what’s in a name?
What’s in a name? A rose by any other would smell as sweet. Call a spade a spade but you’ll still shovel shit if you pick a name that digs up contentious connotations.
In western culture, names such as Jesus, …
Film Review
much ado about nothing
‘The course of true love never did run smooth’.
Sorry folks but I apparently have to go against the tide of what seems to be general opinion and admit I was a little disappointed with this new version by Joss …
the imposter
Can hope trigger hallucination to the magnitude that one accepts the homecoming of a family member after a little over three years where the change of appearance and speech is remarkable to the point of impossible?
That’s the premise of …
ginger and rosa
Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA, screened at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival, is a lovely film about two teenage girls on the cusp of growing up and of England’s transfer from its post World War II gloom to the swinging …
midnight’s children
If ever there was a film which produced mixed feelings, it is MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s prize- winning novel of the same name.
At its core this is a tried and true theme of babies, both …
the reluctant fundamentalist (m)
Changez is a young Muslim man from Pakistan who wins a place at Princeton to study business.
Highly gifted, he is a fund mentalist, able to forecast fiscal performance of companies with alarming alacrity.
He becomes a protégé of a …
good vibrations
GOOD VIBRATIONS is a rambling rock-and-roll film set in Belfast, during the bombings, shootings and sectarian violence, in which boy meets band, boy loses a big band, boy meets lots of bands. Oh, and along the way boy also meets …