There are very few movies these days with starring roles for actresses on the cusp of their 70th birthday, even if they have already collected a couple of Oscars. So when one does come along they grab it with open arms and throw themselves into the part with full gusto. This is exactly what Sally … Continue reading
In this new mouth watering movie from the Weinstein Company there are three things that are hot. The food, the tempers and the star Bradley Cooper. It’s not the first time he has tried his hand at playing a temperamental master chef: back in 2005 he was in the very short-lived Fox TV series ‘Kitchen Confidential’ … Continue reading
Big Stone Gap is the sort of old-fashioned homespun middle America town that represents a gentler and kinder world where time literally stands still. It’s actually a real blue-collar mining town in a corner of Virginia where the movie’s writer and director Adriana Trigiani grew up, and this is not only based on her own … Continue reading
When you decide to double up and jump behind the camera for the first time as well as star in front of it, then you need a great deal more than charm to get by. Sadly no-one told actor Chris Evans aka Captain America that and so he and his pretty and talented star Alice … Continue reading
The French seem to have an expression or a saying for everything to do with having sexual relations especially, when it comes to extra-marital ones. In their daily routines there is a hazy two-hour window when the husband has left work and is on his way home and so his whereabouts can only be guessed. … Continue reading