Tag: movie

  • Elvis & Nixon

        On December 21st 1970 Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n Roll, turned up at The White House in Washington uninvited and asked to meet President Nixon.  Elvis’s luck was in that day as one of the Presidents Aides was a huge fan of the singer and told his boss that such a…

  • Brie Larson’s well deserved win

    Brie Larson’s well deserved win

    If Cate Banchett had to lose out collecting another Best Actress Golden Globe Award for her superlative turn in “Carol”, then their can be no better deserving winner than Brie Larson for her brilliant career-defining performance in “Room”.  Lenny Abrahamson’s stunning  movie about a young mother who has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a tiny secure garden…

  • Tilda Swinton gets awfully jealous

    Tilda Swinton gets awfully jealous

    Tilda Swinton has reunited with Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino with whom she made the sensational “I Am Love” in 2009 for one the of the most anticipated new ‘hot as hell’ movies that hit our screens early this summer. Swinton stars as a rock star who is recuperating on an island after throat surgery, Matthias Schoenaerts…

  • Why Eric Shaeffer’s ‘Boy Meets Girl’ is one of the best Transgender movies.

    Why Eric Shaeffer’s ‘Boy Meets Girl’ is one of the best Transgender movies.

      Once in a while we come across a new small movie that is unafraid to tackle important issues with a very big heart, and ” Boy Meets Girl” is certainly one such film.  It is a tender, human, sex-positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be“real”: to live and love authentically to the truth of…

  • Dane DeHaan as the next James Dean

    When we reviewed the star studded ‘Kill Your Darlings’ movie about the Beats Generation two years ago we wrote ‘young Dane DeHaan playing the extrovert Carr with a  career defining performance, stole every scene he was in.’  Since then DeHaan has been in great demand from ‘The Devils Knot’ to ‘The Amazing Spiderman’ etc., and he…