crime
THE BIG PICTURE aka L’HOMME QUI VOULAIT VIVRE SA VIE
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…
WEST OF MEMPHIS
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…
Blue Caprice
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…
Chasing Madoff
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…
