Category: 5 min movie guide
The Donut King
The totally surprising and extraordinary roller coast life of Ted Ngoy is the stuff of a good movie drama ….. except that this is a documentary of his almost unbelievable real life. A word of warning here, before you start to stream Alice Gu‘s wee film, go grab yourself a box of donuts, as…
The Father : with an award-winning performance from Anthony Hopkins
It seems that Europeans have the edge when it comes to telling such elegant tales on the sensitive subject of dementia. Hard to forget the image of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as the devoted elderly couple in Micheal Hanke’s Amour in 2012. They stole all our hearts and won every award imaginable in…
Audrey : More Than An Icon
For her sophomore feature 26 year old British film-maker Helena Coan leaves behind the world of influential car designer Frank Stephenson and enters that of Hollywood’s biggest stars of all time. Audrey Hepburn had kicked off her entry into the big time with her first starring role in Roman Holiday in 1953 picking up…
Love in Dangerous Times : a pandemic romance
The Covid 19 pandemic that has put all our lives on hold, or simply twisted them almost out of recognition , will finish one day . The only thing certain is when the world is a safer place, the movie industry is bound to rush to make so many films about the Lockdown that we…
Rebecca: Did they really have to burn down Manderley for this?
The award-winning British writer/director Ben Wheatley responsible for some excellent edgy films such as Sightseers and Kill List seemed an odd choice to helm Netflix’s Rebecca. He is valiantly trying to get the message through that his is not an adaption of Hitchcock’s 1940 original that won two Academy Awards including best Picture, It…
