Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Like a cinematic equivalent of Old McDonald had a Farm, GUNDA is a simple round of agricultural naturalism exquisitely shot in high definition black and white.
It begins with a sow, a silver purse of nutritional pleasure for the litter …
“Hitting the big five-zero few women are being complimented for their distinguished looks and impressive careers.”, writes Judith Lucy in her latest book, TURNS OUT, I’M FINE.
Sadly so, but, on the face of it, Judith Lucy should be considered …
COLLECTIVE taps into the collective conscious and lamentably shows there is no collective conscience.
Like the great conspiracy uncoverups – All the Presidents Men, Dark Waters, etc, COLLECTIVE plays into the collective conscious that corruption exists and thrives where conscience …
Once more into the bray of French farce, Caroline Vignal’s ANTOINETTE IN THE CEVENNES, is like a 21st Century Francis the Talking Mule set against a stunning, scenic location.
Here in Australia, most of us would be acquainted with Simpson …
Haunting, harrowing, heart breaking, THE FATHER is a horror comedy.
The Demon is Dementia and there is no rite of exorcism to release the diseased from the hell of hallucination.
Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony. He lives alone in his London …
Cold War thrillers don’t come any better than THE COURIER.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as British businessman, Greville Wynne, recruited by MI6 and the CIA to form a partnership with a GRU officer willing to supply intelligence to the West.
The …
THE SMASH-UP could have been a mash-up, a pastiche or just plain plagiarism, but author Ali Benjamin is just too good a writer to let that happen.
Certainly inspired by Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, if imitation is the sincerest form …
Marriage is a living entity- tidal veiled even to husband and wife. Who is to weigh its disappointments and mistakes, its myriad acts of hurt and kindness?
The weighing is done on the scales of correspondence between Pamela Robinson and …
Watching THE LAST VERMEER, I was reminded of the sterling if controversial scholarship of John Carey and his book, What Good Are The Arts? (Faber 2005).
Carey began his book by asking the question, What is a work of art?…
Dubbing or subtitles?
Nowadays, the thought of a foreign film being dubbed as opposed to hearing the original actor say their lines with the translation subtitled at the bottom of our screen seems unbelievable.
But it used to be the …