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 song sheet. The film […]
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 point in the […]
Movie Review – VooDoo (2016)
VooDoo, 2016.Written and Directed by Tom Costabile Starring Samantha Stewart, Ruth Reynolds, Daniel Kozul, Constance Strickland, Dominic MatteucciSYNOPSIS: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…At its best, VooDoo […]
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 monikered creature is […]
Movie Review – Zero Days (2016)
Zero Days, 2016.Written and Directed by Alex GibneySYNOPSIS: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 cyber crime there is […]
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 viewer into an […]
Movie Review – Francofonia (2015)
Francofonia, 2015.Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. Starring Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath and Vincent Nemeth.SYNOPSIS:A multi-faceted documentary feature concentrating on both the history of the Louvre museum in Paris during the Nazi occupation and a study on the timelessness and human value of art. Francofonia from writer and director Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark) is an inspiring […]
DVD Review – The Code: The Complete Season Two
The Code: Season TwoCreated by Shelley Birse Starring Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman, Adele Perovic, Anthony LaPaglia, Sigrid Thornton, Robyn Malcolm and Ella Scott Lynch.SYNOPSIS:Two brothers, a jaded journalist and an autistic computer hacker, faced with the prospect of extradition to the US, are forced into making complex decisions taking in political unrest, personal dealings and […]
Movie Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016.Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma.SYNOPSIS:When mysterious flying spacecrafts touch down around the globe, a team of experts are briefed with the task of cracking the code of exactly why they are here…With Arrival, Dennis Villeneuve has managed to pull off that […]
Movie Review – In Pursuit of Silence (2015)
In Pursuit of Silence, 2015. Directed by Patrick Shen. SYNOPSIS: A documentary film exploring our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives. How noisy is the world these days? And how often do we really get the chance to experience silence – or at the very least, a quiet absence of loud? […]
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