This gentle warm delightful comedy is about a well-adjusted, happy, loving and quite devoted family. The two teenage children have reached that awkward stage when they start questioning things, in this case, to find out who their biological father is. It just so happens that their two parents are a lesbian couple, but that aside, … Continue reading
Martin Scorcese’s profile on Fran Lebowitz is no ordinary documentary. After 90 minutes of essentially listening to this quick-witted brilliant observationist with her razor sharp tongue spend forth on some of her favorite bugbears, we actually learn very little about the woman behind all these rapidly fired opinions. By filming her in conversation in … Continue reading
The best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has … Continue reading
The Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown-up sons Antonio (Alessandro Preziosi) and Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio) to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part of it as he wants to be a writer and return … Continue reading
This had the pedigree to be a real good old emotional family drama. Written and directed by Richard Levine one of the moving forces behind T.V’s ‘Nip/Tuck’ and starring Liev Schreiber, Oscar winner Helen Hunt, Eddie Izard, Brian Dennehy, and young Ezra Miller (T.V’s Royal Pains) ….so much talent that resulted in such a disappointing mish mash. … Continue reading