Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Even Michael Moore’s supporters have felt that he occasionally goes too far, but Moore remains unapologetic. He does not claim that his films are detached observations of American life; he proudly acknowledges his point of view and owns up to …
There is no known antidote for a Michael Caine anecdote. They are profligate, relentless, and entertainingly infectious.
And they colonise and spread through his new book, BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF.
This book grew out of a master-class for film …
You don’t have know Suzuki from Kabuki or Shakespeare from Shinola to enjoy, appreciate and marvel to enjoy Ninefold’s production of WYRD: The Season of the Witch.
Taking its cue from Shakespeare’s Scottish play, an embellishment of witches drives this …
You may not believe in God, but you’ll probably be comforted in David Strathairn purporting to be God in the fascinating philosophical fable, INTERVIEW WITH GOD.
Fresh from covering the war in Afghanistan, American journalist Paul Asher, played by Brenton …
A week is a long time in publishing.
In BOOK WEEK, Nicholas Cutler, curmudgeonly writer sentenced to teaching English to high school kids, finds that his latest manuscript has attracted interest from a publisher.
All he has to do is …
Highlights of this year’s Iranian Film Festival program of twelve features include the latest films from a number of Iran’s most prominent directors including Jafar Panahi’s 3 FACES (Winner, Best Screenplay at Cannes 2018 ) and Bahmam Farmanara’s TALE OF …
Is it weird that Damien Chazelle’s last film, LA LA LAND was pipped at the post for Best Picture Oscar by a film called MOONLIGHT and now he’s made FIRST MAN, the story of the first human to alight on …
A priest, a vacuum salesman, a soul singer and a young woman with major attitude walk into a hotel.
It’s not a joke. It’s January 1969. Richard Nixon has been inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States, and …
Hysterical.
Shirley Barrett’s THE BUS ON THURSDAY reads like Bridget Jones Demon, with the first hundred pages serving up a cracking pace, accelerating round hair pin narrative bends and ignoring give way signs.
Told in the first person singular by …
Errol Flynn has been dead for fifty-nine years.
The diamond anniversary of his death is next year.
Maybe then we’ll get the film he deserves.
The latest effort to explore the origins of one of the great icons of the …