5 min movie guide
THE SALT OF LIFE
This bittersweet comedy from Italian writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregio is almost a sequel of his sleeper hit of 2008, the truly delightful ‘MID AUGUST LUNCH’. In that film Gianni was a 60-year-old man living alone with his demanding octogenarian tiny mother who finds himself the custodian of several other old ladies who are dumped upon…
IF A TREE FALLS : A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
One of the most shocking realizations of this new documentary that looks at the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) was that the Authorities response to their initial peaceful protests was to beat, club and unmercifully mace them and generally treat them like murderers when the only physical harm they had done…
Albatross
Jessica Brown-Findlay is on roll right now playing willful young girls determined to get their own way. Fresh off ‘Downtown Abbey’ where as Lady Sybil she gets to run off with the handsome family chauffer, she’s now playing Emelia a very stylish wayward and somewhat wild 17 year-old budding wordsmith trying to ‘find herself’ in a small…
TOAST
The only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining…
