British
DREAMS OF A LIFE
Joyce Carol Vincent was an enigma. A 38 year old British woman of Grenadian & Indian descent who was found dead in her messy bed-sit in a Housing Estate (Projects) located above North London’s busiest Shopping Centre in 2003 by Bailiffs’ who had come to evict her for not paying her rent. She had been…
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…
Cheerful Weather For The Wedding
But not such good spirits for the family or the guests in this vacuous trite period British costume drama that never rose above being anything other than grossly irritating and very tiresome indeed. The year is 1923 and its a glorious early Fall day at the Thatcham’s Family’s large Country House. It’s just a…
STIFF UPPER LIPS
I discovered this amusing parody of all those Merchant/Ivory British period costume dramas when researching the work of late great Peter Ustinov, and it rather tickled me to be reminded of how very silly Brit comedies can be. This one is like an EM Forster novel (with a nod to Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in…
