• GREAT EXPECTATIONS

    Have no great expectations of Mike Newell’s new much abridged version of Charles Dicken’s classic story but you will  at least get a real visual treat that Oscar nominated cinematographer John Mathieson has created here with his dramatically lit sweeping landscapes. Of all the previous 18 + times this story has been brought to the big and…

  • WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS

    The opening scenes of this new documentary …. with its perfectly wonderful title …. reels off a whole list of extraordinary facts about the small town of Branson in Missouri that you are almost tempted to book a flight there immediately. With a local population of just over 10000 all year round, they get a…

  • LUCKY

    Lucky is a shrewd 10 year old boy who quickly realises that even when you are cute and doe-eyed as his is, that trying to charm immovable adults to get your own way is a complete waste of time.  As is having a temper tantrum. Living with his grandmother in a poor Zulu village in…

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous

    Somethings should simply not be re-visited years later after they were created/performed and bad sex is definitely on that list.  Of course when I thought about re-watching Todd Verow’s grimy little movie that he made in 2004 I had obviously mis-remembered and far from it being an erotic take on the anonymous antics of a…