FILM REVIEW | Life Itself, Totally Unmissable
★★★★★ There are very rare occasions when the somewhat jaded and skeptical Press and Movie Industry audience at the Sundance Film Festival are ever moved to tears.
FILM REVIEW | The Circle, aka Des Kreis
★★★★★ | The Circle, aka Des Kreis Even though he led a very closeted life, Ernst Ostertag went out in public to a gay ball held by The Circle Magazine […]
FILM REVIEW | Starred Up
Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in […]
FILM REVIEW | Finding Vivian Maier
★★★★★ | Finding Vivian Maier A young graduate working on a history project bought a suitcase full of photographic negatives in a Chicago auction hoping that one or two them […]
FILM REVIEW | The Imitation Game
★★★★★ | The Imitation Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, The Imitation Game portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his […]
FILM REVIEW | The Way He Looks
The lazy summer is over and Leo and his best friend Giovana are back in High School for the new term when curly headed new boy Gabriel joins the class […]
FILM REVIEW | Gone Girl
★★★★★ | Gone Girl When the movie opens on a quiet July morning in a small Missouri town there is no visible indication we are looking at a man who […]
FILM REVIEW | Ida
★★★★★ | Ida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXhCaVqB0x0 It’s hard to decide exactly what period this new cinematic masterpiece from Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski is set in with its austere dramatic settings that look […]
FILM REVIEW | Reaching For The Moon
★★★★★ Reaching For The Moon | Elizabeth Bishop was something of a self-absorbed cold fish. When she finished her tenure as US Poet Laureate in 1950, she was 40 years […]
FILM REVIEW | A Most Wanted Man
★★★★★ | A Most Wanted Man In Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s take on John le Carré’s spy thriller we are very much aware of who ‘the most wanted man’ is, but […]
FILM REVIEW | Obvious Child
★★★★★ | Obvious Child The movie opens with a very confident Donna in the middle of her stand-up comedy routine in a small nondescript bar in New York. She is […]