Maps To The Stars
When the Hollywood limo driver asks his mysterious disfigured young passenger where she has come from she answers ‘Jupiter’ meaning the small town in Florida. It could however easily been the planet though as the girl is obviously extremely odd, and this is a David Cronenberg movie after all. Agatha is back in California … Continue reading
MARDIK : FROM BAGHDAD TO HOLLYWOOD
Mardik Martin, an Armenian living in Iraq with his wealthy parents, was shipped over to NY in the 1950’s to avoid being conscripted in the Army. Ostensibly he was to go to University here to learn business studies but soon after his arrival there was a Revolution back home and his father was no longer able to send your … Continue reading
MARGARET
Lisa is a mess. A spoilt and precocious teenager used to manipulating people to try and ensure that she always gets her own way, and who has a somewhat privileged life with her divorced actress mother and her younger brother in Manhattan. She’s an opinionated intelligent girl who’s not afraid to show her contempt for … Continue reading
MARGIN CALL
In less than 24 hours a major Wall Street Investment Firm (that seemed awfully like Lehman Brothers) jolts from success to near death in a story that would have been inconceivable before this current financial free fall started in 2008 … or maybe not. The meltdown starts when in the midst of a round of … Continue reading
Marguerite
Very few people have ever heard of the wealthy American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who was an amateur operatic soprano known and ridiculed for her dreadful singing voice that was so bad that it actually made her famous in the 1930’s & 1940’s, for all the wrong reasons. Now there is not one, but two movies … Continue reading