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Starred Up

Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in them. ‘Starred Up’ with a brilliant career-making performance from 23 year old Jack O’Connell is one such movie especially as it has the near-obligatory shower scene that ends … Continue reading

STEP UP TO THE PLATE

This latest documentary on another culinary genius goes beyond his kitchen and shows a  family dynasty beginning to come to terms with the patriarch as he tries to step down and out of the limelight. It is in fact the dynamics of the relationship between master chef Michel Bras and his son and heir Sebastian, … Continue reading

Steve Jobs

There is nothing remotely conventional about the enthralling biopic that director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”)  and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (” The Social Network”) have made about Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) the iconic visionary with a major messiah complex.  Rather than try and pack in the man’s entire rather manic life in two short hours they focus … Continue reading

STIFF UPPER LIPS

I discovered this amusing parody of all those Merchant/Ivory British period costume dramas when researching the work of late great Peter Ustinov, and it rather tickled me to be reminded of how very silly Brit comedies can be.   This one is like an EM Forster novel (with a nod to Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in … Continue reading

Still Alice

Life is seemingly idyllic for 50-year-old Alice Howland a renowned Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University who is happily married with three grown up children.  Then suddenly out of the blue she forgets a word or two midway in a tutorial, and then cannot remember the occasional appointment although this hardly registers with her at all.  That is until one … Continue reading

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