5 min movie guide
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Queen & Country
Veteran British Director John Boorman returns to his roots with this new movie …..his first for several years …picking up the story line from his masterful Oscar multi-nominated semi-autobiographical ‘Hope & Glory’ about a nine year old boy living through the London Blitz . Now a decade later young Bill Rohan (aka Boorman) is 18…
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Set Fire To The Stars
‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ wrote the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who took his own words literally as he drank himself to death aged just 39. Despite acquiring a reputation, which he encouraged, as a ‘roistering, drunken and doomed poet’ he was still invited by a young literary critic and aspiring…
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Dope
Poor Malcolm seems like he should have been born in a different place and a different skin. He and his two best friends Jib and Diggy live in Bottoms the worst part of Los Angeles’s Inglewood where most of the population are either poor African/American or Latino. They however are fixated on BMX biking, classic…
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Love Rosie
When boy-girl best friends get really as close as they can, then it’s always when sex rears its head that things get messy. Alex and Rosie are two bright middle class kinds who do everything together through the years, but by the time it comes to choosing partners for their high school Prom they misread…
