The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America
Despite what seems like a glut of documentary movies on the veteran rock group The Rolling Stones, filmmaker Paul Dugdale’s contribution and the latest one to the list, is still a sheer treat that will appeal to music-lovers even if they are not die-hard fans. Ever since The Stones were part of the vanguard of the … Continue reading
THE RUM DIARY
This is rather a rum film, which is not surprising when one considers its provenance. But first the plot. Set in a Puerto Rico in 1960 that looks like something out of a pretty picture book, it tells the tale of a newly arrived idealistic journalist Paul Kemp who’s perchance for doing good in the … Continue reading
THE SALT OF LIFE
This bittersweet comedy from Italian writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregio is almost a sequel of his sleeper hit of 2008, the truly delightful ‘MID AUGUST LUNCH’. In that film Gianni was a 60-year-old man living alone with his demanding octogenarian tiny mother who finds himself the custodian of several other old ladies who are dumped upon … Continue reading
The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodovar’s latest movie reunites him with Antonio Banderas who plays Dr. Robert Ledgard, a brilliantly successful plastic surgeon who, much to the chagrin of the medical community, is currently experimenting with creating a new type of human skin with some very questionable practices. He is doing this solely for Vera a beautiful gamine who … Continue reading
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
The phenomena known as Facebook started as a germ of an idea that Mark Zuckerberg had when he wanted some payback after being dumped by his girlfriend. He exacted his revenge not just on her but all the woman undergrads at Harvard when he set up a computer program that encouraged his fellow students to … Continue reading