Peter and John
Peter and John, a period costume drama set in Nantucket in I827, is loosely based on a novel by the 19th Century French author Guy de Maupassant. It’s an odd time in the island’s history as the Civil War has just ended and many of the residents are now struggling financially since the whaling industry … Continue reading
RINCO’S
Rinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money … Continue reading
SAVING MR BANKS
Based very loosely on a true story, this is the tale about all the shenanigans behind the making of the multi-Oscar winner smash hit movie ‘Mary Poppins’ in 1964. Walt Disney had been pursuing the book’s author P.L. Travers (Pamela) for the past 20 years to get the film rights and now in a last ditch … Continue reading
THE LOOK OF LOVE
The surprising element of Michael Winterbottom’s new bio-pic on the life of Paul Raymond the self styled ‘King of Soho’ in London in the swinging sixties, is that he has chosen to present him as a lovable rogue who deserves our sympathy as ‘sex’ made him very rich but extremely unhappy. After all Raymond was … Continue reading
Who Will Write Our History : the real story of the Warsaw Ghetto
In WW2 when the German Governor of Warsaw in Occupied Poland the city into three areas : one for Germans. another for Poles, and the third for Jews, the infamous Ghetto was born.. It was October 1940 and because the Nazis had also been rounding up all the Jews in surrounding areas, the initial … Continue reading