5 min movie guide

  • The Father : with an award-winning performance from Anthony Hopkins

    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

    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

    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?

    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…