Tag: Cinema

If director Stéphane Brizé loved a slice of heart-string-tugging cinema, or sentimental story-telling, then you wouldn’t possibly know given his  latest movie, The Measure of…

There are old fashioned crime tales of outlaws and the law on their trail, and gripping family dramas driven by blood and money. David Mackenzie’s…

There’s an apparent school of thought with Ben Affleck as an actor, as in one with talent not just a chiseled jaw-line. There’s his early…

Yes, let’s celebrate bad mothers. Scream it from the rooftops. Or at least at a PTA meeting. Not exactly liberating or female empowerment, but given…

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

Finally we arrive at the tenth and last part. Five more films for New Year’s Eve. And five pieces of crucial advice. Yeah right. Hope…

Talk about leaving it until the last minute. Here we are at New Year’s Eve, and as promised the final ten Films for Christmas / New…

The concept with the film of the same name, Nerve, is an online phenomenon described as Truth of Dare without the truth. Okay. Participants choose…

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

Nanni Moretti’s family drama Mia Madre (My Mother) was talked about with high praise when it seen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. And…

This first paragraph was spoken by a four year-old when asked about The BFG: The big giant, he was a big friendly giant. And there…

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

At last we reach the final part of the 100 Kick-Ass Female Film Characters – the blame for the delay lies with me and my…

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…