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SIGHTSEERS

Sometimes I can be a real glutton for pain (the cinematic kind I should quickly add).  As I state at the top of this Blog one of my big no-no’s are horror flicks, and yet hear I am again in a cinema (I’m back in London) to see yet another one from Brit Director Ben … Continue reading

Silence

It took Martin Scorsese several decades to bring Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 celebrated epic novel Silence about religious persecution in 17th Century Japan to the screen, and this obvious project of passion is one of the filmmaker’s most visually stunning movies to date.  Endō, a Japanese Roman Catholic, based his story on an historical figure Cristóvão Ferreira a Portuguese … Continue reading

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

The wonderful thing about David O. Russell’s new movie is you are never quite sure what you are being served up. It’s the story of bipolar 30 something-year-old Patrick released prematurely from Mental Hospital by his doting mother and who now spends every moment of the day and night obsessing about getting his wife Nikki … Continue reading

SIMON KILLER

When we first see Simon who has just graduated from College, he’s camping out at a acquaintance’s apartment in Paris and talking out-loud to himself about Michelle his ex-lover back home in New York who caused his current misery when she broke up with him.  He’s lonely and somewhat bitter, and in a city where … Continue reading

SIN RETORNO (aka NO RETURN)

Young Matias is driving his school pal home from a party in the early hours of the morning when he accidentally hits a cyclist.  Believing him to be dead, they flee the scene and Matias concocts a story that that car was stolen.  When the hit and run is broadcast all over the TV news … Continue reading

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