The Fifth Estate, 2013. Directed by Bill Condon.Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci, and Laura Linney. SYNOPSIS: A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated […]
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DVD Review – Any Day Now (2012)
Any Day Now, 2012. Directed by Travis Fine.Starring Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher and Gregg Henry. SYNOPSIS: In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof. First of all it has to be said […]
George Lopez has a musical in the works
According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed, George Lopez has a new project in development at The CW. It’s reported that the show will be titled Star Crazy and will be a Latina-centric musical drama. Star Crazy is about a young singer who grows up in poverty but ends up becoming the nation’s darling. Bob […]
Movie Review – How to Survive a Plague (2012)
How to Survive a Plague, 2012. Directed by David France. SYNOPSIS: The story of two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. This is the story of two groups of activists, ACT UP and TAG, whose passion, dedication […]
Movie Review – DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till (2012)
DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till, 2012. Directed by Rob Underhill.Starring Mike Wiley. SYNOPSIS: Days after stepping off the train, 14-year-old Emmett Till from Chicago goes missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy’s mutilated body is found in a river. DAR HE is the story of William Bradford Huie of Look magazine as he […]
57th BFI London Film Festival Review – Blackwood (2013)
Blackwood, 2013. Directed by Adam Wimpenny.Starring Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles, Russell Tovey, Joanna Vanderham, Isaac Andrews and Paul Kaye. SYNOPSIS: Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start.He has a teaching job lined up and a new […]
57th BFI London Film Festival Review – The Armstrong Lie (2013)
The Armstrong Lie, 2013. Written and Directed by Alex Gibney. SYNOPSIS: Alex Gibney began recording Lance Armstrong back in 2009 until filming was halted due to the much publicised doping scandal. When filming resumed several years later the project had taken on a much darker tone as the seedy underbelly of world cycling became more […]
57th BFI London Film Festival Review – Sixteen (2013)
Sixteen, 2013. Written and Directed by Rob Brown.Starring Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Rachael Stirling, Rosie Day, Fady Elsayed and Sam Spruell. SYNOPSIS: Jumah is about to turn 16 and is already in need of a fresh start. Burdened with the shameful legacy of a past as a child soldier in the Congo, he lives with his […]
57th BFI London Film Festival Review – B for Boy (2013)
B for Boy, 2013. Written and Directed by Chika Anadu.Starring Ngozi Nwaneto, Uche Nwadili, Nonso Odogwu and Frances Okeke. SYNOPSIS: B for Boy is a contemporary drama set in Nigeria, about one woman’s desperate need for a male child; which reveals the discrimination of women in the names of culture and religion. As you can […]
57th BFI London Film Festival Review – My Fathers, My Mother and Me (2012)
My Fathers, My Mother and Me (German: Meine Keine Familie), 2012. Directed by Paul-Julien Robert. SYNOPSIS: Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Mühl at the beginning of the 1970s. In My Fathers, […]
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