dramatized reallife
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TOAST
The only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining…
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MONEYBALL
When this movie first surfaced I quickly dismissed it as something that only people with a penchant for baseball and/or Brad Pitt would be want to see, and I have no interest in either. Mr Pitt is a pleasant enough actor and has been fortunate to have been in some very good movies, but I’ve…
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THE IRON LADY
Ask any Brit and they will most certainly know when the first started disliking That Woman. For me it was 1971 when in her first Cabinet job as Education Secretary she cut out free milk to school kids to save a few pounds and earned herself the moniker ‘Milk Snatcher’ which still sticks to her…
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THE BANG BANG CLUB
The movie’s title comes from the name given to a group of combat photojournalists whose work witnessed the final years of struggle which resulted in the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. The four guys gained the nickname because of the fearless way they got so close to their subjects in the face of real…
