Life can be extraordinary privileged and full of exceptional opportunities when your grandmother is the fabled tastemaker and legendary fashion Editor Diana Vreeland. So when young Nicholas expressed an interest in photography, his doting Grandmother was able to secure him an immediate apprenticeship under the distinguished snapper Irving Penn and then later fixed him up with … Continue reading
This rag to riches music industry drama starts off in a grubby Town Hall in Brixton one of London’s rougher areas where Nona a frizzy-haired schoolgirl is stunning the audience at this Talent Show with her capella rendition of Nina Simone’s classic song Blackbird. She wins second place which immediately enrages her potty-mouthed pushy stage … Continue reading
In a rather radical departure from his last few very edgy movies acclaimed director Tim Burton has opted to make a biopic about Walter Keane the infamous plagiarist who in the 1950’s claimed that his wife’s populist art was his own work. It’s a colorful lightweight drama that never gets dark even when Keane’s trickery … Continue reading
For her third time behind the camera actress/ superstar, UN Special Ambassador, Honorary Dame of the British Empire, and mother of countless children, Angelina Jolie plumped for a rather old-fashioned WW2 drama. With a script from Oscar winners Ethan and Joel Cohen (who rarely write for other directors) adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling biography, ‘Unbroken’ … Continue reading
If the North Korean Government hadn’t insisted on making this the most talked about movie this Christmas there is little doubt that this off-colour sophomoric comedy would have quickly passed through movie theaters practically unnoticed by most of us. It’s crude and smutty humor that, like most movies that the actor James Franco is connected with … Continue reading