordan Belfort whose Firm fraudulently sold billions of worthless penny shares, it does however…
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All The Light In The Sky
Marie is a middle-aged bit part Hollywood actress who has still not had her big breakthrough part. She has been successful enough to be able to live in a Malibu Beach apartment, albeit a small rented one. She’s a bit of a hippie and leads a healthy lifestyle with her daily routines of paddle-boarding and…
