comedy. drama
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
From the photo on the poster showing a rather stunned Sean Penn ‘dragged up’ as a lookalike of The Cure’s Robert Smith you sense that there is another superlative performance in store in a potentially fascinating new movie. But nothing is ever what it first seems, and the masterful Penn playing Cheyenne a bored and depressed…
ROBOT & FRANK
The opening scenes show a cat burglar breaking into a house in the middle of a night, and as he scans the room with his flashlight he spies a photograph which he picks up to examine before he drops it and it smashes on the ground. Frank has broken into his own house and the…
TEDDY BEAR
This is the story of Dennis a middle-aged pumped up 6′ 5″ bodybuilder who weighs in at 305 lbs but still lives at home with his diminutive shrew of a mother who bullies him like mad. After Dennis’s old Uncle marries his new young Thai bride it sets him off thinking that he too may…
HELLO LONESOME
Three separate and unrelated stories about three couples that have no plot to speak off, and the only common denominator is that there are all lonely in their different ways. As odd as it sounds (and is!) film-maker Adam Reid’s far from perfect debut movie has just enough endearing moments to make it watchable. Bill is…
