• THE DOUBLE

    British Comedian turned Filmmaker  Richard Ayoade’s sophomore feature ‘The Double’ was not what I expected.  After his Sundance debut in 2011 with the delightfully refreshing quirky coming-of-age comedy ‘Submarine’, Ayoade has chosen to go very dark with this existential black comedy/thriller based on Dostoevsky’s novella of the same name. Thanks to Jesse Eisenberg’s energetic performance playing…

  • Lilting

    Lilting

    Junn is a rather disgruntled 60-something year old Chinese woman who has been co-oreced against her will into moving into a care facility for Seniors by Kai her son. The opening scenes of this wee British drama see the unhappy mother berating her only child for her present predicament which is exasperated by the fact…

  • THE NOTORIOUS MR BOUT

    According to this new documentary from filmmakers Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin it would seem that everybody has wildly exaggerated polarizing ideas about who Viktor Anatolyevich Bout really is. None more so than Mr Bout himself who considers himself simply as a devoted family man and a highly successful international entrepreneur,  and the D.E.A. who claim that his…

  • The Dog

    The Dog

    John Wojtowicz was a loud potty-mouthed self-absorbed oddball whose ill-conceived bungled bank robbery brought him an infamy that he clung to desperately for the rest of his life.  He was a brash Brooklynite, who fresh out of the army at the age of 22, married the first girl he set his eyes on.  Before the…