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  • SIGHTSEERS

    Sometimes I can be a real glutton for pain (the cinematic kind I should quickly add).  As I state at the top of this Blog one of my big no-no’s are horror flicks, and yet hear I am again in a cinema (I’m back in London) to see yet another one from Brit Director Ben…

  • NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU

    Being a big-city boy I always think that any movie set in the midst of desolate windswept landscape must be in the middle of nowhere. This one is literally. The body in this murder mystery is found in a small stretch of ‘No Mans Land’ between the borders of Switzerland and France.  The nearest small…

  • HITCHCOCK

    In this year that Hollywood is becoming increasingly fixated about retelling some historical biographical lives, I guess it’s no surprise to see Alfred Hitchcock  on the list.  Not once however, but twice.  Although technically HBO’s ‘That Girl’ about Hitchcock’s obsession with Tippi Hedren starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller was a Brit made-for -TV film. This…

  • LAY THE FAVORITE

    There are usually two reasons why big-name directors like Academy Award Nominee Stephen Frears (‘THE QUEEN’, ‘GRIFTERS’ etc) return to Sundance Film Festival with new work after some years absence,  a) to garner more press coverage,  or b) despite the star wattage of their product they still haven’t managed to sell the movie. His ‘LAY THE…