5 min movie guide

  • Cheerful Weather For The Wedding

    Cheerful Weather For The Wedding

    But not such good spirits for the family or the guests in this vacuous trite period British costume drama that never rose above being anything other than grossly irritating and very tiresome indeed.   The year is 1923 and its a glorious early Fall day at the Thatcham’s Family’s large Country House.  It’s just a…

  • THE DAY HE ARRIVES

    Seong-jun may have arrived, but he actually has nowhere to go. This film-director is back in Seoul after he suddenly retreated to live in a remote country town the moment the last of his four movies were finished.  He’s here for a few days to hang out with his friend Young-ho a film critic but…

  • SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

    The wonderful thing about David O. Russell’s new movie is you are never quite sure what you are being served up. It’s the story of bipolar 30 something-year-old Patrick released prematurely from Mental Hospital by his doting mother and who now spends every moment of the day and night obsessing about getting his wife Nikki…

  • STEP UP TO THE PLATE

    This latest documentary on another culinary genius goes beyond his kitchen and shows a  family dynasty beginning to come to terms with the patriarch as he tries to step down and out of the limelight. It is in fact the dynamics of the relationship between master chef Michel Bras and his son and heir Sebastian,…