The gruesome story of Jeffrey Dahmer the infamous serial killer and sex offender who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, has already been the subject of several films and television programs, and its highly questionable whether there is need for yet another take on these murders. Newbie writer/director Chris James Thompson, a … Continue reading
Paul seems to have everything. He’s a partner in a successful Law Firm in Paris. Beautiful smart wife and two young children he adores. Stunning house in the country. And he’s as handsome as hell (well he’s played by Romain Duris, need I say more). Then suddenly it all starts to fall apart. His wife … Continue reading
Amy Berg’s new documentary is the fourth film to be made about an outrageous miscarriage of justice imposed on three teenage boys known as the ‘West Memphis Three’. Ms Berg had the added bonus that her predecessors lacked with the fact that her movie was produced by Sir Peter Jackson (the Oscar winning director ‘The … Continue reading
Writer/director Alexandre Moore takes on the impossible task of making a narrative that asserts to tell a rather tragic true story of some senseless needless violence without giving an emotional element to the perpetrators of the crime. The facts of the ‘Beltway Shootings’ by the ‘DC Snipers’ where John Muhammed and Lee Malvo went on … Continue reading
It’s just a sheer co-incidence that I sat and watched this documentary about the uncovering of the Bernie Madoff’s audacious Ponzi fraud scheme the day before that Peter his son is sentenced to 10 years in jail for his part in the conspiracy. A reminder nevertheless that even though Mr Madoff Snr. is already behind … Continue reading