5 min movie guide
DETATCHMENT
Billed as a drama, this new movie on the hellish experiences of a substitute teacher in a public high school from infrequent Brit filmmaker Tony Kaye is nothing short of a horror story. It makes his 1998 hit movie ‘American History X’ seem like a walk in the park by comparison, and that, if you recall,…
THE CONQUEST
This is the story of how Francois Sarkozy actually landed the job of the President of France, and it isn’t always a pretty tale. There is a bold announcement at the beginning of this feature film that states that this is BASED on events that happened as opposed to it being a factual account, and…
Born & Raised
Young Bubbs needs to up sticks and leave his small coastal town if he is ever to live his own life. He still lives with his embittered mother Mary who is obsessed with the fact that every man in her life always runs out on her and she is on Bubbs case constantly, and…
THE ILLUSIONIST
Based on a script by the late great Jacques Tati the French comic genius and directed by Sylvain Chomet (‘The Triplets of Belleville’) one knew that this film would have to be good. And probably even much better than that. And it was, and more. The story involves a sad lanky French magician named Tatischeff…
