Willie Dynamite, 1974. Directed by Gilbert Moses. Starring Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmas Rasulala, Joyce Walker, George Murdock, and Juanita Brown. SYNOPSIS : Willie Dynamite is the flashiest pimp in New York with all the glitz and glamour that the high life can offer. But can a tough social worker help change his mercenary ways? […]
DVD Review – Urban Hymn (2015)
Urban Hymn, 2015. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Starring Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland, Steven Mackintosh, and Ian Hart. SYNOPSIS : Set against a backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, a determined social worker encourages a young offender to develop her singing talent. Urban Hymn is a drama certainly singing from a worthy enough […]
DVD Review – Wiener-Dog (2016)
Wiener-Dog, 2016. Directed by Todd Solondz. Starring Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Zosia Mamet, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, and Tracy Letts. SYNOPSIS : A sprightly dachshund provides the connecting link between four tales of e/ccentricity, disenchantment and dysfunction. A Weiner-dog (or sausage dog in the UK) is another name for a dachshund, and the variously […]
Blu-ray Review – His Girl Friday (1940)
His Girl Friday, 1940. Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, John Qualen, Helen Mack, and Alma Kruger. SYNOPSIS: A hard-boiled newspaper editor attempts to rekindle his ex-wife’s – and ex-star reporter’s – love for both himself and the world of newspaper journalism. His Girl Friday marks something of a turning […]
Movie Review – VooDoo (2016)
VooDoo, 2016. Written and Directed by Tom Costabile Starring Samantha Stewart, Ruth Reynolds, Daniel Kozul, Constance Strickland, Dominic Matteucci SYNOPSIS: An innocent Southern girl hoping to evade her complicated personal life travels to Los Angeles to stay with her cousin. She soon begins to learn that escaping her past isn’t as easy as she hoped… […]
Blu-ray Review – Black Orpheus (1959)
Black Orpheus, 1959. Directed by Marcel Camus. Starring Bruno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Ademar Da Silva, and Fausto Guerzoni. SYNOPSIS : A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. Featuring an energetic burst of colour, vibrancy, music and dancing, Marcel Camus’ exhilarating […]
Movie Review – Zero Days (2016)
Zero Days, 2016. Written and Directed by Alex Gibney SYNOPSIS: A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. In the bewildering world of information technology, data protection and […]
Movie Review – The Wailing (2016)
The Wailing, 2016. Directed and written by Hong-jin Na Starring Do Wan Kwak, Kim Hwan-hee, Jung-min Hwang, Jun Kunimura, Woo-hee Chun. SYNOPSIS : A stranger arrives at a rural village in Korea and immediately unsettling events begin to take place. A policeman is drawn in to the mystery and must confront all sorts of demons in […]
Movie Review – Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan, 2016. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon Starring Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Ma Dong-seok, Yu-mi Jeong, Woo-sik Choi, Sohee, Eui-sung Kim SYNOPSIS: In a viral outbreak afflicted South Korea, a group of passengers attempt to stay alive on the train from Seoul to Busan… Long distance train journeys are pretty frustrating at the best of times. […]
Blu-ray Review – Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Punch-Drunk Love, 2002. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzmán. SYNOPSIS: A supplier of novelty items with anger management issues edges towards a surprise romance story with a mysterious woman, while also being blackmailed by a phone-sex line managed by a devious mattress salesman. Taking the […]
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