THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
There is a scene at the start of this fictionalized account of recent US/Anglo history when President Clinton is visiting newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair and dismays the PM by claiming that the UK cannot really claim ‘special relationship’ status with the US as that is the preserve of more important & crucial allies. … Continue reading
Table 19
This new feel-good chick-lit movie seems to be part of the continued journey of the darlings of indie-movies Duplass Brothers to making more mainstream comedies. The movie directed by the Oscar nominated Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound) from the brothers script, still has the usual cast of odd-ball slightly dysfunctional characters that we have come to expect from … Continue reading
TABLOID
I love crazy women, and Joyce McKinney, formerly known as ‘Little Miss Perfect’ turned out to be Madder than the Hatter. This hilarious documentary from Oscar-Winning filmmaker Errol Morris (‘The Fog of War’) was a sheer delight from start to finish. When a blowzy blonde 60+ year old woman looks straight to camera in the … Continue reading
TAKE ME HOME
Thirtysomething Thom is having another bad day. He fails to convince an Agent to give him his first break into photography, his Landlord has evicted him for not paying the rent yet again, and the illegal taxi cab he cheaply bought at an auction won’t start. It does eventually and Thom sets out into the … Continue reading
Take My Nose …. Please!
This thoroughly entertaining documentary goes out of its way to reassure us all that cosmetic surgery really is the way to go especially if we want to hang on to our youth just a tad longer than nature cruelly intends we cannot. The film is by an expert on he topic as it is the … Continue reading