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 | Wish I Was Here
★★ | Wish I Was Here Aiden is evidently a very lousy actor. He’s so bad that even though he lives in LA he hasn’t managed to score even a bit-part […]
FILM REVIEW | Wakolda
★★★★ | Wakolda In the opening scenes of this historical drama we see a distinguished looking German gentleman accosting a travelling family of five to ask if he may follow […]
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 […]
FILM REVIEW | Man At Bath
★ | Man At Bath Emmanuel is a man of very few words, a hustler and the live-in lover of Omar. They live in an apartment in a tower block […]
FILM REVIEW | Happy Christmas
Jeff and Kelly are trying are trying to do a balancing act juggling their freelance careers whilst bringing up their 2year old son Jude. It’s slightly off kilter right now […]
FILM: A Man, His Lover and His Mother
Lorenz Meran is a successful middle-aged gay writer who is struggling with writer’s block when he gets called back home after his elderly mother has a stroke. Rosie is a […]
FILM REVIEW | Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas
★★ | Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas When the movie opens Earlene is sitting on a wall in Venice Beach swigging from a bottle secreted in a brown paper […]
FILM REVIEW | Pride
★★★★★ | Pride A film that includes Wales, miners, politics, gays and an ’80’s soundtrack, ticks all my boxes! Pride is one of those films that will do well, a […]
FILM REVIEW | Lilting Reeks of good intentions but never really takes off.
Junn is a rather disgruntled 60-something year old Chinese woman who has been co-coerced against her will into moving into a care facility for Seniors by Kai her son. The […]