Up For Love, 2016. Directed by Laurent Tirard. Starring Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira, Cedric Kahn and Stephanie Papanian. SYNOPSIS: Successful lawyer Diane (Virginie Efira) is in the midst of breaking up with husband Bruno (Cedric Kahn) but it’s complicated by their being business partners. After an angry dinner together, she storms out of the restaurant but […]
Movie Review – Born to Be Blue (2015)
Born to Be Blue, 2015. Directed by Robert Budreau. Starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie and Stephen McHattie. SYNOPSIS: The career of jazz musician Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) looks to be over. He’s addicted to cocaine and a savage beating makes playing the trumpet almost impossible. But he’s determined to get back to the top. […]
DVD Review – River (2015)
River, 2015. Directed by Jamie M. Dagg. Starring Rossif Sutherland, Sara Botsford, Ted Atherton and Aidan Gillett. SYNOPSIS: Working for an NGO in Laos, volunteer doctor John (Rossif Sutherland) is devastated when a patient dies on the operating table. Ordered to take some leave, he decides to explore the country and heads south. When […]
Movie Review – Men & Chicken (2015)
Men & Chicken, 2015. Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, David Dencik, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Soren Malling and Nicolas Bro. SYNOPSIS: Brothers Gabriel (David Dencik) and Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) discover the man who brought them up wasn’t their biological father, nor did they share the same mother. They track down their real father in […]
Movie Review – Summertime (2015)
Summertime, 2015. Directed by Catherine Corsini. Starring Cecile de France, Izia Higelin, Noemie Lvovsky, Benjamin Bellecour and Kevin Azais. SYNOPSIS: Facing an uncertain future working on the family farm, Delphine (Izia Higelin) moves to Paris, where she falls in with a group of radical feminists. She’s attracted to one of its leaders, the older Carole […]
Second Opinion – Adult Life Skills (2016)
Adult Life Skills, 2016. Directed by Rachel Tunnard. Starring Jodie Whittaker, Rachael Deering, Brett Goldstein, Ozzy Myers and Lorraine Ashbourne. SYNOPSIS: With her 30th birthday fast approaching, Anna’s (Jodie Whittaker) life has hit a brick wall. Unable to cope with the death of her twin brother, she lives in her mother’s shed, making videos starring her two […]
Movie Review – Long Way North (2015)
Long Way North, 2015. Directed by Remi Chaye Featuring the voice talents of Peter Hudson, Vivienne Vermes, Chloe Dunn SYNOPSIS: St Petersburg, 1882. After the disappearance of her explorer grandfather on an expedition to the North Pole, teenage aristocrat Sasha sets out to discover what happened to him and his ship and save the reputation of her […]
Movie Review – Where to Invade Next (2015)
Where To Invade Next, 2015. Directed by Michael Moore. SYNOPSIS: Documentary maker Michael Moore “invades” a number of countries to steal their best ideas and claim them for the USA. With his favourite target, George W. Bush, long gone from The White House, the past few years can’t have been much fun for Michael Moore. He’s […]
Movie Review – Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Embrace of the Serpent, 2015. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Jan Bijyoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres and Antonio Bolivar. SYNOPSIS: Separated by 40 years, two explorers travel down the Amazon in search of the rare Yakruna plant, famed for its medicinal and psychedelic properties. Both are escorted by the same shamen, the last of his tribe, […]
Sundance London 2016 Review – Indignation (2016)
Indignation, 2016. Directed by James Schamus. Starring Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts and Linda Emond. SYNOPSIS: Teenager Marcus Messer (Logan Lerman) comes from a working class Jewish family and enrolls at college to avoid the draft. Studious and solitary, he’s inexperienced in the ways of the world until he meets the beautiful Olivia (Sarah Gadon). […]
