Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
There’s no Bisley like Steve Bisley, like no Bisley I know.
Missing his first book, Stillways, an oversight I am now committed to correcting, his latest memoir, ALL THE BURNING BRIDGES struck me like a rough diamond bullet of …
Gorgeous, sumptuous, sensual, funny, tempestuous, Stanley Tucci’s FINAL PORTRAIT is a work of art and entertainment, a same sense marriage between cinematography and painting, a highlight of the movie going year.
In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, …
Down in adoration falling, THE DANCER is an exquisite film of form, style, grace and the toil, turmoil and torment that goes with being an artist and innovator.
THE DANCER begins incongruously in the wilds of North America, where Loie …
Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through both personal appearances and the text of his final unfinished book project, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO touches on the lives and assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and …
Like 8 Mile out of Precious, PATTI CAKE$ is a rock solid cinematic rap to dreams, aspirations and perseverance.
Written, directed, and with original music and songs by Geremy Jasper, the film stars Danielle Macdonald, an Australian …
The Legion of Mary may well take out a fatwa on this Lady of Fatima inversion of Rosemary’s Baby.
MOTHER has a shocking, literally scorching pre title sequence. Fire and ash give way to verdant vistas, a pristine secluded …
Last time Judi Dench was directed by Stephen Frears, she was nominated for an Oscar.
The film was Philomena.
The last time Judi Dench played Queen Victoria, she was nominated for an Oscar. The film was Mrs. Brown. …
Only a limited window of an extended long weekend opens for the 12th Latin American Film Festival, but it’s chock full of films you may not see otherwise.
A highlight is the Ricardo Darin starrer, KOBLIC, about an ex Argentinian …
Without doubt, my favourite golf movie is Goldfinger.
The sequence where James Bond and Auric Goldfinger club it out for a bar of Nazi bullion is full of suspense, tension, drama and wry humour.
The sequence cemented Sean Connery’s…
It’s hard as algebra to find a more charming, feel good movie than GIFTED.
Featuring Fred the monocular moggie, a cute kid maths prodigy, a hunky uncle and a wicked witch from the east, GIFTED is a tacit custody tussle …