The Spider in the Web is a convoluted and confusing spy story that has only one real truth to tell, if you wear a mask for most of your life then you may not recognize yourself when you take it off. Adereth (Ben Kingsley) has spent his life working for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. … Continue reading
This ingenious documentary follows the most unlikely man ever to be a detective, and his ham-fisted staff, as they tackle a wide ranging and often-bizarre set of cases. One minute they are tracking down counterfeit shampoo, the next following a cheating husband, and then a brutal triple murderer. In between all this they find time … Continue reading
When a disparate group of middle-class Brits discover that their limited pensions will not provide them with much of a retirement they abandon their homeland and get enticed by some advertisements for THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, which lays claims to a luxurious sanctuary for “the elderly and beautiful” in Jaipur, India. The seven of … Continue reading
Nina is a very typical ballerina obsessively consumed with the New York City ballet company where she is desperate to be plucked from the Corps to be a Principal. Egged on by her former ballerina mother Erica who is desperate that her daughter gets the big break that she never had, and so exerts a … Continue reading
Richard and Robert Sherman are two remarkable songwriters who so excelled at writing smash hit songs for family musical that they became the only in-house composers that the Walt Disney Studios ever hired. They were responsible for all the sugary hits in classic children movies such as ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘The Parent Trap’, … Continue reading