fantasy

  • ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW

    The most interesting thing about this rather surreal and intensely weird black comedy is the fact that it was clandestinely filmed at a Disney Park without permission.  It would never have been granted anyway if writer/director Randy Moore had bothered to ask, as he so obviously hates Disney and everything it stands for.  According to…

  • LIFE OF PI

    Academy Winner Director Ang Lee is a masterful storyteller from ‘The Ice Storm’ to ‘Brokeback Mountain’ he never fails to totally engage our imagination with the magnificent and moving films he make. This time out he has taken the award-winning global best-selling novel by Yann Martel and turned into a phenomenal visual delight. The story…

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    Beasts of the Southern Wild

    This movie was unquestionably the biggest breakout hit of SUNDANCE 2012.   I will fess up that it hadn’t even entered my radar until  everyone (that I respected) at the Festival was raving about it, and so much so that the Organizers thankfully scheduled an extra P + I Screening so i could join a…