3 is really about 1 who wants both the other 2 who are not sure what they want. In Tom Twyker’s sophisticated amusing (but not very funny) comedy a reasonably good looking couple in their 40’s in Berlin are bored with their successful lives and with each other. She is the host of a pseudo … Continue reading
Alan Partridge is a comic phenomenon in the UK : an iconic fictional inept character that has been something of a national treasure since he first appeared as a bumbling Sports Reporter on BBC Radio in 1991. He went on to host his own parody television talk show ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You ….with Alan Partridge’. As … Continue reading
I’m still reeling from the shock that I have just left my local Multiplex Theater where the crowds were out in full force for the latest ‘Mission Impossible’ blockbuster and another ‘Sherlock Holmes’ flick, yet my screen had a sold-out house even though it was playing a French Black & White Silent Movie, and as … Continue reading
This ingenious documentary follows the most unlikely man ever to be a detective, and his ham-fisted staff, as they tackle a wide ranging and often-bizarre set of cases. One minute they are tracking down counterfeit shampoo, the next following a cheating husband, and then a brutal triple murderer. In between all this they find time … Continue reading
Nearly every time I leave my comfort zone cinematically speaking and go see a movie that I instinctively know that I am not going to like/possibly loath even, I end up wishing I had stayed at home. I saw nothing in the trailer that I thought I would like about this one at all, but much to my … Continue reading