Every Christmas Frank Capra’s 1946 classic movie It’s A Wonderful Life is dragged out for another airing on TV. Lest you have never seen it (!) its the story of George Bailey who is so depressed by the fact that everything is going wrong that he seriously contemplates taking his own life only to be … Continue reading
It’s always tough adapting a stage play into a movie even when the play in question is August Wilson’s Fences which in 1987 won both a Pulitzer and Tony for Best Play. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part circle which were all set in Pittsburgh and explore the evolving blue-collar African-American experience … Continue reading
It’s evidently not easy remaining rational when discussing the much-misunderstood subject of ‘furries’ the name used to describe the growing community of people who like to dress up as anthropomorphic creatures. This well-meaning new documentary …. a Slamdance Award winner … by first time filmmaker Dominic Rodriguez (himself an occasional participant) starts out with good intentions to explain … Continue reading
Steve Gleason was a successful NFL player whose career highlight occurred when he was playing with the New Orleans Saints in their first game in the city’s Superdrome exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina. Gleason made a spectacular pass which enabled the team to win this crucial game which was a vital step in the recovery … Continue reading
For their latest collaboration the multi-Oscar winning Coen Brothers have produced a full-blown comedy that, like many of their films, is based around a botched crime job, although in this instance they treat this as a rather insignificant plot twist which they never really bother to follow through. Instead the focus is on an over-worked … Continue reading