Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Devoured in one sitting. That’s how compulsively readable Alan Cumming’s memoir NOT MY FATHER’S SON is.
Like the violent, psychopathic father, Alex, we discover in the book, Cumming’s narrative grabs you by the throat and won’t let go.
From heart …
Ray Winstone’s cheekily monikered memoir, YOUNG WINSTONE, is a blinder.
A bang up autobiography that is structured more like a cartographer than a star spangled expose of a celebrity, YOUNG WINSTONE charts the first half of this man’s life – …
Cold cases don’t come much hotter than THE BURNING ROOM, the latest Michael Connelly thriller featuring the remarkable LAPD detective, Harry Bosch.
Orlando Merced, a mariachi player, was gunned down a decade ago, but survived, albeit crippled and disfigured. The …
With a car chase that’s as scintillating as a supermarket car park, the most exotic location a boondock desert gas station somewhere in California, and a narrative that is plodding, predictable and PG where it should be R, TAKEN 3 …
Series writer, Allan Cubitt, takes over directing duties as well in the second, and assumingly, final season of the serial killer epic, THE FALL.
Season one was a five part thriller with Gillian Anderson’s Detective Super Intendant Stella Gibson brought …
An entertaining and engrossing portrayal of the life and work of one of Britain’s most extraordinary unsung heroes, Alan Turing, could have been a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but the producers of THE IMITATION GAME have …
The first great novel of the year, Nicholas Shakespeare’s ODDFELLOWS is a sublimely sparse and economically elegant powder keg of a story, detonated by an historical event that resonates explosively a hundred years since.
New Year’s Day is Manchester Unity …
In the preface of her new photo album, BEHIND THE SCENES, Judi Dench ruminates over the past decade, and despite travelling to India twice on the two Marigold shoots, filming in Hollywood for the first time under the direction of …
It’s not rocket surgery is just one of the delightful malapropisms dropped by Daka, the pregnant prostitute and proxy paramour of the title character in ST. VINCENT, a decidedly feel good film for the festive season.
The roots of the …
The exquisite Isabelle Huppert reteams with her Copacabana director, Marc Fitoussi in the fabulous FOLLIES BERGERES.
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte (Huppert) and Xavier (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their …